Проектно-исследовательская работа «Wales»

Муниципальное бюджетное общеобразовательное учреждение

средняя общеобразовательная школа № 2 р. п. Хор

муниципального района имени Лазо Хабаровского края

конкурс проектов « What a Wonderful World »

английский язык Проектно-исследовательская работа «Страна удивительных открытий»

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Авторы:

Колесников Максим Алексеевич

Тимофеев Виктор Дмитриевич

Селюнин Андрей Сергеевич

Обмочий Владислав Сергеевич

Руководитель:

Корольчук Наталья Борисовна

(учитель английского языка)

2026 г.

Content

Wales

The capital of Wales

The Symbols of Wales

Castles of Wales

King Arthur and knights of the round table

National sport

Eisteddfod

Traditional Welsh costume

Attractions in Wales

Traditional food in Wales

Megalithic monuments in Wales

Invention of Welsh

Resources

Wales

Wales is not a very large country with a population of about three million people. Wales is famous for its mountains and valleys. It's an ideal place for spending your holidays.

Wales has often been called the Land of Songs.

One of the Welsh traditions is festivals. The Welsh sing their songs, wear their traditional clothes in their capital Cardiff as well as in the other parts of the country. About 20% of the people in Wales speak Welsh and their children learn it in Welsh schools. It is a place where two languages are being spoken. There are two official languages in Wales ​​- English and Welsh.

Some specific English alphabets are not part of the , including  K, Q, V,  and  Z . Only a few people know how to speak Welsh and pronounce the words. Besides this, many of these letters have a replacement, like  C  in place of  K  and  S  in place of  Z . It is interesting to learn and speak their native language .

Cardiff

Wales is situated on an island to the West side of England and its population is about  3.1 million.  Its size is about  8,023 square miles  and  Cardiff  serves as  Wales capital.

Cardiff has been the capital of Wales since 1955.

It is the city on the river Severn.

It is both the cultural center and the economic centre of the principality.

Financially and industrially,

Cardiff is the most important city in Wales.

The national flag - The Red Dragon

The national flag - The Red Dragon - was granted official status in 1959, but the dragon itself has been associated with Wales for centuries. Some say it’s the oldest national flag still in use, and that it was used by King Arthur and other ancient Celtic leaders. The  leek  had been recognized as the emblem of Wales since the middle of the 16th century . St. David is the Patron Saint of Wales. March 1st is St. David's Day. It is the national holiday of Wales and has been celebrated since the 12th century.

Daffodil

The Welsh for leek (the original national emblem) is Cenhinen, while the Welsh for daffodil is Cenhinen Pedr. Over the years they became confused until the daffodil was adopted as a second emblem of Wales. National Emblems The  leek  had been recognized as the emblem of Wales since the middle of the 16th century . St. David is the Patron Saint of Wales. March 1st is St. David's Day. It is the national holiday of Wales and has been celebrated since the 12th century.

Welsh love spoon .

A favorite souvenir for the tourists is a  Welsh love spoon  . They are made of wood and are carved very beautifully. Originally, they were made by young men as a love token for their sweethearts. If the girl kept this present, all was well, but if she sent it back, she did not want him .

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Castles of Wales

Wales is «the land of castles». The Normans were the first to build castles here. The town has a castle Romans, modern shopping center , the cathedral and the university.

There are more than 600 castles in Wales. That's more castles per square mile than any other country in the world.

King Arthur and knight of round table

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table  is a retelling of the Arthurian legends, principally Thomas Malory's  Le Morte d'Arthur , by Roger Lancelyn Green. It was intended for children. It was first published by Puffin Books in 1953 and has since been reprinted many times . In 2008, it was reissued in the Puffin Classics series with an introduction by David Almond (the author of  Clay ,  Skellig ,  Kit's Wilderness , and  The Fire-Eaters ), and the original illustrations by Lotte Reiniger.

Excalibur

Excalibur  is the mythical sword of King Arthur that may possess magical powers or be associated with the rightful sovereignty of Britain. Its first reliably datable appearance is found in Geoffrey of Monmouth's  Historia Regum Britanniae . Excalibur as the "sword in the stone" functioning as the proof of Arthur's lineage is an iconic motif featured throughout most works dealing with Arthur's youth since its introduction in Robert de Boron's  Merlin . The sword given to the young Arthur by the Lady of the Lake in the tradition that began soon afterwards with the  Post-Vulgate Cycle  is not the same weapon, but in  Le Morte d'Arthur  both of them share the name of Excalibur. Several similar swords and other weapons also appear within Arthurian texts, as well as in other legends.

National sport

The national game of Wales is Rugby . It is similar to football but played with an oval ball. Players can carry the ball and tackle each other.

Cnapan is a form of Medieval football. It may be a forerunner to modern rugby. The game is no longer played.

Other popular sports in Wales are: cricket and football.

Eisteddfod

Eisteddfod ("to be sitting together“) is a Welsh festival of literature, music and performance .

It is one of the most ancient and the most popular festivals.

It is a competition where the winner is awarded a chair where he is crowned. Winners of local Eisteddfod compete a Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales .

In Ancient times the prizes awarded were a miniature silver chair to the poet, a silver tongue to the best singer.

Traditional Welsh costume

For the ladies the typical Welsh costume consists of a hat, made of black felt, with a high crown and wide brim, which is worn over a lace cap. A red flannel shawl is worn over a crisp white blouse, and a full skirt made of wool with a black and white check pattern and a starched, white apron.

Proper Welsh ladies always wore black woolen stockings and black shoes and carried a basket, made from willow withies.

Traditional food in Wales

Welsh Cawl

Welsh cuisine encompasses the cooking styles, traditions and recipes associated with Wales. While there are many dishes that can be considered Welsh due to their ingredients and history, dishes such as cawl, Welsh rarebit, lave bread, Welsh cakes, bara brith and Glamorgan sausage have all been regarded as symbols of Welsh food. Some variation in dishes exists across the country, with notable differences existing in the Gower Peninsula, a historically isolated rural area which developed self-sufficiency in food production.

Welsh cakes

Attractions in Wales

Snowdonia 

Wales is a country of hills and mountains, with deep rivers and valleys. The highest mountain of Wales is Snowdon. Snowdon ,  mountain in northern  Wales that is the highest point in England and Wales and the principal massif in the Snowdonia mountains. It is located in the county of Gwvnedd and the historic county of Caernarvonshire.

Megalithic monuments in Wales

Bed Arthur  (" Arthur's Grave ") is a possibly Neolithic monument  hengiform megalithic site in the Preseli Hills in the Welsh.

Pentre Ifan (Pembrokeshire), one of the most dramatic megalithic tombs in Wales. It would originally have been covered by a stone mound.

The scale of the megaliths is their most striking feature. At Arthur's Stone on the Gower peninsula a rock over 4m (14ft) long and 2m (7ft) thick was lifted to create the chamber. At Tinkinswood (Vale of Glamorgan) a slab weighing over 36 tonnes (39 tons) was used.

Gorseinon Eisteddfod Stone Circle

Megalithic monuments in Wales

Wales is home to one of the best collections of megalithic tombs in the UK. As well as being visually dramatic, they provide an important source of information about life, and death, from over five thousand years ago . The earliest monuments to survive to the present day are megalithic tombs - stone burial chambers, built almost six thousand years ago.

Wales's megalithic tombs consist, for the most part, of stone chambers composed of a large capstone perched on top of a number of uprights. These would once have been covered with a mound of earth or stone. Often they have a forecourt area in which ceremonies would have been performed.

Great Welsh inventions

еG

Microphone

1894 – Early flight

William Frost  (1848–1935) was the first person to fly a powered airplane. He was a Welsh designer of an early flying machine.

David Edward Hughes (1831-1900) is the scientist invented the first radio communication system, as well as the first microphone

  Radiograph

On 7 February 1896, Welsh orthopaedic surgeon Robert Jon took a radiograph of the wrist of a 12-year-old boy to locate a bullet that could not be found by probing.

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The land of my fathers

The land of my fathers, the land of my choice, The land in which poets and minstrels rejoice; The land whose stern warriors were true to the core, While bleeding for freedom of yore.

Wales! Wales! favorite land of Wales! While sea her wall, may naught befall To mar the old language of Wales.

Old mountainous Cambria, the Eden of bards, Each hill and each valley, excite my regards; To the ears of her patriots how charming still seems, The music that flows in her streams.

My country the' crushed by a hostile array, The language of Cambria lives out to this day; The muse has eluded the traitors' foul knives, The harp of my country survives.