3. Match the following words and word combinations to their correct meaning:

1. heather

2. Britannia

3. haggies

4. sea lochs

5. The Pennines

6. Erin

7. smoggies

8. The Wash

9. Albion

10. reels’

11. Briton

12. moor

13. The Fens

• a poetic name for Ireland.

• great plain borders The Wash

• a name that the Romans gave to their southern British province.

• a few small trees and low evergreen shrubs

• traditional dances

• dish made from sheep’s heart, lungs and liver

• most of the land north of the Thames and up to bay of the North Sea

• a word used in some poetic or rhetorical contexts to refer to England.

• 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

4,406

7,723

62,698,362

220

717

215

153

the highest point in the British Isles

the longest river of the UK,

a total area of the UK

a coastline of the UK;

population of the UK

the length of the Thames

a population density

an area which Lough Neagh covers

5. Give the English equivalents for:

6. Translate into Ukrainian:

London 'city gent', 'continental' (European) breakfast, conservative, driving on the left-hand side of the road, intrinsic advantage, systems of measurement, to adopt Central European Time, linguistic criteria, mutual intelligibility, the advent of mass media, a considerable degree of convergence, dialect leveling, “Estuary English”, left only a few traces in modern times, members of the house of Lords, ‘Lords Spiritual’, ‘established’ churches, nonconformist groups, receive the sacraments, a decline in the prevalence of religious belief, quakers, religious groups with significant numbers of followers, the rapid decrease in Protestant population.

7. 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 country is one of the 15 member states of the ……………….. .

9. The Channel ……………….. , the longest undersea rail tunnel in the world.

10. The 2^nd longest tunnel in the world = ………………. (England-France ; 49.9 Km).

11. The 3^rd longest suspension bridge in the world = Humber (…………………… m).

12. London - the largest city in Europe; the …………. largest city in the world.

13. There are …….. bridges in London that span the River Thames.

14. The first London Bridge was a wooden one built by the ……………… .

15. The ……………… Bridge was the only bridge over the Thames until 1750.

16. The most common surname in both England and Scotland is actually ……………… .

17. In addition to English, …………….. minority languages are officially recognised.