Стр.118-119 Dialogue Of Cultures ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 11 класс

Задача

WHY…

Why do the British drive on the left?
Why are the Yeoman Warders at the Tower of London usually known as Beefeaters?
Why is the British currency called the “pound sterling”?
Why is the famous London landmark called Big Ben?
Why is the British flag known as the Union Jack?
Why are New Year celebrations in Scotland called Hogmanay?
Why is the day after Christmas known as Boxing Day?
Why do the British use the slang word “bread” for money?
Why are policemen known as “cops”?
Why do many British bathrooms have separate hot and cold taps instead of one mixer tap?

Read questions 1–10 and match them to the photos and cartoons. Two questions have no match. Can you guess the answers to the questions? Discuss in pairs.
Read answers A–E to five of the questions and answer questions 1–3 below:
1. Which questions were answered?
2. Were your predictions correct?
3. Did anything surprise you? Why/why not?
Check the words and phrases from the box in a dictionary. Which would you expect to hear in an answer to each of the five remaining why questions? Give reasons.
alms; boxes; lance; eavesdroppers; pressure; code; Gaelic; underworld; mains supply; jousting knights; water tank
DCT003 Listen and check your answers to Exercise 3. Were your guesses correct?
Crossing Cultures. Work in groups. What might visitors to Russia find surprising? Think about:
- unusual names for holidays or festivities that you have and their origins;
- places, buildings or monuments that have nicknames; what they are and how the nickname originated;
- unusual slang expressions you have in Russian and what they mean;
- everyday customs or traditions and how they originated;
- your ideas.

Подробный ответ

1. The questions answered were 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7.

2. The answers are:

People drive on the left because this custom dates back to Roman times and was later kept in Britain.
Yeoman Warders are called Beefeaters because the word probably comes from the French buffetier.
The British currency is called the pound sterling because pound originally referred to the weight of silver coins.
British New Year celebrations in Scotland are called Hogmanay.
The day after Christmas is called Boxing Day because of the alms boxes and Christmas boxes.

3. Yes, some predictions were correct. The explanations were interesting, especially the origin of Beefeaters, Big Ben and Boxing Day.

4. The words and phrases for the remaining questions are:

4 Big Ben — stout, commission, inscribe
6 Hogmanay — Gaelic
8 bread — underworld, code, eavesdroppers
9 cops — copper buttons, catch, underworld
10 separate hot and cold taps — pressure, mains supply, water tank, plumbing

5. Visitors to Russia might find these things surprising:

some holiday names and their origins, for example Maslenitsa or Old New Year;
nicknames of places or monuments, for example the Tsar Bell or the Spasskaya Tower;
slang expressions such as to be broke or bread meaning money;
everyday customs, for example giving flowers in odd numbers or taking off shoes indoors.

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