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Scotland facts

Scotland is full of culture and history! Find out about: – famous Scottish people. – discoveries that were made by Scottish inventors. – some typical Scottish animals. – Scottish clans and tartans.

There are lots of well-known Scottish people in show business. Sean Connery, for example, the first actor who played James Bond in the 1960s, was born in Edinburgh. Gerard Butler and James McAvoy are both from Glasgow. Butler was the main actor in the American action film “300” and McAvoy was the star of the films “The Last King of Scotland” and “Atonement”. The young actress that played Cho Chang in the Harry Potter films, Katie Lie Leung, was also born in Glasgow. A lot of young actors, like Rose Leslie, Emun Elliot, Richard Madden and Kate Dickie, have become famous on shows like “Game of Thrones”, “The Paradise”, “Dr. Who” or “Downton Abbey”. And of course there are many famous Scottish sportsmen and -women. The tennis player Andy Murray is from Glasgow. In 2012 he won the US Open and in 2013 he won Wimbledon. He is one of the top ten players in the world. Sir Alex Ferguson, coach of Manchester United F.C. for 17 years, is world famous too.

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Scottish inventors

Scotland is also a country of great inventors. The temperature scale Kelvin was invented by Lord Kelvin. Although he was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland, Kelvin taught physics in Scotland. At 22 he was already a professor at the University of Glasgow. Alexander Fleming was born in Darvel, a small town in the south-west of Scotland, and in 1945 he won the Nobel prize for discovering the antibiotic Penicillin. His invention has saved millions of lives. The first telephone was also invented by a Scotsman: Alexander Graham Bell, who was born in Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

. Edinburgh in 1847. The reason for Bell’s interest in hearing and speech was his family. Both his mother and his wife could not hear and Bell’s grandfather, father and brother had already done research on these topics.

Scotland is the home of many wild animals. Puffins are sea birds that have black backs, white bellies and an orange beak. They spend the winter at sea but in the spring they make nests on the ground or on cliffs where they lay eggs. The Scottish wildcat is the only wild cat in Great Britain. It likes areas with small mountains, forests and moors and mostly lives alone. There aren’t many wildcats anymore. There are lots of grey seals at the Scottish coast. A male seal is about 3 meters long, weighs up to 300 kg and can eat about 5 kg of fish in one day.

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Scottish clans and tartans

What is a clan? It’s a family, but also much more.

Scottish clans like the MacDonalds, MacLeods, MacLarens, Murrays, Grants or Lennoxes have long family histories. They mostly live in the Highlands or on islands. The name of a clan is based on the name of its first chief. The chief of a clan represents the whole clan, and is called “The MacLeod” or “The MacGregor”. Women can be clan chiefs too! Each clan has its own tartan style, which can be seen on the men’s kilts. Tartans can have many different colours and they are often made of wool. The Royal Family has its own tartan, the Balmoral.

Have you ever read a book by a Scottish author? Two important Scottish poets are Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. Both lived in the second half of the 1700s.

Burns, who wrote the Sir Walter Scott was popular Scottish song born in Edinburgh in

Nutzung sämtlicher Inhalte nur im Rahmen dieser Vorlage. “Auld Lang Syne”, was 1771. He wrote novels

© 2019 Cornelsen Verlag GmbH, Berlin born in Alloway in like “Ivanhoe” and 1759. He also wrote “Rob Roy”, but also many poems in poems and short Scottish dialect. The stories. Scott became Scots celebrate “Burns very famous and rich, Night” every year on and he built himself a 25th January big palace called Abbotsford House.

The author of the book “Treasure Island”, Robert Louis Stevenson, was also from Edinburgh, as was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote the stories of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes

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Scottish castles

Glamis Castle, for example, is in county Angus. This is the castle of Macbeth in Shakespeare’s famous play. Inside the castle there is a very small church with seats for 46 people. It is used by the owners’ family but even when there are many people inside there is one seat that is always free. Visitors are told that this is the seat of the “Grey Lady”, the ghost of Glamis castle.

Stirling Castle stands on Castle Hill close to the city of Stirling. It is one of Scotland’s biggest castles and has cliffs on three sides. Mary, Queen of Scots lived here as a child. At the foot of the hill there is a parade ground on which open air concerts can take place.

Edinburgh, too, has its own castle. It stands on Castle Rock in the old part of the city and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Scotland. Every day at 1:00 pm the “One O’Clock Gun” is fired from the Alle Rechte vorbehalten. north side of Edinburgh Castle (except on Sundays, Good Friday and Christmas Day). The firing of the gun has become a popular tourist attraction.

Scottish festivals Nutzung sämtlicher Inhalte nur im Rahmen dieser Vorlage. © 2019 Cornelsen Verlag GmbH, Berlin People in Scotland love to celebrate. Burns Night takes place each year on the 25th of January, the birthday of Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns. In the evening many people in Scotland have a special meal with their family and friends. A typical meal on this night starts with a plate of Scottish haggis. Then they read some of Burns’ poems. St. Andrew’s Day is celebrated on the 30th of November. It is the day of Saint Andrew and the official national day of Scotland. On this holiday, everything Scottish is celebrated – food, dance, music, fashion and literature. Hogmanay is celebrated on the evening of the 31st of December and ends at midnight, the New Year. The name of the festival is Scottish and means “the last day of the year”. People eat little cakes called “black buns” and bring their neighbours small presents (whiskey, coal, salt or shortbread). This tradition is called “first-footing”. If you are the first visitor to arrive with presents, you will have good luck in the new year.

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Scottish jokes

The Scots are often described as serious, but there are a lot of funny Scottish jokes. The Scots are not afraid to laugh at themselves. Many of the jokes are about people who don’t talk much, like to drink whisky and don’t like to spend money. Here is one joke: A Scots boy came home from school and told his mother he had been given a part in the school play. “Wonderful,” says the mother, “What part is it?” The boy says: “I play the part of the Scottish husband!” The mother shakes her head and says: “Go back and tell your teacher you want a speaking part.” Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Nutzung sämtlicher Inhalte nur im Rahmen dieser Vorlage. © 2019 Cornelsen Verlag GmbH, Berlin

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