18th Century Britain. Иностранный язык. Фомина И.В. - 8 стр.

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Peer [         ] (n) – пэр, лорд


Ex. 2. Form verbs and adjectives from the following nouns if it is possible:

Survival, form, fear, invasion, danger, economy, education, establishment.


Ex. 3. Form Comparatives and Superlatives from the following adjectives:

Young, early, big, strong, ling, poor, rich, common, radical, fearful.


Ex. 4. Form Past form and Past Participle from the following irregular verbs:

Have, be, become, keep, take, come, begin.


Ex. 5. Transform Active constructions into Passive ones.

1. The same monarch ruled both England and Scotland.
2. he Act of Union between England and Scotland formed the Kingdom of Great
Britain.
3. The Queen unified even units of weights and measures.
4. It involved England in the war with France.
5. England had long dissatisfied Scotland with its indifference to Scottish
economic aspirations.
6. Queen Anne had marked her reign by parliamentary elections.
7. The English accepted him as King George I of Great Britain.


Ex. 6. Read and translate the text.

    Mary II and William III had no surviving children, and William was succeeded by
Queen Anne, Mary's younger sister. The major event of Queen Anne's reign was the
formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
    Early in the 18th century England and Scotland were ruled by the same monarch,
but they remained two separate kingdoms. In 1707 the Kingdom of Great Britain was
formed by the Act of Union between England and Scotland. London, the biggest city
in Britain, with a population of about half a million, became the capital of the entire
island.
    Great Britain from then on had a single Parliament and a single system of national
administration and taxation. Even units of weights and measures were unified.
    The Union between England and Scotland skillfully engineered in 1707, the most
radical innovations in British political life, was a union of parliaments: forty-five