Section C British words and phrases
Find the word or phrase in chapter 2 of Britain which is used to mean or describe:
| 1. the record of all the people and things in his country compiled by William I (`the Conqueror') | |
| 2. the famous stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| 3. leave behind for your successors after you go or die (verb) | |
| 4. when a group of people refuse to work | |
| 5. a festival of Welsh music and poetry | |
| 6. being able to make or grow everything you need to live yourself | |
| 7. the phrase used by the poet Rudyard Kipling to describe the sense of moral obligation among British empire builders |
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| 8. women who campaigned for the right to vote in the early twentieth century | |
| 9. an area of land which used to be available for use by everybody in a village | |
| 10. the set of laws passed in the sixteenth century which took away the power of the Roman Catholic Church in England | |
Answer key
1 The Domesday Book, 2 The Canterbury Tales, 3 bequeath, 4 strike, 5 Eisteddfod, 6 self-sufficient, 7 'the white man's burden', 8 the Suffragettes, 9 the common, 10 the Reformation
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