X.Answer the questions.

1.What types of farming are there in Great Britain? 2.Why are most of the cattle farms situated in the western parts of Great Britain? 3.Where is sheep-farming concentrated? 4.How many breeds of sheep can be found in Great Britain? 5.Where is pig-breeding carried on? 6.What cereals are grown in Britain? 7.What vegetables are grown on arable farms? 8.Where are horticultural crops usually grown? 9.Field vegetables are widely spread over the country, aren't they? 10.What kinds of fruits are grown in Britain? 11. Who introduced tulips into Britain? 12.What vegetables represent 95% of total glasshouse crop? 13.How are mushrooms grown in Britain? 14.Wthat are the principle agricultural counties?

XI.Find in the text derivatives to the following words. Read the sentences with these words and translate them into Russian.

agriculture, main, wide, west, produce, east, sun, special, to suit, to grow, glass, to hold, berry, large, concentrate, to remain, to mix, land.

XII.Find in the text (partI and II) synonyms to the following words.

to stop, to get income, main, salary, different.

XIII.Find in the text (partI and II) antonyms to the following words.

satisfied, appearance, loss, dry, unprofitable, unsufficient, unsuitable,

indirect.

XIV.Write out of the text the following groups of words:

-cereals

-fruit

-vegetables

-geographical names

-domestic animals

-international words

XV.Flll in the table. (give some information concerning these dates and figures).

The end of the 15th century The end of the 18th century
The beginning of the 20th century
70%
40%
1%
10%
5000
95%
40
3/5
12000000

London, the Capital of Great Britain.

I. Read and pronounce correctly. Listen to your partners' reading of the words. Correct their mistakes, if they have any.

Romans

Celtic

LIin-din

Londinium

Normandy

William the Conqueror

St Paul's Cathedral

II.Do you know what the following words mean?

Fire, baker, burn (burnt, burnt), destroy, include, settlement, create, stone, brick, cotton, tower.

A.D. = Anno Domini

III.Read the text to learn more about London.

London is a very old city.It is two thousand years old. The history of London began in A.D. 43 with the Romans who created the town near the river Thames.The place for the town was very good. Soon the Romans built a bridge over the river. They gave their settlement a Celtic name, Llin-din (river place). The town was later called Londinium.

Londinium got bigger and bigger. There were a lot of villages round the town and after many years Londinium and three hundred villages grew into a very large city. Romans built a lot of roads from Londinium to other parts of Britain.

By the year 400 there were fifty thousand people in Londinium. In A.D. 410 the Romans left Britain. We do not know very much about Londinium between the years 400 and 1000.

At the beginning of the 18th century England was already a big country and London was a very important city.

In 1066 William the Conqueror and his people came to England from Normandy in France, William the Conqueror became the King of England. The King lived in London. Many of his people lived in London too. But William was afraid of the English and he built the White Tower to live in it. Now it is one of the most beautiful buildings of the Tower of London.

All kings and queens of England lived in London. It became the biggest city in England. By 1600 there were more than two hundred thousand people in London.

In those days people usually built their houses of wood and they often were near one another. Sometines there were fires in the city but they were very small. Then came 1666, the year of the Great Fire of London. On Saturday, 2nd September 1666, there was a strong wind from the river and a big fire began. It started in the house of the King’s baker, near London Bridge. The fire burnt until Thursday and destroyed four-fifth of the city including St Paul's Cathedral and eighty-eight other churches. More than 250 thousand people lost their homes.

After the Great Fire of London people built a new city of stone and brick. The city became larger and larger. By 1830 there were more than one and a half million people in London.

There were many wars in those day and people from other countries came to Great Britain and destroyed London, but new houses of stone grew up.

London stands not far from the sea. many ships from other countries came to the port of London and brought cotton, food and other things. Factories grew in London and other cities. Many shops were opened in the centre of London.

Now London is a large industrial and cultural centre of Great Britain.