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Název DUMu The Symbols of London – Greenwich

Tematická oblast Rozvíjení komunikativních dovedností

Autor Mgr. Hana Štěpánková

Škola VOŠPS a SPgŠ Kroměříž

Číslo projektu CZ.1.07/1.5.00/34.0755

Číslo a název šablony klíčové aktivity II/2 Inovace a zkvalitnění výuky cizích jazyků na středních školách

Vzdělávací oblast Jazykové vzdělávání

Vzdělávací obor Anglický jazyk

Cílová skupina Žáci 2. až 4. ročníku SŠ

AnotaceCílem prezentace, založené na propojení fotodokumentace a základních údajů, je rozvíjení povědomí o jedné z významných památek Londýna

Klíčová slova observatory, maritime museum, the prime meridian, time zone, astronomy

Datum vytvoření 16. 7. 2013

VY_22_INOVACE_0405 The Symbols of London – Greenwich

ROYAL GREENWICH• 5 miles south – east of central London• Founded by Charles II in 1675 to study astronomy and to fix

longitude• The seat of the National Maritime Museum• Dr Samuel Johnson lived in Greenwich (1737)• In 1738 a riverside village• 1694 Royal Naval Hospital was founded to replace the royal

palace where Henry VIII and his daughters ´Bloody Mary´and Queen Elisabeth I were born

• 1884 the Observatory was confirmed as marking Longitude O°• Observatory is home to Greenwich Mean Time and the

Meridian line• A time ball , erected in 1833,was the first public time signal


Greenwich Park

• Greenwich Park has 81 hectares (200 acres) of open space

• Mature trees, flowers and a rose garden

• The lake teems with ducks and swans

• The park has a variety of wildfowl


The National Maritime Museum

• Runs the Old Royal Observatory and the complex of buildings, centring on the Queen´s House

• Founded in 1934• The Museum´s collection hold over two

million items, with a major research library and documentary archive


The National Maritime Museum


The Old Royal Observatory

• The red Greenwich time ball can be seen by ships on the Thames

• One of the first visual time signals• Installed in 1833 originally for ships in the Thames to

set their chronommeters.• The present ball dates from 1919• Drops daily at 1 pm• Flamsteed House – John Flamsteed was appointed as

the first Astronomer Royal by Charles II. in 1675


The Old Royal Observatory


The Prime Meridium

• GMT /Greenwich Mean Time/ - the time of day on the line of 0° longitude

• A straight line between North Pole and South Pole which goes through Greenwich

• It´s the official time in Britain from October to March


The Prime Meridium

• The world ´s Prime Meridian – longitude 0°

• A brass strip which marks the prime meridium

• Indicates where where GMT is measured

• Different time zones in other parts of the world are usually desribed with references to GMT


Galvano Magnetic Clock

• The UK –advanced maritime nation• Mariners calculated their longitude from the Greenwich

Meridian• Internationally adopted in the International Meridian

Conference - 1884• The daily rotation of the Earth is somewhat irregular and is

slowing down slightly• The electric Shepherd 24-hour Clock was installed for

public benefit in 1852 and always shows GMT• Galvano magnetic clock - has been replaced with atomic clocks


The International Time Zone


Standard Lengths

• Standard lengths on the wall of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London

• 1 yard (3 feet), 2 feet, 1 foot, 6 inches (1/2 foot), and 3 inches.

• The separation of the inside faces of the marks is exact at an ambient temperature of 60 °F (16 °C) and a rod of the correct measure, resting on the pins, will fit snugly between them.


Standard Lengths


The Royal Naval College

• Close to the river Thames, built by Sir Christopher Wren as the Greenwich Hospital, a home for veteran sailors

• Remains unchanged from Sir Christopher Wren´s designs

• Four main blocks were built from 1694 to 1751• Before this, Greenwich Palace, home of Tudor

sovereigns, stood here• The hospital became a naval college in 1873, a role

which lasted for 125 years


The Royal Naval College


The Queen´s House

• A unique 17th-century royal villa• Holds restored royal apartments in 1660´s

style, the National Maritime Museum Treasury, portraits of kings, queens, and the world´s finest collection of 17th-century Dutch marine paintings


The Queen´s House (in the centre)


The Cutty Sark• The only surviving tea clipper• Launched at Dumbarton on the river

Clyde, Scotland, in 1869• Her name comes from “cutty sark“

(short shirt) worn by one of the witches in the poem Tom o´Shanter by Robert Burns

• Carried tea from China, and the wool from Australia

• The fastest ship in the race around the Cape of Good Hope for the tea trade with China

• In 1954 it was towed to Greenwich and placed in a specially constructed dry dock and restored

• Now it´s the museum of tea


Zdroj:

• Fotografie – vlastní zdroj autorky• Knižní zdroje:1) Greenwich.Greenwich Tourist Information

Centre, Greenwich booklet, 1996

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