21世紀英語專業系列教材：英國歷史文化（簡體書）

《英國歷史文化》是在內容依托教學理念指導下，基於國家哲學社會科學項目“英語專業基礎階段內容依托式教學改革研究”推出的系列英語教材之一。《英國歷史文化》適用于英語專業一、二年級學生，也適用于具有中學英語基礎的非英語專業學生和英語愛好者學習。本教材具備以下主要特色：
·遵循了全新的教學理念
以英國歷史文化發展為線索，展現英國各段歷史進程中的國家概況，既訓練語言技能，也豐富相關知識。
·涉及了系統的歷史內容
幫助讀者了解英國各段歷史時期的重大事件，系統介紹英國歷史文化發展背景。
·引進了真實的教學材料
真實、地道的語言材料，穿插圖表、照片等真實的視覺材料，表現手法活潑，效果生動直觀。
·設計了新穎的教材板塊
每·單元均包括課前熱身、課文正文、課後練習、輔助閱讀、專有名詞列表、娛樂園地等。結構安排系統合理，突出學生的主體地位。
·提供了多樣的訓練活動
培養學生綜合運用語言和知識進行溝通的能力、邏輯思維能力和探索求知的能力。
·推薦了經典的學習材料
在每個章節的最后部分向學生推薦經典的書目、影視作品、名詩欣賞以及英文歌曲等學習資料，延伸課堂教學，激發學生的學習熱情。

Unit 1 The Birth ofaNation
Text A The Ancient Briton and Invasions
Text B Anglo-Saxon England
Text C King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Text D The Venerable Bede (673-735)
Text E William and the Conquest
Unit 2 The Normans
Text A The Norman Monarchs
Text B William the Conqueror
Text C Feudalism after the Norman Conquest
Text D The Doomsday Book
Unit 3 The Early Plantagenet
Text A The Rule of Law
Text B The Feudal Way of Life
Text C The Canterbury Tales
Text D The Crusades
Unit 4 The House of Plantagenet
Text A The Birth of Parliament
Text B The Magna Carta
Text C King John
Unit 5 The 14th-century England
Text A The Hundred Years War
Text B The Black Death and Wat Tyler Uprising
Text C A Horrible Disease-The Black Death
Text D War Tyler and His Revolting Peasants
Text E Joan of Arc——Maid of Orleans
Unit 6 The House of Lancaster and York
Text A The Wars of the Roses
Text B The Mystery of the Princes in the Tower
Text C The Middle Ages
Unit 7 The Tudor Age
Text A The Tudor Monarchy
Text B The Reformation in England (1517-1563)
Text C King Henry VII
Text D Henry VIII and His Marriage
Text E Thomas More and the Utopia
Unit 8 The Elizabethan Age
Text A The Reign of Elizabeth I
Text B Queen Elizabeth I
Text C Entertainment in Elizabethan Age
Text D Defeat of the Spanish Armada
Unit 9 The House of Stuart
Text A The Age of Revolution
Text B King JamesVIandI
Text C The English Civil War
Text D Oliver Cromwell
Unit 10 The House of Hanover
Text A The Hanoverian Monarchs
Text B Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Text C King George III
Unit 11 The Industrial Revolution
Text A The British Industrial Revolution
Text B Machines for the Industrial Revolution
Text C The Consequences of the Industrial Revolution
Unit 12 The Victorian Age (1837-1901)
Text A Queen Victoria and Her Reign
Text B Everyday Life in Victorian England
Text C Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Text D Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Unit 13 The World at War
Text A The Great Britain in the World Wars
Text B Causes of World War I
Text C Winston Churchill
Unit 14 Towards the New Millennium
Text A House of Windsor
Text B Long Live the Queen!
Text C Margaret Thatcher
Text D The Growth of Great Britain in Americans Eyes
Unit 15 Wales, Scotland and Ireland
Text A The English Conquest of Wales
Text B The Story of Scotland
Text C The Ties between Ireland and the Great Britain
Text D History of Wales
Text E Duncan and Macbeth
Appendixes
Appendix 1 : Kings and Queens of England and Britain
Appendix 2 : Genealogy of the Monarchs of England
Appendix 3. Keys to the Exercises
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