Access to English: Social Studies
  • 1: Small Islands, Big Horizons
    • Background: An Empire Emerges
    • Focus: Victorious Decline
    • Literary texts
  • 2: The New World
    • Background: Becoming America
    • Focus: Superpower
    • Literary texts
  • 3: Power and Pomp
    • Background: Democracy in Britain
    • Focus: Brexit - Untying the Knot
    • Other texts
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    • Background: The Rules of the Game
    • Focus: On the Playing Field
    • Electing a President / Inaugural Address
    • The Handmaid's Tale / What Happenend
    • The Anglo-American World
  • 5: The Changing Face of Britain
    • Background: Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be
    • Focus I: Social Fault Lines
    • Focus II: Devolution in the UK
    • Prose texts
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    • Background: In the Pursuit of Happiness
    • Americanah
    • Focus I: The Great American Decline?
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Literary texts

  • For the Opening of the Scottish Parliament, 9 October 2004
    Video above: The Scottish Youth Theatre perform a “flashmob” recital of the Edwin Morgan poem at the Opening Ceremony of the Scottish Parliament in 2016.
  • Walking the Dog

Textbook Tasks

  • Tasks: For the Opening of the Scottish Parliament
  • Quiz: Walking the Dog
  • Vocabulary: Connecting words
  • Vocabulary: Picture quiz
  • Fill in the gaps

Extra Tasks

  • Extra poem with tasks

Listening

  • The Queen in Ireland
  • The Queen's speech in Dublin Castle

Visual Material

  • Brexit stirs up old divides in Northern Ireland
  • Could Brexit lead way to a united Ireland?

Articles and Resources

  • Task 4, p. 298: links
  • Task 6, p. 309: links
  • Task 8, p. 310: links

Links

  • The Scottish Parliament

    http://www.parliament.scot/
    (parliament.scot)
  • AD Classics: Scottish Parliament Building / Enric Miralles

    https://www.archdaily.com/111869/ad-classics-the-scottish-parliament-enric-miralles
    (archdaily.com)
  • Sturgeon is preparing for a new Scottish independence battle (Guardian)

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/01/nicola-sturgeon-preparing-scottish-independence-battle
    (theguardian.com)
  • Nicola Sturgeon - First Minister of Scotland (Britannica)

    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicola-Sturgeon
    (britannica.com)
  • Northern Ireland: The Troubles

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/troubles
    (bbc.co.uk)
  • BBC News: Northern Ireland

    https://www.bbc.com/news/northern_ireland
    (bbc.com)
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