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Курс II ВОПРОСЫ К ЗАЧЕТУ ПО СТРАНОВЕДЕНИЮ 1. Describe the UK in general: what comes to mind first?
constitutional monarchy
United Kingdom, the UK, and Britain
England, Scotland, Wales
Northern Ireland
the Gulf Stream
London
2. Speak about British contribution to civilization.
Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh
Captain James Cook, David Livingstone
Robert Falcon Scott
the Industrial revolution
James Watt and George Stephenson
Isambard Brunel
Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin
Edward Jenner, Michael Faraday, Alexander Fleming
Ernest Rutherford, Ian Wilmut
^
William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens, Joanne Rowling
Sir Edward Elgar, Arthur Lloyd Weber
pop culture, John Lennon
British architecture
the Tower of London
Sir Christopher Wren
the middle class, clubs and hobby groups
sports
the BBC radio and television
Charles Babbage, Tim Berners-Lee
^
a world language
Received Standard English
American English
Pidgin English
Estuary English
Cockney pronunciation.
Borrowings
^
Gaelic, Brythons
the Belgic tribes
Stonehenge
Julius Caesar, Claudius
Boadicea
the Hadrian’s Wall
Albion, Londinium
the Jutes, the Angles and the Saxons
^ the Anglo-Saxon period.
Wessex, “England”
Court of King Arthur
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Sir Thomas Malory
Danes, Alfred
Battle of Maldon
the Catholic Church
St Patrick’s Day, 17 March
Саnterbury
Hastings, October 14, 1066
^
William the Conqueror
the Doomsday Book
Richard the Lionhearted
Runnymede, Magna Carta
Parliament
William Wallace, Robert the Bruce
the Black Death
Wat Tyler
the War of the Roses, Richard III
William Caxton
^
Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn
the Act of Supremacy
Sir Thomas More , Utopia
Reformation Protestantism
'Bloody Mary', Mary, Queen of Scots
the Elizabethan era
Shakespeare, Francis Bacon
Christopher Marlow
the Spanish Armada
9. Speak about the events of the English Puritan Revolution.
William Tyndale
The King James Version of the Bible
the Gunpowder Plot
Guy Fawkes Night, November 5
the Petition of Rights
Puritans, Cavaliers, Roundheads
January 30, 1649
Oliver Cromwell, the Commonwealth
the Instrument of Government
10. Give a talk on the Restoration period in Britain.
the Restoration
the Great Plague
the Great Fire of London
the Tories and the Whigs
the Revolution of 1688
colonizing foreign lands
British colonial empire
^
the Enlightenment
Isaac Newton
Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe
Samuel Johnson
Sir Christopher Wren
the Industrial Revolution
the workshop of the world
the textile industry
James Watt, George Stephenson, Isambard Brunel
Battle of Trafalgar
the Great Eastern
^
Queen Victoria
the Great Exhibition
Charles Dickens
Rudyard Kipling
Luddites
the Chartist movement
the woman-suffrage movement
Emmeline Pankhurst
Robert Owen
the Salvation Army
Florence Nightingale
the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
William Morris
the Crystal Palace
^
the British Isles
the English Channel
the Pennine Mountains
the Cumbrian Mountains
the Lake District
the Highlands
Ben Nevis
Loch Lomond
the Severn
the Thames
the Gulf Stream
the rain-shadow
mineral resources
^
First World War
the Treaty of Versailles
the Easter Rebellion
the Irish Republic
the League of Nations
the British Commonwealth of Nations
Alexander Fleming
John L. Baird
^
September 1, 1939
Sir Winston Churchill
the Blitz
D-Day
the United Nations Organization
Mohandas Gandhi
the Suez Canal
Queen Elizabeth II
Mary Quant
the Beatles
the European Union
^ .
Primary education – infant and junior school
comprehensive school
General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE)
the University of Oxford
the University of Cambridge
redbrick universities, the Open University
Bachelor of Arts (BA) or Bachelor of Science (BS)
PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)
the Bodleian, the Oxford University Press
independent schools
Eton College, Harrow School, Rugby School
^
The Post Office
George Stephenson
the Channel Tunnel
British Airways
Heathrow and Gatwick
the Mass media
The Times.
the British Broadcasting Corporation
The BBC World Service
John L. Baird
October 2, 1925
Charles Babbage
Alan Turing
the World Wide Web
Timothy Berners-Lee
18. Speak about ten great Britons.
Winston Churchill
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