III. Agree or disagree with the statements:

1. At the beginning of the 20th century Canada, Australia and New Zealand drew up their consti­tutions.

2. Britain was rapidly becoming the major economic power in Europe.

3. World War I started in 1913 and ended in victory for the Allied Powers of Britain, France and the USA.

4. There were more than 9 million killed.

5. The war was followed by a period of increase in economy.

6. From 1930 to 1933 Britain had 14 million of unemployed.

7. Britain declared war on Germany after Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939.

8. During World War II Britain was led by Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

9. The government did nothing to pre­vent unequal treatment of immigrants.

IV. Answer the questions:

1. What happened with the British Empire at the beginning of the 20th century?

2. When did Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa draw up their consti­tutions?

3. What country was rapidly becoming the major economic power in Europe?

4. What were the results of the World War I?

5. Was the war followed by a period of depression in economy and great social unrest?

V. Match the first part of the sentence (1-5) with the second one (a-e).

1	The war was followed	a	the major economic power in Europe.
2	The government passed laws to pre­vent unequal treatment of immigrants,	b	there were more than 10 million killed.
3	The destruction was terrible,	c	the beginning of the decline of the British Empire.
4	Germany was rapidly becoming	d	by a period of depression in economy.
5	The beginning of the 20th century coincided with	e	but also to control the number of immigrants.

VI. Make up a plan of the text.

VII. Retell the text in a written form (in English or Ukrainian). Text 46. The origins of english

I. Read and memorize the following words and word combinations:

Conquest – завоювання, antiquity – античність, a subfamily – підгрупа, to descend –передаватись, ancestral – спадковий, an inflection – закінчення слова, to resemble – нагадувати.

II. Listen to the text: The Origins of English

They speak of English as having its beginning with the conquest and settlement of a large part of the island of Britain by Germanic tribes from the European continent in the mid-fifth сеntury, although the earliest written documents belong to the seventh century. Of course these people did not, upon their arrival in England, suddenly begin to speak a new language. The history of English goes back much further. English is one of a family of languages called Indo-European. The languages of this family, which includes most of the modern European languages and some other languages spoken in western Asia from Iceland to India, as well as such important languages of antiquity as Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, all resemble each other in a number of ways, particularly in vocabulary.

Within the Indo-European family of languages there are several subfamilies, consisting of languages especially closely related. English belongs to the Germanic branch of Indo-European, and is a close relative of such languages as German, Dutch and the Scandinavian languages.

Germanic, one of the language groups descended from this ancestral speech, is usually divided by scholars into three regional groups: East, North and West. English, being a West Germanic language of the Indo-Europe­an language family, is closely related to Frisian, German, and Netherlandic languages.

Though closely related to English, German remains far more conservative than English in its sys­tem of inflections. Frisian, spoken by the inhabitants of the Dutch province, is the language most nearly related to Modern English. Icelandic, which has changed little over the last thousand years, is the living language most nearly resembling Old English in gram­matical structure.