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You are going to interview Bishop Paul Smith (LCAZ). While preparing, you decided to ask some questions about the ancestors of this ChurcH. With what significant event would those questions connect?

You meet a group of people from the United Kingdom. You need to find out who comes from noble origins and has higher level of education and social class. Give the answer according to pronunciation of the sentences “That’s how I got my filing job herE. Look at how good that turned out”.

Yang Zhenwu, Secretary-General of the National People’s Congress (China) has working trip to New DehlI. He is going to have an official meeting with the Secretary-General of the National Indian Congress. Having learned that all the highest politician positions in India are held by the members of one family, guess, who can be this person.

Martin from Quebec has moved to Bamako to become an English teacher in the French kinder garden. He has got an average salary in the region, but he has an opportunity to have additional financial support from the organization which spreads the English language all over the worlD. Where should he apply for it?

You are preparing the article for the Australian Institute of Family Studies “Engaging with Indigenous Australia”. You are going to explore the conditions for effective relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. What ethnic community would you choose to describe some examples of work with Aboriginal Australians?

Theodor is an American citizen, who is politically conscious. He wants to support his candidate in elections. He comes to debates with a portrait of the candidate and the poster of Donkey. Which party does Theodor support?

Negotiations are going to be held between the USA, Honduras and Nicaragua about the status of an uninhabited territory, which has been a disputed territory for a long timE. Each of the countries claimed that territory to be theirs centuries ago, but there are still some arguments about it. Name this territory and the year of claiming that territory by the USA.

Native Americans have … origins.

… are the main administrative unit in most of the UK countries.

… of languages were spoken in Australia earlier.

Caribbean … are the languages that developed from a mixture of English and different native languages of the slaves.

Ten territories are considered to be unorganized, meaning they have not had an … Act enacted by Congress; the four other territories are organized, meaning they have had an … Act that has been enacted by Congress.

… is called GLOCAL.

… is The Expanding Circle in the concentric circles theory.

… plant is of first economic importance in AustraliA.

Read the description of a person: “He must never complain. Complaining is very un- national in his country. The stiff-upper lip is very his way. Whatever happens, remember the new national slogan: ‘It’s one of those things’. When his brand-new toasting machine goes up in flames and toasts him instead of his bread, he nods: ‘It’s one of those things’ and the matter is closeD. He has no soul, only understanding. Drinking tea - specifically the more oxidised black tea - is seen as a key part of his culture”Try to find out where is he came from.

The concentric circles of English theory contains … circles.

… abolished the slavery

… are linguistic varieties that may differ in pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling and grammar.

… English dialects are associated with many of the historic counties, including the Cumbrian dialect, Lancashire dialect, Northumbrian dialect and Yorkshire dialect.

… is the definition for a language, which is used in any international communication which involves people from two or more countries.

… nation is the basis of American population.

A language gains a status as a global language…

In Australia seasons go…

In Australia the … district was chosen as the site of the new national capital in 1908.

The … class embraces a range of people from senior professionals, for example, judges, senior medical specialists and senior civil servants, through to clerical workers – in other words, almost all people who earn their living in a non-manual way.

The Inner circle of the concentric circles theory includes countries such as …

The largest state of the country is … AustraliA.

The main dialect of the UK is so called … EnglisH.

The National Parks family includes … parks.

There are… major groups of dialects in the UK.

Thirteen stripes of the flag represent the original 13 … .

… are the basis of the ethnic population in AustraliA.

… circle of the concentric circles comprises countries with small communities of native English speakers and widespread use of English as a second languagE.

… is a rough area of Hiberno-English dialects spreading.

… is the founder of the concentric circles of English theory.

… is the only country in the world that covers an entire continent.

… was founded in Britain.

A rough population of the USA is…

Administratively level Australia is divided into … and territories.

African-Americans … in the USA

Arrange top 4 countries that Speak English as a Primary Language or lingua franca (by total population) in ascending order.

1. India
2. USA
3. Pakistan
4. Nigeria

Before the Norman Conquest (1066), the chief unit of local government in England was the …, which had originated in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of the early Middle Ages.

Britain invited many people from East to work in the second half of the twentieth century, …

In 2000, however, the … county of Greater London regained some of its administrative powers.

In November 1620, the first group of Puritans, thirty-five members of the English Separatist Church, arrived on the … ship in the company of sixty-seven other settlers.

Native Americans came from…

Some judicial jurisdictions still use historic … boundaries rather than current administrative boundaries.

The English Association was established…

The … monarch is the head of state of CanadA.

The … was abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation speech in 1863

The "norm-dependent" circle means that …

The first English-language contact with Canada was as early as 1497, when … is thought to have reached NewfoundlanD.

The largest territory is the Australian …Territory.

The largest tribe in Australia is…

The last Census in the United Kingdom was in…

The president of the USA lives in the … in the capital city of Washington, D. C.

The symbol of Democratic party is the …

The USA is a … union, and the President is the head of the government, which deals with international problems and national matters.

… dialect is mostly rhotic, which means that [r] is typically pronounceD.

… is a special peculiarity of the British mentality concerning the habitation areas.

… is one of the alternative names of AustraliA.

… is the Dreamtime in Australian mentality.

… territories are those, which are offshore dependent territories.

Arrange the accession of the state to the USA in chronological order.

1. Pennsylvania
2. Connecticut
3. Kentucky
4. Hawaii

Arrange the historical events in the chronological order.

1. The Norman Conquest
2. The annexation of Wales
3. The Great Famine in Ireland
4. The Local Government Act

Arrange the states of Australia in descending order, where the first state is the biggest one

1. Western Australia
2. Queensland
3. Victoria
4. Tasmania

Australia is the world's … largest country, after Russia, Canada, China, the USA, and Brazil.

Correlate the date of accession of the state to the USA and the statE.

1. California
2. New York
3. District of Columbia
4. Florida
5. September 9, 1850
6. July 26, 1788
7. July 16, 1790
8. March 3, 1845

Correlate the dialectal peculiarity and the dialect.

1. Dialect is rhotic, meaning r is typically pronounced in the syllable codA.
2. In this dialect ‘t’ sound – is often pronounced closer to a ‘d’ sounD.
3. Dialect verbs differ from the standard grammar, “bay” for “are not” or “ay” for “is not”.
4. Using the words from a native language, for example “dwt”, “cwtch”.
5. Scottish English
6. Hiberno-English
7. Midlands English
8. Welsh English

Correlate the geographical position in a colony and the country where it is situateD.

1. The southern Gold Coast
2. Lagos
3. Banjul
4. Yaoundé
5. Ghana
6. Nigeria
7. Gambia
8. Cameroon

Correlate the name of geographic place and its type of geographic notion.

1. Murray
2. Flinders Range
3. Great Victoria
4. Ashmore and Cartier
5. River
6. Mountain
7. Desert
8. Island

Correlate the name of state of federal district of America and its abbreviation.

1. District of Columbia
2. Colorado
3. Missouri
4. Mississippi
5. DC
6. CO
7. MO
8. MS

Correlate the national Park and the countries of the UK where those parks are situateD.

1. Broads, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Lake District
2. Brecon Beacons, Pembrokeshire Coast and Snowdonia
3. Cairngorms, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs
4. No national parks
5. England
6. Wales
7. Scotland
8. Northern Ireland

Correlate the person and the country with which this person is historically bounded

1. Henry Tudor
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. James Cook
4. Mahatma Gandhi
5. The United Kingdom
6. The USA
7. Australia
8. India

The … stars represent the current number of states in thE.

The Australian Aboriginal people came from…

The coldest place in the USA is…

The coldest region of Australia is…

The smallest state of Australia is … .

The symbol of the Republican party is the…

The US national … — stars and stripes — is red, white and bluE.

The worst known flood in the USA is…

There are … general ethnic groups in the USA.