2.Read the text.

More than 56 million people live in Britain. Many of them live in big industrial cities like London.

Everyone who was born in Britain is British. People from England are English. People from Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland are not English. They are Scottish or the Scoffs. Welsh and Irish. People from Scotland and Wales do not like it when they are called English.

Everyone in Britain speaks English. But in some parts of Scotland and Wales people speak different languages as well. The Welsh are especially proud of their language. They like to speak Welsh, to sing songs in Welsh and when you travel you can see road signs in Welsh all over Wales.

Everyone in the U.K. speaks English but they all speak it differently. A Scottish person has to listen carefully if he wants to understand a Londoner or a Welsh person.

The population of the U.K. lives mostly in towns and cities and their suburbs. 80% of the population live in towns.

The distribution of the population is rather uneven. Over 46 millon people live in England, over 3 million in Wales, a little over 5 million in Scotland and about 1,5 million in Northern Ireland.

Greater London, the south and the southeast of England are the most densely, populated.

Only the mountainous parts of the U.K. including much of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Pennine Chaine in northern England are very sparsely populated.

Now there are also many people of all colours and races in the U.K. There are mostly former inhabitants of the former British colonies. These people called "the coloured" came to the U.K. in search of better living standards as their own countries had, been impoverished by centuries of the British colonial oppression.

III. Say, that you know / have heard, have read / it too.

1. I know that population of the U.K. lives mostly in towns and cities and their suburbs. 2.I’ve heard that 80% of the population of Great Britain live in towns. 3. I’ve read that the distribution of the population in the U.K. is rather uneven. 4.I know that the south and the southeast of Great Britain are densely populated. 5.I've read that now there are also many people of all colours and races in the U.K. 6.I've heard that over 46 million people live in England. 7.I know that "the coloured" came to the U.K. in search of better living standards.

IV. Agree or disagree

1. The population of the U.K.. lives mostly in towns and cities and their suburbs. 2. 80% of the population don’t live in towns. 3. Now there are not many people of all colours and races in the U.K. 4. Greater London, the south and the south east of Great Britain are the most densely populated. 5. The distribution of the population is rather uneven. 6."The coloured " did not come to the U.K. in search of better living standards. 7.Over 46 million people live in England. 8.People from Scotland don’t like it when they are called English. 9. The Welsh are not especially proud of their language. 10. Everyone in the U.K. speaks English but they all speak it differently.

V. How many sentences can you make about the population of the U.K.

More than 56 million people The population of the U.K. Many of them Over 46 mi1lion Over 3 million A little over 5 millon About 1.5 million 80% of the population

live lives

mostly in towns and cities and their suburbs in towns in England in Wales in Scotland in Northern Ireland in Britain in big industrial cities like London