Gast2012 hat geschrieben:Danke sehr, aber ich kann mir kaum vorstellen, dass ich nur einen Fehler gemacht habe.
Please don't try to push it. I suggest you read the forum rules
ftopic644.html again.
Please remember we are offering our expertise voluntarily and totally free of charge. And all of us got a life of our own.
I'm not a native speaker of English. So it takes a significant amount of my time to optimise such a (long, flawed) text
and it's never going to be a perfect result - as long as you're not able to pay for translation services with high quality.
Gast2012 hat geschrieben:Ich habe meinen Text nun erweitert und den alten Teil überarbeitet.
Ich hoffe, dass er diesmal nicht mit so
vielen Flüchtigkeitsfehler
n übersät ist.
Hello everyone!
Today I'm going to talk about Ireland.
My presentation has 3 parts.
In the first part I'm going to talk about some geographical aspects.
After that I’m going to talk about the population of Ireland.
And then I'm going to tell you something about the history.
Let's get started with the geography of the island Ireland.
Ireland is located east of Great Britain in the north-east of Europe.
The island is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean.
Ireland is over 84.421 km² big and is characterised by lakes and lush meadows.
„Lough Neagh“ is the most famous lake.
The longest river is the „Shannon“ with a length of 370 kilometers.
The highest mountain is the „Carranauntoohill“.
It is in the south-west of Ireland and is 1.041 metres high.
We are now coming to the next part of my population.
The combined population of the state Northern Ireland (1.8 million) and the Republic of Ireland (6.2 million) is about 8 million people.
The capitals of these states are Belfast (Northern Ireland) and Dublin (Ireland).
The biggest cities are Galway, Cork, Waterford and Dun Laoghaire.
There are living about 73 people per square kilometre.
Over 80% are roman-catholics and most of the remaining population are protestants.
I'm now going to talk about the history.
In / Until 1841 the Irish population was tyrannized by the United Kingdom.
The population decreased from 8.5 million to 5.0 million.
That’s the reason why many people imigrated to the USA or other countries.
Through diseases and famines the population continued to decline to 4.0 million people.
The repression of the Irish language was intensified by these events.
Ireland was able to partially save it's autonomy.
Only Northern Ireland remained in the possession of UK.
In the 19 Century many problems arose from this situation.
However, in recent years the government of Ireland relinquished it's claim to Northern Ireland.
This development is seen as a start to relax the situation.
Through Ireland's history many symbols, myths and sights emerged which I'm going explain now.
The most famous ones are the shamrock, the Celtic cross, the Irish Harp and the Leprechauns.
The shamrock is an unofficial national symbol.
It is so famous because Saint Patrick was the first who used a three lamellar shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity.
The day of his death is a holiday and was named Saint Patrick's Day to honour him.
The Celtic cross is a symbol that combines a cross with a ring surrounding the intersection.
It's used in all of Ireland. The cross was very influential for the Celtic and Irish art.
The Leprechauns are mystical beings.
They are very short and wear green clothes. In stories they are represented as very shy and greedy.
They often hide their gold at the end of a rainbow.
The Irish Harp also known as Celtic Harp is a harp with a very special design and sound.
This harp is shown on the national flag of Ireland and on Irish euro coins.
This was my presentation about Ireland.
I hope you enjoyed it.
You didn't write several conclusion
s - just two short final sentences.
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