Курс II вопросы к зачету по страноведению describe the uk in general: what comes to mind first?


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3. Speak about British contribution to culture.
4. Describe English, one of the world languages.
5. Give a talk on the early history of Britain.
6. Give an outline of
7. Speak about the formative centuries in British history, 1066 – 1500s.
8. Describe the events of the British Renaissance.
11. Speak about the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution in Britain.
12. Give a talk on the Victorian Age in Britain.
13. Give an outline of British geography and economy.
14. Give a talk on the First World War and the 1920s in Britain.
15. Describe World War II and the events after it in British history.
16. Dwell on education in the UK
17. Describe the history of British communications and mass media.
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1-02 03 06-01 Английский язык. Немецкий язык.

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


^ 3. Speak about British contribution to culture.

  • 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

^ 4. Describe English, one of the world languages.

  • a world language

  • Received Standard English

  • American English

  • Pidgin English

  • Estuary English

  • Cockney pronunciation.

  • Borrowings


^ 5. Give a talk on the early history of Britain.

  • Gaelic, Brythons

  • the Belgic tribes

  • Stonehenge

  • Julius Caesar, Claudius

  • Boadicea

  • the Hadrian’s Wall

  • Albion, Londinium

  • the Jutes, the Angles and the Saxons


^ 6. Give an outline of 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


^ 7. Speak about the formative centuries in British history, 1066 – 1500s.

  • 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


^ 8. Describe the events of the British Renaissance.

  • 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


^ 11. Speak about the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution in Britain.

  • 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

^ 12. Give a talk on the Victorian Age in Britain.

  • 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


^ 13. Give an outline of British geography and economy.

        • 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


^ 14. Give a talk on the First World War and the 1920s in Britain.

  • 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


^ 15. Describe World War II and the events after it in British history.

  • 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


^ 16. Dwell on education in the UK.

  • 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


^ 17. Describe the history of British communications and mass media.

  • 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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