- •A view on britain
- •Contents
- •Part I the united kingdom of great britain and nothern ireland unit I
- •A) Look at the pictures. What parts of the uk do you think these plants symbolize?
- •Watch the sequence and match the parts of the uk with the national flags.
- •Watch the sequence again and fill in the missing information.
- •Watch the sequence, identify the places: Edinburgh, Stratford-upon-Avon, York, Liverpool, Cambridge and Oxford and make notes on each place.
- •Watch the sequence, tick the true sentences and correct the false sentences.
- •8. Read the text and check yourselves. Great britain
- •9. A) Unscramble the words.
- •10. Fill in the words from the list and then make sentences about your country using the completed phrases.
- •11. Name the tenses of the verbs in bold (1-5), and then match them to the uses (a-e)
- •16. These lines are from the email. Where do they go?
- •17. Write an email to book a room at the hotel.
- •1. A) Guess some political items.
- •A) Complete the scheme about the uk political system.
- •Political life
- •Match the numbers to the letters.
- •Use the words in bold to complete definitions 1-7.
- •Answer the questions using new vocabulary.
- •Part II london unit I
- •Complete the speech bubbles.
- •Watch the sequence and answer the questions.
- •Fill in the gaps with the names of popular attractions in London.
- •What are the parts of London?
- •Read the text to find out if your guess is correct. London
- •Now read the text again and for questions 1-5 choose the best answer: a, b or c.
- •13. Find words, phrases or expressions in the text which mean:
- •14. Match the numbers to the letters.
- •15. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct form.
- •16. Group work.
- •17. A) Listen to the directions, note them down and mark the route on the map.
- •Unit II
- •1. How much do you remember about London? Look at the pictures and try to match the names from the box with the sights.
- •2. Try to answer the questions about London sights, then listen and check your answers.
- •3. Play the part of a tourist guide. Show London sights to a group of tourists. Use the prompts:
- •4. Join the sentences with which or where.
- •5. Read about London and complete the text using the words in the box.
- •6. Write four paragraphs about your capital city. Begin each paragraph with the same words as in the text about London. Write 100-150 words.
- •Part III british towns bath
- •Supply the words with synonyms.
- •Make a choice between Present Participle and Past Participle:
- •Watch the film and arrange the statements in order of their appearance.
- •4. A) Watch the film and decide whether the statements are true or false.
- •Watch the film with sound turned off and make it sound yourself. Oxford
- •1. Fill in the blanks with the words from the box.
- •2. Watch the film and check your answers.
- •3. Watch the film and match the places of interest with the sets of words describing them.
- •Describe the sights using the active vocabulary.
- •You have a ticket to Oxford. Choose the places you want to visit and explain why. Cambridge
- •Match the words with their definitions.
- •Watch the film and complete the sentences with the active vocabulary.
- •Describe the sights enlisted below.
- •4. Show your friend round Cambridge.
- •Giving directions
- •A map of london
- •1. Say where in London you can:
- •2. Choose the best option.
- •3. Do the quiz. Choose a, b, c, or d.
- •4. Match beginnings to the endings.
- •5. Mark the statements as true or false.
- •6. Complete the article about the London Eye with the verbs in the brackets in either the active or passive form.
- •Vocabulary bank
- •Vocabulary bank
- •References
Match the numbers to the letters.
hereditary a) a bill
a relic b) of earlier times
to reject c) peers
to defer d) of right
members e) a bill
Use the words in bold to complete definitions 1-7.
A law, a sovereign, to succeed, an election, judiciary, to summon, to dissolve
1. to order to come; send for, especially to attend court;
2. the selection by vote of a person or persons from among candidates for a position, especially a political office;
3. a rule or set of rules, enforceable by the courts, regulating the government of a state, the relationship between the organs of government and the subjects of the state, and the relationship or conduct of subjects towards each other;
4. a person exercising supreme authority, especially a monarch;
5. to accomplish an aim, especially in the manner desired;
6. the branch of the central authority in a state concerned with the administration of justice;
7. to dismiss (a meeting, parliament, etc.) or (of a meeting, etc.) to be dismissed.
Follow-up
Answer the questions using new vocabulary.
What are the three parts of Parliament?
What are the responsibilities of each?
Which part of Parliament plays the most important role in the country?
List the most important political positions in the UK. Explain your answer.
How does our political system differ from the British one?
Communication
If you could influence the future of the UK political life, what would you choose: let the monarchy stay or go? Have debates in two groups. Group A is for the monarchy to stay and group B is for the introduction of some changes. Use the prompts. You will be assessed on the basis of your argumentativeness. You will get a bonus point for correct English.
GROUP A
Many opinions are offered by political and legal experts. Three roles are often mentioned. First, it gives British people a symbol of continuity and harmless outlet, second, the monarch could act as a final check on a government that was becoming dictatorial, third, the monarch can perform the ceremonial duties which heads of the state have to spend their time on instead of the actual job of running a country.
Taking all the above mentioned facts into consideration: what should happen to the monarchy? What’s the future?
GROUP B
According to the written law the queen/king has almost absolute power. She/he can choose anybody she/he likes to run the government for her. She/he also has great power over the Parliament. Nothing that the Parliament has decided can become the law until she/he has agreed to it. It is the queen/king who embodies the law in the courts. The monarch can do nothing that is legally wrong. In practice the reality is different. The queen/king doesn’t rule. She/he can’t stop the government going with any of its policies. She/he doesn’t even sign the documents. Somebody else does it for her/him.
Use GLOSSARY pp. 46-48