Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему Sheffield (для учащихся 7,8 классов)

a small village to a large industrial city and now it is a leading economic centre in the country.
With the population 516 000 people Sheffield is one of the eight largest British cities outside London.
People have lived on this site for almost 2000 years but it was in 1296 that a market town was established here.

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the manufacturing of cutlery. (колюще- режущие предметы
The knives from Sheffield are even mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer's “The Canterbury Tales”. In the 17th century the city was the main centre of steel industry.
In the 18th century the crucible steel process ( тигельная плавка) was discovered and as a result the quality of steel changed for better.

people who worked and lived in the city was constantly growing.
In the 19th century Sheffield was the largest steel producer in Britain
The city was overpopulated at the beginning of the 20th century, there were slum districts full of huts , the factories polluted the environment and George Orwell wrote in 1937: “ Sheffield is the ugliest place in Europe.” Fortunately today it is not so.

too. It happened in 1912. The steel industry was very important throughout the 20th century, several research institutes worked on the development of the high strength steel.
Sheffield still produces more steel than any other city on our planet. It is one of the pillars (опора) of the British economy. The steel industry is the main employer in the city. There are a couple of universities, hospitals, schools in Sheffield.

or four museums practically all of which are dedicated to the history of the steel industry. Sad to say, but since the city has always been very manufacturing oriented, it has lost its historical heritage. There are not any buildings constructed before the late 19th or early 20th centuries. Nevertheless, Sheffield has a very good Botanical Garden. Of course it is not as good as the Oxford one but people can rest there.