О.М.Елина, Н.С.Маринчук - Методическая разработка к фильму The History of Britain - Part 1 (1098532)
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EPISODE ISegment 1I.Before you watch the segment study the following words and word-combinationsto facilitate your understanding:worth the conquestoysters were abundantat the edge of the worlda thriving, bustling communityremains of Stone Age lifeto seem rather snugshockingly familiar glimpses of ancientgiven the rudimentary nature of theirdomestic lifetoolto be miraculously preservedto be concerned aboutsandstone slabsOrkadian hoi polloito live cheek by jowlto enjoy stable environmentIt’s not too much of a crashin keeping withII.Answer the following questions:1.
How did the Romans see Britannia?2. What would the Romans have seen in Britannia if they had been able to travel in timeand space?3. What impressive Neolithic sites, miraculously preserved, can be found on the westerncoast of Orkney’s mainland?4. What evidence proves that the people of Skara Brae had culture and style?III.Watch the Segment and fill in the gaps with the words from the box:Ferocious, a blanket, in other words, biting, complete, fitted into, stout, hearty, selfsufficient, cheek by jowl, green, miraculouslyPerched on the western coast of Orkney’s island, a village called Skara Brae.
Here,beneath and area no bigger than the 18th _____ of a golf course lies Europe’s most _____Neolithic community, _____ preserved for 5,000 years under _____ of sand and grass untiluncovered in 1850 by a ______ sea storm. This is recognizable village. Neatly _____ itslandscape between pasture and sea, intimate, domestic and _____. And, although technicallystill in the Stone Age and Neolithic period, these are not huts, they’re true houses, built fronsandstone slabs that lie all around the island and gave ____ protection to villagers here at SkaraBrae from their ____ Orcadian winds. The villagers were real neighbors, living ______, theirhouses connected by walled, sometimes decorated alleyways. It’s not too much of a crash toimagine gossip travelling down these alleys after a _____ seafood supper.
We have _______everything you could possibly want from a village, except a charge and a pub.Segment II.I.Make sure you know the following words and word-combinations:To enjoy stable environmentgrowing need of protectionTo be abandonedthe elementsDrifting sandshill fortsA protracted strugglelofty seats of powerDuring the reignrampartA spectacular differencedaunting wallsPanicky retreatII.1.2.3.4.III.Check your understanding of the Segment:What changes happened all over the British landscape by 1,999 BC?What figures prove that Britain was a crowded island in the Iron Age?What spectacular difference from the little village of Skara Brae comes as no surprise?What was the designation of great windowless towers sprung up around the Islands?Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE?1.
In 2,500 BC, the island climate doesn’t seem to have got colder and wetter.2. All over the British landscape, a protracted struggle for food and land was taking place.3. We now think that not so many people lived on this land as 2,500 years later.4. Great windowless tower were built after the Roman invasion.5. Great hill forts were defended by rings of earthworks, timber and ramparts.Segment 3I.These word-combinations will facilitate understanding of the Segment:to crash intotaken togetherexpanding societyalluring worldendearingly melancholy in expressionto be spellbindingly reminiscent oflike so many Eeyoresto scoop outtribal manufacturesacrificial offeringsto ship waresgrisly brutality of the druidsin returnto take notes ofthe back of beyondwarning of vengeance to cometo be separated by custom and languageto have much to doII.Answer the following questions:1.
Iron Age Britain was a dynamic, expanding society, wasn’t it?2. What spectacular metalwork came from the workshops of craftsmen?3. Where did warriors, druid priests and artists of Iron Age Britain ship their goods?4. What proves that Iron Age Britain was not the back of beyond?5. What pieces of art could the Romans see in Britain?III.Explain the statement:Iron Age Britain was definitely not the back of beyond.IV.Insert the missing words from the box:Alarming cults, haunting, sliced off, refinement, warning, savages, alluring, reminiscent,sacrifice offerings, a civilization, glittering, devotionalSo the Romans would have known all about this strange but_____ world of fat cattleand busy forges. Evidence of its _____ would have found its way to Rome.
Along with the_____ metal ware came stories of ____ cult, which may have prompted the usual Romandinner time discussions. “All are very interesting, I dare say, but would we really want to callthem ___ ?” Supposing they would have seen an ancient sculpture, like this ____ stone facewith its archaic secretive smile, the eyes closed as if in sun, mysterious ________ devotionaltrance.
The nose flattened, the cheeks broad, the whole thing so spellbindingly _____ of thingsthe Romans must have seen in Etruria or the Greek Islands. Would they then have said, “Yes,this is a work of art”? Would probably not. Sooner or later they would have noticed that the topof the head is ______, scooped out, like a boiled egg for breakfast, to hold ______. Then theywould have remembered stories that the Romans told about the grisly brutality of druids.Perhaps they would have even taken not of the stories told by the northern _____ themselves,of decapitated heads who were said to speak _____, warning the vengeance to come.EPISODE IISegment 1I.Study the following words and word-combinations:To run the gauntleta brilliant strategy of stick and carrotA lure for treasurean undefended oppidaIn heapsto strike at heartWhat Roman generals craved the mostto hunger for a tasteTo queue up to surrenderto fall in lineOn the first goto be fit for a RomanA club-foot stammereron which side the bread is butteredTo reckonin one’s pursuit for power and statusII.Comprehension check:1.
Why did the Romans come to the British Islands?2. When did Julius Caesar make the first attempt to land his legions in Britannia?3. Why was Julius Caesar blown right back to the Continent?4. Why did Claudius succeed where Julius Caesar failed?5. How could Claudius melt the resistance of the Britons?Extend the following statements:III.1. For these chieftains sensible enough to reach for the olive branch rather than the battlejavelin, Claudius had another plan.2. All over Britain were rulers who thought a Romanian connection would do more goodthan harm in their pursuit for power and status.Segment 2I.Make sure you know these words:incredible stupidityimplacable angeron the part ofto be seriously out of luckin a show of arrogance and brutalitysparkling imperial cityto declare East Anglia a slave provinceto have a revengeto make a point aboutto be match for the legionsto be treated toa slaughterto rise up in furious revoltto deliver a speechto suppress an insurgencyto make a desolationto fall backa burning sentimentan insurrectionII.Now let’s check the comprehension of the Segment:1.
Why did Queen Boudicca embody British national resistance to Rome?2. How did Boudicca take her revenge on the Romans?3. How did Boudicca’s great insurrection end?4. Did the first anti-imperialistic speech delivered on Scotland’s soil entirely belong to theCaledonial general, Calgacus?III.Listen to the speech delivered by Calgacus and try to render it.Segment 3I.Watch Segment 3 and complete the sentences with the words and expressionsfrom the box and learn them:To do business, impermeable barrier, to peer, to be studded, to go to and fro, astonishingfinds, at any rate, to settle down, scraps, to make sense, sacred spring, mod con,painstakingly1.
It ______ to talk about Roman-British culture, and not just as a colonial veneer imposedon the resentful natives.2. The purpose of these forts became not to prevent people going _____, so much as tocontrol and observe them.3. We tend to think of the Romans rather like US cavalrymen deep in Indian country,defending the flag, _____ through the cracks and waiting nervously for war drums andsmoke signals.4. But as Britain _____ in the second century AD, these places became up-country hillstations more like social centres.5.
He didn’t mean it as _____ against ______ from the north.6. But the spiritual place was the _______ – a Ferny grotto.7. They are _______ of Roman correspondence, jotting, scribblings and drafts of lettersthrown away as rubbish almost 2,000 years ago8. He of course was destined, in Britain ____, to be remembered by a wall.9. The fort in particular, became a place where a kind of customs scam was imposed onthose trying ______.10. Bath was at once ____ and mysterious cult, therapy and luxury, a marvel of hydrolicengineering.11. The Wall _____ with mile castles and turrets and forts.12. Up they have come, lovingly separated from dirt, debris and each other and _____deciphered.13.
Our sense of what life was like at that time, has been transformed by one of the most_____ of recent archaeology – the so-called Vindolanda Tablets.II.Be ready to answer the following questions:1. What buildings are the best evidence of Romano-British culture as a genuinefusion?2. What other places can you describe besides Bath where Romano-Britons couldwallow?Segment 4I.Be aware of the following words while watching this Segment:to undermineto spotpolitical turmoilcan’t help buta scale of threatvulnerabilityto be detached fromto prop upa defensive strongholdto give way toto make clearII.to pledge to returnMake sure you can answer the following questions:1. In what troubles was Rome by the 4th century?2. How did Dover’s significance for Britannia change?3. Why did Picts and Saxons start their raids from the north to the east of Britannia?4.
Could the Romano-British handle the chill vulnerability in Britannia after the exit of thelegions?Decide whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE:III.1. Britannia could remain detached from the fate of the rest of the empire.2. The fortifications like those of Portchester or Hadrian’s Wall could work withoutadequate troops.3. Picts and Saxons, spotting the weakness, started their own raids.4. When in the year 410, Rome was sacked the last two legions remained in Britannia.EPISODE 3Segment 1.I.Study the following words and word-combinations to better understand theSegment while watching it:to head fora faux pasa hoardto turn the lights out on Roman Britanniato exploit a vacuuman annihilationseem a boonto poiseas per a contractAnglo-Saxon beginningsspectacular blundersto stay paganto be stiffedto hanker afterto take land in lieu of paya blood feuda conversionII.Answer the following questions:1.
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