Great Britain

Practical class #1
1. Answer and discuss the following questions:

1. What is United Kingdom made up of?
2. What is the official name of the country? Provide some shorter names of it.
3. When was the term ‘Great Britain’ officially used for the first time?
4. How many countries are larger in size that the United Kingdom?
5. Who is the head of state?
6. Who governs the country?
7. What is the chief lawmaking body of UK?
8. What symbols does the shield of Royal Arms bear?
9. What is another name for United Kingdom’s flag?
10. When the UK’s flag was officially adopted? Dwell upon the history of the flag.
11. What is the floral emblem and patron saint of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern
Ireland?
12. Provide 8 main land regions of Britain.
13. What seas border the country?
14. Enumerate the largest lakes of UK:
15. What is the division of London?
2. Translate these sentences paying special attention to the words and phrases given
in bold type.
1. Most of the UK is made up of gently rolling hills with isolated areas of high ground such as
Dartmoor in the south-west of England or the Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland.
2. The heaviest rains fall in the highland areas of western Scotland.
3. A ridge of hills, the Pennine, runs down the centre of northern England.
4. The UK Landscape is very varied, ranging from the Grampian Mountains of Scotland to the
lowland fens of England which are at or below sea level in places.
5. The climate of Great Britain is temperate and it is moderated by the Gulf Stream.
6. Mild fogs hang over parts of the country from time to time. But the famous “pea soup”
fogs of London and other big cities seldom occur any more.
7. Many bays cut into the region’s Atlantic Ocean and North Sea coasts.
8. More important today is the region’s fine white china clay, used to make pottery.
9. The country was once known for its deciduous forests, which with passage of time have
reduced largely in number due to deforestation.
10. Britain is an island under constant attack from the surrounding sea.
11. Many British rivers have drowned or sunken, mouths called estuaries, up which the ocean
tides flow.
12. In the 19th century it was once suggested that the House of Parliament should be wrapped
in enormous wet sheets to protect those inside from the awful smell of the River Thames.
13. The great dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral still towers over other buildings in the area, just as it
has for hundreds of years.
14. The South Bank is one of London’s fastest-growing sections.
15. Crowded residential neighborhoods surround most of central London.
16. Sothern England is the most densely populated area in the UK which does not include a
large city and millions of its inhabitants travel into London to work every day.
17. The Norfolk Broads, for example, are criss-crossed by hundreds of waterways but there
are no towns here, so this is a popular area for boating holidays.
18. The wild, windswept moors which are the setting for Emily Bronte’s famous novel
Wuthering heights seem a world away from the smoke and grime of urban life – in fact,
they are just up the road from Bradford.
3. Match the following words and word combinations to their correct meaning:
1. heather
2. Britannia a poetic name for Ireland.
3. haggies great plain borders The Wash
4. sea lochs a name that the Romans gave to their southern British province.
5. The Pennines a few small trees and low evergreen shrubs
6. Erin traditional dances
7. smoggies dish made from sheep’s heart, lungs and liver
8. The Wash
most of the land north of the Thames and up to bay of the North
9. Albion
Sea
10. reels’
 a word used in some poetic or rhetorical contexts to refer to
11. Briton
England.
12. moor
13. The Fens  an area of coarse grasses
 a word used in official contexts and in formal writing to
describe a citizen of the United Kingdom.
 narrow bays
 backbone of England
 the inhabitants of Middlesbrough and the surrounding urban
area of Teesside
4. Find the correspondence in these two columns and provide the system of
measuring:
94,058 the highest point in the British Isles

4,406 the longest river of the UK,
7,723 a total area of the UK
62,698,362 a coastline of the UK;
220 population of the UK
717 the length of the Thames
215 a population density
153 an area which Lough Neagh covers
5. Fill in the gaps:
1. London is built along the _____________________ .
2. Three quarters of the land in Britain is used for ________________.
3. _____ out of ten people live in towns and cities.
4. The highest mountains are in ______________ and ________________.
5. More than ________________ of people own their own homes.
6. Great Britain is the _________ largest island in the world (218 980 Km2) and the largest
in Europe.
7. London is about ___________ times larger than any other city in the county.
8. The Channel _______________, the longest undersea rail tunnel in the world.
9. The 2nd longest tunnel in the world = ____________ (England-France ; 49.9 Km).
10. The 3rd longest suspension bridge in the world = Humber (____________ m).
11. London - the largest city in Europe; the ________________ largest city in the world.
12. There are ______ bridges in London that span the River Thames.
13. The first London Bridge was a wooden one built by the ______________.
14. The _______________ Bridge was the only bridge over the Thames until 1750.
15. The most common surname in both England and Scotland is ____________ .
16. In addition to English, ___________ minority languages are officially recognised.
6. Provide as many proverbs/sayings about the weather as it is possible.
7. Prepare a presentation on the theme:

 London - its past and future;
 The Romantic Poets;
 ‘Burns’ suppers’;

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Practical class #1

1. Answer and discuss the following questions:

94,058 the highest point in the British Isles

6. Provide as many proverbs/sayings about the weather as it is possible.

7. Prepare a presentation on the theme:

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