learning about Britain and Ireland

Read the text. Com­ple­te the gaps with the cor­rect words or tick (✓) the cor­rect op­ti­on.



Du­ring our Eng­lish pro­ject, we fol­lo­wed the story of a stu­dent ex­chan­ge to Great Bri­tain and Ire­land. The stu­dents wan­ted to im­pro­ve their Eng­lish and learn more about ever­y­day _______________________.



When they ar­ri­ved in Lon­don, they were sur­pri­sed by how



a) □ small

b) □ quiet

c) □ busy

d) □ empty



the city was.



They vi­si­ted fa­mous places and also went to see a play in a ________________________, which was a com­ple­te­ly new ex­pe­ri­ence for them.



The play was writ­ten by Wil­liam Shake­speare, who is still one of the most im­portant __________________ in the Eng­lish lan­guage.



After the play, they tal­ked about the story. Some stu­dents found the lan­guage dif­fi­cult, but the teacher ex­plai­ned the me­a­ning and the main



a) □ amount

b) □ pur­po­se

c) □ re­a­son

d) □ fee­ling



of the play.



Later that week, they spent time with Bri­tish fa­mi­lies. In the evening, they often sat toge­ther, had din­ner and ___________________________ about their day.



After a few days, the group tra­vel­led to Ire­land by ferry. They ar­ri­ved on the _________________________ and im­me­di­a­te­ly noti­ced the beau­ti­ful green coun­try­si­de.



In Dub­lin, they lear­ned about James Joyce, who wrote fa­mous __________________________ about life in Ire­land.



The stu­dents also vi­si­ted a mu­se­um, where they lear­ned about Irish his­to­ry and old



a) □ jokes

b) □ le­gends

c) □ emails

d) □ re­ports



that people told each other many years ago.



One evening, they went to a tra­di­ti­o­nal music event. The at­mo­s­phe­re was very fri­end­ly, and ever­y­o­ne en­joy­ed the live __________________________.



At the end of the trip, the stu­dents wrote a short text about their ex­pe­ri­en­ces. Many of them said that re­a­ding Eng­lish books and tra­vel­ling are both great ways to _________________________ new words.