2. Answer the following questions:
1. During what king’s reign did Hans Holbein live and work in London?
2. What English painter was also a poet?
3. What painters are famous for their landscapes?
4. How can pop art be characterized?
5. What British castle is best-known in the world?
3. True or false?
1. Hans Holbein was born in Britain.
2. Inspired by Holbein, a school of landscape painters developed in England.
3. William Blake painted realistic pictures.
4. Nowadays we can see photos, videos, constructions with light and sounds at exhibitions.
5. British architecture isn’t connected with European styles.
4. Find the proper place for the words under the line:
The most ________ old buildings in London include Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey. London is often associated with Big Ben. Big Ben is the ________. It was named after Sir Benjamin Hall. St. Paul’s Cathedral, built by Sir Christopher Wren, is the greatest English _________. The Tower of London is one of the oldest ________, it was a _________ and a _________. Nowadays it is a popular _________, here the Crown Jewels are kept.
Museum, church, fortress, famous, prison, bell, castle
TEST ON UNIT IV
Do you know any outstanding people of Great Britain?
1. “Vanity Fair” is the most famous work of ….
a) Shakespeare;
b) Thackeray;
c) Swift.
2. George Bernard Shaw was …
a) a painter;
b) a scientist;
c) a dramatist.
3. “A View of Salisbury Cathedral” is a masterpiece of …
a) John Constable;
b) Thomas Gainsborough;
c) William Turner.
4. The Nobel Prize for literature in 1907 was won by ….
a) Sir Christopher Wren;
b) R. Kipling;
c) Walter Scott.
5. What Englishmen became famous in America and then in the whole world?
a) Hamlet;
b) Lord Nelson;
c) Charles Chaplin.
6. What person is often associated with British Decadence?
a) Ann Radcliffe;
b) Mary Shelly;
c) Oscar Wilde.
7. Who described Italian cities and people, but had never been to Italy?
a) Alexander Flemming;
b) William Shakespeare;
c) George Gordon Byron.
8. One of the greatest English philosophers was …
a) Thomas Hobbs;
b) Caedmon;
c) Beowulf.
9. Who wrote the modern best-known book about magicians?
a) A. Christie;
b) L. Carroll;
c) J. K. Rowling.
10. Who is the favourite writer of Australian director Peter Jackson?
a) Mary Shelly;
b) J. R. R. Tolkien;
c) Charles Dickens.