UK Culture

2. “When People say England, they
sometimes mean Great Britain,
sometime the United Kingdom,
sometimes The British Isles”
Author of How to Be an Alien
(1946)
by George Mikes

3. UK MAP

4. The UK's full and official name is
the "United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland".
The name United Kingdom refers to the
union of what were once four separate
countries; England, Scotland,
Wales, Northern Ireland. Great
Britain is an island lying off the western
cost of Europe, comprising the main
territory of the United Kingdom

5. Motto : "God and my right"
Anthem : "God Save the Queen"
Capital : “London”
Official languages : English
Recognized regional languages : Irish
Scottish Gaelic
Scots
Ulster-Scots
Welsh
Cornish

6. Ethnic groups
 92.1% White
 4.0% South Asian
 2.0% Black
 1.2% Mixed
 0.4% Chinese
 0.4% other

7. Government : Unitary parliamentary
: constitutional monarchy
 Religion
 Christianity
 Islam
 Judaism
 Hinduism
 Sikhism
 Buddhism
 The Bahá'í
Faith
 Other faiths

8. Rank Surname Origin Percentage[4]
1 Smith England and Scotland 1.26
2 Jones England and Wales 0.75
3 Taylor England and Scotland 0.59
4 Brown Scotland 0.56
5 Williams England and Wales 0.39
6 Wilson Scotland 0.39
7 Johnson England 0.37
8 Davis Wales 0.34
9 Robinson England 0.32
10 Wright England 0.32
11 Thompson England 0.31
12 Evans Wales 0.30
13 Walker England 0.30
14 White England 0.30
15 Roberts England 0.28
16 Green England 0.28
17 Hall England 0.28
18 Wood England and Scotland 0.27
19 Jackson England and Scotland 0.27
20 Clarke England 0.26

9. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom
(UK), Great Britain (GB), or simply Britain, is a
sovereign state located off the north-western
coast of continental Europe
The UK's form of government is a constitutional
monarchy with a parliamentary system and
its capital city is London

10.  The UK has a partially regulated market
economy
 Based on market exchange rates the UK
is today the sixth-largest economy in the
world and the third-largest in Europe
after Germany and France
 Tourism is very important to the British
economy

11. 
The is a
significant part of the UK
manufacturing sector and employs
over 800,000 people
UK economy and the country has the
third highest share of global
pharmaceutical expenditures (after
the United States and Japan).
The Industrial Revolution started in the UK with an
initial concentration on the textile industry, followed by
other heavy industries such as shipbuilding, coal
mining, and steelmaking

12. 
Most Mini automobiles are
assembled in the United Kingdom

13. Ethnic group Population % of total*
White British 50,366,49
7
86%
White (other) 3,096,169 5.3%
Indian 1,053,411 1.8%
Pakistani 977,285 1.6%
White Irish 691,232 1.2%
British Mixed 677,117 1.2%
Black Caribbean 565,876 1.0%
Black African 485,277 0.8%
Bangladeshi 283,063 0.5%
Other Asian (non-Chinese) 247,644 0.4%
Chinese 247,403 0.4%
Other 230,615 0.4%
Black (others) 97,585 0.2%
* Percentage of total UK population, according to the 2001 Census

14. Education in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom contains some of the world's
leading seats of higher education, such as the
universities of Oxford and Cambridge, along with
Imperial College, the London School of Economics
and University College of the University of London
King's College, part of the University of Cambridge, which was founded in 1209

15.  Queen's University Belfast,
Scotland built in 1849
 Oxford University

16. TYPICAL UNIFORM OF AN ENGLISH SCHOOL

17. CINEMA OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
THE UNITED KINGDOM HAS BEEN INFLUENTIAL IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF
CINEMA. FAMOUS FILMS INCLUDE THE HARRY POTTER, STAR WARS AND
JAMES BOND SERIES WHICH, MR. BEAN ALTHOUGH MADE BY AMERICAN
STUDIOS, USED BRITISH SOURCE MATERIALS, LOCATIONS, ACTORS AND
FILMING CREW
 The Beatles

18. • BOND 007 • BEAN

19. The story of the United Kingdom
and the Union Flag
 A flag containing three other flags. The Union Flag,
popularly known as the Union Jack, is the national
flag of the United Kingdom. It is the British flag.
 It is called the Union Flag because it
symbolises the administrative union of the countries
of the United Kingdom. It is made up up of the
individual Flags of three of the Kingdom's countries all
united under one Sovereign - the countries
of 'England, of 'Scotland' and of 'Northern Ireland'
(since 1921 only Northern Ireland has been part of the
United Kingdom). As Wales was not a Kingdom but a
Principality it could not be included on the flag

21. England - the capital is London
Scotland - the capital is Edinburgh
Wales - the capital is Cardiff
Northern Ireland - the capital is Belfast

22. England

23.  England is 74 times smaller than the USA,
59 times smaller than Australia and
3 times smaller than Japan.
 The name "England" is derived from the
Old English name Englaland, which means
"land of the Angles".

27.  Scotland is a mountainous country in the
north of the island of Great Britain and shares
a land border to the south with England and
is bounded by the North Sea on the east and
the Atlantic Ocean on the west.
 Its capital city is Edinburgh. Scotland has
some 790 islands - 130 inhabited

31.  Video Traditional dance of Scotland

34.  Wales is in north-west Europe and is part
of Great Britain, an island country and
the United Kingdom (UK).
 The name Wales comes from the Cymraeg
word Gwalia, meaning in English "Homeland". It
later became Latinized as Walia, then by the
Normans to something like Wal~es....then Wales.

36.  In 1801 the whole of Ireland became part of
the United Kingdom, with the adoption of the
name the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland
 Titanic ship was built in Belfast, the capital of
Northern Ireland.

37. The Giant's Causeway, situated on the North East
coast of Northern Ireland, is an area of about 40,000
interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient
volcanic eruption. Most of the basalt columns are
hexagonal in shape
The Giant's Causeway

38.  Video Traditional dance of Ireland

40. British food has traditionally been based
on beef, lamb, pork, chicken and fish and
generally served with potatoes and one
other vegetable.
The most common and typical foods
eaten in Britain include the sandwich,
fish and chip, pieslike the cornish pasty,
trifle and roasts dinners.

41. A full English
breakfast with
scrambled eggs,
sausage, black
pudding, bacon,
mushrooms, baked
beans, hash
browns, and half a
tomato

43.  Chicken Salad  Cornish Pastie with
chips, baked beans
and salad

44. Steak and Kidney Pie
with chips and salad
 Roast Meats
 Typical meats for
roasting are joints of
beef, pork, lamb or a
whole chicken. More
rarely duck, goose,
gammon, turkey or
game are eaten.

47.  Christmas pudding
 A Sunday roast
consisting of roast
beef, roast potatoes,
vegetables and
Yorkshire pudding

50.  Morris Dancing is one of the traditional
dances of British society that is usually
accompanied by music. Morris dance
emphasis on agility and leg strength. Morris
dancing is done in groups.
 The dancers there were carrying sticks,
swords, and handkerchiefs as a complement
to dance. Though dancing in groups, and
adjacent, to the Morris dancers that does not
make them worry injured

52.  Enjoy video

53.  The tradition of drinking tea is very popular
in the UK from the kingdom to ordinary
people. The activities carried out as filler
waiting time at dinner, around 15:00 to 17:00
 Currently formal afternoon tea is also one of
the many services offered at the hotel and tea
house in London. Food is usually served with
a multilevel container (cake stand) so it looks
typical. Most of the afternoon tea menu which
offered basically not much different, but
some offer something unique

55.  Britain is a multicultural society in line to pick
the habit and get something done.
 Society considers people who do not want to
queue is a selfish and do not care who is
around. This queue is like a cultural
values ​​and norms prevailing in society

56.  Straw Bear day is the oldest tradition usually
done on the 7th of January.
 This tradition is believed to initiate the
period of farming and farming. The
participants of both adult men and
adolescents, using straw costumes ranging
from feet to head.
 And they go knocking on the door of one
house to the other while dancing. The
dancers will receive a gift from the owner of
the house in return. Whether it be food, beer
or money

58.  At meal times should be upright sitting
position, while eating should not be asked in
a happy or constantly talking with people.
 Every person should not leave the spoon in
the soup bowl or coffee cup. Spoon should be
left on the plate for rice and tea spoon should
be placed on coasters.
 When drinking the soup should not make any
noise and can not drink the soup until runs
out. Should not smoke while still sitting in the
dining area. Finished eating the men help
women backed his chair so he could stand

59.  Table Manner
 The British generally pay a lot of attention to
good table manners. Even young children are
expected to eat properly with knife and fork.
We eat most of our food with cutlery.
 The foods we don't eat with a knife, fork or
spoon include sandwiches, crisps, corn on the
cob, and fruit

60.  If you cannot eat a certain type of food or
have some special needs, tell your host
several days before the dinner party.
 Always chew and swallow all the food in your
mouth before taking more or taking a drink
 Always say thank you when served
something. It shows appreciation.
 You may eat chicken and pizza with your
fingers if you are at a barbecue, finger buffet
or very informal setting. Otherwise always use
a knife and fork
 In a restaurant, it is normal to pay for your
food by putting your money on the plate the
bill comes on

61.  When you have finished eating, and to let
others know that you have, place your knife
and folk together, with the prongs (tines) on
the fork facing upwards, on your plate

62.  Never lick or put your knife in your mouth
 It is impolite to start eating before everyone
has been served unless your host says that
you don't need to wait
 Never chew with your mouth open. No one
wants to see food being chewed or hearing it
being chomped on
 It is impolite to have your elbows on the table
while you are eating
 Never talk with food in your mouth.

63.  It is impolite to put too much food in your
mouth.
 Never use your fingers to push food onto
your spoon or fork
 It is impolite to slurp your food or eat noisily.
 Never take food from your neighbours plate
 Never pick food out of your teeth with your
fingernails

64.  It is ok to pour your own drink when eating
with other people, but it is more polite to
offer pouring drinks to the people sitting on
either side of you.
 It is ok to put milk and sugar in your tea and
coffee or to drink them both without either

65.  The fork is held in the left hand and the knife
in the right.

66.  Say:
 "I'm sorry, but it seems that 'my eyes
are bigger than my stomach'
 Or :
 "I'm sorry. It was so delicious but I am
full".

67.  Pearly Kings and Queen, also known as
Pearlies an amazing charity event held by the
working class and working people.
 And has become a culture of the City of
London high society.
 The participants Pearly Kings and Queens
wear glittery clothing from pearl buttons
(pearl), created in the 19th century

70.  During a visit in the UK there are a few things
to note as:
 When to arrive at the invitation. If not its
formal affair , than you come early. host still
are making preparations and you arrived first
would make it uncomfortable.
 Most appropriate for a informal business is
10 minutes late. If late until 30 minutes had
sorry. It shows sign of polite during a visit

71.  When to leave event venue. For this there are
no specific rules, but to stay long in a place
where people are things that are not polite.
 Better leave 1 hour after a meal. Also on the
second day after the event should send a
thank you message with the included small
gifts like flowers or chocolates.

72.  Chramping Worm is one of the unique
traditions that exist in the UK, this tradition is
a tradition of catch earthworms.
 Each participant only has a hunting area
measuring only 3 x 3 m2.
 Allowed to play any music for a fishing lure or
worm that came out of the ground, but was
not allowed to use drugs, including water

74.  As the UK is very much a western society - we
wear very much the same as any other modern
western society - ranging from Jeans and Tee
shirts (whether with designer labels or not) to full
business suits for office work (if required).
 Special clothes for the climate include heavy
overcoats or anoraks for cold wintry weather to
raincoats and umbrellas, for weather rain.
 Materials used cover every type and color of
fabric available, especially consider that Britain is
a multi cultural society and in certain cities
(Bradford for an example) you will find many
stores with very colorful silk available for making
in Sari's and other ethnic clothes.

75. Must visit

76. London eye

77. THE LONDON EYE IS A GIANT FERRIS
WHEEL ON THE SOUTH BANK OF THE
RIVER THAMES IN LONDON, ENGLAND
IT IS THE TALLEST FERRIS WHEEL IN
EUROPE, AND THE MOST POPULAR PAID
TOURIST ATTRACTION IN THE UNITED
KINGDOM, VISITED BY OVER 3.5 MILLION
PEOPLE ANNUALLY
London eye.

80.  Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of
the clock at the north end of the Palace of
Westminster in London, and often extended
to refer to the clock and the clock tower
 The tower is now officially called the
Elizabeth Tower
 The tower has become one of the most
prominent symbols of both London and
England and is often in the establishing shot
of films set in the city.

82.  Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more
commonly known as the Tower of London

83.  Tower Bridge (built 1886–1894) is a
combined bascule and suspension bridge in
London which crosses the River Thames. It is
close to the Tower of London, from which it
takes its name, and has become an iconic
symbol of London

84.  The Palace of Westminster is the meeting
place of the House of Commons and the
House of Lords, the two houses of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
 Commonly known as the Houses of
Parliament
 Its name, which derives from the
neighbouring Westminster Abbey
 For ceremonial purposes, the palace retains
its original style and status as a royal
residence

86.  Buckingham Palace is the official London
residence and principal workplace of the British
monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the
palace is a setting for state occasions and royal
hospitality. It has been a focus for the British
people at times of national rejoicing and crisis.
 Originally known as Buckingham House, the
building which forms the core of today's palace
was a large townhouse built for the Duke of
Buckingham in 1705 on a site which had been in
private ownership for at least 150 years

88.  The River Thames flows through southern
England. It is the longest river entirely in
England and the second longest in the United
Kingdom

90.  Trafalgar Square is a public space and tourist
attraction in central London, United Kingdom,
 The square is also used for political
demonstrations and community gatherings,
such as the celebration of New Year's Eve.
 There are a number of statues and sculptures
in the square, with one plinth displaying
changing pieces of contemporary art.

92.  Westminster Abbey, formally titled the
Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster,
is a large, mainly gothic, church in the City of
Westminster, London, located just to the west
of the Palace of Westminster
 It is one of the most notable religious
buildings in the United Kingdom and is the
traditional place of coronation and burial site
for English and, British monarchs. The abbey
is a Royal Peculiar and between 1540 and
1550 had the status of a cathedral.

95.  Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in
London with branches in a number of major
cities.
 It was founded by wax sculptor Marie
Tussaud and was formerly known as
"Madame Tussaud's“
 Madame Tussauds is a major tourist
attraction in London, displaying waxworks of
historical and royal figures, film stars, sports
stars and infamous murderers.

98. Madonna is an example of an Anglophile

99. ENJOY SHOW