2. Role-play the situation.

Student A. You are Pat. You have come to a party. You have brought some flowers for the hosts. You and Henry haven't met before. You have to leave the party early because you are going away and you haven't packed you bags yet.

Student B. You are Henry. You are already at the room when Pat enters. Pat seems interesting and you want to know more about her. You ask questions.

Students C. You are the host. You meet Pat in the hall and then introduce her to Henry. You make a speech at table. When Pat leaves you see her off.

Student D. You are the hostess. You offer food and drinks at table. You are sorry to hear that Pat has to leave early.

3. What do you know about going to parties in Britain? Complete the sentences:

1. British teenagers never/rarely/always wear a tie to the party.

2. Nowadays weddings are still formal/mostly informal.

3. If you are invited to a dinner party, you should arrive on time/should arrive at least ten minutes late/ can arrive any time.

4. If you are invited to someone's house, you should/don't have to bring a present.

5. When teenagers go to a party they are absolutely safe/have to be careful.

Read the dialogue and check your answers. Then make up a similar dialogue about going to parties in other countries.

(I=Interview, N=Nick, L=Linda)

I: Welcome to "Culture Corner". Today we are talking about parties and we have two teenagers from Britain in the studio. Linda and Nick, thank you for coming!

N and L: Thanks for inviting us.

I: So, could you, perhaps, give some advice to our listeners about what to do, and what not to do, at parties in Britain?

L: Well, obviously it depends on what kind of party it is. You know, if it's very formal, you should dress smartly.

N: Yes, but nowadays you don't have to be too formal. I mean, I never wear a tie, except at weddings maybe.

L: Right.

I: Are there any special things you should do when you are invited to someone's house?

L: Again, it depends. You shouldn't arrive late to a dinner party – the dinner could be ruined! You should be on time!

N: Mm, and you should take something with you, maybe a bottle of wine, or a box of chocolates.

L: Yeah, or flowers, maybe.

I: What sort of parties teenagers like yourselves go to?

N: Ah, well, they are not so formal!

L: No, we don't really have any rules. But, you shouldn't accept a lift home from a person you don't know…

It's interesting to know russian people well-known in the usa

ACADEMIA

Several researchers from Russia have enriched our knowledge by writing studies about their native land. In fact, much of America's present-day understanding of Russia and the Soviet Union is in large part due to the work of immigrants like ancient historian Michael Rostovtsev (1870-1972); church historians Georges Florovsky (1893-1979), Alexander Schmemann (1921-1983), and John Meyendorff (1926-1993); linguist Roman Jakobson (1896-1982); literary critic Gleb Struve (1898-1985); and historians Michael Florinsky (1894-1981), Michael Karpovich (1888-1959), Alexander Vasiliev (1867-1953), George Vernadsky (1887-1973), Aleksander Riasanovsky (1923– ), and Marc Raeff (1923– ).

ART

Influential Russian American artists include Gleb Derujinski, a noted sculptor, and Sergey Rossolovsky, a respected painter from Portland, Maine.

LITERATURE

Writers generally have the greatest difficulty adapting to and being accepted in a new environment, since their language is their instrument of creativity, and by its nature a foreign and inaccessible element. Nevertheless, a few Russian authors have flourished on American soil. These include Vladimir Nabokov (1889-1977), who switched from Russian to English in the late 1940s and produced many novels, including the very popular Lolita (1958), and the short story writer Nina Berberova. Two other authors, while continuing to write in Russian, have nonetheless enhanced their careers while in the United States. They are Josef Brodsky (1940– ) and the historical novelist and social critic Aleksander Solzhenitzyn (1918– ), both of whom were awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

MILITARY

John Basil Turchin (born Ivan Vasilevich Turchinov) served in the Union army during the Civil War and was promoted to the rank of U.S. Brigadier General—the first Russian American to be elevated to such a high position.

MUSIC, DANCE, AND FILM

Classical music, opera, and ballet in the United States have been enriched for over a century by the presence of Russian composers and performers from Petr Illich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Prokofieff to Fritz Kreisler, Feodor Chaliapin, Sergei Diaghileff, Anna Pavlova, and Rudolf Nureyev, all of whom have graced America's stages for varying periods of time. Others came to stay permanently, including Serge Koussevitsky (1874-1951), conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 1949; composers Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) and Alexander Gretchaninov (1864-1956); cello virtuoso, conductor, and musical director since 1977 of the National Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich (1927– ); choreographer, founder of the School of American Ballet, and from 1948 to his death, director of the New York City Ballet, George Balanchine (1904-1983); and ballet dancers Natalia Makarova (1940– ) and Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948). But the most famous of all was Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), who settled permanently in New York City in 1939, from where he continued to enrich and influence profoundly the course of twentieth-century classical music. Dimitri Tiomkin was a noted composer and musical director and author of many musical scores for Hollywood films. Natalie Wood, who was born in San Francisco as Natasha Gurdin (1938-1981) was an actress in numerous American films.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Vladimir Ipatieff (1867-1952) was a prominent research chemist; George Gamow (1904-1968) was a nuclear physicist who popularized the big-bang theory of the origin of the universe; Wassily Leontieff (1906– ) is a Nobel Prize-winning economist who formulated the influential input-output system of economic analysis; Alexander Petrunkevitch (1875-1964) wrote numerous works in the field of zoology; Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972) was an aviation industrialist and inventor of the helicopter; Pitirim Sorokin (1889-1968) was a controversial sociologist who argued that western civilization was doomed unless it attained "creative altruism"; and Vladimir Zworykin (1889-1982) was a physicist and electronics engineer who is known as the father of television.

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