读懂英国.一本就够了 本书特色
本书旨在提高中小学英语教师对英语国家文化与国情的了解，也适合一般英语及英语文化爱好者阅读。主要包括几个主要的英语国家的社会、历史、地理、政治、经济、文化等的概况，配以精美的插图。语言地道简单。这是一本用英语介绍英语母语国家文化概况的书，在阅读的同时，你不仅了解了英语国家的概况，也无形之中提高了英语水平。是一套不可多得的好书。
读懂英国.一本就够了 内容简介
本书旨在提高中小学英语教师对英语国家文化与国情的了解。主要包括几个主要的英语国家的社会、历史、地理、政治、经济、文化等的概况，通过学习进一步提高在岗教师的对所教语言国家的了解，从而可以进一步提高教学质量。
读懂英国.一本就够了 目录
i.general introduction
1.1 geography and people
1.2 the environment
1.3 the people of britain
ii.history
2.1 origin of the english nation
2.1.1 the native celts and the anglo-saxon conquest
2.1.2 the norman conquest
2.2 the great charter and beginning of parliament
2.2.1 the great charter
2.2.2 beginning of parliament
2.3 feudalism in england
2.3.1 the hundred years' war (1337-1453)
2.3.2 the black death (1348-1349)
2.3.3 the peasant uprising (1381)
2.3.4 the wars of the roses (1455-1485)
2.4 the bourgeois revolution
2.4.1 james i (1603-1625) and the parliament
2.4.2 charles i (1625-1649)
2.4.3 the short parliament and the long parliament
2.4.4 the civil wars
2.4.5 cromwell as lord protector
2.4.6 restoration (1660)
2.5 the industrial revolution and the chartist movement
2.5.1 background of the industrial revolution
2.5.2 process of the industrial revolution
2.5.3 effect of the industrial revolution
2.5.4 the chartist movement (1836-1848)
2.5.5 queen victoria and her time
2.6 the rise and fall of the british empire
2.6.1 effects of two world wars
2.6.2 decline of the empire
iii.government, parliament and the legal system
3.1 government
3.2 parliament
3.3 legal system
3.4 three legal systems
3.4.1 english law
3.4.2 northern irish legal system
3.4.3 scots law
iv.society and economy
4.1 social class
4.2 the changing family
4.3 social welfare
4.4 the structure of the economy
4.5 britain in the international system
v.culture and education
5.1 culture
5.1.1 the identity of britain
5.1.2 the arts
5.1.3 sports and leisure
5.1.4 religion
5.2 education
5.2.1 types of schools
5.2.2 higher education and universities
5.2.3 oxbridge
vi.characteristics of its english
6.1 old english (450-1150)
6.2 middle english (1151-1500)
6.3 modern english (1501-)
6.4 characteristics of british english and its future
vii.customs and holidays
7.1 customs
7.1.1 marriage and family
7.1.2 eating
7.1.3 socializing
7.1.4 recreation
7.2 festivals and special days
7.2.1 straw bear festival
7.2.2 haxey hood-q5 january
7.2.3 maypole dancing
7.2.4 sweeps festival
7.2.5 tar barrel burning
7.2.6 up-helly-aa
7.2.7 hurling the silver ball
7.2.8 bread and cheese throwing (whit sunday evening)
7.2.9 blessing the throats ceremony
7.2.10 bottle kicking and hare pie scramble
7.2.11 bacup nutters dance
7.2.12 clowns in church
7.2.13 turning the devils stone
7.2.14 new year's day
7.2.15 the door custom
7.2.16 newyear superstition
7.2.17 valentine's day
7.2.18 st.david's day
7.2.19 st.patrick's day
7.2.20 pancake day
7.2.21 mothering sunday (mother's day)
7.2.22 easter
7.2.23 april fools' day
7.2.23 st.george's day
7.2.24 may day
7.2.25 trooping the colour
7.2.27 swan upping on the thames
7.2.28 harvest festival
7.2.29 halloween
7.2.30 bonfire night
7.2.31 remembrance day
7.2.32 st.andrew's day
7.2.33 christmas
7.2.34 boxing day
references
postscript
读懂英国.一本就够了 作者简介
男，57岁，浙江大学外语学院英语教授，曾任教育部高等学校大学外语教学指导委员会秘书长、委员，浙江大学外语学院党委副书记，现任浙江大学人文学部中国文化传播中心主任。在高等教育出版社、浙江大学出版社、外语教学与研究出版社、上海外语教育出版社、上海译文出版社等出版英语教材、教辅、词典合计100余本。在国内外学术期刊如现代外语、外语界、学位与研究生教育、Polyglossia等发表论文103余篇。
