BRITISH NATIONAL SYMBOLS (0)

BRITISH NATIONAL SYMBOLS
Research work

CONTENTS

CONTENTS 2
INTRODUCTION 3
1. BRITISH NATIONAL SYMBOLS 5
1.1 Great Britain and British story 5
1.2 National Symbols and Nation Building 5
1.3 The Use of Flags throughout History 6
1.4 The Early Modern Flags. United Kindom: Union Jack 8
1.5 National Flags as Political Instruments 12
2. RESEARCH 16
2.1 The questionnaire 1 16
2.2 Analysis of the questionnaire 1 18
2.3 Results of the questionnaire 1 23
During the first questionnaire 30 students of the 9th and 10th class of Gymnasium were questioned about the British national symbols. 23
Surprisingly, according to the results, more than 50 percent of students are aware of the national flags of Great Britain, Scotland , Northern Ireland and Wales . As can be seen , quite a lot of children also know the name of the Great Britain flag. However , almost all of the students have no idea about other names of the British flags, as well as about the patron saints. In addition , almost 90 percent of students are also unaware about the national holidays. 23
All things considered , we see that there is a need for students to pay more attention to Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales and to learn more information concerning those parts of the United Kigdom. 23
2.4 The questionnaire 2 23
2.5 Analysis of the questionnaire 2 24
2.6 Results of the questionnaire 2 32
CONCLUSION 34
BIBLIOGRAPHY 36

INTRODUCTION

Language is an important and prominent part of culture, so to learn the language well, it is necessary to understand cultural backgrounds of the language. The level of our learning cannot be judged just from the mastery of the vocabulary and grammar , it should also be judged from the point of view of country studies knowledge .
This paper will try to explore the British National Symbols which is one of the themes in the school curriculum.
The importance and choice of my research paper is explained by the following reasons:

• Firstly, there are a lot of different kinds of symbols in our everyday life;
  
• however, the area of my special interest is British National Symbols, to be more exact British national flags;
  

The aim of this research paper is to:

• to study literature dealing with history of national symbols;
  

• explore the British National Symbols;
  
• compare the knowledge of country studies symbols by gymnasium students of basic and high school.
  

The main tasks of the research is to:

• explore the symbols;
  
• explore meaning of symbols;
  
• explore origin of symbols;
  
• explore usage of symbols.
  

The methods of the research are:

• a survey ;
  
• an analysis;
  
• a comparison .
  

The object of the paper is British country studies. The subject is British Symbols.
My written part consists of two parts: theoretical which focuses on national symbols, their history, flags as political instruments and British national symbols, namely –