4. excessive

5. indefinite

6. organic and inevitable

7. proletarian

8. rallying

9. solid

10. unchanging

11. unchecked

12. unitary

13. 1. change

    2. cry

    3. Drinking

    4. Identity

    5. Majority

    6. nation

    7. power

    8. slang

    9. Stability

    10. state

    11. system

    12. tenure

    13. Thinking

    Л

    voting

Exercise 25

Complete the sentences below using the appropriate word combinations from the exercise above.

1. The reason for sacking most of the workers by the new management lay in the workers' .

2. The success of the bank is due to the of its

performance in the most critical periods of the nation's history.

3. The opposition strongly objects to what it sees as of

Prime Minister.

Unit 4. NATIONAL IDENTITY 1

Lead-in 1

THE WEALTH OF A NATION 1

ONE THIRD ARE ENGLISH, NOT BRITISH 3

Exercise 1 4

Exercise 2 4

WORKSHOP 1 7

IDENTITY CRISIS IN GREAT BRITAIN 7

REVEALED: the nation that dare not speak its name 7

FORGING THE NATION 11

GOODBYE TO ALL THAT 19

What Is Britain? 40

British Unity in Diversity 50

'Confident Celts Put England in Shade: Welsh and Scots Find New Pride as English Face Identity Crisis' 58

Exercise 41 55

Exercise 42 56

Nation 58

Positive Traits 58

Negative traits 58

Stereotypes 58

The english 58

1 58

2 58

The scottish 58

1 58

2 58

The welsh 58

1 58

2 58

The Northern Irish 58

1 58

2 58

PAIRWORK 323

IDENTITY CRISIS HAS JAPAN IN TURMOIL 325

WORKSHOP 4 VOCABULARY PRACTICE 341

Exercise 56 341

Inventing National Identity 341

have a single constitution for the whole country.

Exercise 26

Learn the following verbs.

1. to revolutionize

2. to command

3. to embark on

4. to extend

5. to impose on

6. to abolish

7. to spread

8. to recede

9. to envisage

Complete the sentences below using the verbs above.

. 1. Once die Royal Navy the seas.

2. The railways are about to on a major programme of

modernization.

2. The important discovery has our understanding of

the Universe.

2. Most of those who voted for independence did not

war as the eventual outcome.

2. There have been calls for the monarchy to be .

3. The more society conformity on its members the

more people want to rebel.

2. Who has been malicious rumours about me?

3. As the fear of famine . odier things began to worry

us.

2. His radicalism did not

3. We do not _____ two years.

4. The new technology is composed.

to die sphere of economics.

a general election for at least anodier

the way music is played and

2. A huge tax burden was

3. There is a new drive in Britain to

upon people of incomes. fox hunting.