Reading comprehension 7
Exercise
1
Ascolta e leggi il brano. Scegli la risposta corretta (A-C) per le domande 1-4. Poi scrivi le risposte alle domande 5-10.
Solution
- B) Gaelic
- B) Writers
- C) Henry VIIII
- A) 1998
- Ireland is called the Emerald Isle because of its green landscape.
- The Easter Rising happened in Dublin.
- In 1922, the Republic of Ireland was given independence from Britain, and the island was divided into two different countries.
- The IRA attacked England in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s because they wanted to push for Irish independence and remove British presence from Ireland.
- Examples of other countries where there is violence between different ethnic or religious groups include Israel and Palestine, India and Pakistan, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, among others.
- Examples of other countries that were divided into two or more parts include Germany (during the Cold War), Korea, and Cyprus.