История Великобритании интегрированный курс (тематический контроль)
рабочая программа по английскому языку (10 класс) по теме

ТАМБОВСКИЙ ОБЛАСТНОЙ ИНСТИТУТ ПОВЫШЕНИЯ КВАЛИФИКАЦИИ РАБОТНИКОВ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ

МУНИЦИПАЛЬНОЕ ОБЩЕОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЕ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ ЛИЦЕЙ № 14

Поликарпова Ольга Дмитриевна

История Великобритании

ИНТЕГРИРОВАННЫЙ КУРС

ТЕМАТИЧЕСКИЙ КОНТРОЛЬ

(из опыта работы)

Тамбов 2012

Автор:
Поликарпова Ольга Дмитриевна,
учитель высшей категории,

заслуженный учитель РФ

История Великобритании.

Интегрированный курс.

Тематический контроль

(из опыта работы).

Тамбов, 2012.

40с.

ИСТОРИЯ ВЕЛИКОБРИТАНИИ

интегрированный курс

тематический контроль

(из опыта работы)

Данное пособие предназначено для учителей английского языка, работающих в профильных гуманитарных классах и преподающих курс истории Великобритании. Брошюра содержит итоговые тесты по всем темам курса и ключи к ним, а также перечень дискуссий, используемых на обобщающих уроках. Тесты помогут организовать проверку знаний и умений учащихся и будут полезны в качестве обучающих познавательных заданий при подготовке к олимпиадам по английскому языку.

Компьютерная верстка – А.И. Клещ

Тесты апробированы в работе с учащимися 9-10-х гуманитарных классов МОУ лицея №14 г. Тамбова

© МАОУ лицей №14, 2012

© Поликарпова О.Д., 2012

Для более полного овладения учащимися профильных гуманитарных классов лицея социокультурной компетентностью разработан интегрированный курс История Великобритании, где английский язык выступает не только как цель, но и как средство обучения и познания иной национальной культуры. А достаточно свободное владение английским языком учащимися гуманитарных классов уже после первого года обучения в лицее делает возможным начинать данный курс в 9 классе. Лицеисты изучают этот предмет в течение двух лет (два часа в неделю) по аутентичному пособию An Illustrated History of Britain  автора David McDowall.

Содержание курса позволяет познакомить учащихся с основными историческими этапами развития Британского общества и решить ряд задач исторического и лингвистического образования старшеклассников:

обеспечение учащихся достоверной информацией об основных событиях и тенденциях общественно-политического, социально-экономического и культурного развития Великобритании, духовной жизни британцев, их повседневного быта, особенностях конфессиональных и межнациональных отношений  в Британском обществе;

развитие умения самостоятельно работать с исторической и социокультурной информацией на английском языке; анализировать и объяснять исторические события и явления, излагать суждения об их причинах и следствиях;

формирование и развитие умения диалогического рассуждения, аргументации собственной позиции в отношении к событиям и личностям прошлого и настоящего, вести дискуссию по проблемам истории и современности на английском языке;

развитие умений писать реферат с использованием аутентичных англоязычных источников.

Таким образом, данный курс предназначен для формирования и развития предметной (история Великобритании и английский язык), коммуникативной и социокультурной компетенций.

Методы обучения данному курсу соответствуют традиционным дидактическим принципам: научность, доступность, наглядность, обеспечение мотивации, системность вопросов и заданий, актуальность, практическая направленность, личностно-ориентированное обучение.

На уроках истории Великобритании широко применяются информационно - коммуникационные технологии. Создана фильмотека исторических фильмов на английском языке, электронная картинная галерея, содержащая богатый иллюстративный материал: портреты английских королей и королев, выдающихся политических деятелей страны, художников, ученых, рисунки и фотографии их изобретений. Для поурочного контроля разработаны тесты в программе power point.

При разработке данного курса большое внимание уделялось организации итогового контроля. Заранее спланированный, он повышает мотивацию учащихся и эффективность обучения. Лицеисты знают, что экзамен по истории Великобритании будет проходить в комбинированной форме (письменной тест и устный ответ на билет, защита реферата или проекта) и целенаправленно к нему готовятся. Целью контроля является проверка не только усвоения изучаемого материала, но и степени сформированности умений, о которых речь шла выше.

В данной брошюре приводятся итоговые тесты по всем темам курса, которые содержат задания различных видов:

согласие/ несогласие

множественный выбор

установление соответствия

установление последовательности

на группировку информации

дополнение списка

окончание предложения

нахождение ошибки

письменный краткий ответ на поставленный вопрос

Как правило, отметка «5» ставится за 80% , «4» - за 70%, и «3» - за 60% правильно выполненных заданий.

Тесты по праву считаются одним из наиболее эффективных и объективных средств контроля. Они позволяют быстро и качественно проверить, как ученики усвоили ключевые даты, факты, понятия, причинно-следственные связи; а также являются хорошим стимулом для самостоятельной работы учащихся, повторения пройденного материала, более глубокого его осмысления, уточнения ряда деталей и т.д. Но только подготовка и выполнение заданий творческого и поискового характера (дискуссии, дебаты, суды, интервью, мини конференции, написание и защита рефератов и др.) позволяют формировать и развивать планируемые компетенции, осуществлять на практике принцип личностно-ориентированного обучения, дать возможность ученику выразить свое отношение к изучаемой проблеме.

В данном пособии также приводится список дискуссий, используемых сначала на итоговых обобщающих уроках, а по мере улучшений языковой подготовки учащихся и на обычных уроках. Дискуссии проходят в парах, тройках, или четверках в режиме спонтанного говорения и обеспечивают активную устную практику для каждого ученика. На подготовку ответа дается 1 – 3 минуты. Использование творческих нестандартных заданий на уроке позволяет активизировать мыслительную и познавательную деятельность учащихся, повысить их интерес к изучаемому предмету.

Test 1

Earliest times        Britain’s prehistory, the Romans

1. Choose the right option(s). What affects life in every country?

2. Choose the right option. Britain had become an island by …

3. Complete the list. “Henges” were centres of religious,………power.

4 Choose the right option. What were Chalkland people famous for?

5. Choose the right option(s).What were the Beaker people good at?

6. Choose the right option. Where were the Beaker people buried?

7. Write the answer. Did the Beaker people ruin or reinforce Stonehenge?

8. Choose the right option. Who was the first to learn to enrich the soil with natural waste material?

9. Choose the right option and complete the sentence. The Celts came from central Europe or further east and from southern…

10. Choose the right option. Who were better at metalworking?

11. Choose the right option. Who are the ancestors of the Scots, Irish and Welsh?

12. Choose the right option and complete the sentence. The Celts …

13. Choose the right option. Who are these words of Julius Caesar about?

14. Choose the right option. Who was a good food producer in the 1st century BC?

15. Choose the right option. Who are the words “very careful about cleanliness and neatness. Neither man nor woman, however poor, was seen either ragged or dirty” about?

16. Choose the right option(s). The most important members of the Celtic tribes in the 1st century BC were… .

17. Choose the right option(s). Who were illiterate in Britain in AD 1-3century?

18. Choose the right option(s). What was the purpose of the Roman wall?

19. Choose the right option. Rome pulled its last soldiers out of Britain in… .

20. Choose the right option. The ending chester / caster / cester came from the word… .

21. Choose the right option. What is ‘villa’?

22. Choose the right option. The life of … people greatly improved during the Roman period.

23. Choose the right option. The population of the Roman Britain was …

24. Choose the right option(s). Celtic Britain produced ……… for export.

25. Choose the right option. Life expectancy in Roman Britain was approximately… .

Test 2

Earliest times                   The Saxon invasion, the Celtic kingdoms

1. Match the tribes and the places of their settlement:

2. Choose the Celtic names from the lists:

Towns: A Manchester, B London, C Oxford, D Liverpool, E Leeds, F Birmingham

Rivers: A Tyne, B Avon, C Thames, D Severn

3. Which suffixes of place names belong to the Saxon period?

4. Choose the right options. Which days of the week were named after Germanic gods?

5. Write the answer. What Saxon institutions grew into a Primary Council?

6. Choose the right option. Who was the king’s local administrator?

7. Choose the right feature(s):

8. Complete the list with two more main tasks the manor house had.

9. Choose what the word lord meant:

10. Choose the right option. When was the first Archbishop appointed in Britain?

11. Complete the list. Write two ways more in which the Church increased the power of the English state.

12. Chose the right option(s). What did Britain export and import?

13. Chose the right option(s). What country was considered to be a land of monasteries?

14. Chose the right option. Who is considered to be the patron saint of Ireland?

15. Chose the right option. Who was Dublin founded by?

16. Chose the right option(s). Who inherited their rights, their names and property from their mothers?

17. Continue the list. The Picts, the Britons, the Scots had in common:

Test 3

The early Middle Ages        The Norman conquest

1. Give a definition of feudalism.

2. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F).The Saxons accepted William I immediately.

3. Choose the right option. Which phrase describing the Norman army is odd?

4. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). William I kept the Saxon system of sheriffs.

5. Choose the right option. Whose property was England at the end of the11th century?

6. What group of people in feudal society is odd?

7. Choose the right option. What is “homage”?

8. Choose the right option. How many years of complete peace were in England between 1066 and the 14th century?

9. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F).

The peasants understood the importance of the economic survey done by William I and looked forward to answering its questions.

10. Choose the right option. What English king was the most popular with people (‘ideal feudal king’)?

11. Choose the right option. What king went to the Holly land to make war on the Muslims and fought with skill, courage and honour?

12. Choose the right option. “Magna Carta” was a symbol of… .

13. Choose the right option. The word “soldier” means … .

14. Choose the right option. Why was Henry II whipped by monks?

15. Choose the right option. Which word means a “discussion meeting”?

16. Choose the right option. What king established the House of Commons?

17. Choose the right option. Who was the first Prince of Wales?

18. Choose the right option. When was Wales united with England?

19. Choose the right option. Write what area of Ireland was under England’s control?

20. Write the answer. When was Scottish nationalism born?

21. Choose the right option. Who are these words “he wanted to hammer them into ground, but hammered them into nation” about?

22. Complete the sentence. Stone of Destiny is a symbol of…

23. Write the answer. Where was England’s capital in the 11th century?

24. Choose the right option. Where did the kings’ treasury stay?

25. Choose the right option. Where were all the records kept?

26. Choose the right option. What made the number of administration grow very quickly?

27. What is common law? Write the answer.

28. What was common law based on? Complete the list:

29. Complete the list of materials houses were made of.

30. Choose the right option.  What legendary hero grew out of Saxon hatred for the Normans?

31. People starved to death. Why? Write 2 reasons.

32. Why did the number of blacksmiths, carpenters and other workers grow? Write 2 reasons.

33. What did England import? Write three things.

34. What did England export? Write three things.

35. Complete the sentence. Latin was the language of… .

36. Complete the sentence. French was the language of… .

37. Write what two universities were established in the 13th century.

Test 4

The late Middle Ages        The century of war plague and disorder

1. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). For peasants life became more comfortable in the 14th century.

2. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The Church was popular in the 14th century.

3. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Esquires used to be knights’ servants.

4. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The story of Dick Whittington proves that a poor could never become rich.

5. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). In the Parliament of the 14 the century the poor had no voice of their own.

6. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The alliance between esquires and merchants in the 14th century made Parliament more powerful.

7. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). “Justices of the peace” still exist nowadays to deal with smaller offenses.

8. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Joan of Arc is a heroin of the Wars of the Roses.

9. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Britain lost all its French areas in the Hundred years war.

10. Choose the right option(s). What English king was the most popular with people (‘ideal feudal king’)?

11. Choose the right option. Who was the founder of the Order of the Garter?

12. Choose the right option. The Black Prince is a symbol of… .

13. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The members of The Order of the Garter meet once a year on St. Andrew’s Day at Windsor Castle.

14. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Chivalry was a useful way of persuading men to fight by creating the idea that war is a noble and glorious thing.

15. Choose the right option(s). Who was the first Prince of Wales?

16. Choose the right option(s). When did the Hundred War start?

17 Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). At the beginning of the Hundred War the English Army was more successful than the French one.

18. Choose the right option(s). Who was the Scots’ ally in the 14th century?

19. Find mistake(s) in the reasons for the Hundred years war:

A The French king’s authority in France went down.

B To make his position stronger the French king began to interfere with British trade.

C The French king seized Part of Gascony. It was a threat to England’s wealth.

20. Choose the right option. Whose motto is “Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense”?

21. Choose the right option. What English kings were greatly admired by the British people?

22 Choose the right option. Why did many Flemings settle in England in the 14th century?

23. Choose the right option. What is John Wycliffe famous for?

24 Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The wife of noble was expected to have knowledge of herbs and plants to make suitable medicines for the sick.

25. Write the answer. Who are these words “he wanted to hammer them into ground, but hammered them into nation” about? 

26. Complete the sentence. Stone of Destiny is a symbol of…

27. Choose the right option. Who won the Hundred years war?

28. Choose the right option. Who was the last Norman king?

29. Write the answer. What new force in the national economy appeared replacing the guilds?

30. Write the answer. Who is considered to be the father of English literature?

31. Write the answer. What is the major invention of the 15th century?

32. The people sang: “When Adam delved, and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?” Who was the leader of the revolt? Write his name.

Test 5

The Tudor period

Choose the right option. What monarch built the foundations of a wealthy nation state and powerful monarchy?

What is odd here? Henry VII believed that ... was/were bad for a state.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F).Henry VIII approved of the new ideas of Reformation Protestantism introduced by Martin Luther and John Calvin.

Choose the right option. What do the letters "F.D.", which can be found on every British coin, mean?

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F).The dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s is considered the greatest act of official distraction in the history of Britain.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F).The Parliament agreed to Mary's marriage and accepted Philip as king of England for Mary's lifetime.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F).Catholic France and Spain were stronger than England under the Tudors.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F).Elizabeth avoided marriages to French and Spanish kings because she knew how much damage Mary had done having married to Philip.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F).People had to go to church on Sundays by law. If they stayed away, they were fined.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F).By 1585 most English people believed that to be a protestant was to be an enemy of England.

 Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Ivan IV, the Russian tsar, was in correspondence with Elizabeth I for many years.

Choose the right option. Who was the main England's trade rival in those times?

Choose the right option. What were John Hawkins, Francis Drake and Martin Frobisher?

Choose the right option. Who are the words about? "... young, fit, well educated and handsome, fond of hunting and playing tennis, wrote music and books. ... was to become a bloody tyrant."

Who do these words belong to?

"I am come... to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king of England too". Choose the right option.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F).England had worse fleet than Philip.

Choose the right option. Who brought tobacco to England?

Choose the right option. The state of Virginia in the USA was named after... .

Match the names with nationalities:

1. Pritchard         A. Welsh

2. McDonald         В. Irish

3. Robert         С. English

4. О'Neil         D. Scottish

 Choose the right option. Eisteddfod is a(n) ....        festival of music and poetry.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F).Irish nobility and gentry refused to take monasteries' land.

Choose the right option. Ulster is a(n) ……city.

Choose the right option. Who was a catholic monarch in the protestant country?

Choose the right option(s). In the Tudor period Scotland had the best education in Europe. It happened due to ... .

Choose the right option(s). What bad mistakes were made by Elizabeth I?

Choose the right option. At what age did James VI begin to rule?

Write the answer. What new function of Parliament did Henry VII add?

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F).The members of the House of Lords were elected.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F).Under the Tudors Parliament was getting weaker.

Choose the right option(s). What branches of industry developed rapidly?

Choose the right option. What English city was the filthiest in the world by 1600?

Test 6

The Stuarts

1. Choose the right option. Who was the first Stuart on the Britain’s thrown?

2. Choose the right option. What king was described as “the wisest fool in Christendom”?

3. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The Stuarts believed in the divine right of kings.

4. Choose the right option. What king preferred to rule without Parliament and was a success.

5. Choose the right option. Who made laws in the 17th century?

6. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The king could not dissolve parliament.

7. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The Stuarts supported the Kirk as it had a more democratic organization.

8. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The Stuarts hated puritans and their idea of Presbyterian Church.

9. Chose the right option. Guy Fawkes tried to… .

10. Chose the right option. What holiday is celebrated on 5 November in Britain?

11. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Parliament was supported by population, the navy, and the merchants.

12. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Cromwell’s Army consisted of educated men who fought for their beliefs.

13. Chose the right option. .… of the MPs did not want to put the king on trial.

14. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). After king’s execution Parliamentary rule was very popular.

15. Chose the right option. How long was Britain a republic?

16. Chose the right option. When was the republic over?

17 Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Cromwell used the army to maintain law and order in the country.

18. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The idea of using the army to maintain law and order in the country has been very popular with British people since those days.

19. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Cromwell’s government forbade celebrating Christmas and Easter.

20. Choose the right option.”…never said a foolish thing, nor ever did a wise one” Who are the words about?

21. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Catholics were allowed to hold public office.

22. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Charles II was attracted to the Catholic Church.

23. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). There was a catholic plot to murder Charles II and put his brother James on the thrown.

24. Chose the right option. What are Nonconformists?

25. Chose the right option. What event was called the Glorious revolution?

26. Chose the right option. The “concent of the people” led to the idea that ……… should be the overall power in the state.

27. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). According to The Act of Settlement only a protestant can inherit the crown.

28. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The Act of Settlement has remained in force since 1701.

29. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). In 1707 Scotland and England united.

30. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Scotland has kept its own legal and judicial system and its own separate Church.

31. Chose the right option. Whose battlecry is this “No Surrender!”

32. Choose the right option(s). Who were main enemies of Britain in the 17th century?

33. Choose the right option. What country did sugar come from to Britain?

34. Choose the right option(s). What events are connected with Puritanism?

35. Choose the right option(s). What ideas are close to the Quakers? 

36. Choose the right option. “Every scientific idea must be tested by experiment”.Who do these words belong to?

37. Match scientists, dates and discoveries:

38. Choose the right option. What type of transport became the main one in the 17th century?

39. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Most towns had proper shops by 1690.

40. Money could buy a high position in British society. What did new and old gentry call themselves. Match.

1. New gentry         A. squires

2. Old gentry           B. yeomen

41. Choose the right option. The rich spent their free time in (1)......, the poor in (2)…. .

42. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The population in the Tudor times rose rapidly.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The population in the Stuart age decreased.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). In the Stuart age most people married in their mid twenties.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Methods of upbringing were not strict in the Stuart age.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Absolute obedience of children and wife were not expected.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Children were frequently beaten.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). British women had no right on whatever property they had brought into a marriage.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Scottish women were more independent than English.

Test 7

The eighteenth century

1. Choose the right option. When did Britain loose its colonies in North America?

2. Choose the right option. What country had the strongest navy in the world in the 18th century?

3. Choose the right option. Who is considered to be the first Prime Minister in Britain?

4. Choose the right option. Who founded the Bank of England?

5. Choose the right option. ”The jewel in the Crown” of Britain was… .

6. Match the countries and the products they exported.

7. Choose the right option. Who established the principle: “the freedom of the individual is more important than the interests of the state, and no one could be arrested without a proper reason”

8. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). In the 18th century the role of newspapers in growth of public opinion decreased.

9. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The Boston Tea Party” led to the American war of Independence.

10. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). In the 18th century Catholics were second-class citizens in their own land.

11. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The Scottish musical instrument, the bagpipe, and the old patterns of the kilt were forbidden in the 18th century.

12. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). At the end of the 18th century all the towns smelled bad, and streets were used as lavatories.

13. Choose the right option. Beer industry was started by… .

14. Choose the right option. What city in Britain became the wonder of Europe in the 18th century?

15. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). In the 18th century an English lord was hanged for killing his servant.

16. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). In the 18th century it was difficult to see a clear difference between the aristocracy, the gentry and the middle class.

17. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). In the 18th century “Spa” towns became very fashionable.

18. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Whipping children was considered a very bad practice in the 18th century.

19. Choose the right option(s). The life expectancy increased in the 18th century due to:

20. Fill in the chart:

21. What changes took place in the farming? Choose the right option(s):

22. Choose the right option(s). In the 18th century every person in the family had their own private bedroom. It was due to:

23. Choose the right option. In the 18th century children began to work at the age of…

24. Choose the right option. What was John Wilkinson famous for?

25. Choose the right option. ”A cottage industry” changed into a factory industry because of… .

26. Choose the right option. What is Wedgwood?

27. Choose the right option. Luddites were punished by death because they… .

28. Choose the right option(s). What did Methodism teach people?

29. Choose the right option(s). Britain avoided the bourgeois revolution due to … .

30. Choose the right option. In 1819 a new law forbade the employment of children under… .

Test 8

The nineteenth century

Choose the right option(s). In the 19th century people could be hanged for…

Choose the right option. Britain changed from being a nation of country people to a nation mainly of townspeople in ….

Choose the right option. If you are tired of ……………, you are tired of life.

Choose the right option(s). “Tolpuddle Martys” became a symbol of … .

Choose the right option(s). When was postage system introduced in Britain?

Choose the right option. How much was a stamp?

Choose the right option. The “Chartists” movement happened in … .

Choose the right option. The British policemen are called Bobby in honour of … .

Choose the right option. The British Police force was founded in … .

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). In the 19th century ordinary people married for economic reasons.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Wives and husbands were equal.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). In the 19th century a wife was legally a man’s property.

Choose the right features of the family life in the 19h century.

Choose the right option. The Great Exhibition of the Industries of All Nations was opened in 1851 in … .

Choose the right option. Everyone in the 19th century could escape localism and travel all over the country with ease due to … .

Choose the right option(s). People of what professions did not belong to the middle class in the 19th century?

What was the aim of “public” schools? Add two items more to the list:

Choose the right option(s). The escape of the middle classes to the suburbs was caused by:

Choose the right option. In what century did the first parks, libraries, concert halls and public bath appear?

Choose the right option. Who were known as liberals?

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Catholics received the right to enter Parliament in 1829.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The 19th century is famous for the ideas of Liberalism.

Choose the right option(s). What countries did Britain help become independent in the 19th century?

Choose the right option(s). The importance of popular opinion was going up due to:

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The House of Lords lost the powerful position in the 19th century.

Which countries in the 19th century were more liberal, which ones were more conservative? Match the countries and the features.

Choose the right option. What ways of struggle did British trade unions choose?

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Free and compulsory education for children was introduced in 1867.

Choose the right option. Who wrote he book “Our life in the Highlands”?

Choose the right option(s). What countries was Britain at war in the 19th century?

Choose the right option(s). Which country(s) was/were not a British colony in the 19th century?

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). In the 19th century Britain spent more on its empire than it took from it.

What are three Rs? Complete the list:

Choose the right option(s). What university(s) is “Redbrick”?

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). By the end of the 19th century cricket, football and basketball had become very popular.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Freedom of factory owners to do as they pleased led to slavery and misery of the poor.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Arthur Cadbury a chocolate manufacturer followed R. Owen’s example and built first-class housing for his workers.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The aim of the Salvation Army started by William Booth was to make war on poverty.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The idea of racial superiority appeared due to Darwin’s book.

Complete the list of social improvements happened in the 19th century.

Name country № 1 of the world at the end of the 19th century.

Test 9

The twentiethh century

Choose the right option. What country was the strongest world power at the start of the century?

Choose the right option(s). What countries were the strongest by the 1970s of the century?        

Choose the right option(s). What country had a better army at the beginning of the century?

Choose the right option(s). What new weapons were used in the First World War?

Choose the right option(s). What did Britain fight in the First World War for?

Choose the right option. Where was the war more important on land or at sea?

Choose the right option. Germany managed to sink … of Britain’s merchant fleet.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). If Germany’s navy had destroyed the British fleet at Jutland, British would have had to surrender.

Choose the right option. What country lost in the First World War?

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). After the First World War public opinion demanded on mercy for Germany.

Choose the right option. How large was Britain’s army in the First World War?

Choose the right option. How many British people died in the First World War?

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). When the First World War was over, the feeling of the nation was “Never again”.

How did trade union movement develop? Match the years and the number of trade union members.

1900                A. 5mln

1914                B. 2mln.

1918                C. 8mln.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). All men and women aged twenty-one were allowed to vote.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The number of voters doubled from 8 mln to 16mln people after the First World War.

Choose the right option(s). The reasons for the rise of the Labour Party were:

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The first Labour government was elected in 1923.

Choose the right option. British Labourists wanted to change things by…

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Most working people wished to improve their financial situation and enjoy the advantages of the middle class without being involved in socialist beliefs.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The Bolshevik revolution in Russia impressed the British people.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The Liberal Party was replaced by the Labour Party and completely disappeared.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Women were treated like slaves by their husbands at the beginning of the 20th century.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Until 1897 husbands were allowed by law to beat their wives with a stick.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Women were allowed to study at Oxford and Cambridge without receiving a degree at the end.

Choose the right option(s). What helped women get equal rights?

Choose the right option. When did Northern Ireland declare Irish Republic?

 Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The Labour government managed to create a land “fit for heroes”, as they promised.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). In the 1930s Britain was affected by economic crises.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The depression in Germany led to the rise of Adolph Hitler.

Choose the right option(s). Development of what industry helped Britain to recover? 

Choose the right option(s). What country helped Britain to develop industry producing weapons, aircraft and equipment for war?

Choose the right option. The Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 showed………… of the International organization League of Nations.

Choose the right option. When did Britain enter the Second World War?

Choose the right option. Who was the Prime Minister of Britain during the Second World War?

Choose the right option. Whose air force won a battle in the air over Britain?

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). In Britain many towns were destroyed, 1.500 000 people were made homeless due to German bombing.

Choose the right option. What were Britain’s interests in the Second World War?

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Over 110.000 people died immediately in Nagasaki and Hiroshima because of the new atomic bombs.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). 363 000 British people died in the Second World War.

Choose the right option(s). What four freedoms were proclaimed by President Roosevelt?

Choose the right option. What International organization replaced the League of Nations after the Second World War?

Choose the right option(s). Which countries were divided into two parts after the Second World War?

Choose the right option(s). What three important technical developments in the 1950s made Britain consider itself a world power?

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). After the Suez events Britain became politically weaker.

Choose the right option(s). What social benefits did British people gain in the 1940-50s?

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). In the 1940-50s the Labour government took over the Bank of England, power (coal, iron, steel) and transport.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). This nationalization was popular.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Britain was able to recover quickly from the Second World War due to the Marshal Aid Programme.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). In the 1950s there was no unemployment in Britain.

Choose the right option. What musical group was the best representative of the youthful “pop” culture of the 1960s?

Choose the right option. What was perhaps the clearest symbol of the “permissive society”?

Choose the right option. After the Second World War Iraq was … colony.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). In spite of the “permissive society” the monarchy during the 20th century became more popular than it was before.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Since 1952 when Elisabeth II became queen, the monarchy has increased in popularity.

Choose the right option. When did Iraq receive its independence?

Choose the right option. When did India become independent?

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). By 1985 Britain had lost almost all its colonies.

Choose the right option. When did Britain become a member of the European Community?

 Choose the right option(s). Britain’s attitude towards the European Community was unenthusiastic for reasons:

A Britain couldn’t decide whether its 1st loyalty was to Europe or to the USA.

B Britain did not want to lessen its sovereignty.

C Britain did not feel any economic benefit from Europe.

D They spoke different languages.

E Many European countries were Britain’s enemies in the Second World War.

 Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). In support of the USA Britain boycotted the Moscow Olympics in 1980.

Choose the right option(s). What were the problems of the late 1960s – 1970s?

 Choose the right option. When was Margaret Thatcher elected?

Choose the right option. Margaret Thatcher belonged to … party.

Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Margaret Thatcher managed to stop Britain’s decline as she promised.

Choose the right option(s). Margaret Thatcher’s “achievements” were:

A  growth of unemployment from 1.25mln in 1979 to over 3mln.

B  nationalization of British companies such as British Airways, British Aerospace, British Shipbuilders, gas and others.

C  a falling rate of crime prevention and detectives.

D  creation of the society of “two nations” – wealthy and poor.

E  increase of homeless people.

F  unemployment among Blacks was twice as high as among white population.

Choose the right option(s). What anniversaries did Britain celebrate in 1988?

Discussions

Theme 1

Earliest times

What negative and positive effects did Roman invasion bring to Britain?

What is the role of the Celts in the History of Britain?

Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Celt? What is better to call the British?

Who could become a Druid?

Do you agree that women during the Celtic period were equal to men?

Why do the Romans conquer Britain?

Compare Celtic and Roman warriors.

Why was Hadrian’s Wall built?

What did Saxons bring to Britain? Discuss advantages and disadvantages of Saxon civilization. 

When was “Golden age” of Ireland and how did it come to an end?

Why do Scots call the British Sassenachs?

If you had a time machine, what period of the British history would you like to live: Celtic, Roman or Saxon?

Who were in your opinion the cruelest invaders of Britain in that period of history?

Theme 2

The early Middle Ages

Is Westminster Abby a Saxon or Norman building?

A century under the Normans… Discuss advantages and disadvantages of this invasion in the 11th – 12th centuries.

Between 1066 and the mid-fourteenth century there were only 30 years of complete peace. Discuss the reasons for that.

What is the significance of the first complete economic survey?

What do you think of the role and significance of the King’s Council – Witan in the history of Britain?

What was the difference between the Celtic Church and the Roman Church?

What relations were there between the Church and kings?

What did Magna Carta provide people with?

Theme 3

The late Middle Ages

Prove that the 14th century was the century of disaster.

Why and under what circumstances did England go to war with France in 1337 (later called the Hundred Years War)?

Winning battles is a good deal easier than winning wars. Is this phrase true when we speak about the Hundred Years War?

What connection is there between the Order of the Garter founded by Edward III and the legendary king Arthur?

Some peoples say that war is a noble and glorious thing; others think that the reality of war is cruelty, death, destruction and theft. What point of view do you have?

Do we need a “code of chivalry” nowadays?

What was the aftermath of the Black Death in 1348-49?

What is more profitable to sell a raw material or a finished product? Justify your opinion.

Why is the surname “Fleming” so common in England?

Why is an unmarried woman called a “spinster” in England?

The revolt of Watt Tyler (the Peasants’ Revolt). What did Watt Tyler call for and how was the revolt put down?

The “Wars of the Roses”… What is its aftermath and significance?

How did education develop in the 14-15th centuries?

How did manufacturing develop in the 14-15th centuries?

What changes took place in the class division of society?

What was the condition of women in Britain in the 14-15th century? Why did a woman’s position improved if her husband died?

How did the language and literature change in the 14-15th centuries?

What was the significance of printing press?

Theme 4

The Tudors

Prove that under the Tudors Britain was a prosperous state.

Why did the Tudors manage to build a new nation state?

They say the English are great lovers of themselves. Do you agree?

What was the difference between the House of Lords and the House of Commons?

Who was stronger Parliament or monarchs in the 16th century?

What do you think of Tudors’ foreign policy, its principles, purpose and actions?

Compare the two kings – Henry VII and Henry VIII.

What is the role and significance of Elisabeth I in the history of Britain?

Who of the Tudors was the most important in establishing the new monarchy?

What were the reasons for Reformation?

Theme 5

The Stuarts

Look at the portraits of Charles I and Cromwell. Compare these two personalities.

You live in the 17th century in Britain. Who are you going to support? Who is worth supporting: the roundheads or royalists?

What were the reasons for the Civil war?

Why was trade developing rapidly in those times?

How can you explain the rapid development of science?

What is the greatest discovery of the 17th century in your opinion?

Compare the life of ordinary people in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Compare the life of women in the 16th and 17th centuries.

You are English and live in the 17th century. What part of Britain would you prefer to live in? Justify your opinion.

Compare Britain under the Tudors and Stuarts.

Some people say that "England is a woman's paradise, a servant's prison, because mistresses are very severe, and a horse's hell because they are ridden hard". Do you agree?

You are journalists of the 21st century and have a chance to interview women of the 17th century to find out if they live in paradise.

 Monarchy or republic? What society would you like to live in?

Theme 6

The eighteenth century

What was the role of Robert Walpole in the development of the financial life of Britain?

What were British –Indian relationships in the 18th century?

What do you think of the principles of the Cabinet?

What changes took place in farming?

What made Britain in the 18th century the most advanced economy in the world?

How was middle class being formed?

What were social effects of Methodism?

Why did Britain avoid the bourgeois revolution?

Compare Britain of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Theme 7

The nineteenth century

Why was Britain considered to be the “workshop” of the world?

What made Britain country №1 in the World?

What targets guided Britain’s foreign policy?

What relationships were there between Russia and Britain in the 19th century?

A century without wars… How did Britain manage to avoid them?

Under what circumstances did Britain change from being a nation of country people to a nation mainly of townspeople?

What should Parliament represent – “property” or the people? What idea did Whigs and Tories support? What changes in Parliament took place in the 19th century?

Should MPs be paid? What is your opinion?

Political evolution or revolution…? What do you choose?

What was the significance of the postage system introduced in 1840?

Robert Peel was the first to prove that certainty of punishment is far more effective than cruelty of punishment. What do you think?

Why was Britain considered to be a political model in the 18th century?

How did family life change in the 19th century?

What is the significance of the Great Exhibition of Industries?

What were the social effects of the industrial revolution?

Some people think government should not interfere in trade and industry. What is your point of view?

How did ordinary people live in Ireland and Scotland?

Discuss the reasons for Irish and Scottish immigration.

Labour of children in Britain… What do you think of this phenomenon?

How did family change in the 19th century?

What is more important for you: interests of the state or freedom of the individuality?

One of the reasons for loosing its leading position in the world in the 19th century was that Britain was not used to being so strongly challenged. What other reasons existed? And which one do you consider the most important?

If the senior Austrian Archduke in Sarajevo had not been murdered, would the First World War have broken out? Discuss.

What were the reasons for the First World War?

Discuss the role of entertainment in the life of people of the 19th century.

The Victorian period in the history of Britain is often called “England’s summer”. Could you explain why?

Theme 8

The twentieth century

Why did Britain loose its strength in the twentieth century?

What helped Britain to recover from “depression” in the 1930s?

At the start of the twentieth century, during the First World War Quakers refused to fight. For the first time a government accepted the idea that men had the right to refuse to fight if they believed fighting to be wrong. What do you think of this idea? Discuss.

Who is this poem by Laurence Binyon about? What does it mean for you?

What were the consequences of the First World War?

Why did the role of the Labour party grow after the First World War?

In 1885 F. Engels wrote of the trade unionists: “The fools want to reform society to suit themselves, but not reform themselves to suit the development of society”. Do you agree with the words?

What effect on Britain did the Bolshevik revolution make?

“You’ve never had it so good” – a famous remark after the Second World War. What did it mean?

Many people consider “swinging sixties” the best ten years Britain had in the twentieth century. What do you think?

The 1960s in Britain are called the age of youth. Why so?

Are you for or against “permissive society”?

A “permissive society” or a return to Victorian values?

Do you think the Royal family has a future?

What should the role of monarchy be in society?

In 1936 Edward VIII gave up the thrown in order to marry a divorced woman. Do you approve of him? Discuss.

British football fans are famous all over the world for their violence. How can this violence be explained?

Nationalization or privatization…? What is the role of the state in the economic development of the country?

The rich and the poor… What happened to the gap between rich and poor during the period 1979 - 1994, and what were the main causes?

Who rules Britain: the Crown, the Commons, the Lords, the Prime Minister, the Cabinet or the Civil Service? Discuss.

If you were British, which political party would you support?

. What were the economic successes and failures of the Conservative administrations, 1979-97?

In what ways are women still disadvantaged in British society?

How did the ethnic pattern of Britain change in the 20th century?

What predictions can you make about British society?

Why is the Commonwealth popular with its membership?

 KEY

Test 1

Earliest times

Test 2

The Saxon Invasion, the Celtic kingdoms

Test 3

The early Middle ages, the Norman Conquest

Teas 4

The late Middle Ages

Test 5

The Tudor period

Test 6

The Stuarts

Test 7

The 18th century

Test 8

The 19th century