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Exercises

I. Answer the following questions:

1) Where is Great Britain situated? 2) What is Great Britain formed of? 3) What is the total area of the United Kingdom? 4) What channel separates Great Britain from the continent of Europe? 5) What is the narrowest part of the English Channel? 5) What is the climate of Great Britain? 7) What are Britain's rivers characterized by? 8) What can you say about the surface of Great. Britain? 9) What is the political system in Great Britain? 10) What is the supreme legislative body? 11) What does the Parliament in Great Britain consist of? 12) What does the British democratic system depend on? 13) What are the main political parties in Great Britain? 14) Who is the Prime Minister of Britain?

II. Find in Text a the words which correspond to the following vocabulary definitions and

translate into Ukrainian:

l) Land bordering sea; 2) one of the main land masses (Europe, Asia, Africa, etc.); 3) channels cut through land for use of boats and ships; 4) body of persons governing a state; 5) person who leads.

III. Choose the pairs of:

a) synonyms:

To separate, power, to enjoy, site, to destroy, famous, mild, force, to divide, to like place, to devastate, soft, remarkable.

b) antonyms:

Majority, agreement, developed, to accept, victory, wealth, seldom, disagreement, backward, minority, to reject, poverty, defeat, often.

IV. Complete the following sentences:

1) Great Britain is formally known as .… 2) Coal is the main source for the development of .... 3) Great Britain is known for its typically maritime climate with .... 4) The Parliament is the supreme legislative body and consists of…. 5) Shipbuilding is one of the principal... of Great Britain. 6) Great Britain is a parliamentary .... 7) The biggest English ports are .... 3) The district around Birmingham is a land of....

V. Fill in the blanks with the necessary words:

1) Great Britain... on the British Isles. (is situated, lie, stands) 2) The language spoken here is English, but Welshmen , Scotsmen and Irishmen... their own languages in addition to English. (talk, say, speak, tell) 3) Agriculture is one of the largest and most important ... in Great Britain. (work , activities , occupation ) 4) One of the ... museums is the British Museum with its library and the collection of manuscripts. (famous, wellknown, marvelous) 5) Big Ben , the famous ... is in one of the Towers. (square, monument, clock) 6) Edinburgh is the capital of.... (Scotland, Wales, Ireland) 7) In Great Britain the traffic drives on the .... (left, right) 8) The highest mountain in the United Kingdom is in .... (Ireland ,Scotland, Wales) 9) ... has more population than the other parts of the British Isles. (Scotland, England, Ireland) 10) Great Britain has a common border only with…. ( France, Ireland, Germany) 11) Coal-mining, metallurgy, textile, shipbuilding are ... branches of English industry. (modern, new, oldest)

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