Bull is usually portrayed as a stout man in a tailcoat with breeches and a Union Jack waistcoat

John Bull is a literary and cartoon character to personify Britain by Dr. John Arbuthnot in 1712 and popularized first by British printers and then overseas.

Both Royal and popular pageants have depicted her to symbolize Britain since then.

In Renaissance times, Britannia came to be viewed as the personification of Britain.

Britannia has appeared on many British coins and banknotes, but is currently only on the back of the 50 pence coin.

Britannia is a helmeted woman seated on a globe with one arm on a shield and grasping a spear with her free arm.

There are two major symbols of Britain, BRITANNIA and JOHN BULL.

Questions

History

Languages

Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil)

Italian (Italy and Switzerland)

Swedish (Sweden and Finland)

The English language is used in Great Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and a number of developing countries of Asia and Africa (former colonies of Great Britain).

It refers to polynational and polyethnic languages and belongs to not only one nation but a few ones.

The history of the English language extension can be divided into 3 periods

The 1-st – the early Middle Ages, when French and some other languages influenced a lot on English. It resulted in the fact that English became more Roman than German.

The 2-nd – Renaissance, when English borrowed a large number of vocabulary from the classical languges.

The 3-d – the end of the second millennium and the beginning of the 3-d one.

In 1500 4 mln people spoke English.

In 1900 the number grew up to 123 mln.

By the end of the XX-th century – the figure increased in 10 times in comparison with 1900.

Nowadays the investigators suppose that English is spoken by 1,5 billion people.

These figures include those to whom English is the NATIVE language

English like the SECOND language (ESL)

English like FOREIGN language (EFL)

To compare:

Chinese and its 8 variants which are combined by the common system of writing is spoken by approximately 1,1 billion people.

1). What was the succession of invasions on the British Isles?

2). Who were the first settlers on the British Isles?

3). Tell a few words about Roman Britain.

4). What were the most ancient tribes on English territory and who were the invaders after Romans?

Questions

5). Tell about the Norman Invasion.

6). How many periods can the history of the English language be divided? What are they?

7). The role of English in the world.

Lecture 3.

Identifying Symbols of the four nations (Great Britain).

Flags.

Anthems.

SYMBOLS

Nowadays the UK is personified under the name of «Britannia», as a helmeted woman seated on a globe with one arm on a shield and grasping a spear with her free hand.

Identifying Symbols of the Four Nations the U.K.

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