Which is the highest mountain in Wales?
A) Skiddaw B) Snowdon C) Yewbarrow D) Stob Ban
All of England's highest peaks are found in just one county - which one?
A) Norfolk B) Yorkshire C) Cumbria D) Dorset
I’ll give you the name of a town or city. You give me the river it is on or at the mouth of.
London: A) Severn B) Thames C) Tees D) Tiber
Newcastle: A) Tyne B) Tees C) Tweed D) Thames
Stratford: A) Thames B) Avon C) Severn D) Kennet
A quick look at a map is enough to tell you that Great Britain is the largest of the British Isles, followed by Ireland. But which is the third largest island?
A) Isle of Man B) Lewis / Harris C) Mainland (Shetland) D) Isle of Wight
Great Britain and Ireland are the two most populous of the British Isles but which comes next?
A) Lewis/ Harris B) Isle of Man C) Isle of Wight D) Jersey
Which of these countries is not in the UK?
A) England B) Scotland C) Northern Ireland D) Republic of Ireland
What is the longest river in Britain?
A) Trent B) Thames C) Severn D) Nile
What is the capital of the Isle of Man?
A) Castletown B) Peel C) Ramsey D) Douglas
Land's End is
A) one of the highest peaks of the UK
B) the most northern island belonging to the UK
C) one of the capes of Great Britain
D) a lake in Scotland
A person with the name MacKenzie will probably come from...
A) the Fens
B) the Highlands
C) The Cambrian mountains
D) The Pennines
Ulster is the second name of...
A) Scotland B) England C) Wales D) Northern Ireland
UNIT 2 LONDON
Text 1
Text 1 London: a City with Difference
With its unrivalled range of museums and galleries, theatres and concert halls, world-famous sights and daily displays of pomp and pageantry, London is on of the most exciting capitals in the world and demands to be explored.
«When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life: for there is in London all that life can afford», wrote Samuel Johnson in 1777. He would still recognize the great sights on both sides of the Thames, winding its way downstream from the Houses of Parliament to St, Paul's, London Bridge and the Tower, down to Greenwich and the sea.
When H.G. Wells wrote in 1911 that "London is the most interesting, beautiful and wonderful city in the world to me," horse drawn carriages and Edwardian splendour were on their way out. The 20th century was about to enforce dramatic changes on the London sky-line - skyscrapers in the city, the Post Office Tower and Docklands, the business centre for the 21st century.
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Yet London, the world's capital, has kept its heart. Johnson would still be able to drink coffee in Covent Garden or meander thorough the City's narrow streets with echoes of Medieval days. H.G. Wells might, today, listen to debates in the Houses of Parliament, attend a concert in the Albert Hall or listen to a military band in a royal park.
Today London is a sprawling cosmopolitan metropolis, an exciting world which many visitors from abroad see first from the sky. Down there seven million people are at home, not in anonymous suburbs but in the Cities of London and Westminster and in districts which have remnants of their countrified past, with their own high streets and historic monuments remembering famous men and women who built a London which each generation discovers anew.
Ex.1 Answer the questions.
1 What is meant by a cosmopolitan metropolis?
2 Find a word meaning to walk in a slow relaxed way.
3 What is a high street?
4 Find a word meaning spreading over a wide area in an untidy or unattractive way.
5 Find a synonym to the words magnificence, grandeur.
6 From the list of synonyms choose the one (s) that is / are closest in meaning to the word dramatic as used in the text: striking, vivid, effective, breathtaking, powerful, exciting, sensational, melodramatic, sudden, startling. What is its opposite?
7 What is meant by remnants of the past?
8 Find a phrase meaning to disappear.
9 Find a synonym to the word to impose.
10 Find the opposite of the word to deny in the text.
Ex.2 Without looking back at the text, try to supply the missing word that completes these expressions.
- to wind its _____;
- _____ carriages;
- military _____;
- remnants of the _____ ;
- many visitors _____abroad
Ex.3 Complete the sentences using the words from the text. To help you, the first letter of each word is given.
1 An industrial estate s_____across the valley.
2 He m _____ aimlessly along the lanes.
3 The r_____ of a meal stood on the table.
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4 Highway 99 w _____ its way along the coast.
5 There has been a d _____ rise in the number of unemployed.
6 Blackheath is a s _____ of London.
7 Only seven people a_____ the meeting.
Ex.4 Answer the questions.
1 Has London changed much since the 18th century?
2 Can you agree with the statement that London has kept its heart?
3 Why is London described as a sprawling cosmopolitan metropolis?
4 What is meant by a countrified past of London's suburbs?
Text 2
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