Н.А. Зелинская ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES

II. Give Russian equivalents of the following expressions:
bordered by, estimated population, populous city, equal status, decline,
inhabited by, medieval, national identity, to emerge, legislation, to apply,
exclusively, to proclaim, creating the legal entity, to hold responsibility,
courtesy, revival of the eisteddfod tradition, picturesque landscapes, to
acquire its popular image.
III. Explain the following proverbs in a single sentence.
Live and learn;
Tastes differ;
Live and learn;
Not all that glitters is gold;
Practice makes perfect.
IV.
Write an essay on ‘Places of interest in Russia’.
V. Give a brief description of Wales to your classmate.
Text 6. Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom.
Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the
Republic of Ireland to the south and west. At the time of the 2001 UK
Census, its population was 1,685,000, constituting about 30% of the
island's total population and about 3% of the population of the United
Kingdom.
Northern Ireland consists of six of the nine counties of the Irish province of
Ulster. It was created as a distinct division of the United Kingdom on 3
May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, though its
constitutional roots lie in the 1800 Act of Union between Great Britain and
Ireland. For over 50 years it had its own devolved government and
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