Презентация, доклад по английскому языку Кельты.

Стодолище 2016

МБОУ Стодолищенская СШ Презентация по теме “Кельты”

Celts were the most powerful people in central and northern Europe. There were many groups (tribes) of Celts, speaking a vaguely common language.
The word Celt comes from the Greek word, Keltoi, which means barbarians and is properly pronounced as "Kelt".

Europe during the Iron Age.
Several hundred years before Julius Caesar, they occupied many parts of central and western Europe, especially what are now Austria, Switzerland, southern France and Spain. Over several years, in wave after wave, they spread outwards, taking over France and Belgium, and crossing to Britain.

of Man and Ireland
the Brythonic Сelts (Britons or British) - roughly Wales and Cornwall
The Goidelic Celts were first to invade Britain. They were later pushed into Ireland by their cousins the Brythonic (or British) Celts who came over in 500 - 400 BC. The Brythonic occupied present day England and Wales.

living in the British Isles today. They live mainly in Wales, Cornwall, Scotland, the Isle of Man and Ireland.

They dyed their woollen trousers and tops bright colours. Clothes were made from wool and dyed with natural vegetable dyes (plants and berries) and woven by hand on a vertical loom .

in round houses with thatched roofs of straw or heather. The walls of their houses were made from local material-woven wood and daub
(straw and mud).
The houses had
no windows.

they'd be sure to start one. They arrayed themselves as fiercely as possible, sometimes charging into battle fully naked, dyed blue from head to toe, and screaming like banshees to terrify their enemies. 

this chariot, drawn by two horses, they would throw spears at an enemy before dismounting to have a go with heavy slashing swords. The main problem
with the Celts was
that they couldn't
stop fighting
among themselves
long enough to put
up a unified front.
Each tribe was out
for itself, and in
the long run this
cost them control
of Britain.

advisors, teachers, healers, and arbitrators. They had their own universities, where traditional knowledge was passed on by rote. They had the right to speak ahead of the king in council, and may have held more authority than the king. They acted as ambassadors in time of war, they composed verse and upheld the law. They were a sort of glue holding together Celtic culture. 

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