Literature

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 484.

Practical tasks

Plan

Seminar № 3

Subject:British people. Religion and national character

1. British religious history:

– Early days: Druids and acceptance of Christianity;

– Tudors' time: reformation of the Church;

– Stuarts' time: Catholic-Protestant struggle.

2. Religion in contemporary Britain:

– Different Christian churches: Church of England, Church of Scotland, Free Churches, Roman Catholic Church;

– Non-Christian religions.

3. British people:

– The way of forming the nation;

– Peculiarities which characterise people as the British by nation.

1. Give Russian equivalents to the following words and combinations of words and explain them:

Protestants, Catholics, Dissenters, Puritans, Nonconformists;

an Archbishop, a bishop, senior bishop, ‘suffragan bishop', a diocese, a cathedral, a dean, a canon, a parish, a vicar, a priest, a rector, a curate, a deacon;

High church and Low Church, the General Synod, the Scottish Kirk, the General Assembly, Moderator, the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, the Duke of Norfolk.

2. Compare different Christian Churches existing in the United Kingdom and find the features of difference.

3. Make up a description of a typical British man.

1. Satinova V.F. Read and speak about Britain and the British. – Минск, 1996, с. 35–41, 140–142, 155–159, 172–174, 181–187, 192–195, 199–202.

2. Нестерова Н.М. Страноведение. Англия. – Ростов-на-Дону, 2001, с. 71–74, 224–233.

3. Левашова В.А. Britain today. Life and institutions. – М., 2001, с. 28–30, 46–60 (см. ксерокопию).

4. David McDowall. An illustrated history of Britain. – Longman Group UK Limited. – London, 2002.

5. David McDowall. Britain in close-up. – Longman Group UK Limited. – London, 2002. – Pp. 102–122, 170–179.