Fighting Stereotypes - student A
These 5 video podcasts by the History Channel discuss whether there is any truth in a series of stereotypical traits and behaviours generally associated with British people. Watch the videos and answer the questions:
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Binge Drinking
Watch this video and then answer questions 1 and 2:This text will be replacedIn the last 12 years health problems due to alcohol consumption ...- have gone down
- have doubled
- have trebled
Binge Drinking
If you need to watch the video again go back to the previous question.
Gin first became popular ...- when the King raised the taxes on French spirits
- during the Glorious Revolution
- when it was used to combat malaria
Now you should watch the video again while you read the transcript and do a vocabulary exerciseFish 'n' Chips
Watch this video and then answer questions 3 and 4:This text will be replacedFish 'n' Chips ...- has become truly global
- is in fact a Jewish dish
- was not a British idea
Fish 'n' Chips
If you need to watch the video again go back to the previous question.
the Scotch egg is ...- British
- Scottish
- Dutch
Now read the transcript and do a vocabulary exerciseInventing Things
Watch this video and answer questions 5 and 6:This text will be replacedA Briton called James Watt ...- invented the steam engine
- created the first steam train
- discovered electrical power
Inventing Things
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Another Briton, John Harrison invented ...- a device to measure the stars
- the chronometer
- the compass
Now read the transcript and do a vocabulary exerciseQueuing
Watch this video and answer questions 7 and 8:This text will be replacedQueuing ...- has always been a national trait
- started because of the U-boat blockade during WWI
- started because of rationing during WWII
Queuing
If you need to watch the video again go back to the previous question.
The Blitz spirit ...- meant that black markets were impossible
- was the feeling of being all in it together
- refers to the looting of bombed houses and shops
Now read the transcript and do a vocabulary exerciseReligious Tolerance
Watch this video and answer questions 9 and 10:This text will be replacedThe Gunpowder plot in 1605 was led by ...- Protestant extremists
- Catholic extremists
- supporters of Queen Elizabeth
Religious Tolerance
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The unfair treatment of the Irish Catholics caused a long uprising that only seemed to be coming to an end ...- thanks to Oliver Cromwell
- with the Good Friday Agreement
- after a huge number of Protestants settled in Ulster
- Now read the transcript and do a vocabulary exercise
- Then find a student B and ask him/her the following questions