Choose the Tour
Read the fact and choose the best variant to finish it. Click the number to read the fact. Don’t forget to write down your variant into the answer sheet.
Geography Tour
Read the fact and choose the best variant to finish it. Click the number to read the fact. Don’t forget to write down your variant into the answer sheet.
Read the list of events and match with the correspondent picture. Click the letter to see the picture. Don’t forget to write down your answer into the form.
Traditional Tour
Look at the picture and solve the crossword about famous British or London sights. Fill in the crossword form. The first letter of any name goes into the number box. Grey box is for the space between two words in the name of a sight.
Sightseeing Tour
Read the biographies and match them with the four given pictures of famous British people on each page. Write their names in English or Russian. Guess who is the 5th one. Write down his/her name in English or Russian.
Personality Tour 1. The first female prime minister of Britain, ___ was a controversial figurehead of conservative ideology during her time in office. 2. ___ is considered one of the most famous characters of Scotland's cultural history. He is best known as a pioneer of the Romantic movement. 3. English admiral ___ circumnavigated the globe in 1577-1578, helped defeat the Spanish Armada and was the most renowned seaman of the Elizabethan era. 4. ___ , pop star, composer, songwriter, and recording artist, founded the band that impacted the music scene like no other before or since. 5. Infamous murderer ___ killed at least five London female prostitutes in 1888. Never captured, his identity is one of English's most famous unsolved mysteries.
Personality Tour 6. ___ is an internationally renowned fantasy writer. He is best known for authoring The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. 7. ___ was the first queen to rule England (1553–58) in her own right. She was known a cruel one for her persecution of Protestants. 8. Author ___ wrote 60 mystery stories featuring the wildly popular detective character Sherlock Holmes and his loyal assistant Watson. 9. Dame ___ is the bestselling mystery author of all time. Her characters, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, have been repeatedly portrayed on film. 10. ___ is best known for his work as a naturalist, developing a theory of evolution to explain biological change.
Personality Tour 11. ___ , often called the English national poet, is widely considered the greatest dramatist of all time. 12. ___, a Scottish knight, became a central early figure in the wars to secure Scottish freedom from the English, becoming one of his country's greatest national heroes. 13. ___ , famously married six times, and played a critical role in the English Reformation, turning his country into a Protestant nation. 14. British conspirator ___ was executed in 1606 for attempting to blow up the Parliament building in what became known as the Gunpowder Plot. 15. ___ was crowned in 1953. Her 60 years on the throne was celebrated in June 2012, with the Diamond Jubilee.
Personality Tour 16. Lewis Carroll was the pen name of ___, author of the children's classics "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass." 17. English physicist and mathematician ___, most famous for his law of gravitation, was instrumental in the scientific revolution of the 17th century. 18. English poet ___ wrote the unfinished work, The Canterbury Tales. It is considered one of the greatest poetic works in English. 19. One of the most adored members of the British royal family, she died in a 1997 car crash. 20. According to legend, Anglo-Saxon gentlewoman ___ rode nude through Coventry, England in a deal to reduce taxes. She also founded a monastery there.
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Использованная литература, Интернет-ресурсы Использованная литература, Интернет-ресурсы •Использованная (и рекомендуемая для подготовки команд) литература: К.И. Кауфман, М.Ю. Кауфман, Страницы британской истории, Титул, 2004 Ю.Б. Голицынский, Great Britain, Каро, СПб, 2008 Ю.Ф. Гурьева, Deep are the roots…, Титул, 2004 Использованные (и рекомендуемые для подготовки команд) Интернет-ресурсы: http://www.visitbritain.com/ru/About-Britain/ http://www.biography.com/ http://www.learnenglish.de/britishculture.html