Презентация "Welcome to Scotland"

Welcome to Scotland

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Scotland - the country, which is a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Scotland occupies the north of the island of Great Britain, bordered by land with England. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by seas: the North Sea in the east, the North Channel and Irish Sea to the west and southwest. In addition to the area on the main island of the British Scotland also owns about 790 small islands, most of which are uninhabited

Capital: Edinburgh

National animal: Unicorn

National Flower: thistle

Official language: English

Scottish National clothes

The world-famous Scottish kilt worn by mountaineers for many centuries. He kilt that we imagine today, little has changed its original appearance. In the Victorian era, the beginning and middle of the XIX century to the usual Scottish skirt in a cage added jacket and sporran, tight skinny leg pants, garters. Kilt - Men's Clothing. Women were and are today national dress - pleated skirt, which strictly defined length - no less and no more than mid-knee. Other Clothes Highlanders - Scottish plaid or great kilt, which is worn for protection from weather and moisture.

Bagpipe

Bagpipe - traditional reed musical wind instrument of many nations of Europe. In Scotland - the main national instrument. It is a bag that is usually made of cowhide (hence the name), calf or goat skin, taken as a whole, as a wineskin, sewn tightly and is equipped with the top tube for filling air fur, with attachments from the bottom of one, two or three playing reed pipes, serve to create a polyphony.

Scottish Culture

Scottish families are called clans and each clan has a special plaid to show what their family is. These are the plaids on their kilts.

Scottish cuisine

Scotland is famous for several dishes. It haggis, which prepare their calf or sheep's offal, oatmeal, onions and spices, cooked in the intestines; tettis - potato with meat and vegetables; smoked haddock with potato soup ebrot Smokey; venison cooked in port wine; beef, marinated in whiskey; kolkennon made from cabbage, carrots, turnips and potatoes; Crowd goat cheese - plain white cheese, a bit of preparing podkisshego milk with salt and pepper; smoked salmon, usually served as an appetizer; very popular pies stuffed with meat, onions and without (as evidenced by the presence of holes in the cake); chocolate pudding.

Scottish cuisine

Of course, as the real British, the Scots can not live without the famous oatmeal. Oatmeal is served with milk, it is useful and fills perfectly, so you can easily hang on to lunch. Previously, Scottish farmers cooked one pot of porridge for a week. Once cooked porridge to cool, it was cut into pieces, and the farmer took her with him to work in the field. The most common drink in Scotland - askuibo, whiskey, made from pure malt. About whiskey could fill a ballad, so it is best to dedicate a separate story.

Attractions in Scotland

Highlands is famous for its lakes, the most mysterious of them, of course, is Lake Ness (or Loch Ness). Loch Ness lake - the largest reservoir of fresh water in Britain. The water is very cold, and above it is almost always going to fog and clouds. It was here, according to legend, lived a monster nicknamed Nessie. For the first time the monster was photographed by Hugh Gray, who only on his deathbed in 1993, admitted that his pictures were simply a fraud, falsification. In 1934, the student would see the vet if a giant plesiosaur with a small head, long neck and a big trunk, crossing the road near the lake. In 1960, the animal was shot with a video camera, but the image was very fuzzy, and the author of the film Tim Dinsdale spent the next twenty years in anticipation of a new fortune. Today there is no evidence of the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, and the myth continues to attract a lot of tourists on the shore of a picturesque lake.

Scottish Castles

Visiting castles in Scotland - an integral part of the trip to the Highlanders. Stёrling equidistant between Edinburgh and Glasgow, is a strategically important fort, there were the keys to the Highlands of Scotland and the plains. Whoever owned Stёrlingom, was the host of Scotland. Growing directly out of the rock, the castle remembers war XIII and XIV centuries, several times passed from hand to hand the Scots and the English back. The castle was the seat of the Stuarts from 1370 to 1603, today it holds the view that acquired during their reign. There was crowned Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. Brodick Castle of the XIII century red stone built on the site of an ancient fort Vikings. It still has family residence of the Clan Campbell, therefore, is open to visitors only partially. The history of the castle full of mystical stories. In it, according to legend, inhabited by a ghost killed harpist Duke of Argyll, the owner of the castle.

Scotland’s Important People

Alexander Graham Bell - the inventor of the telephone

Andrew Carnegie -came to the U.S. and made a fortune in the iron and steel business. He gave money to build many of our libraries.

Sean Connery - an actor who starred the first James Bond movies.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - the author of Sherlock Holmes mysteries.

Sheena Easton - a famous pop singer.

Captain Kidd - a famous pirate.

John Muir -founded our U.S. National Park system .

Robert Louis Stevenson - an author of Treasure Island .

literary

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