6. Match the events in the first column to the dates in the second column:

1.The battle of Picts and Scots against Angles under Athelstan	5. 700 B.C.
2.Unification of Scottish and Pictish Kingdom later knownas Alba	10. 300'sA.D.
3.A village of Skara Brae	1. 832 A.D.
4.Anglo-Saxon invaded Scotland	4. 400'sA.D
5.Picts living in Northern Scotland	3. 3100 B.C.
6.Romans arrived in Scotland	7. 400'sA.D.
7.Christianity spread throughout Scotland	2. 843 A.D.
8.Robert the Bruce seized the throne	6. 78 A.D.
9.The Hadrian Wall was built	11. 1297
10.Scots arrived from Ireland to settle in Scotland	12. 1314
11.Rebellion under William Wallace	9. 100 A.D.
12.The battle of Bannockburn	13. 1326
13.The first full Scottish parliament	8. 1306
14.The Act of Union	15. 1997
15.Devolution was approved under Blair Government	17. 1947
16.Scotland Act	19. 1999
17.The Edinburgh International Festival was established	14. 1707
18.Education Act	16. 1998
19.The Scottish Parliament reopened	18. 1872
20.Edinburgh was named the world's first City of Literature	21. 1560
21.Reformation initiated by John Knox	20. 2004

7. Match the following words and word combinations to their correct meaning:

1.Broch 10. The Stone upon which the Scottish kings had

traditionally been inaugurated

2.The Kirk 11. The highest Britain's mountain

3.Alba 5. An outdoor game played on grass with sticks

4.Plaid 8. A popular caffeinated soft drink in Scotland

5.Shinty 7. A specific woven pattern signifying a particular Scottish

clan

6.Caber toss 3. Ancient and modern Celtic name

7.Tartan 15. Painted people

8.Irn Bru 1. Fortifications from Iron Age

9.Scotch 2. The Church of Scotland

10.The stone of Scone 12. Traditional Scottish male dance from about the 1700s

11.Ben Nevis 4. A tartan cloth slung over the shoulder or a blanket

12.The Highland Fling 6. A traditional Scottish athletic event

13.Haggis 9. Traditional Scotch whisky

14.Ne'erday 13. A popular Scottish dish

15.Picts 14. Old Scottish name for Christmas day

8. Tell the history behind the two Scottish flags.

The saltire is Scotland's national flag. The lion rampant is the flag of the royal family in Scotland.

When St. Andrew, one of the Apostles, was being crucified by the Romans in A.D. 60, it is said that he believed himself unworthy to be crucified on a cross like that of Christ, and so he met his end on a ‘saltire’, or X-shaped cross (St. Andrew’s cross) which became his symbol.

Two separate legends help to explain the association between St. Andrew and Scotland. One story tells how in A.D. 345 St. Regulus was instructed by an angel to take some relics (bones) of St. Andrew to a far-off land. He eventually arrived in Fife on the northeast coast of Scotland, where he founded the settlement of St. Andrews. Yet another version recalls how in the 7th century, St. Wilfrid brought the saint's relics home with him following a pilgrimage to Rome. The Pictish king, Angus MacFergus, subsequently had them installed at his new monastery of St. Regulus at Kilrymont, later renamed St. Andrews.

And still yet another legend links the adoption of St. Andrew’s cross as Scotland’s national flag. This recalls how, in 832, on the eve of a battle between a combined Picts and Scots army and an invading army of Angles led by King Aethelstan of East Anglia, St. Andrew appeared to the Pictish king, Óengus II (Angus) and assured him of victory. The following morning a formation of clouds gathered against the backdrop of a clear blue sky, depicting a white saltire that was visible to both sides. The omen inspired the Picts and Scots to win a famous victory over the Angles of King Aethelstan and so the white cross on the blue background was adopted as the national flag of Scotland.

Following Robert Bruce's victory at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, the Declaration of Arbroath officially named Saint Andrew as the patron saint of Scotland. The saltire appears to have become the official national flag in 1385 when the Parliament of Scotland agreed that Scottish soldiers should wear the white cross as a distinguishing mark. In such times flags and banners were important to identify opposing forces in heat of battle.

Whilst its exact origin may have been lost in myth and legend, the flag of Scotland is generally regarded as one of the oldest national flags still in modern use.

Not content with one flag however, Scotland also has a second unofficial national flag. This one generally appears by the thousands wherever and whenever the national sporting teams are competing and is commonly known as the Lion Rampant. The flag is actually the Royal Standard of the King or Queen of Scots and it remains the personal banner of the monarch; as such its use is, strictly speaking, restricted.

It is thought that it was King Richard I of England "the Lion-Heart" late in the 12th century who first introduced a heraldic device showing a rampant lion, the king of beasts, rearing up with three of its clawed paws out-stretched as if in battle. This Lion Rampant was eventually adopted as the Scottish royal coat of arms and incorporated into the Great Seal of Scotland.