United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Land Population

IV. Explain the following in English.

Commonwealth, population estimate, de jure, constituent countries,

Old Norse, Norman French, Middle English, Supreme Governor, General Synod, Anglican Communion, Methodism.
V. Complete the following table.

Country	Nationality	Language(s)	Person
			A Briton (rare)
		English Scots Gaelic
	Welsh
Ireland

VI. Paraphrase the sentences given below using the following words: variety, population, to migrate, origin, tradition, to recognize, indigenous, independent, refuge, to arrive, to defend, to retain.
1. Black Death originated in central Asia and China and spread rapidly through Europe, carried by the fleas of black rats, reaching England in 1348 and killing between one third and one half of the habitation in a matter of months.

2. Germanic people, originally inhabitants of what is now Schleswig-Holstein, moved to England in the 5th century AD.

3. The religion of Tibet was formed in the 8th century AD from a combination of Buddhism and the aboriginal Tibetan religion.

4. Otto Heinrich Warburg, a German biochemist, was prevented by the Nazi regime from accepting a second Nobel Prize in 1944 because of his

Jewish ancestry.

5. He was forced to take asylum in the French embassy.

6. When workers clock on at a factory or office they put a special card into a device to show what time they came.

7. The government acknowledged that the tax was unfair.

8. His courage in advocating religious and civil rights inspired many outside the church.

9. The Anglo-Irish Treaty by which Ireland was partitioned in 1921 gave southern Ireland dominion status as the Irish Free State.

10. Methodism has a strong custom of missionary work and concern with social welfare, and emphasizes the believer's personal relationship with God.

11. Newspapers were obliged to allow a diversity of views to be printed.

VII. Look at the head-line of the article and say what it is going to be about. Read the article and give your opinion on the issue using the questions given below.
“Multicultural Britain”
Immediately after the Second World War Britain looked like a prosperous and friendly country for an immigrant worker. All Commonwealth citizens were free to enter the country and look for work, which was plentiful. However, since the Immigration Act of 1962, successive governments have introduced regulations to restrict the number of immigrants.

The percentage of non-whites in Britain increased quite rapidly between 1945 and the end of the 1970s and the 2001 Census will show that it had reached 10 per cent by then. In addition, the number of people seeking political asylum reached 70,000 a year in 2001.

Ethnic minorities are concentrated in the cities. The percentage of members of ethnic minorities, who are unemployed or in low-grade jobs

is higher than in the population as a whole.

Racial discrimination and poor living conditions have contributed to racial violence, especially in the day-to-day form relations between young blacks and the police or in the more extreme form of inner-city riots. This is despite the Race Relations Act (1976), which was designed to promote equality of opportunity for people of all races.
From Britain Explored

by Paul Harvey and Rhodri Jones, 2007, (page 46)

Questions:
1. Was the immigration after World War II advantageous for Britain? If it was, why?

2. Is such a massive immigration of people of different nationalities to the UK beneficial nowadays?

3. Is it possible to eradicate racial violence between indigenous population and immigrants? If it is not, why?

4. What are the consequences of rapid immigrants’ growth to the UK?

5. What is necessary for the assimilation to be less painful towards both immigrants and native habitation?