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Task 6] Read the following texts about industry in Britain and do the tasks that follow them

 

A. Britain has been an industrialized nation for over two centuries. It has a variety of industries which can be divided into three main categories: 1) primary industry which provides raw materials and food from the land and the sea; 2) manufacturing industry which makes raw materials into finished goods; and 3) service industry which provides services for other people.

 

Here are some of the industries in Britain today. Can you match them to the correct category?

Agriculture textiles tourism insurance gas mining transport retail food,drink,tobacco fishing business consultancy forestry publishing banking pharmaceuticals cars ship-building wool manufacture

 

Read the text below and find out:

- What was the Industrial Revolution?

- What are the places in Britain where the deposits of coal and iron were originally found?

- Why was Britain once called ‘ The Workshop of the World’?

 

B. During the 19th century Britain was transformed from a mainly agricultural society into an industrial one. This change has been called the Industrial Revolution because of the dramatic effect it had on the British way of life. People moved to the rapidly expanding towns and cities, railways were developed to transport goods around the country and by 1900 Britain has become a major world power.

The coal and iron found in the North-east, the Midlands, Scotland and South Wales provided the power for factories in those areas. The waterways of Newcastle and Glasgow provided easy access to the sea and ship-building industries flourished. Cotton arrived at the great port of Liverpool from the USA and India to be made into cloth in the textile industries nearby. The sheep in the Yorkshire dales provided wool and the coalfields powered the mills. The humid climate of Lancashire was particularly good for the cotton-spinning process. By 1900 Britain was producing over a third of the world’s manufactured goods and had earned the title ‘ The Workshop of the World’.

 

The geographical features of Britain had a great influence on Britain’s industrial development. Match the features below to the correct industry:

 

Feature Industry

The rivers Tyne and Clyde Textiles (wool) manufacture

The hills and dales of Yorkshire Mining

The port of Liverpool Ship building

The coalfields of the North and Wales Textiles (cotton spinning)

 

[Task 7] Read the following texts and do the tasks that follow them :

 

(1) The Industrial Revolution was built on the use of machines in factories. Since the 1950s Britain’s manufacturing industries have replaced the machine operators with computers and this ‘automation’ has led to a decline in the number of employees in manufacturing industries. More manufactured goods are bought and used than ever before but a lot of these goods are imported. By the beginning of the twentieth century other industrial countries, like the USA, were competing with Britain’s exports and countries in the Far East have been able to provide cheaper products since the 1970s. Areas where heavy manufacturing industries are located have suffered high unemployment.



 

(2) During the last 40 years there has been a rise in smaller industries, known as ‘light industries’. These industries use electricity and are not dependent on raw materials such as coal so they are ‘footloose’, i.e. they can be located anywhere. Many light industries are located on the edge of towns or on industrial estates. They produce such things as washing machines or components. Some of these industries do not make anything at all, but provide services such as distribution. The consumer boom of the end of the twentieth century and the increased leisure time of most Britons has led to rapid growth in service industries like banking, tourism, retailing and information-processing, and industries which distribute, maintain and repair household consumer goods.

 

 

[Task 8] Read the passage below carefully and choose the best answer to each question.

 

Get to know East Anglia

 

The name East Anglia is more an administrative convenience that a term of geographical accuracy, as the area concerned is one that encompasses the highly diverse counties of Essex, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, and cannot claim to possess any single, unifying characteristic. However, this is not a criticism of the region; there is no implication that East Anglia is synonymous with blandness or lack of individuality. On the contrary, this is a locality, small though it be in extent, where being different is a way of life. To savour the rich diversity of accent, architecture, historical background, landscape and custom would take much more time than the average visitor can spare. Consequently, the “typical” tourist spends a day in Cambridge, possibly pays brief homage to Constable in a flying visit to East Bergholt, then leaves, convinced that he or she has seen all of value that East Anglia has to offer.

Why do so few people make a detour and spend a day (or a week) in, for example, Colchester? This town is a fascinating place, where Iron Age remains, a Norman castle, Victorian public buildings, merchant houses in the “Dutch style” do not exactly jostle for attention – Colchester is too well-bred a town for that to happen – but they compete for the visitor’s attention, and give rise to the not wholly unpleasant sensation that life is so short and history is so long! Perhaps, in order to form even a passing acquaintance with this corner of East Anglia, the diligent visitor would have to travel twice to Colchester, once to examine the magnificent Roman remains and wonder at the courage of Queen Boudicca, and once to learn about the later history of this one East Anglian town.

 

Answer the following questions:

1) Does East Anglia have the lack of individuality?

2) What places does the “typical” tourist prefer to see in East Anglia?

3) What kind of place is Colchester?

4) What should the visitor do in order to form a passing acquaintance with Colchester?

Decide whether these statements are true or false:

5) The name East Anglia is an offence to the people of the region.

6) The highly diverse counties of East Anglia posses a unifying characteristic.

7) Usually, the average visitor spends less time that it should be to savour the rich diversity of East Anglia.

8) Very few people actually spend time in Colchester.

9) Colchester presents an ugly and chaotic mixture of architectural styles.

 

 

[Task 9] Read the following text about Westminster Abbey and the environs in central London and do the task:

 

PRE-READING:

What river is London associated with?

What do you know about Westminster, one of the fashionable areas of London?

What famous buildings are situated there?

What is the building of Westminster Palace now used as?

Do you know any famous English kings or queens?

 

Read the texts below to find answers to these questions and the questions that follow them:

 


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