🇬🇧 What to study for this type of Olympiad task?

Some Olympiad tasks test more than your English. You also need background knowledge of British and American history, culture, geography and literature.

Here are the key topics to explore:

🗺 British geography & place names

• London districts and landmarks
• historical regions and nicknames: The Black Country, The Fens, Athens of the North
• Greenwich and the Prime Meridian
• important British cities and regions

🏭 British history

Focus on:

• the Industrial Revolution
• the Great Fire of London
• urbanisation and coal mining
• the British Empire
• major historical events and their cultural impact

🏛 Architecture & famous buildings

Learn the connection between architects and buildings:

• Christopher Wren → St Paul’s Cathedral
• John Nash → Buckingham Palace, Marble Arch
• famous London landmarks and architectural styles

🇺🇸 American history

Especially:

• the Thirteen Colonies
• American Revolution
• Declaration of Independence
• Founding Fathers
• Thomas Paine and Common Sense
• Benjamin Franklin

📚 British & American literature

Know authors + works + key ideas:

• Rudyard Kipling → The White Man’s Burden
• Thomas Paine → Common Sense
• Benjamin Franklin → Poor Richard’s Almanack
• Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Burns, Wilde, Orwell, Mark Twain

✍️ Literary devices

Be able to recognise terms from their definitions:
metaphor, simile, irony, euphemism, synecdoche, metonymy, hyperbole, personification, paradox, oxymoron

Here is the example of real olimpiade task. Write your answers below 👇🏻