Golf was first played in Scotland in the 15th century
Golf was first played in England in the 16th century
Cricket is a popular summer sport in England
Rugby takes its name from Rugby school in the Midlands.
In 1824, a boy playing football at the school picked up the ball and ran with it.
Britain doesn’t often produce sportsmen or sportswomen who are successful in world championship
My favorite subject in school is English. This is an international language. it is studied in many countries of the world. At the beginning of the eighteenth century the French language was international. but by the end of the twentieth century English was replaced by French. why is this my favorite subject? because knowing English can be visited in England and the United States. as well as in other countries of the world. very few people know this language. so I'm learning it
Poverkhnost' Anglii i Irlandii ploskaya, no poverkhnost' Shotlandii i Uel'sa gorna. Gory pochti vse v zapadnoy chasti. Samaya vysokaya gora v Soyedinennom Korolevstve - Ben-Nevis v Shotlandii (1343 m). Samaya dlinnaya reka - Severn. Eto na yugo-zapade Anglii. Temza ne tak dlinna, kak Severn, ona koroche. More pronikayet gluboko v zemlyu i okazyvayet bol'shoye vliyaniye na klimat, kotoryy vlazhnyy, no dovol'no myagkiy: zima ne ochen' kholodnaya, a leto ne ochen' zharkoye.
V Soyedinennom Korolevstve prozhivayet boleye 57 millionov chelovek. Bol'shinstvo zhiteley Velikobritanii zhivut v bol'shikh gorodakh i gorodakh.
Stolitsey strany yavlyayetsya London. Osnovnymi promyshlennymi tsentrami yavlyayutsya Sheffild i Birmingem, gde proizvodyatsya zheleznyye izdeliya, Manchester, khlopkovyy tsentr Anglii i drugiye.
Vazhnymi portami strany yavlyayutsya london, Liverpul', Glazgo i drugiye.