USA.
1. Nation. Active
Vocabulary
byname
coextensive
canton
certify
signatures
reliance
abolitionist
prototype
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Potomac
populous
exterminated
UK.
2. Geography. Active Vocabulary
offshore islands
Crown dependency
elevation
equivalent
legal
protection
authority
endangered plants
geological features
urban development
moorlands and
heath-lands
abundant
mammal
increase
nature conservation programme
reverse the decline
charity
cruel treatment
present concerns
UK. 3. Political system. Active Vocabulary
assembled
enacted
precedents
remedies
representation
devolved
taxation
dissolved
upcoming
property owners
grievances
petitions
knights
burgesses
diminish
deprive
700-year-old right
bills
maintenance
Official Opposition
polling day
ballot
councillors
2-tier system
business rates
UK. 4. History. Active Vocabulary
conquest
invasion
Norsemen
halted
nobility
feudal system
imposed
dispute
successor
consolidate
anarchy
dynasty
Caernarvon Castle
mercilessly
executed
decisive
recapture
The Hundred Years’ War
code of chivalry
Act of Supremacy
ascends
Elizabethan age
renaissance
The Spanish Armada
yield
dissolved
authoritarian
encompass
Whigs and Tories
pregnant
Jacobites
Convicts
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
UK. Lecture 5.The System of Education
in the UK
preschool
system
public
schools
state
schools
private
schools
boarding
schools
religious
schools
mixed
schools
single-sex
schools
academic
ability
curriculum
nursery
school
primary
education
secondary
education
the
reception class
science
GCSE
the
A level examination
the
teacher supervising
uniform
preparatory
class
interview
Task 1. Write out vocabulary words and find their meanings. Learn the words.
