Holidays

1 . There are many national holidays in Russia, when people all over the country do not work and have special celebrations. 2. The most popular holidays are: New Year's Day, Women's Day, May Day, Victory Day, and Independence Day. 3. The first holiday of the year is New Year's Day. 4. People celebrate it on the 31st of December. 5. In every house there is a New Year tree with coloured lights and decorations.6. Children always wait for Father Frost to come and give them a present. 7. The next holiday is Christmas. 8. We celebrate it on the 7th of January. 9. It's a religious holiday and a lot of people go to the church on that day. 10.On the 8th of March we celebrate Women's Day when men give women a lot of presents and flowers. 11.The greatest national holiday in our country is Victory Day when a lot of people died defeating our country. 12. Independence Day is a new holiday in our country. 13. We also celebrate Day of the Defender of Motherland on the 23d of February, Easter, Day of Knowledge and lots of professional holidays which are not public holidays and banks, offices and schools do not close. 14. My favourite holiday is _______________________, because ____________________________. 15. I love holidays very much because you can rest and have a lot of fun.

School rules

1 . My name is ___________________ and I'm going to tell you about rules at my school. 2. The first one is that we must go to school from Monday till Friday. 3. Then, we mustn't be late for school. 4. We must do our homework every day. 5. We mustn't run at the halls. 6. We must respect the teacher and other students. 7. We mustn't talk on the lessons. 8. We must turn off our phones on the lessons. 9. We must be quiet. 10. We must listen to the teacher. 11. We must wear clean and nice clothes. 12. We mustn't eat in the class. 13. We must clean the board after the lesson. 14. We must keep our classroom clean. 15. We must follow all these rules to be good students.

Reading rules (Правила чтения) The Alphabet (Алфавит)

Vowels (Гласные)

Алфавитное название буквы	Произношение	I-открытый слог	II-закрытый слог
А а [ ei ]		[ ei ] take	[ æ ] cat
O o [ əu ]		[ əu ] rose	[ ɔ ] dog
U u [ ju: ]		[ ju: ] music	[ Λ ] cup
E e [ i: ]		[ i: ] we	[ e ] pet
I i / Y y [ ai / wai ]		[ ai ] bike [ ai ] fly	[ i ] pig [ i ] mystery

Открытый слог - 1) заканчивается на гласную, или когда между двумя гласными не больше одной согласной. 2) после гласной ничего не следует. Гласные читаются как в алфавите. К такому типу относятся также слова с непроизносимой "e" в конце слова.

Examples: home, five, make, close, snake, nice, nose, go, he, she, try, fry, ride, tune.

Закрытый слог - заканчивается на одну или более согласных, и гласная буква в этом случае читается кратко.

Examples: six, big, bad, sad, it, fox, frog, red, ten, mum, jump, but, funny, angry, long.