Exercise 34

Explain in English the following sequences. In what context are they used by the author?

disguised version of Englishness overarching sense of identity to attach an extra loyalty to glue of nationhood

political domination

Exercise 35

Find in the text the words used with the adjective COMMON, the noun IDENTITY, the noun LOYALTY. Translate the collocations into vRussian.

Exercise 36

1. Look up synonyms or equivalents for the following words used by the author.

reluctance probity-

relevance outlook

loyalty striving

glue devolution

2. Match each verb on the left with the four synonymous verbs, one from each group, on the right.

   1. to detract from to upstage

to improve to connect to annoy to impair

2. to eclipse to spoil

to bug to relate to enhance to outstrip

3. to perfect to associate

to damage to exasperate to refine to outshine

4. to link to irritate

to bind to upgrade to outdo

to mar

5. to frustrate

Now use some of the verbs in the following sentences in the correct

form.

1. Although opinions differ about the nature and success of

Thatcherism, the term with policies such as free-

market economics, die attempt to cut taxation and public spending.

2. The decline in world power and the relative decline in economic

performance inextricably.

3. Hie of British military power by the United States

and Russia was widely forecast as early as the 1840s because of the much greater human and physical resources they could command.

4. The deficiencies of British life often to the mentality

and behaviour of Establishment institutions.

5. The commentary from the significance of the

events that had just occurred.

6. The task is to establish a new democratic settlement between

politics and people, the quality of representation,

influence over taxation and spending.

7. Our inheritance from the Conservatives is quite : it

includes almost 300 schools which have been inspected and found to be failing.

8. This may be a good thing for the people who live in that country, but it is a source of for those who study it and try to understand it.

Exercise 37

Give the Russian equivalents for the following collocations and recall- how they are used in the text.

to sign up to a common identity

to feel part of an identity

long-standing allegiance to

to draw heavily on the expertise of

to be in decline

identities overlap

strivings for national identity

devolution of power to

to vent differences through/on

Use the above collocations or parts of them in the following sentences.

1. The end of empire and the relative of Britain has

made Scots question the Union. They no longer die

British identity.

2. Sometimes people unfairly their feelings on the

nearest and dearest and later regret doing it.

3. Others, however, argue that a collective sense of Britishness was already in existence before the eighteenth century,

he common characteristics and values.

4. There is a growing tendency nowadays showing people reluctant a particular identity.

5. It is precisely the feeling that central government ignores Scottish opinion that has given rise to the strong support for

6. Their deep-rooted and nation brought the people

together in defence of the country.

7. Despite our national identity crises and Scottish and Welsh

identity, style is still something Britain possesses

in abundance, to the continuing admiration and envy of other races.

8. The English were our allies, our fellow citizens in the great

British nation; and and loyalties we

a whole which was greater than the sum of its parts.

Exercise 38

to decline to maintain (2) to forge to enhance to accept

supremacy union (2) speculation secularization

Fill in the gaps with the words and phrases given below, putting the verbs into the correct form.

to imbue die culture with

to feel part of

to draw heavily on the expertise

to vent differences on to sign up to

reverence long-standing allegiance cohesion strivings for national identity revival reassessment of Britishness

difference overlapping identities

Some historians argue that there is still a Britain with a

to British identity composed of ,

characteristics and values. Before 1707. the history of the geographical British Isles is arguably not about Britishness or Britain. It is about Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland, which were different countries,

often hostile and one another. Britain, as a political unit