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7. “White” in names and acronyms – match with the explanations:

  1. The White Cliffs of Dover

1. a large inlet of the Arctic Ocean on the north-west coast of Russia.

  1. The White House

2. a theatre in the West End of London, famous for a series of farces produced there in the 1950s and 1960s.

  1. The White Rabbit

3. an acronym of “White Anglo-Saxon Protestant”, a member of what many consider to be the most privileged and influential group in American society; an American whose family was originally from northern Europe, especially considered as a member of the class which has controlling influence or power on society.

  1. The Whitehall Theatre

4. (in the United States) a book (directory) of all the names of people in a particular area who have telephones, and also their telephone numbers and, usually, addresses: Look her up in the local White Pages (compare “Yellow Pages”)

  1. WASP

5. a) the official (Washington, D.C.) home of the President of the United States (the executive mansion). The White House contains reception and dining rooms, living quarters for the President and the President’s family, the President’s Oval Office, and the offices for the presidential staff. It was built in 1792-1799 of sandstone, later painted white, and designed by James Hoban. The site was chosen by George Washington, and John Adams was the first president to live there, in 1800. Its postal address is 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. b) the President and its staff advisers: The White House has denied the report.

  1. The White Sea

6. a character from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (by Lewis Carroll). He keeps looking at his watch because he is late, and disappearing down rabbit holes.

  1. “White Christmas”

7. the emblem of the House of York in the War of the Roses (1455-1485)

  1. White Hart Lane

8. the name of a popular brand of Scotch whisky

  1. White Horse

9. a) the first bit of England that can be seen when crossing the English Channel from France: just 35 minutes from the White Cliffs of Dover. b) a song sung by Vera Lynn during the Second World War

There’ll be bluebirds over

The White Cliffs of Dover

Tomorrow ,

Just you wait and see.

  1. White Pages

10. the massive kept at the heart of the Tower of London, built under William I and William II as a fortress from which to control London.

  1. White Rose

11. the American League baseball team from Chicago

  1. White Sox

12. the emblem of the House of York in the War of Roses (1455-1485)

  1. White Tower

13. a) a street in central London running from Trafalgar Square to the Houses of Parliament, where many departments of the British government are located (the street was named after former Whitehall Palace there, of which only the Banqueting House survived): Rumours are circulating in Whitehall. b) The British government itself, especially the government departments rather than the Parliament or the Prime Minister: disagreement between Whitehall and Downing street (the residence of the Prime Minister) about how to deal with the matter.

  1. Whitehall

14. a popular song for Christmas, composed by Irving Berlin, and memorably sung by Bing Crosby (1904-1977), an American singer and film actor, especially famous for his style of singing and comedy films he made with Bob Hope.

8. Make up little dialogues, using different word combinations with “white”.

9. Remember other colour idioms with “white” in your language.

10. What do you know about:

a) White, Patrick Victor Martiodale, (1912-1990);

b) Whitehead, Alfred North (1861-1947);

c) Whitehouse, Mary (1910-…)?

11. Text for written translation and detailed retelling (pay special attention to the words in bold).

Color or colour is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue and others. Colour derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light energy versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. Colour categories and physical specifications of colour are also associated with objects, materials, light sources, etc., based on their physical properties such as light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra. Colours can be identified by their unique RGB and HSV values.

Typically, only features of the composition of light that are detectable by humans (wavelength spectrum from 380 nm to 740 nm, roughly) are included, thereby objectively relating the psychological phenomenon of colour to its physical specification. Because perception of colour stems from the varying sensitivity of different types of cone cells in the retina to different parts of the spectrum, colours may be defined and quantified by the degree to which they stimulate these cells. These physical or physiological quantifications of colour, however, do not fully explain the psychophysical perception of colour appearance.

The science of colour is sometimes called chromatics. It includes the perception of colour by the human eye and brain, the origin of colour in materials, colour theory in art, and the physics of electromagnetic radiation in the visible range (that is, what we commonly refer to simply as light).

Physics of colour Electromagnetic radiation is characterized by its wavelength (or frequency) and its intensity. When the wavelength is within the visible spectrum (the range of wavelengths humans can perceive, approximately from 380 nm to 740 nm), it is known as "visible light". Most light sources emit light at many different wavelengths; a source's spectrum is a distribution giving its intensity at each wavelength. Although the spectrum of light arriving at the eye from a given direction determines the colour sensation in that direction, there are many more possible spectral combinations than colour sensations. In fact, one may formally define a colour as a class of spectra that give rise to the same colour sensation, although such classes would vary widely among different species, and to a lesser extent among individuals within the same species. In each such class the members are called metamers of the colour in question.

Spectral colours The familiar colours of the rainbow in the spectrum – named using the Latin word for appearance or apparition by Isaac Newton in 1671 – include all those colours that can be produced by visible light of a single wavelength only, the pure spectral or monochromatic colours. The intensity of a spectral colour may alter its perception considerably; for example, a low-intensity orange-yellow is brown, and a low-intensity yellow-green is olive-green.