영어책 읽기 Level2 Scotland 입니다.
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there is nowhere like scotland scotland is a country in
a country it is part of great britain england
scotland and wales and of the united kingdom england
scotland wales and northern ireland scotland is in the far northwest
of europe between the atlantic ocean and the north sea it is
often cold and gray and it rains a lot in some
parts of the country but the people of scotland love their
country and many visitors to scotland love it
too [Music]
they love the beautiful hills and mountains of the north the sea
and the 800 islands and the six cities edinburgh
glasgow aberdeen dundee inverness
and sterling the country is special and scottish people
are special too often warm and friendly there are about
five million people in scotland most scots live in the south
in or near the big cities of edinburgh and glasgow most of the north of the
country is very empty not many people
live there scottish person is also called a scot
but you cannot talk about a scotch person scotch
means whiskey a drink made in scotland scottish people
are british because scotland is part of great britain but
you must not call scottish people english the scots and the english
are different
these days everyone in scotland speaks english but at one time
people in the north and west of scotland did not speak english
they had a different language a beautiful language
called gaelic about sixty thousand people one percent
of the people in scotland speak gaelic now
but many more want gaelic in their lives because it is part
of the story of scotland
scotland is not a very hot country in the summer the days are long
and it can be warm but in the winter the days can be just
seven hours long and it often rains
for many years scotland was a poor country but now
things are better for most people there is oil and gas in the sea
between scotland and norway edinburgh is an important place
for money and there are big banks there like the royal bank of scotland
people in many countries drink scotch whiskey and the whiskey business
makes a lot of money for scotland tourists visit this beautiful country
and that brings money to scotland too many people love living
and working there and more than 20 million visitors go to scotland
each year scotland is the oldest
country in the world why because the hills
of the north west and the hebridean islands
are more than 2 700 million years old
you can walk on some of the oldest rocks in the world there
people first lived there nine thousand years ago
at scarabray on the orkney islands in the far north of scotland
you can see the houses of early people from about five thousand years ago
the houses at napa power also on the orkneys are the oldest
in europe the romans went to scotland but they did not
stay there for long between a.d 122 and 128
they built hadrian's wall it was 117 kilometers long
and went from c to c across the most northern part of
england the romans stayed in england for nearly 300 years
until about a.d ad400 and then they left and went
back to rome today you can visit hadrian's wall in the
north of england and walk along parts of it
who were the first scots the people north of hadrian's wall
were called picts by the romans we can still see some of their story
in their pictures in stone but there were also scotty
from ireland the name scotland comes from the scotty
vikings from norway and some english people from the south
these different peoples came under one king in the 800s
the first king of all the scots many people say was kenneth
mcalpin he was king from 843 to 858
but the most famous scottish king of this early time
is macbeth 1040-1057 he is famous because
shakespeare wrote about him for shakespeare macbeth was
a very bad man but he was not worse than many other kings
of those early days there were many battles between england
and scotland one important scot was william wallace about
1270-1305 you can learn about him in the film
braveheart then in 1314 the scottish king robert the bruce
took his men to the battle of bannockburn
after the battle 10 000 englishmen were dead and robert
became one of the most important kings in the story of scotland
soon after scotland was free and stayed free for nearly 300 years
in 1542 a little girl called mary became queen of scotland
she was six days old and only the second woman to be queen
of this country mary queen of scots became a tall
and beautiful woman but some scots did not want her to be queen
mary went to england and asked elizabeth the english queen for help
but she did not get it she never returned to scotland
and died in england after 19 years
mary's son james stewart became king of scotland and then
king james the first of england too in 1707 the two countries
became great britain
in the 1700s scotland was more like two countries than one
there were rich cities in the south but there were poor country people in
the highlands the hill country in the center and the
north of scotland at that time
edinburgh was one of the most important cities
in europe and many famous thinkers lived there
then in the 1800s glasgow became rich people
built big ships there and later trains so
the south of scotland had busy cities with beautiful buildings lots
of work and money in the highlands things were
very different after 1714 great britain
had german kings from hanover in north germany many scots
in the highlands wanted a scottish king someone from the stuart family like mary
and james not a german king in london they wanted
charles stewart bonnie prince charlie the grandson of the last steward king
james ii of england and the seventh of scotland
charles stewart left france and came to scotland
he wanted to be king of scotland and england too but
charles and his men lost the battle of culloden near inverness
in 1746 culloden was the last big battle in great britain
after the battle the british soldiers looked for charles but he went
into the hills the people of the highlands
and the islands helped him to go back to france but life
became difficult for them after that the british soldiers stayed in the
highlands and took away houses and land
from the friends of charles stewart after this many poor families
left the highlands and went to the cities
in the south of scotland or to other countries the usa
canada australia and new zealand some
went because they wanted to begin a new life but others
went because the rich owners of the land in scotland wanted to put animals there
between 1840 and 1880 40 000 people left just
one island the island of sky
life became more difficult in the 1900s but oil and gas in the north sea
began to bring money to scotland again in the 1970s
let's look now at some of the famous places
in the scotland of today
[Music] [Applause]
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