Exercises

1. Translate the following words into Russian:

Neighboring, southern, shore, lake, entertainment, reach, client, hunt down, enthusiastically, beast, finish, tortures, foreign, tourist, involve, alongside revenge, change, poacher, feature, purely, criminal, psychological, meantime, spend, significant, category, source, family, additional, sale, income, fur, antler, common, satisfy, instinct; story, air, field, support, structure, reserve, dug out, ditch, probably, realize, trench, comfortable, certainly, advance.

2. Give Russian equivalents of the following word combinations:

Neighboring Kyrgyzstan, on Southern shores of Issyk-Kul lake, an entertainment for reach clients, to hunt down on grunting-ox (yak) with bows, Kazakhstani oligarchs, enthusiastically torturing poor beast, foreign tourists, in such an entertainment, alongside with Greenpeace, to be afraid of tree huggers’ revenge, change their mind, social reasons, criminal or psychological, a meantime spending for thousands of townsfolk for significant category of people, a source of food products for families, additional sales income, animal furs and antlers, to harm nature, common oligarch, living things, for fun, hunting instinct, air field, dozens of support structures, in a nature reserve, dug out a ditch, around Kopkol pluvial type lake, migrant birds, from trench, from such technical advances.

3. Put special questions to the following sentences:

1.In neighboring Kyrgyzstan on Southern shores of Issyk-Kul lake there is an entertainment for reach clients to hunt down on grunting-ox (yak) with bows. 2. Foreign tourists are not involving in such an entertainment since may years spent alongside with Greenpeace have taught them not only to be afraid of tree huggers’ revenge but changed their mind.3.Hunting is a source of food products for families and additional sales income from animal furs and antlers.

4. Retell the text

Text 5: Golden Eagle Hunting in Kazakhstan

Hunting with birds and hounds has always been considered an art. The actual course of hunting, graceful movements of animals, and the emotions and passions of the hunters made it a festival. A steppe hunter derived great pleasure from the tandem of a dog and a hunting bird.

G olden eagle hunting is one of the oldest methods of food hunting. Our ancestors in the Eurasian steppes mastered eagle hunting several thousand years ago, in the Andronov age. Proof of this fact comes from Bronze Age petro glyphs.

Eagle hunting was mainly practiced in the northern and central regions of Kazakhstan, while in the south hunters preferred to use hawks and falcons. Each bird was intended to hunt a particular type of animal. Apart from foxes, golden eagles usually catch corsacs and hares. Strong, rapacious, well-trained eagles proved useful for hunting hoofed animals and even wolves. Hawks are used for geese and bustards. Sparrow-hawks are as a rule used for hunting hares while goshawks are used for quail. Falcons and merlins proved to be excellent for hunting smaller birds. In the past, hunting birds were extremely expensive: a good golden eagle could cost 5-6 camels and a falcon cost 1-2 camels.

Eagle hunting season starts with the first night frosts and continues from November through February. This schedule was set in olden days because furry animals have the best fur in winter. Falcon and Merlin hunting starts in late September when birds are preparing for migration and lasts until the first snow falls.

Hunting with Golden Eagle is one of the most unique features of Kazakh life. The hunter is named kusbegi or berkutchi. The experience of wild bird training was gained by Kazakh kusbegi over centuries, the secrets were imparted from father to son and kept very secret.