 Ключи к элективному курсу «Современная Британия»
Module One. Starter Unit
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Ex. 2, p. 6
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Stereotype - a very firm and simple idea about what a particular type of person or thing is like
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Ex. 4, p. 7
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1 – Big Ben; 2 – Queen Elizabeth II, 3 – The London Eye; 4 – cricket; 5 – Stonehenge; 6 – the Lake District
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Ex. 5, p. 7
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1c; 2b; 3b; 4b; 5b; 6c; 7a; 8a; 9c; 10b; 11c; 12c
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Ex. 7, p. 9
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Welsh – 20%/600,000; Scottish Gaelic – 1%/58,650; Irish – 7%/110,000; Ulster Scots – 2%/30,000; Other languages: Cornish – 3,500
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Unit 1
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Ex. 2, p. 11
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1. 3,000 small local islands; 2. as they are self-governing; 3. meadows and marshes; 4. “backbone of England”; 5. not severely cold; 6. highest mountain; 7. “Union Jack”; 8. “God Save the Queen”
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Ex. 4, p. 12
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Слева направо: North Atlantic Ocean; the North Sea; Scotland (or Southern Scottish Highlands); the Pennines; the Irish Sea; the Thames; Wales (or the Cambrian Mountains); the English Channel
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Ex. 8, p. 14
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1. независимое; 2. составные; 3. соединен; 4. умеренный; 5. течения; 6. судоходный; 7. свидетели, быть очевидцем; 8. гимн
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Ex. 9, p. 14
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1h; 2b; 3e; 4f; 5a; 6d; 7c; 8g
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10A, p. 14
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1. constituent; 2. witnesses; 3. currents; 4. anthem; 5. navigable; 6. constituent; 7. are linked
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Ex. 11, p. 15
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1B; 2 – extra; 3A; 4D; 5C; 6E
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Ex. 12A, p. 16
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Lies; is occupied; used to be; make; have changed; was designated; covers; seeing; take; link; are; go; is hard; to find; will be rewarded; hide; come; making; to learn; to take; are not; spending; enjoyed; is divided; offer; is located; offers; include; has long been recognised; support; is seen; is; spread
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Ex. 13, p. 18
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1. true; 2. not mentioned; 3. false; 4. not mentioned; 5. false; 6. true; 7. false
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Ex. 14, p. 18
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Lies; is; is composed; is known; run; called; had stayed; named; left; include; has been known; is located; situated; has been; are; sustain; is known; is; is; is used
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Ex. 15, p. 19
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1. inhabitants; 2. accessed; 3. continuous; 4. considerable; 5. productive; 6. coastal; 7. importance; 8. administrative; 9. navigation
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Unit 2
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Ex. 1, p. 21
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Symbol – a picture or shape used to represent something
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Ex. 2, p. 21
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Слева направо: bulldog; pub; (full) English breakfast; a Bobby; robin; Britannia; bowler hat; John Bull; lion; cricket
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Ex. 3, p. 22
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1c; 2a; 3e; 4h; 5d; 6j; 7g; 8b; 9i; 10f
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Ex. 6, p. 23
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1. олицетворение; 2. Чеканить; 3. Брошюра; 4. Торговая марка; 5. Сущность; 6. Поддержка; 7. Наливать; 8. Закуска; 9. Запивать; 10. Слишком разговорчивый, болтливый; 11. опрос
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Ex. 7, p. 23
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1. wash down; 2. Trademark; 3. Personification; 4. Essence; 5. Starter; 6. Poll; 7. pamphlet
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Ex. 8A, p. 24
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1. “Audi” is my favourite car trademark. 2. As for me, I don’t like people who are chatty. 3. According to the British national poll “What should England’s national anthem be?” the song “Jerusalem” got the majority of votes. 4. When you travel abroad and want to learn about the sights of that place, take free information pamphlets at the airport or tourist agency. 5. – Are you ready to order? – Yes, I would like Caesar salad as a starter and for the main course I’ll have a beef steak with French fries. 6. The essence of today’s meeting is whether to hire an extra manager, or leave everything as it is.
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Ex. 8B, p. 24
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1. «Ауди» - моя любимая марка машин. 2. Лично я не люблю слишком болтливых людей. 3. Согласно британскому национальному опросу, большинство опрошенных считают, что национальным гимном должна стать песня «Иерусалим». 4. Когда едешь за границу и хочешь узнать о достопримечательностях, возьми бесплатные информационные буклеты в аэропорту или в турагенстве. 5. – Вы готовы сделать заказ? – Да, на закуску я возьму салат «Цезарь» и бифштекс с картофелем-фри в качестве основного блюда. 6. Суть нашей встречи сегодня – решить, нужен ли нам еще один менеджер, или нет.
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Ex. 9A, p. 24
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1h; 2e; 3b; 4g; 5f; 6d; 7c; 8a
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Ex. 10A, p. 25
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1C; 2E; 3A; 4F; 5D; B – extra
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Ex. 11, p. 27
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Have lived (have been living); have guarded (have been guarding); are protected; immediately; likely; required; is clipped; unbalancing; escapes; lowest; continuous; suggestion; was kidnapped; oldest; soaked; fried
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Ex. 12A, p. 28
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1. pavement; 2. colloquially; 3. references; 4. novelist; 5. postman; 6. cheerful; 7. uniformed; 8. bluish
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Ex. 13, p. 29
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1b; 2c; 3a; 4b; 5b; 6a; 7c; 8a; 9c; 10b
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Unit 3
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Ex. 2, p. 31
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Holiday
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Date
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Activities
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Easter
Christmas
Boxing Day
New Year’s Day
St. Valentine’s
Halloween
Guy Fawkes Night
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Spring
December 25th
December 26th
December 31st
February 14th
October 31st
November 5th
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give each other chocolate eggs; go to the country or seaside to rest
wrap their presents and leave them under the Christmas tree or in colourful socks at the end of children’s beds for presents
visit their friends and go for long walks; the rich give money and small presents to postmen, servants and the poor
invite their friends over; greetings and small presents are offered; make resolutions such as to give up smoking, to change their lives, etc.
give flowers and greetings cards; spend the day together
a lot of parties; dress up in costumes of witches, ghosts and other monsters and scare each other; cut faces in pumpkins and put a candle inside; children usually go trick or treating.
burn a doll made of straw and dressed in old clothes on a bonfire; fireworks displays; children sing Remember, remember the fifth of November. Some dress in old clothes and beg in the street saying, Penny for the guy.
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Ex. 9, p. 34
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Suburban – пригородный; neatly-kept – аккуратный; competitive – соревновательный; boarding-house – пансион; chores – обязанности; mow – косить; confectioner – кондитерская/кондитер; custard – заварной крем; doze – дремать
Particularly in suburban areas it is possible to see ordinary small houses, each one with its neatly-kept garden full of flowers and shrubs. Особенно в пригороде можно увидеть обыкновенные небольшие домики, каждый с аккуратным садом, полным цветов и кустарников.
In many places a competitive gardener’s ambition is to grow the biggest cabbages or leeks, or carrots. Во многих местах садовники с соревновательными амбициями стараются вырастить самую большую капусту, лук или морковь.
They may go home, visit relatives or friends in different parts of the country, or stay in a hotel or boarding house in the country or at the sea. Они могут поехать домой, навестить родственников или друзей в различных частях страны или остановиться в отеле или пансионе за городом или на берегу моря.
Those who stay at home at the weekend try both to relax and to catch up with all the chores they are too busy to do during the week. For women who go out to work these include housework, sewing, washing, shopping and sometimes gardening; for men – repairs, cleaning the car, mowing the lawn and gardening. Те, кто остается на выходных дома, стараются отдохнуть и заняться обязанностями, которые не смогли выполнить во время рабочей недели. Для женщин, которые работают на неделе, эти обязанности включают работу по дому, шитье, стирку, поход по магазинам и иногда работу в саду. Мужчины выполняют ремонтные работы, моют машину, косят газон и работают в саду.
On weekdays shops close early and they are usually closed all day on Sunday (except for newsagents, some small grocers, confectioners and shops in big cities). В выходные магазины закрываются рано и часто не работают по воскресеньям (за исключением газетных киосков, маленьких овощных магазинов, кондитерских (кондитеров) и магазинов в крупных городах).
Then comes the pudding, for example, apple pie and custard, and finally tea or coffee. Затем подается пуддинг, например, яблочный пирог с заварным кремом, и наконец чай или кофе. After Sunday lunch most people sit talking, reading the paper, watching television or just dozing, until tea time. После воскресного обеда большинство людей общаются друг с другом, читают газеты, смотрят телевизор или дремлют до полдника.
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Ex. 10, p. 34
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1g; 2a; 3h; 4c; 5i; 6j; 7f; 8e; 9d; b – extra
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Ex. 11A, p. 35
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1. chores; 2. dozing; 3. custard; 4. confectioner; 5. boarding house; neatly-kept; 6. mow; 7. suburban; 8. competitive
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Ex. 12, p. 35
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1D; 2A; 3B; 4 – extra; 5C; 6E
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Ex. 13, p. 37
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1a; 2c; 3b; 4c; 5a; 6a; 7b; 8b; 9a; 10c; 11b; 12b; 13b; 14a; 15b; 16c; 17b; 18c; 19c
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Ex. 14, p. 39
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1B; 2C; 3A; 4D; 5 – extra; 6E
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Ex. 15, p. 41
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2.; 3. transferred; 4. ; 5. succeeded in; 6. religious; 7. honour; 8. ; 9. children’s; 10. ; 11. shines
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Ex. 16, p. 42
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Modern; significant; chose; demonstrations; excuse; custom; tall birch; except; square; activity; hopping; opposite; cautiously; tightly; unwind
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Ex. 17, p. 43
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The tradition of a special day to honour your mother both dates back to times when the Romans honoured their goddess of motherhood in the spring or, it could have emerged from the custom of mother worship in Ancient Greece. Mother worship was held on March 15 to March 18. However, Mothering Sunday, also known as Mother’s Day, has been celebrated in Britain on the fourth Sunday of Lent since the 16th century. The custom possibly originated from the church festival of “Refreshment Sunday” when everyone was expected to revisit the church in which they were baptised, their “mother church”. It is a small step from honouring Mother Church to honouring our natural mothers and so in the mid-17th century the custom grew of children paying special tribute to their mothers on this day. Mothering Sunday had become more established by the 18th and 19th centuries when many people worked away from home as servants to the rich and wealthy (especially girls in service such as cooks and maids), they would be allowed to go home for the day to visit their home church and so naturally they visited their families. The girls would often take a basket of food to their mothers that would include a Simnel cake, a very rich fruit cake, the name of which dates back to a special flour used by the Romans. In some households “furmety”, porridge made of whole wheat grains boiled in milk with sugar and spices, was served.
Nowadays the greeting card industry makes a fortune and it is more usual for families to get together and take their mother out for a meal in a restaurant, or to buy chocolates and flowers (the price of flowers is extremely high on this day). It is also common for younger children to prepare breakfast for their mother and bring it to her bed.
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Unit 4. Consolidation
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Ex. 1, p. 44
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1c; 2b; 3c; 4b; 5a; 6b; 7a; 8c; 9c; 10b; 11a; 12c; 13b; 14b; 15c; 16c; 17c; 18a; 19c; 20b; 21a; 22b; 23c; 24b; 25a; 26c; 27b; 28a; 29c; 30b; 31a
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Ex. 2, p. 47
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1. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state to the northwest of mainland Europe. It consists of four constituent countries: England, Wales, Scotland (on the island of Great Britain) and Northern Ireland (on the Isle of Ireland). The English Channel separates Great Britain from France, but the two countries are linked by the Channel Tunnel. The climate of the British isles is generally temperate and oceanic with plentiful rainfall all year round. The warm currents of the Atlantic Ocean influence the climate greatly. The Thames is one of the few navigable rivers of Great Britain. Besides a great number of rivers, there are lakes in the British Isles. One of the most famous lakes is the Loch Ness, which is situated in Scotland. Crowds of tourists come to the lake to witness the Loch Ness monster, which, according to the legend, lives there. However, few people actually saw it alive.
2. Great Britain, like other countries, is famous for its different symbols. One of them, Britannia, is the personification of the British nationalism. The history of this symbol dates back to Roman times when Romans started minting coins with the image of a woman in armour. Another symbol – John Bull – was created by a Scottish author, scientist, and physician who wrote five satirical pamphlets on the politics of those days, using John Bull as the typical Englishman. The bowler hat, another British symbol, became the trademark of Charlie Chaplin, a comic actor.
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1. In large cities flats are quite expensive, that’s why people buy them in suburbs. 2. The lecture was so boring, that I dozed. 3. – Have you got any chores? – Yes, I walk the dog and wash the dishes on Thursdays. 4. My grandmother has a small neatly-kept garden in the village which she looks after all year round. Sometimes I help her mow the grass. 5. I don’t like competitive people. They are always trying to show that they’re better than others. 6. My father’s dream is to open a boarding-house in the suburbs. However, this is quite expensive. 7. – I have to go to the shop to buy some custard. – Shall we order it at the confectioner’s? – No, it will be rather expensive.
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Module Two. Unit 1
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Ex. 2, p. 49
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1b; 2c; 3a; 4d; 5b; 6a
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Ex. 3, p. 50
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Reside – проживать; advancement – развитие; medieval – средневековый; define – определять; takeaway – еда на вынос (ресторан, предлагающий блюда на вынос); in origin – по происхождению; heritage – наследие; extinct – вымерший
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Ex. 5A, p. 51
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