I. Answer the questions.

1. What is the oldest building in London?

2. What is the Westminster Abbey famous for?

3. What places of interest are there in London?

4. What river flows through London?

5. What is the most democratic park in the world?

II. Mark true or false.

1. London stands on the river Thames.	TRUE	FALSE
2. Crossing the river by the Tower Bridge you can see the Westminster Palace.
3 Many centuries ago the Tower of London was a fortress, a royal palace and then a prison.
4. Westminster Palace, Is the second of the most beautiful buildings in London.
5. Tourists always go to see the ceremony of changing the Guard which takes place in Buckingham Palace.
6. Trafalgar Square is the central square of the city.
7. Another famous church is Westminster Abbey where kings, queens, and many famous people were born.

Unit 10

• Lesson 1. Outstanding people of Great Britain.

• Lesson 2. Disjunctive questions. Special questions

• Lesson 5. “The law of Ukraine” ( on business activities)

Grammar Exercises

Lesson 1.

I.Read and translate the text. Outstanding people of Great Britain

There are many outstanding people in Great Britain. Britain produced statesmen, thinkers, explorers, musicians, writers, scientists and other people who are well known around the world.

Great Britain made a great contribution to the science, literature, music and arts of the world. It gave mankind a lot of outstanding scientists, writers and poets, musicians and painters.

Thomas More, who lived in the 15th century, was an outstanding humanist, scientist and statesman. His work “Utopia” brought him world-wide acknowledgement.

Many prominent people were influenced by his ideas of a free democratic state described in “Utopia”.

William Shakespeare is one of the most famous writers in the world.

His plays “Romeo and Juliet”, “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, “King Lear”, “Macbeth” were translated into almost every language and staged in every theatre. He described the characters and feelings, which can be called international and living forever.

Daniel Defoe, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll are only a few names well-known all over the world.

William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable contributed to the world’s painting treasures.

Great Britain has also given the world many outstanding scientists.

Isaac Newton one of the greatest men in the history of science was born in a little village in the middle of the 17th century. He studded math at Cambridge University. Newton's contribution to physics astronomy and math is so great that, he may be considered the founder of the mathematics and physics. He discovered the law of motion and the universal law of gravitation. He studded the nature of light and colour and came to the conclusion that white colour consists of many different colours known as spectrum. He died when he was 84 and was burned at Westminster Abbey.

Charles Darwin was born in the beginning of the 19th century. He was a great biologist. He created a new theory of evolution. Once there were only simple organisms living in the seas, hundreds millions of years they have developed to produce all the different kind animals and plants we knew today.

Michael Faraday was born at the end of the 17th century. He was interested in electricity very much and spent long months studding this strange force. He discovered that electricity passed from the magnet to the wires and cowbells become a strong electric current. So he opened many laws of electricity and magnetism.

Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin was born in Scotland. He spent his working hours almost entirely in hospitals and laboratories. His discovery of penicillin did more to help suffering people than anything else for centuries. When he died in 1955 his old friend said: “… by his work he relieved more suffering than any other living man”.

Ernest Rutherford, a famous English physicist worked in the field of radio-activity. His brilliant researches established the existence and nature of radioactive transformations. He was one of the founders of the tomic theory of physics and creators of the first atomic model.

All of them considered hard labour and love for mankind to be the main reason of their success.

II. Answer the questions.

1. Who were the most prominent persons in British history?

2. What did they give to mankind?

3. What do you know about British writers? Name them.

4. What were the achievements of British scientists?

5. What was the main reason of their success?