1. WALES

2. Area: 20779 km2 Population: 3000 000

3. Capital: Cardiff

4. MAJOR CITIES

5. Caerphilly

6. Newport

7. Swansea

8. Wrexham

9. Highestpoint: Mount Snowdon – 1085 m

10. Longest river: River Tywi – 103 km.

11. Largest lake: Bala ( 4,4 km2).

12. National day: St. David’sday.

13. National flower: thedaffodil

14. A long time ago Wales wasunitedwith England. The Englishlanguagebecametheonlyofficiallanguage. Little by littlepeoplestoppedspeakingtheWelshlanguage.

15. Todaytherearemanypeoplewhowork hard to keeptheWelshlanguagealive. Signs at airports, railwaystations and manyotherplacesare in bothEnglish and Welsh.

16. Manytouristsvisit Wales to gohiking in themountains. One ofthe most popularhiking areas is Eryri National Park. The Englishname for thisnational park is Snowdonia.

17. A long time ago a boy wasborn in Wales. His namewas Arthur. He wasbornoutofwedlock. His fatherwas a king and his motherwasthewifeof a duke. He wasbrought up away from his parents. When his fatherdied, therewasnoone in line for thethrone.

18. The great lords decidedthattheyshouldarrange a tournament. The man who won would be thenextking.

19. Arthur had an older foster brother. His namewas Kay.

20. Kay wanted to participate in a tournament. The wholefamilywentwithhim.

21. Kay forgot his sword.

22. Kay asked Arthur if he couldgo back and get it for him. Arthur wentthe all way back. But he could not findthesword.

23. Instead he saw a swordplungedinto a stone.

24. ” Let metry to pull it out”, he thought. He did it easily.

25. Arthur hurried back to his brotherwiththesword.

26. In thebladeoftheswordtherewas an inscriptionsaying: ” Whoever pulls thissword from thestone is therightfulkingofBritain”. Kay knelt before Arthur because he understoodthatthekingwasfound.