Fighting Stereotypes - student B
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:
Unartistic Reputation
Watch this video and then answer questions 1 and 2:This text will be replacedWilliam Morris's designs ...- didn't deserve their popularity
- were popular for a while
- are still popular nowadays
Unartistic Reputation
The artistic sphere in which the British are indisputably world leaders is ...- interior design
- music
- literature
Now read the transcript and do a vocabulary exercise-
Fighting the French
Watch this video and then answer questions 3 and 4:This text will be replacedThe Auld Alliance was signed by ...- France and Scotland against England
- Scotland and England against France
- France and England against Scotland
Fighting the French
In 1781 France ...- helped Britain against the Americans
- helped America against the British
- won the Hundred Years war
Now read the transcript and do a vocabulary exercise-
Living on an Island
Watch this video and then answer questions 5 and 6:This text will be replacedHistory proves that living on an island has made the British ...- insular and inward looking
- cosmopolitan and outward looking
- more vulnerable to foreign invasions
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Living on an Island
For most of their history, the sea has been for the British like ...- a barrier
- a moat
- a motorway
Now read the transcript and do a vocabulary exercise -
Drinking Tea
Watch this video and then answer questions 7 and 8:This text will be replacedThe British tradition of drinking tea started in the middle of the ...- 20th century
- 18th century
- 19th century
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Drinking Tea
The Opium Wars started because Britain was trading opium for tea in ...- India
- China
- Hong Kong
Now read the transcript and do a vocabulary exercise -
Political Moderation
Watch this video and then answer questions 9 and 10:This text will be replacedWhich document, in 1215, guaranteed the right to trial by a jury of peers?- Magna Carta
- Bill of Rights
- Constitution
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Political Moderation
King Charles I was ...- executed
- chased off the throne
- forced to sign the Bill of Rights
- Now read the transcript and do a vocabulary exercise
- Then find a student A and ask him/her the following questions