Window on Britain

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Внешность и характер	Великобритания WB I Introduction to Britain	Межличностные отношения	О себе	Семья
Покупки	Школьные традиции WB I Schools	Друзья	Виды жилья	Выбор профессии WB II Work
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Друзья	Национальная кухня WB I Food	ЗОЖ WB II Health	Образование	Экология WB II Environment
Спорт WB I Sport	Деньги Покупки	Мир моды	Искусство	Социокультурный портрет Великобритании и Австралии
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Путешествие во времени	Обычаи и традиции РБ и Великобритании WB I Festivals	История кино, театра	Наука и техника	Социокультурный портрет США и Канады
Жизнь в городе и деревне WB I Homes	Музыка WB I Pop	Погода и климат	Выдающиеся люди РБ и стран языка	Социокультурный портрет РБ
Путешествие по разным странам WB I London	Литература	Культурный досуг Хобби WB II Leisure		Туризм WB II Holidays
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Из Австралии в Беларусь	Кино	СМИ	СМИ WB II Media	Международное сотрудничество
Урок иностранного языка			Республика Беларусь	Национальный характер
		Учеба Школа

Window on Britain I

Introduction to Britain

Test Your Listening

Fill in:

a.     The population of Britain is …

b.     … million men work in Britain.

c.      million women work in Britain

d.     You can start work in Britain when you are …

e.      About … million are unemployed.

f.       An average man work … hours a week and retire when they are… years old.

g.     Women work about … hours a week and retire when they are… years old.

h.     More than … million people work in the building industry.

Write if the sentences are true or false:

a.     Today more and more people work in offices with computers.

b.     London is the most important financial centre of the world.

c.      Retailing is an important industry today.

d.     Most of the ten European retail companies are British.

e.     Five of the top food retailers are British.

f.       Hi-tech industries are important today.

g.     Most British people get 30 days holiday a year.

h.     There are ten public holidays in Britain.

Form 8

Schools

Test Your Listening

   Write if the sentences are true or false

1.     Most children start primary school at the age of 7.

2.     About 20% of 18 - year olds go to Universities.

3.     At most schools pupils wear a uniform.

4.     Students begin learning a foreign language at 15.

5.     All students have music lessons.

6.     Most parents in Britain pay for their education.

    Choose the right variant:

1.     Students have a break of (an hour / half an hour) for lunch.

2.     (Most / some) students bring sandwiches for lunch.

3.     Students also play (rugby / chess)

Fill in:

1.     School starts at … o'clock and is over at …о clock.

2.     Most British school are …

3.     Usually there are … students in primary classes and … students at secondary classes.

4.     Students have the following subjects on their timetable …

5.     Most British students study … as their foreign language.

Some pupils study also …

6.     During lunch break some students … and others have lunch in their …

                    

Make up sentences:

1. late, always, are, you

2. tennis, do, play, often, they ?

3. breakfast, never, he, eats

4. o`clock, usually, am, I, seven, at, home

5. night, out, generally, we, Friday, go, on

6.  seldom, home, at, at, weekend, the, she, is

Food

Test Your Listening

          Answer the questions:

1.     What do milkmen do?

2.     Do British people often eat bacon and eggs for breakfast?

3.     When do British people usually have lunch?

4.     When do they usually have their evening meal?

5.     Does London have a lot of foreign restaurants? From how many countries?

6.     Do British people really eat a lot of fish and chips?

            Fill in the gaps:

1.     At lunch time people usually have a break of ____________

2.     Most people buy their food from  ___________________ __

3.     You don`t  __________________ ______convenience food.

4.     Most people have their  ____________ ______ in the evening.

5.     People have meat or  __________and  __________________

Answer the questions:

1.     What does Leonie have on her fish and chips?

2.     How much do the fish and chips cost?

3.     How many servings of fish and chips do British people eat a year?

4.     What is Leonie`s favourite food?

Homes

Test Your Listening

                                           

 While you watch

                                               Sequence 1

Write in what order are these types of houses given in the video:

A new house, a cottage, a large house, a small house, a semi-detached house, a detached, house, a bungalow, a terraced house

                                               Sequence 2

Answer the questions:

1.     What do the Robinsons do in their living-room?

2.     What is there in the kitchen?

3.     What do they do in the dining-room?

                                          Sequence 3

Write if the sentences are true or false:

1.     The children`s rooms are upstairs.

2.     There are a lot of posters in Julia`s room.

3.     Tom is interested in music.

4.     More than half of British homes have computers.

5.     Mrs. Robinson is a housewife.

6.     Oscar is the fifth member of the family.

7.     Rabbits, birds and fishes are the most popular pets among the British.

                                        Sequence 4

Answer the questions:

1.     How many British people live in flats?

2.     What other types of houses do some people live?

3.     What is the most famous home in Britain?

Sport

Test Your Listening
Do the tasks:

I.       What sport takes place at these venues:

a) Wembley, b) Wimbledon, c) Henley, d) St. Andrew`s

II.     1. How many public swimming-pools are there in Britain?

 a) 12 000, b) 20 000, c) 45 000

2. How often do they swim? 1^st speaker, 2d speaker, 3d speaker

III.  Try to complete the sentences with the numbers from the box:

1200

412

40

225000

1.    Over... clubs belong to the British Cycling Federation.

2.    About ... % of British people go walking.

3.    There are ... kilometres of national paths in British and Wales.

4.    The Pennine Way is ... kilometres long.

 Fill in:

1.                    Over... people go to see Manchester United in Manchester on ... or... afternoon.

2.                    Horse ..., motor..., and ... are also very popular.

3.                    These people are doing ... . They do it to keep ... and because they ... it.

Are the statements true or false?

1.    There are people at the athletics club every night.

2.    All towns and cities in Britain have iarge sports centres.

3.    Croquet is originally British.

4.    Curling comes from Scotland.

5.    Leonie is fit.

Festivals

Test Your Listening

SEQUENCE 1

1.      On Guy Fawkes Night people ...(what do they do)

2.      On St/ Valentine's Day people ....

3.      At Halloween the ...

4.      On Pancakes day ...

  SEQUENCE 2

What presents do Mrs. Robinson and Mr. Robinson get?

L Complete the sentences:

-          The important festivals are....

-         People put up ...

-          They keep their presents under...

-          They spend Christmas with ...

-          They give...

SEQUENCE 3

1.      Where do people go with their family?

2.      What do you find in a cracker?

3.      What do you sometimes find in the pudding? Why?

SEQUENCE 4

1.     What is the first festival of the Year?

2.      What do Scottish people call it?

3.      What do people do?

4.      Where is there a really big party?

Pop

Sequence 1

True or False

1.     Pop music is big business.

2.     Most of the world`s popular musicians write and sing songs in English.

3.     Rock and roll first became popular in the 1960s.

4.     The rock and roll revolution happened in Liverpool.

5.     At the beginning of the 1960s there were hundreds of bands in Liverpool.

Sequence 2

Choose the right variant

1.     The Beatles

____________        changed pop music forever.

The Rolling Stones

2.     The Beatles

____________      are still popular today.

The Rolling Stones

Fill in:

1.     The Beatles were forever for … years.

2.     They made … number one hit singles.

3.     They made … albums.

4.     They wrote … songs.

5.     There are more than … recorded versions of Yesterday.

Sequence 3

Make up questions to these answers:

1.     At the end of the 1960s.

2.     No. He also acts in films and plays.

3.     For his clothes and glasses.

4.     In the group Wham.

5.     No. He is a solo singer.

Sequence 4

Answer the questions:

1.     What is the name of the band?

2.     When did they start playing together?

3.     What song do they sing?

4.     What do you think of them?

5.     Are we going to remember Oasis or Blur in 10 years?

London

Test Your Listening

Before you watch

1.     How many bridges are there over the river Thames in London?

2.     What city had the first underground railway?

3.     What is “Harrods”?

4.     When did the miniskirt become fashionable?

5.     Who wrote “The Mousetrap”?

Sequence I

I.                   Circle the correct answers:

1.     The Romans built the first bridge over the river Thames

in AD 43/33/53

2.     The people of London built the second bridge in

1477/1747/ 1774

3.     London Underground started in 1836/1863/1963

4.     Madame Tussaud brought her exhibition to London in 1802/1512/1902

II.                Complete the sentences with the numbers from the box:

20

11

2.5

7

1.     London has a population of about … million.

2.     Over … million tourists visit London every year.

3.     … million tourists visit London from abroad.

4.     Over … million tourists visit Tussaud`s every year.

                                                     

Sequence II

True of False

1.     London is a great place for shopping.

2.     In 1884 Charles Harrow, a baker, founded his first shop in East End.

3.     Another   popular place for shopping is Covent Garden.

4.     Street musicians entertain people in London.

5.     There no interesting street fashions in London.

Fill in

1.     Today Harrow`s has  _____ departments on  ____floors.

2.       ______thousand stuff work there.

3.       ______ people shop there every day.

                                                   Sequence III

Answer the questions:

1.            Where can people go in the evening?

2.            How many cinemas and theatres are there in London?

3.            What are the names of two London parks?

4.            What do people do in the parks?

Window on Britain II

Work

Test Your Listening

Before you watch:

Quiz:

1.     How many people in Britain work?

a. 95million

b. 27million

c. 59 million

     2. What are public holidays called in Britain?

a. public holidays

b. bank holidays

c. general holidays

Word window

II.                Choose the right variant

1.     She works for a company/factory that imports furniture.

2.     He`s got three children to look after so he doesn`t want a part-time/full-time job.

3.     I am just working for three months it is not a temporary/permanent job.

4.     It broke the first time I used it so I sent it to the builder/manufacturer.

5.     The old machine developed/produced 10 bottles a minute.

6.     He found it very difficult to find a job after he left school so he was retired/unemployed for 6 months.

III.               Fill in the necessary words:

1.     He has got a ... job working at a hotel while one of their regular stuff is on holiday.

2.     Though he was only 55 he ... as his health was not good.

3.     We have ... some new software to increase the computer`s memory.

4.     We are working at a ... which produces furniture.

5.     She`s got a ... job working at a hospital three days a week.

6.     We wanted to move into the new office but the ... didn`t finish on time.

While you watch:

Sequence 1

I.                   Tick the activities you see.

II.                Complete the sentences with the numbers from the box:

16, 15, 44, 59, 1, 60, 15, 65, 31, 12

1.     The population of Britain is ... million.

2.     ...million men work in Britain.

3.     ...million women work in Britain.

4.     About ... million people are unemployed.

5.     You start work in retain when you are ... years old.

6.     On average men work ... hours a week and retire when they are ... years old.

7.     Women work ... hours a week and retire when they are ... years old.

8.     More than ... million people work in the building industry.

Sequence 2

I.                   Complete the notes:

Britain in the 19^th century was famous for ... ... and shipyards in Scotland,  ... and the ... of England, produced ..., machines and ... .

II.                Jaguar cars

First cars appeared in ...

The production started at Coventry in ...

It was bought by Ford in ...

           The number of workers  was ...

           The number of cars produced a day ...

Sequence 3

Write if the sentences are true or false:

1.     Today more and more people work in offices with computers.

2.     London is the most important financial centre of the world.

3.     Retailing is an important industry today.

4.     Most of the ten top European retail companies are British.

5.     Five of the ten top food retailers are British.

6.     Hi-tech industries are important today.

7.     Most British people get 30 days holiday a year.

8.     There are ten public holidays a year in Britain.

                                                                        

Sequence 4

Fill in the table:

	job	hours	likes	dislikes
The first speaker
The second speaker
The third speaker
The fourth speaker
The fifth speaker
The sixth speaker
The seventh speaker

Sequence 5

I.                   Answer the questions:

1.     Why can more people work from home now?

2.     How many people in Britain work from home?

3.     Why do people like working from home?

Holidays

Test Your Listening

             I. Choose:

1.     The most popular months for British people are

a. June and July, b. July and August, c. August and September

2.     What is the most popular destination for British holidaymakers? a. The USA b. Greece c. Spain

3.     How far from London is the seaside town of Briton, a.100 a. a.100 kilometres, b.40 kilometres, c.400 kilometres

4.      Brighton is a good place for family holiday because

a. it is cheap, b. there are a lot of things to do, c. it is always sunny

5.     How many British people go to London on holiday every year? a. 5 million, b. 2,5 million, 250,000

II. What places you hear:          

1. Florida 2. The Caribbean 3. Western Europa 4. Greece

5.     The USA 6. Brazil 7. Spain 8. France

III. True or False

1.     All British people take a two-week break in July or August.

2.     The British people make 14 million holiday trips year.

3.     Most British people go to Western Europe.

4.     Over a quarter British holidaymakers go to Spain.

5.     The British go abroad because the weather is often better.

IY. Write the names for:             

-         One thing people hope for on holiday,

-         Two types of transport not used in the 19 century,

-         Three British seaside towns,

-          Four things that people do on holiday,

-          Five places where people sleep on holiday.

Y. Tick the activities you hear:

Yachting, climbing, cycling, hang-gliding,

walking, sailing on a narrowboat

Media

Test Your Listening

Before you watch

1.     The population of Great Britain is 56 million. How many people do you think read a newspaper every day?

2.     What British newspapers do you know?

Sequence 1

I. Fill in the gaps:

1.     Tabloids.

Over 3,5 mln people buy the (1). Over (2) million buy the Daily Mirror. Tabloid papers have more gossip, (3), stories and pictures.

They have less (4) serious news.

2.      Broadsheets

Also called (5) papers. One million people buy the (6). About (7) buy the Times. Other broadsheets: the independent and the (8). Broadsheets have more serious (9) and fewer (10).

3.      Facts about British newspapers.

There are (11) daily and Sunday newspapers in Britain. There are more than (12) magazines in Britain.

Sequence 2

  Make up true sentences:

The BBC, I TV, Channel 4Channe 5

1. has five national radio stations,

2. has 39 local radio stations,

3 . has two terrestrial television channels,

4. is not commercial,

5. uses money from TV licences to pay for programmes,

6. is a commercial TV channel,

7.  has advertising during its programmes.

Sequence 3

   Answer the questions:

1.      How many cable and satellite TV channels are there?

2.      How many British children have television in their bedrooms?

            Answer the questions:

1.      How many people like 'The Simpsons'⁷?

2.      How many people like "Top of the Pops''?

3.      How many people watch the television every day?

4.       How many people like sport on television?

5.      How many people like MTV?

6.                 How many people like "Friends"?

Sequence 5

  Say if the sentences are true or false:

1.      In Britain there are more washing machines than televisions.

2.      Leonie likes watching her washing machine.

Leisure

Test Your Listening

Sequence 1

Tick what activities you see:

-sailing                                         - surfing                               - horse racing

-rock climbing                            -snowboarding                  -parachuting

-skate boarding                         - rally driving                        -canoeing

Sequence 2

Cross out one piece of incorrect information for each person:

1.                Watch TV, play football, listen to music, go on the Internet;

2.                Skate board, play rugby, rollerblade;

3.                Play rugby, play tennis, listen to music;

4.                Skate board, play tennis, go swimming;

5.                play rugby, go swimming, play tennis, play football;

6.                Play football, play tennis, play rugby;

7.                Play rugby, play cricket, go windsurfing, go sailing;

8.                Play sport, go into town, listen to music, see my friends;

9.                Go to a drama group, go to a dance group, go to the cinema.

Sequence 3

Tick the places where you see Leonie

-In a pub,       -outside a library,      -in a restaurant,     -outside a cinema,      

-in a fast food restaurant,         -inside the cinema

Mark the sentences True or false:

1.                The most popular leisure activity is going to the pub;

2.                Most pubs don`t serve any food;

3.                Some pubs have karaoke competitions;

4.                Ten times more people go to fast food restaurants than other restaurants;

5.                Going to the cinema is twice as popular as going to the library;

6.                There are more than twice as many cinemas as there were  20 years ago.

Sequence 4

Put the activities in the order you hear them:

a)     Watching sport;

b)    Going to discos and night clubs;

c)     Visiting historic buildings;

d)    Visiting art galleries and museums;

e)     Having a short break holiday

Make three true sentences:

1.     Kingston Lacy                          a) is part of the University of Oxford

2.     Cofre castle                             b) has lovely gardens

3.     The Ashmolean museum      c) is over 1000 years old

Answer the questions:

1.     How many people visit the Ashmolean Museum every year?

2.     How much does it cost to go to the Ashmolean Museum? 

Sequence 5

Answer the questions:

1.     How many people visit Alton Tower every year?

2.     When was the London Eye opened?

3.     What other attractions were mentioned in the sequence?

Sequence 6

Number the activities in order you hear them

1.     Reading listening to the radio or CDs

2.     Watching TV

3.     Visiting or entertaining friends or family

What is the most popular activity among them?

Environment

Test Your Listening

Before watching.

I.                  Answer the questions:

1.     Where were the first national parks created in Britain?

2.     Why do people go to national parks?

3.     What happened to the countryside of Britain during the industrial revolution?

4.     What is smog?

5.     How many cars, trucks and lorries are there in Great Britain?

II. Fill in the words to make up phrases:

control, create, introduce, deal, burn, protect, take

to ... national park, to ... the environment, to ... actions, to ... with increasing traffic, to ... pollution, to ... coal, to ... laws.

III.           Complete the sentences with the phrases above:

1.               In many British cities people are not allowed to ... because the smoke pollutes the atmosphere.

2.               The government wants to ... to keep traffic out of city centres.

3.               The government... so that certain parts of the countryside would not be damaged.

4.               Many people believe the government should ... against companies that do not ....

5.               It is everyone`s duty to ...

6.               Building more roads is not the best way to ...

Part I

1        Answer these questions.

a How large m the Peak District National Park?

 b What percentage of the British population live in towns and cities?

c How many people can reach the Peak District in less than an hour?

d How many people visit the Peak District every year?

Part II

Choose the best answers below.

1        Pollution was a problem in Britain in 

a)the 19th century     b)he 20th century

c) the 19th and 20th centuries,

2         In 1952 smog killed

a )four thousand people, b) several people,

c) several thousand people.

3        How many families in Britain have two or more cars?

a) 27 million, b) 25.per cent, c) 27 per cent,

4         The British use buses and trains for

a) two or more journeys a week

b) one out of every ten journeys,

c)one out of every two journeys.

5        Who can use Oxford High Street?

a) No one. It is a traffic free area.

b) Buses» taxis and bicycles can use it during the day; anyone can use it at other times,

c) Only buses, taxis and bicycles.

Part III

Complete the notes why people came to Lake District

1.     Lovely... around here, nice area for...

2.     Absolutely ..., loves ...

3.     Lot of variation: valley, water, streams ... lakes

4.     Fresh air, You have got ... when you have been here

5.     Love the ... walks, looks at the ...

6.     lovely places to ...,  nice ... to do, the people are very ..., it`s very ... area

Health

Test Your Listening

Before you watch

I.                   Answer the questions:

1.     Which is NHS?  a/ Normal Health Service

                          b/ National Health System

                          c/ National Health Service

2.     Which two diseases kill most Britons?

a/ heart disease, b/cancer, c/Aids, d/pneumonia, e/bronchitis

3.     Name three different kinds of alternative medical treatment

4.     On average how long do British men live? And British women?

Word Window

Divide the following words into four groups:

1.     People  2.Places  3.Diseases  4.Treatment

Hospital, cancer, ointment, tablets, influenza, malaria, dentist, surgery, bronchitis, general practitioner, specialist,  operating theatre, nose drops, chemotherapy, clinic, nurse, appendicitis, pharmacy, chiropractor, physiotherapy

While you watch

Sequence I

I.      Tick the three places that you see: swimming pool, hospital, operating theatre, pharmacy, doctor`s surgery, gymnasium

II.   Choose the correct answer:

1.     In Britain where do you go when you are ill?

a/ a chemist, b/ a hospital, c/ a GP

2.     How many GPs are there in Britain?

3.     a/3,000, b/36,000, c/46,000

4.     How many woman GPs are there?

a/ 30,000, b/13,000, c/3,000

5.     How many patients does every GP have?

a/ 2,000, b/3,000, c/13,000

6.     How many prescriptions do chemists prepare every year?

a/ 50 million, b/505 million, c/ 5 million

Sequence II

I.                   Tick the services that are or were free for everyone:

In 1948		Today
	NHS treatment
	NHS operations
	visits to the dentist
	prescriptions
	eye tests
	glasses

Sequence III

I.                   Answer the questions:

1.     High levels of what diseases do Britons have?

2.     How many people work in NHS in Britain?

3.     How much does it cost a year?

4.     Why do people sometimes go to private doctors?

5.     How many alternative medical practitioners are there in Britain?

                                           

                                                Sequence IV

I.                   Write one word in each blank:

1.     Medicine helps people (1) better.

2.     Diets help them (2) healthy.

3.     If you (3) well, you will probably have a longer and a healthier life.

4.     Nowadays British people eat less red (4) and more fresh (5) and vegetables tan in the past.

II.                Write a number in each blank:

1.     In 1952 only (6) people reached the age of 100.

2.     Nowadays the total`s about (7) a year.