- •Ethnic groups
- •Languages
- •Religion
- •Exercises
- •I. Pronounce the following words correctly.
- •II. Give the Russian equivalents to the following English words and word combinations.
- •III. Give the English equivalents to the following Russian words and word combinations.
- •IV. Explain the following in English.
- •V. Complete the following table.
- •VII. Look at the head-line of the article and say what it is going to be about. Read the article and give your opinion on the issue using the questions given below.
- •VIII. Listen to the disc and do the following exercises.
- •Answer the questions.
- •Express your opinion on the issue.
- •2. People (part I)
- •Introduction
- •Views of Britain The official view
- •The people’s view
- •Exercises
- •I. Give the English equivalents to the following Russian words and word combinations.
- •VII. Comment on the following author’s statements.
- •VIII. Answer the questions.
- •IX. Read all the texts one more time and render their general contents in several sentences.
- •X. Read the text and list all the problems it deals with. The Telegraph
- •Ten core values of the British identity
- •Эти странные англичане Как, по их мнению, к ним относятся другие
- •Как их воспринимают на самом деле
- •Эти странные шотландцы «Извечный враг»
- •Какими они хотят казаться
- •People (part II) a foreigner view of the British
- •Exercises
- •I. Pronounce the following words correctly.
- •II. Give the Russian equivalents to the following English words and word combinations.
- •IV. Answer the questions.
- •Issues to be discussed.
- •VI. Make up a dialogue on the topic under review imagining that.
- •VII. Listen to the following piece of information of a person, who was born in Northern Ireland and now lives in England and do the following exercises.
- •Answer the following questions.
- •Make up a list of issues on which the Irish and the English have different points of view.
- •VIII. Comment on the newspaper article “White Britons will be outnumbered by 2066 if the rate of immigration continues, researchers have claimed” given below.
- •White Britons will be outnumbered by 2066 if the rate of immigration continues, researchers have claimed
- •3. The family Family structure
- •Working mothers
- •Young people
- •Exercises
- •VI. What would you do if you encountered such a situation?
- •VII. Analyze this table and say at what age in Russia you can do the following.
- •VIII. Read an extract from the book “Britain Now” and take part in discussing of the following issues. Family life in the past
- •4. Leisure Spare Time
- •How People Relax
- •Reading
- •Exercises
- •I. Pronounce the following words correctly.
- •II. Translate the following sentences into Russian and say what lexis from the texts under consideration is used in those sentences.
- •III. Search the text for the words similar in meanings to the ones given below.
- •IV. Search the text for the words opposite in meanings to the ones given below.
- •V. Ask your group-mates questions about leisure time in Britain and in Russia using the suggested words and word combinations from the texts above.
- •VI. Prepare a short talk on places and activities, which help you to have a rest with your friends or members of the family.
- •VIII. Comment on the following article from “Britain Explored”.
- •Gаmbliпg
- •IX. Scan the text for the information that will help you to answer the questions given after the text. Sports and recreation
- •X. Compose dialogues on the following topics.
- •XI. Discuss it with your group-mates.
III. Give the English equivalents to the following Russian words and word combinations.
Пенсионный возраст; в процентном отношении; преследова-ние; местное население; официальные цифры; происходить от; иметь особенные, характерные черты; распространяться; признан-ный, общепризнанный; обязательно изучать; шотландский диалект английского языка; государственная церковь (в Великобритании); сохранять право; приниматься в качестве закона; вступление (в должность, на престол); составлять проект документа; приносить присягу; община, сообщество.
IV. Explain the following in English.
Commonwealth, population estimate, de jure, constituent countries,
Old Norse, Norman French, Middle English, Supreme Governor, General Synod, Anglican Communion, Methodism.
V. Complete the following table.
Country |
Nationality |
Language(s) |
Person |
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A Briton (rare) |
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English Scots Gaelic |
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Welsh
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Ireland
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VI. Paraphrase the sentences given below using the following words: variety, population, to migrate, origin, tradition, to recognize, indigenous, independent, refuge, to arrive, to defend, to retain.
1. Black Death originated in central Asia and China and spread rapidly through Europe, carried by the fleas of black rats, reaching England in 1348 and killing between one third and one half of the habitation in a matter of months.
2. Germanic people, originally inhabitants of what is now Schleswig-Holstein, moved to England in the 5th century AD.
3. The religion of Tibet was formed in the 8th century AD from a combination of Buddhism and the aboriginal Tibetan religion.
4. Otto Heinrich Warburg, a German biochemist, was prevented by the Nazi regime from accepting a second Nobel Prize in 1944 because of his
Jewish ancestry.
5. He was forced to take asylum in the French embassy.
6. When workers clock on at a factory or office they put a special card into a device to show what time they came.
7. The government acknowledged that the tax was unfair.
8. His courage in advocating religious and civil rights inspired many outside the church.
9. The Anglo-Irish Treaty by which Ireland was partitioned in 1921 gave southern Ireland dominion status as the Irish Free State.
10. Methodism has a strong custom of missionary work and concern with social welfare, and emphasizes the believer's personal relationship with God.
11. Newspapers were obliged to allow a diversity of views to be printed.
VII. Look at the head-line of the article and say what it is going to be about. Read the article and give your opinion on the issue using the questions given below.
“Multicultural Britain”
Immediately after the Second World War Britain looked like a prosperous and friendly country for an immigrant worker. All Commonwealth citizens were free to enter the country and look for work, which was plentiful. However, since the Immigration Act of 1962, successive governments have introduced regulations to restrict the number of immigrants.
The percentage of non-whites in Britain increased quite rapidly between 1945 and the end of the 1970s and the 2001 Census will show that it had reached 10 per cent by then. In addition, the number of people seeking political asylum reached 70,000 a year in 2001.
Ethnic minorities are concentrated in the cities. The percentage of members of ethnic minorities, who are unemployed or in low-grade jobs
is higher than in the population as a whole.
Racial discrimination and poor living conditions have contributed to racial violence, especially in the day-to-day form relations between young blacks and the police or in the more extreme form of inner-city riots. This is despite the Race Relations Act (1976), which was designed to promote equality of opportunity for people of all races.
From Britain Explored
by Paul Harvey and Rhodri Jones, 2007, (page 46)
Questions:
1. Was the immigration after World War II advantageous for Britain? If it was, why?
2. Is such a massive immigration of people of different nationalities to the UK beneficial nowadays?
3. Is it possible to eradicate racial violence between indigenous population and immigrants? If it is not, why?
4. What are the consequences of rapid immigrants’ growth to the UK?
5. What is necessary for the assimilation to be less painful towards both immigrants and native habitation?