1. COUNTRY AND PEOPLE BRITAIN

2. The course covers the most important intellectual, social, political, and cultural developments in Britain

3. MAIN TOPICS AROUND BRITAIN: UNITY AND VARIETY

4. MAIN TOPICS GOVERNMENT

5. MAIN TOPICS THE HERITAGE

6. MAIN TOPICS LONDON – THE BIOGRAPHY

7. MAIN TOPICS IDENTITY

8. MAIN TOPICS STEREOTYPES

9. MAIN TOPICS EVERYDAY LIFE

10. MAIN TOPICS EDUCATION

11. RESOURCES The official web-site of the British Monarchy: http://www.royal.gov.uk/Home.aspx The Victorian Web: http://www.victorianweb.org/history/vic toria/index.html The Victorian Era: http://www.victoriaspast.com BBC. British History in-depth: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/ Elizabethan Costume Page: http://www.elizabethancostume.net Tudors and Stuarts: http://www.elizabethi.org/uk

12. Teacher Liudmila N. Polunina, PhD in Education, Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages (Tula State Pedagogical University). Honours Diploma in German and English (Department of Romance and Germanic Languages, Moscow State Pedagogical University). Scientific interests cover comparative education, methodology in language teaching, sociolinguistics. More than 60 publications include 6 textbooks, articles in Russian and foreign scientific journals. The Best Scientific Book Contest prizewinner (2007).

13. EXPLORE BRITAIN Chair of Foreign Languages