VII. Comment on the following author’s statements.
1. Strictly speaking, ‘Great Britain’ is a geographical expression, but ‘The United Kingdom’ is a political expression.
2. ‘England’ and ‘English’ are often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Great Britain.
VIII. Answer the questions.
1. Do you consider it valid to use the term ‘united’ in the name ‘The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’? Does it really reflect the relations between all the nations within the Kingdom?
2. What is specific to the official government’s view of the British? Do you think it fully reflects the real public mood?
3. Do the peoples of the UK, in your viewpoint, consider themselves to be as happy and prosperous as the government does?
4. The results of a survey for the Observer newspaper showed that there appeared more freedom in society. Do you think that more freedom suggests the society to be happier and less violent?
5. Women, the old and those living in the north of England unlike the rest of the habitation claim, according to a survey, that life became worse over the past ten years. How could you explain such a vivid division in opinions due to sex, age and settlement?
IX. Read all the texts one more time and render their general contents in several sentences.
X. Read the text and list all the problems it deals with.
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