Active Lecture Vocabulary. England

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

trade unions

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

Reformation

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.