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4.29. Imagine it’s New Year’s Day. Make up five resolutions, using the words

will’ and ‘ won’t’. Compare your resolutions with those of your

group mates. What is the most common resolution? Which is the most

unusual? Do you think everyone will keep these resolutions? Why do

people keep on making these resolutions if few of them ever manage to

stick to them in the end?

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4.30. Read the following citations and comment on each. Which one do you like

best? Why? Express your opinion to class.

itations about the nation and patriotism:

1. The country of every man is that one where he lives best. (Aristophanes)

2. I … do not call the sod under my feet my country. But language, religion, laws, government, blood – identity of these makes men of one country. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

3. [Education is] something which makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. (Lord Brougham)

4. [Government] is to have one party govern the other party watch. (Thomas Reed)

5. [A nation is] a group of men who speak one language and read the same newspapers. (Friedrich W. Nietzsche)

6. [A nation is] two classes – the nations in which the government fears the people, and the nations in which the people fear the government. (Amos R.Pinchot)

7. [Patriotism is] your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. (George Bernard Shaw)

8. [Patriotism is] the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

9. [Patriotism is] a bad and harmful feeling … a stupid doctrine. (Leo Tolstoy)

10. [Patriotism is] our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right. (Carl Schurz)

11. [Patriotism is] one person’s meat is another person’s poison. (Proverb)

4.31. Make up a role-play. Imagine that you are members of a State Committee

on Pubic Holidays. On your agenda you have one issue. You have to

eliminate one holiday from the official holiday list and add a new one.

Discuss in details what holidays might be considered in this connection

and why. Do all the preparations for your meeting (make up a

questionnaire to conduct a survey among your friends and relatives, look

Into history, etc.).

WRITING

4.33. Take a trip in your imagination backwards in time. Think about a holiday

celebration when you were a child. Try to see in your ‘mind’s eye’. Did

you believe in any magical figures or happenings (Baba Yaga, Father

Frost, Santa Claus, etc.)? What emotions did you feel? How have your

beliefs and feelings changed? How old were you at the time? How old were

your parents, relatives, and friends? Write a 250-word essay about the

holiday, your beliefs and your emotions.

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4.32. Make up a ‘visiting card’ for Russia, showing the major parameters of its

social and political life. Be ready to present it to class.

4.34. Describe some celebration in Russia or any other country, using the list of

celebration descriptions below.

ame of celebration, traditional food,

meaning of name, traditional dances,

history, date, music and songs,

preparation for celebration, traditional clothes,

gift giving, typical activities

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