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IV. Much has been said and written about English character. Is it
true to call Englishmen superior, snobbish, aloof, hypocritical and
unsociable? Answer the questions:
1. Is it true when we speak about the ruling class? Why is it true?
Prove your statements. Use the text.
2. Translate the words by Ogden Nash, the American writer. Do
you agree with his opinion about the Englishmen?
3. What are the national features of the English character?
V. Translate and remember the new words:
to conquer; a tribe; to subdue; to sum up; can afford; a trade; a
judge; to execute.
VI. Reading.
1. Check the meaning of the words in your dictionary:
landscape, mammal, shepherd, formative, self-consciously,
woolsack, flock, accidental.
2. Are the sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences:
a) Sheep had the most formal influence on Britain’s landscape.
b) Coal played the most important part in the English economy.
c) Lord Chancellor sits on an armchair in the House of Lords.
3. Text for reading.
Read the text about Britain by Gordon Winter. It will be continued
after each unit.
Throughout British history men have been landscape architects,
though it was only in the 18th century that the term began to be used
self-consciously by those who so skilfully laid out the parks of great
houses. Next to man, the other mammals that have had the most
formative influence on our landscape have been sheep. In past centuries
sheep, and especially their wool, played the part in the English economy
that coal played in the 19th century, and that oil is beginning to play
now. Not for nothing does the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack in the
House of Lords. So it is not entirely accidental that sheep figure fairly
frequently in our history. In this, however, I should declare an interest.
Looking after sheep has long been among my part-time occupations,
and for the past 20 years I have been shepherd to my own small flock.
IV. Much has been said and written about English character. Is it
true to call Englishmen superior, snobbish, aloof, hypocritical and
unsociable? Answer the questions:
     1. Is it true when we speak about the ruling class? Why is it true?
Prove your statements. Use the text.
     2. Translate the words by Ogden Nash, the American writer. Do
you agree with his opinion about the Englishmen?
     3. What are the national features of the English character?
V. Translate and remember the new words:

     to conquer; a tribe; to subdue; to sum up; can afford; a trade; a
judge; to execute.

VI. Reading.
1. Check the meaning of the words in your dictionary:
     landscape, mammal, shepherd, formative, self-consciously,
woolsack, flock, accidental.
2. Are the sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences:
     a) Sheep had the most formal influence on Britain’s landscape.
     b) Coal played the most important part in the English economy.
     c) Lord Chancellor sits on an armchair in the House of Lords.

3. Text for reading.

Read the text about Britain by Gordon Winter. It will be continued
after each unit.
      Throughout British history men have been landscape architects,
though it was only in the 18th century that the term began to be used
self-consciously by those who so skilfully laid out the parks of great
houses. Next to man, the other mammals that have had the most
formative influence on our landscape have been sheep. In past centuries
sheep, and especially their wool, played the part in the English economy
that coal played in the 19th century, and that oil is beginning to play
now. Not for nothing does the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack in the
House of Lords. So it is not entirely accidental that sheep figure fairly
frequently in our history. In this, however, I should declare an interest.
Looking after sheep has long been among my part-time occupations,
and for the past 20 years I have been shepherd to my own small flock.


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