- •Практический курс разговорного английского языка
- •Часть II
- •Практический курс разговорного английского языка
- •Часть II
- •Предисловие
- •Unit I. Education part I. Education in great britain
- •Vocabulary:
- •Ex. 1. Mind the pronunciation
- •Ex. 2. Read and translate the text Education in Great Britain
- •Primary education
- •Secondary Education
- •Higher Education in The uk
- •Part II. Education in the usa
- •Vocabulary:
- •Schooling
- •System of evaluation in us schools
- •Going to college
- •Vocabulary:
- •Going to college
- •Part III. System of education in russia
- •Vocabulary:
- •Ex. 2. Read and translate the text System of Education in Russia
- •Ex. 3. Give Russian equivalents.
- •Part IV. Our academy.
- •Our Academy
- •Unit II. Youth is a difficult time.
- •Vocabulary:
- •The problem of finding oneself:
- •The problem of planning one’s future carrier:
- •The problem of drug addiction:
- •The problem of conscription:
- •The problem of finding the right way in life and place in society:
- •Agreement Disagreement
- •I’m of the same opinion It’s not quite so
- •Unit III. Khabarovsk is the capital of the far east part I. Khabarovsk
- •Vocabulary:
- •Khabarovsk
- •Part 2. From the history of khabarovsk
- •Vocabulary:
- •From the history of Khabarovsk foundation and development.
- •Dyachenko Yakov Vassilievich (1817 - 1871)
- •Первые исследователи Амура
- •Unit IV. Around the world. Part I. English- speaking countries.
- •Vocabulary:
- •A period of exploration
- •Geography of the usa
- •Canada.
- •Vocabulary:
- •History of Canada
- •Australia.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Australia
- •New zealand.
- •Vocabulary:
- •New Zealand
- •Part II. Travelling.
- •Different means of travel
- •Travelling by air
- •Booking Airline Tickets
- •Vocabulary:
- •Role play
- •Part III. Holidays.
- •Ex. 2. Answer the questions:
- •Halloween.
- •Ex. 2. Answer the questions:
- •Guy fawkes’ day.
- •Ex. 2. Discuss the following:
- •Thanksgiving.
- •Ex. 2. Answer the questions:
- •Christmas.
- •Christmas traditions
- •Christmas traditions around the world. Christmas in Australia
- •Christmas in Egypt
- •Christmas in Iran
- •Christmas in India
- •Christmas in Japan
- •New year.
- •St valentine’s day.
- •Violets are blue;
- •April fool’s day.
- •Countries Celebrate April Fool's Differently
- •Easter.
- •Carl Faberge's Easter eggs
- •Independence day.
- •Unit V. Environmental problems. Part I. Conservation and pollution.
- •Vocabulary:
- •A green and pleasant land?
- •No time to waste
- •Recycling
- •Factfile
- •Vocabulary:
- •Part II. To live in harmony with nature
- •Difficult problems
- •Unit VI. Shops and shopping. Part I. Department store.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Department store
- •At The Ready-Made Clothes Department
- •Additional information.
- •Women sizes
- •Men sizes
- •Part II. At the supermarket.
- •Vocabulary:
- •At the supermarket
- •В. Please, I want half a kilo of sausage at 90 roubles, four hundred grams of lean ham at 103 roubles and three hundred grams of frankfurters at 99 roubles a kilo.
- •Part III. Complaining. Complaining of something. Accepting a complain.
- •Ex. 2. Practice reading the following expressions.
- •In a Radio Shop
- •Ex. 4. Improvise snort conversations for the following situations.
- •Contents
- •Part I. Education in Great Britain 5
Christmas traditions around the world. Christmas in Australia
Christmas in Australia is often very hot. Whereas the northern hemisphere is in the middle of winter, Australians are baking in summer heat. Some Australians and, particularly tourists, often have their Christmas dinner (midday) on a local beach. Other families enjoy their day with a picnic. If they are at home, the day is punctuated by swimming, playing cricket out in the backyard and other outdoor activities.
The warm weather allows Australians to enjoy a tradition which commenced in 1937. Carols by Candlelight is held every year on Christmas Eve, where tens of thousands of people gather in the city of Melbourne to sing their favourite Christmas songs. The evening is lit by as many candles under a clean cut night sky. The sky with its Southern-Cross stars is like a mirror. Sydney and the other capital cities also enjoy carols in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
Australians surround themselves with Christmas Bush, a native plant which has little red coloured leaves. Christmas shopping is often done in shorts and T-shirts. At many beaches Santa Claus arrives on a surfboard, or even on a surf lifesaving boat.
Christmas in Egypt
The Coptic Church is an Orthodox Church and in the Coptic Church Christmas is celebrated on the 7th of December. Advent is observed for forty days, and during this period people are expected to fast, eating no meat, poultry or dairy products .Some people only do this during the last week of Advent.
On the Eve of Christmas everyone goes to church wearing a completely new outfit. The Christmas service ends at midnight with the ringing of church bells, then people go home to eat a special Christmas meal known as fata, which consists of bread, rice, garlic and boiled meat.
On Christmas morning people in Egypt and other parts of the Middle East visit friends and neighbours. They take with them kaik, a type of shortbread, which they give to the people they visit and eat with a drink known as shortbat.
Christmas in Iran
Christmas in Iran is known as the Little Feast. For the first 25 days of December, a great fast is observed. It is a time of peace and meditation; a time for attending services at the church. When the fast is over, the feast is begun, for plenty of meat is prepared for the Christmas dinner.
The boys and girls of Iran have never heard of Santa Claus, so they do not exchange gifts at Christmas. But they do receive new clothes, which they proudly wear all during the happy Christmas week.
Christmas in India
Christians in India decorate banana or mango trees. They also light small oil-burning lamps as Christmas decorations and fill their churches with red flowers. They give presents to family members and baksheesh, or charity, to poor people.
In South India, Christians put small clay lamps on the rooftops and walls of their houses at Christmas, just as the Hindus do during their festival called Diwalli.