Projekt:
MO-ME-N-T MOderní MEtody s Novými Technologiemi
Reg.č.:
CZ.1.07/1.5.00/34.0903
Operační program:
Vzdělávání pro konkurenceschopnost
Škola:
Hotelová škola, Vyšší odborná škola hotelnictví a turismu a
Jazyková škola s právem státní jazykové zkoušky Poděbrady
Tematický okruh:
Top Tourist Attractions in the UK Part II
Jméno autora:
Bc. Lenka Svobodová
Datum:
01. 11. 2013
Ročník: (Cíl. skupina):
Čtvrtý
Anotace:
Student je seznámen se zásadními turistickými cíli Velké
Británie, významnými městy a jejich pamětihodnostmi,
důležitými církevními stavbami a nejnavštěvovanějšími
přírodními krásami.
TOP TOURIST
ATTRACTIONS IN
THE UK
Part II
STRATFORD UPON AVON
Carnegie Library
STWELL, David; [cit. 2013-06-20]. Dostupný pod licencí Creative Commons na WWW:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carnegie_Library,_Stratford-upon-Avon.jpg
Towns and Cities
STRATFORD APON AVON
• Set in the rural Warwickshire countryside, on the banks
of the river Avon
• The birthplace of the British playwright and poet
William Shakespeare
• The Royal Shakespeare Theatre is dedicated to William
Shakespeare
• The Swan Theatre belongs to the Royal Shakespeare
Company
• Anne Hathaway's Cottage is a twelve-roomed
farmhouse where the wife of William Shakespeare
lived as a child in the village of Shottery
Roman Bath
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Towns and Cities
BATH
• Located in the south west of England
• First established as a spa town with the Latin
name Aquae Sulis by the Romans around AD
60. They built a temple and the famous
Roman Bath - which have now been restored
• Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in
1987
• Has a number of theatres, art galleries and
annual festivals of literature, film and art
CANTERBURY
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Towns and Cities
CANTERBURY
• Located in the south east of England
• Best known for its cathedral – the oldest in
England, which belongs to the World Heritage
Site
• Has also been made famous by Chaucer’s
“Canterbury Tales”, telling stories from the
pilgrims on their way there
• Other world heritage sites: St Augustine´s
Monastery and St Augustine´s Abbey, Canterbury
Castle
WINCHESTER 'Jane Austen House'
ESPRESSO ADDICT; [cit. 2013-06-20]. Dostupný pod licencí Creative Commons na WWW:
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Towns and Cities
WINCHESTER
• Historic city situated southwest of London
• Used to be England's capital city over one thousand years
ago
• Winchester Cathedral has its origins in the 7th century: the
burial site of kings, bishops, saints – and novelist Jane
Austen. Also houses the famous Pilgrims’ School,
surrounded by delightful gardens
• The Great Hall: 13th-century building contains perhaps the
greatest symbol of medieval mythology: King Arthur’s
Round Table
• Jane Austen’s House: Close to Winchester College. The
house where novelist Jane Austen came to convalesce until
she died in 1817
OXFORD
Tom
Tower
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Towns and Cities
OXFORD
• The oldest university city in the UK
• Situated some 50 miles (80 km) to the west of London in its
own county of Oxfordshire, located on the rivers Thames and
Cherwell
• Medieval gothic churches and colleges dominate the busy
modern town
• The University of Oxford was founded in the 12th century and
therefore constitutes the oldest English-speaking university
• The University consists of approximately 40 colleges and
associated buildings, such as the famous Bodleian Library
(main buildings in Radcliffe Square), and several world-class
museums
• Some buildings are used in films such as "Harry Potter"
CAMBRIDGE Kings College Chapel
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Towns and Cities
CAMBRIDGE
• A historic university city in Cambridgeshire
• The University of Cambridge was founded in the 13th century
• Many famous people studied there, including:
mathematicians such as Sir Isaac Newton, philosophers such
as Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and writers such
as John Milton and Lord Byron
• Cambridge academics have won more Nobel Prizes than those
of any other university in the world
• The city is surrounded on all sides by heritage villages, towns
and ancient monuments
THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER
PKUCZYNSKI; [cit. 2013-06-20]. Dostupný pod licencí Creative Commons na WWW: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_Cliffs_of_Dover_2_(Piotr_Kuczynski).jpg
Natural Beauties
THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER
• Reach up to 300 feet in height and stretch for
10 miles to the east and west of the town of
Dover
• The chalk cliffs face France across the
narrowest part of the English Channel
• The White Cliffs of Dover are the first and last
sight you see when departing from or arriving
in the port of Dover
GIANT'S CAUSEWAY
BISHOP, Adam; [cit. 2013-06-20]. Dostupný pod licencí Creative Commons na WWW: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giant%27s_Causeway_basalt_columns.JPG
Natural Beauties
GIANT'S CAUSEWAY
• Located in the County Antrim in Northern Ireland
• A bunch of 40,000 enormous, mainly hexagonal columns of
basalt on the Antrim coast
• The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead
from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea
• Legend tells that giant Finn MacCool challenged Scottish
giant Benandonner to a proper fight and decided to build a
causeway of enormous stepping stones across the sea to
Scotland, so that he could walk across without getting his
feet wet
• Scientists tell that it was formed by cooling molten lava, 5060 million years ago
• Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986
CHEDDAR GORGE
GRAINGER, Ken; [cit. 2013-06-20]. Dostupný pod licencí Creative Commons na WWW: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheddar_Gorge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1009277.jpg
Natural Beauties
CHEDDAR GORGE
• Located at the Mendip Hills' southern edge,
near Cheddar town in Somerset
• England's deepest gorge
• Its limestone cliff walls rise to more than 150
metres
• It was formed in the ice age, and in one of its
many caves, the 9,000-year-old 'Cheddar Man'
was discovered in 1903
SCAFELL PIKE
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Natural Beauties
SCAFELL PIKE
• The England's highest peak
• Located in the middle of The Lake District so
it's a wonder within a wonder
• The Lake District
– a mountainous region in North West England
– famous for its lakes, forests, and mountains
– associated with the early nineteenth-century
poetry and writings of Wordsworth and Coleridge
LOCH LOMOND
RAE, Kevin;[cit. 2013-06-20]. Dostupný pod licencí Creative Commons na WWW:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loch_Lomond_from_The_West_Highland_Way_-
_geograph.org.uk_-_201980.jpg
Natural Beauties
LOCH LOMOND
• The largest inland stretch of water in Great Britain by
surface area
• It is 39 kilometres long and up to 8 kilometres wide
• Contains many islands, including Inchmurrin - the
largest fresh-water island in the British Isles
• A popular leisure destination
• Considered the boundary between the lowlands of
Central Scotland and the Highlands
• Part of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
LOCH NESS
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Natural Beauties
LOCH NESS
• A large, deep, freshwater lake in the Scottish
Highlands
• The second largest Scottish Loch by surface
area at 56.4 km2 after Loch Lomond, but due
to its great depth, it is the largest by volume
• Best known for the sightings of the Loch Ness
Monster, also known as "Nessie"
• Its water visibility is exceptionally low due to a
high peat content in the surrounding soil