Roman Britain. Мартемьянова Н.В. - 32 стр.

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Reading Comprehension Task
Put questions to the text. Arrange them as a plan. Retell the text according
to your plan.


TEXT SEVEN
                   THE DECLINE AND DEPARTURE
Translate the text paying attention to all structures you know.
THE DECLINE AND DEPARTURE
   After four hundred years in Britain, the Legions finally departed. They had
come, as invaders but had not settled. They had come, as conquerors but had not
subdued. Only their military roads and empty forts remained as monuments to
their time in this land, to speed travelers on their journeys and to shelter the
homeless.
   Only their secrets of glassmaking and their better ways of metal craft were
passed down to be added to the skills of the North Britons. Unlike the South
there were no Roman towns nor Roman laws, no Roman government nor
Roman economy, just a land and its peoples living on their hilltops and
crannogs, in their brochs and duns as they had been when the Eagles of Rome
first made their great advance under Agricola.
   Unable to take the North by force the Romans had separated it from the
south by a mighty wall of stone. Perhaps for that reason as much as any in
history, Britain came to be divided into two Kingdoms, one of which would be
called Scotland.
Last of the legions
   It was about the year 410AD that the last of the legions left Britain. Rome
was gathering its strength for a final desperate stand. Invading hosts from
Germany had overrun the Empire and were now hammering on the city walls.
The people living in the cold craggy land of Hadrain’s wall went about the