Transcript VY_32_INOVACE_AJ3r0203 British history tasksx

Fill in the chart with the words below and add a
comment to each:
Runes 5th – 9thc. 1066 public baths William
the Conqueror Alfred the Great 43AD
Hadrian’s Wall Bards Fortresses hall tribal
kinship 6 kingdoms druidic ceremonies
Wessex Danelaw Stone formations
Celts
Romans
AngloSaxons
Vikings Normans
Place each of the events
mentioned below on a time
axis and write the proper
decade or century:
♣ Richard I: the third
crusade to Palestine
♣ Charles I: desire for
absolute power
♣ The Wars of the Roses
♣ Conquest of Wales
♣ Elizabeth I: flowering of
theatres
♣ The Restoration
♣ Hundred Years’ War
♣ Stirling, William Wallace
fights for Scottish
independence
♣ The Act of Supremacy
♣ Black Death
♣ Civil War: Oliver Cromwell
♣ James I: unification of
England and Scotland
♣ 1st Parliament summoned
♣ Magna Carta Libertatum
♣ “Bloody Mary”
(Protestants persecuted)
1350s – 70s
Black Death
1215:
Magna
Carta
12th
1265: 1st
Parliament
summoned
1189–1192
Richard I: the
third crusade to
Palestine
1285:
conquest
of Wales
1532: The Act
of Supremacy
15th
Years‘ War
1550s:
"Bloody
Mary“
14th
1337 – 1453 Hundred
1665: Black
Death
1603:
James I:
England +
Scotland
Charles I:
1455 – 1485:
The Wars
of the
Roses
1297:
William
Wallace
Elizabeth I:
theatres
1560s 1603
17th
1660:
Restoration
1642–
1651
Civil War:
Cromwell
18th, 19th, 20th
centuries: Match the following expressions
and indicate the relation between them.
1/ Treaty of Paris (1763)
2/ Industrial revolution (18th c)
3/ The Factory Act (1833)
4/ The Mines Act (1842)
5/ The 2nd Reform Act (1867)
6/ The Education Act (1870)
7/ The Irish Potato famine (1840s)
8/ The Boer War (1899 – 1902)
9/ colonialism (19th c)
10/ Suffragettes (19/20th c)
11/ the Allies vs Central powers
12/ The 5th Parliamentary Act
(1928)
13/ Winston Churchill
14/ Battle of Britain (1941)
15/ Margaret Thatcher (1979)
a) South Africa
b) limits to working hours of children
c) private enterprise
d) Struggle for enfranchisement for
women
e) WWI
f) huge emigration to the USA
g) Empress Victoria
h) organization of primary education
i) WWII, Prime Minister
j) franchise for working people in towns
k) abolishment of women labour in
mines
l) Germany bombed Britain
m) Enfranchisement for women
n) Enlargement of the British Empire
o) manufacturing
Fill in the gaps with the expressions from the right column in the previous slide:
1/ The Treaty of Paris from 1763 led to the _______.
2/ The Industrial revolution is marked with many new
inventions and the introduction of ________.
3/ In 1830s, thanks to the Factory Act, there were
brought ______.
4/ Among the new reforms of 1840s we might count
the Mines Act, which meant _________.
5/ In 1860s by the 2nd reform Act the right to vote
(_____) was given to _________.
6/ The Education Act of 1870 ensured __________.
7/ The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s led to
_____________.
1/n, 2/o, 3/b, 4/k, 5/j, 6/h, 7/f
8/ The Boer War (1899 – 1902) took place in _____, where
the British fought with the Dutch settlers.
9/ Colonialism throughout the 19th century brought the
British Queen the title ________ .
10/ The main goal of the Suffragettes was _______.
11/ The Allies (France, Britain and Russia) fought against
the Central powers in ______ .
12/ Finally, in 1928, women reached _______ by the 5th
Parliamentary Act.
13/ Winston Churchill, one of the most famous Brits, was
a ______ during _______ .
14/ During WWII there was the Battle of Britain when
________ to make Britain give up.
15/ Margaret Thatcher, the so-called "Iron Lady", being
the leader of the Conservative party, supported _______.
9/g, 10/d, 11/e, 12/m, 13/i, 14/l, 15/c
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Crusade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_%28England%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_%28England%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer_war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill