UNIT 4

I. Read and translate the following group of words:

Around the capital, commercial centre, mainly rural, British settlers, strong discrimination, equal civil rights, strong cultural traditions, ballet and opera companies.

II. Translate from English into Russian the following words of the same root:

Commerce – to commerce – commercial – commercialization – to commercialize; modern – modernism – modernist – modernistic – modernity – modernization – modernly; revolution – revolutionary – revolutionist; to divide – divided – divider – dividing – dividual; to settle – settled – settlement – settler – setting; to dominate – dominated – dominating – domination – dominator.

III. Read and translate the text: Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, is still a part of the United Kingdom. It is made up of six countries: Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone. One third of the population lives in and around the capital, Belfast.

Belfast is also the most important port and commercial and industrial centre. Belfast is a modern city, a city of the 19^th century and of the industrial revolution. Its expansion was rather later than that of most other British industrial cities and it thus avoided some of their worst features. There are a few trim Georgian buildings and one or two houses dating from the 17^th century, but the mass of the city’s buildings are late Victorian or belong to the present century. Some parts of the territory, those that are not close to the capital, have remained mainly rural.

The Irish population is divided into two groups: the Protestants and the Catholic. The Protestants are of British origin. They are descendants of British settlers who came to Ireland in the 16^th and 17^th centuries, during and after the Reformation. The Catholics are mostly natives of Ireland.

The Protestants were the majority and dominated the Catholics with strong discrimination. In 1968 the Catholics began the movement for equal civil rights.

The fightings between the two groups of the population continue to this day.

Northern Ireland has a strong cultural tradition: songs, dances, literature and festivals.

It has its own Art Council and there orchestras, theatres, ballet and opera companies.

IV. Words to be learnt:

population – население

origin – происхождение

descendant – потомок

settler – поселенец, переселенец

discrimination – дискриминация

civil rights – гражданские права

Exercises to the text:

I. Find the Russian equivalents in the right-hand column for the following:

1. modern	1. избегать
2. revolution	2. принадлежать
3. to avoid	3. деревенский
4. building	4. движение
5. to belong	5. революция
6. important	6. большинство
7. rural	7. глава
8. to remain	8. село
9. majority	9. современный
10. movement	10. оставаться
	11. важный
	12. строение