Look at the photo of Mount Rushmore. Who are the men? Match their first names and surnames?
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George
Thomas
Theodore
Abraham
Jefferson
Lincoln
Washington
Roosevelt
Listen to an American tour guide. Check your answers. [1.52] t.5.2
Listen complete with numbers and dates.
Guide The second head is of Thomas Jefferson. He was President of the United States from 1801 to _____.
Tourist 1 When was he born?
Guide He was born in ______, in Virginia. His parents were very rich.
Tourist 1 Was he President after Washington?
Guide No, he was the ______President.
Tourist 2 What’s Jefferson famous for?
Guide Well, he’s famous for writing the Declaration of Independence-that was when he was ______, before he was President- and for buying the state of Louisiana from Napoleon in ______.
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Read and role-play the dialogue
Chuck: Where were you born, Melissa?
Melissa: I was born in Korea
Chuck: Oh! So you weren’t born in the U.S.
Melissa: No, I came here in 1999.
Chuck: Hmm.. You were pretty young.
Melissa: Yes. I was only seventeen.
Chuck: Did you go to college right away?
Melissa: No, my English wasn’t very good, so I took English classes for two years first.
Chuck: Well, your English is really good now.
Melissa: Thanks Your English is pretty good too.
Chuck: Yeah, but I was born here.
Read the text “The President of the Republic of Kazakhstan” and underline the verbs in the Past Simple.
In April of 2011, Nursultan Nazarbayev was reelected to a five-year term as Kazakhstan’s President. President Nazarbayev was born on July 6, 1940 in the village of Chemolgan, Kaskelen District, Almaty region. In 1967, he graduated from the Highest Technical Educational Institution at the Karaganada Metallurgic Works.
He is a Doctor in Economics, Academician of the National Academy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, International Academy of Engineering, Russian Federation Academy of Social Sciences, Honorable Professor of the Al-Farabi Kazakh State National University, Honorable Member of the Academy of Science of the Republic of Belarus, Honorable Professor of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
From 1960 through 1969, he worked at the Karaganda Metallurgical Works.
From 1969 through 1973, he was involved in the Party and Komsomol work in Temirtau of the Karaganda region. From 1973 to 1977, he was a secretary of the party committee at the Karaganda Metallurgic Works.
From 1977 through 1979, he served as secretary, and then second secretary of the Regional Committee of the Party in Karaganda.
From 1979 through 1984, he served as Secretary of the Committee of the Communist Party of the Republic of Kazakhstan. From 1984 through 1989, he was a Chairman of the Ministers Council of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.
From 1989 through 1991, he served as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan. From February to April 1990, he concurrently served as Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.
Has served as Kazakhstan’s President since April 1990.
On December 1, 1991 the first national presidential elections were held where Nursultan Nazarbayev had been supported by 98.7 percent of electors.
On January 10, 1999 he was elected the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the alternative basis with 79.78 per cent of electors.
On December 4, 2005 he was again elected President of the Republic of Kazakhstan supported by 91.15 per cent of electors.
Nursultan Nazarbayev is married to Sara Alpysovna. She chairs the ‘Bobek’ International Children Charitable Fund.
The President has three daughters. Dariga is a Doctor in Political Science. Dinara is chairing the Nursultan Nazarbayev Educational Fund. Aliya is a businesswoman, chairing the Elitstroy Construction Company.
Answer to the questions.
When was he born?
What did he study?
Where did he work?
How old was he when he became a President of Kazakhstan?
When were the first national presidential elections held?
Who is Sara Alpysovna?
Does he have children?
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