- •Синельник ю.Е. Лингвострановедение и страноведение
- •Содержание
- •«Лингвострановедение и страноведение»
- •Планы ответов на экзаменационные вопросы по дисциплине «лингвострановедение и страноведение» Question 1: Early History (Celts – Danes)
- •Question 2: Early History (Danes – Normans)
- •Question 3: The Hundred Years’ War
- •Question 4: The War of Roses
- •Question 5: Reign of Henry VIII
- •Question 6: Civil War. Republic. Protectorate
- •Question 7: Victorian Era
- •Question 8: Franco-British Relations
- •Question 9: Geography of the uk
- •Islands
- •Question 10: Monarchy: History. Functions
- •Question 11: British Government
- •Question 12: British Parliament: History. Functions
- •Question 13: Parliament of the United Kingdom. Elections
- •Question 14: Political Parties of the uk
- •Question 15: Capital of the uk
- •Question 16: Political relations between the uk and the usa
- •Question 17: Economy of the uk
- •Question 18: Education in the uk
- •Question 19: British Culture (Anglo-Saxon – Enlightenment)
- •Question 20: British Culture (Romanticism – Post-Modernism)
- •Question 21: British School of Painting
- •Question 23: Architecture and Places of Interest in London
- •Question 24: The British as They are Seen by Other Nations
- •Question 25: Influence of History on the Development of English
- •Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Anglo–Frisian
- •53 Countries United Nations European Union Commonwealth of Nations nato nafta ukusa
- •Question 26: Early History of the usa
- •Question 27: The War of Independence
- •Question 28: Formation of the New Country (usa)
- •Question 29: The War between the North and the South
- •Question 30: The usa in XIX - XX
- •Question 31: The usa in the wwi & wwii
- •Question 32: The Vietnam War
- •Question 34: Modern History: 9/11. Iraq War
- •Iraq War
- •Question 35: Population: General overview. Immigrants
- •Immigration
- •Question 36: Population: Native Population
- •Question 37: Geography of the usa
- •Question 38: Government: Congress
- •Question 39: President of the usa
- •Question 40: Political Parties and Elections in the usa
- •Question 41: Capital of the usa
- •Question 42: Local Government (uk & usa)
- •Independent locally elected Councils
- •36 District Councils
- •Question 43: Russian-American Relations
- •Question 44: Modern Foreign Policy of the usa
- •Question 45: Economy of the usa
- •Industry
- •Question 46: Education of the usa
- •Question 47: us Culture and Literature
- •Question 48: The Americans as They are Seen by Other Countries
- •Question 49: us Mass Media and Film Industry
- •Question 50: us Places of Interest
- •Question 51: us and uk National Holidays
- •Question 52: us Family. Stereotypes
- •Glossary
- •Литература, рекомендуемая для подготовки к экзамену
Question 7: Victorian Era
Plan:
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901)
Her reign as the Queen lasted 63 years and seven months, longer than that of any other British monarch before her.
Though Victoria ascended the throne at a time when the United Kingdom was already an established constitutional monarchy.
The Victorian era represented the height of the Industrial Revolution
A period of significant social, economic, and technological progress in the United Kingdom.
A great expansion of the British Empire.
Victoria, who was of almost entirely German descent, was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover
Succession. Whig government
Victoria's principal adviser was her uncle King Leopold I of Belgium.
The Queen married her first cousin, Prince Albert.
Attempts to assassinate.
Years of Isolation
Reforms
Victorian’s reign is the climax of Britain’s imperial ambitions.
People’s Charter -Voting right for adult citizens.
She rejected property restrictions for MPs.
Acc. to the Poor Law there were introduced workhouses.
The Industrial Revolution. A Riot of Luddites.
A period of Napoleonic wars: Admiral Nelson won a famous victory at Trafalgar.
The Corn Law.
Education Acts.
Constitutional monarchy
Government of India
Victorian Attitudes
"The grandmother of Europe"
Question 8: Franco-British Relations
Plan:
Celts – Romans common enemy.
1. Roman era
Julius Caesar invasion. Roman rule
2.Norman conquest
3.High Medieval era
Plantagenet dynasty, which was based in its Angevin Empire, half of France was under Angevin control as well as all of England. However, almost all of the Angevin empire was lost to Philip II of France under Richard the Lionheart, John and Henry III of England. This finally gave the English a separate identity as an Anglo-Saxon people under a Francophone, but not French, crown.
4.The Hundred Years War
5.The early modern period
Wars. Separation of nations, cultures. Catholicism vs Protestantism (Henry VIII)
6.Universal monarchy
7. Formation of Great Britain
The newly united Britain fought France in the War of the Spanish Succession (1702–1713), and the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748)
8.Overseas expansion
9. Colonization of North America
10. American War of Independence
11.The French Revolution
12.The Napoleonic Wars
13 Treaties of Versailles. WWI & WWII
14. UN
Question 9: Geography of the uk
Plan:
Country
Great Britain,
the northeastern part of the island of Ireland,
and many small islands.
Borders
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border.
the UK is surrounded by
the Atlantic Ocean,
the North Sea,
the English Channel
the Irish Sea
The largest island, Great Britain, is linked to France by the Channel Tunnel.
union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland (1707) .
union with the Kingdom of Ireland (1801)
The UK has fourteen overseas territories, all remnants of the British Empire
By mid-2008, population was estimated to have grown to 61,383,000, the third largest in the European Union, the twenty-first largest in the world.
S ymbols
Union Flag (Union Jack).
God Save the King
Britannia
Lion
Bulldog
Geography of the UK