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In the evening they had a flight to San Francisco and admired the Golden Gate Bridge. The family trav­elled along the Mississippi River and enjoyed their trip very much.

On the 15th of June they arrived at Miami airport. The weather was wonderful. It was pleasantly warm. They say, the weather is good in Florida all the year round. When people stop working, many of them go to live to Florida. The beaches of Florida attract a lot of holiday makers.

The Hardys finished their journey in the capital of the Unites States. They did the sights of the city and flew to London from Washington, DC.

3 к упражнению З Two Friends Meet Again

Jane: Hello, Sue. How are you? You do look fan­tastic.

Sue: Hi! I have just returned from the States. I en­joyed my stay there very much.

Jane: Oh! What places did you see there?

Sue: I visited a lot of places. I have been to New York, Washington, DC, San Francisco and Disneyland. So I can say I have been to the coasts of the two oceans.

Jane: Great! Which of them did you like most?

Sue: They are all interesting. But Disneyland is re­ally very special. It is a very large amusement park which opened in 1955.1 have taken some photos of Dis­neyland and Disney characters.

Jane: Can you tell me more about this park? I would like to have a look at your pictures, too.

Sue: Certainly I can. Come over to my place tomor­row, let's say around seven p.m. I'll show you my pho­tos.

Jane: Oh, thank you. I would really like to come. See you then. Sue: See you.

Test

4 к упражнению 1 The USA

The USA is one of the most powerfull countries in the world. It is situated in the central part of the North American continent. It is the fourth largest country of the world after Russia, Canada and China. It has many islands in the Pacific Ocean.

The five Great Lakes between the USA and Canada include Lake Superior which is the largest and Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario which is the smallest. In the west of the USA there is another famous lake — the Great Salt Lake.

The USA is a very large country, so it has several climate zones. The coldest regions are in the north and north-east. There a lot of snow falls in winter. The south has a subtropical climate. The climate along the Pacific coast is much warmer than that of the Atlantic Ocean. In general, the climate in North America is much colder than in Europe.

UNIT 2

Listening + Section

5 к упражнению l Languages of the World

Text A

Scientists say that there are about 2,800 languages in the world. As the number of foreign languages is quite big, it is sometimes rather difficult to choose what foreign language to learn. Still there is a lan­guage that is most popular all over the world. In fact, this language is the English language. Today English is the language of the world. It is the official language of quite a number of countries. Of course one of the first on this list is Great Britain where English came from.

Text B

The official language of Italy is Italian. Still Ital­ians say that Russian is spoken in many tourist zones, first of all — in Rome. You can speak German in the north of the Adriatic and around the lakes. But they will understand your English and French almost every­where: in restaurants, hotels and tourist bureaus. Maybe it is like this because Russian, English, German and French are world languages.

TextC

During the past years Norway has grown into a pop­ular tourist centre. Tourism develops so fast because this land has a long history and is very beautiful. An­other factor is that English is widely spoken in Norway though its official language is Norwegian. Any native speaker will answer your questions if you ask them in English. So you can feel at home in Norway if you speak English.

6 к упражнению 2 Who Speaks English?

English is the official language of Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the USA. English is one of the official languages in Ireland, Canada, and the South African Republic. As a second language they speak it in Pakistan, India, Singapore and very many countries of Africa and Asia which were British colonies before. Over 400 million speak English as a mother tongue.

7 к упражнению З Thousands of Words to Learn

Rosie: Annie, is anything wrong? You look kind of sad.

Annie: The matter is that our English teacher has told us today we must have a rich vocabulary and learn more new English words.

Rosie: So, what's the problem then?

Annie: But he says that there are more than 500,000 words in English. You know, William Shakes­peare used 20,000 words in his writing. How can I learn so many words? Even if I try to learn 50 words every day it will take 27 years of my life!

Rosie: Come on, Annie! Grow up! You've forgot­ten that normally a native speaker uses only 5,000 words in his or her speech! If you are hardworking, you can learn them all just in 100 days. A lot of time is still left for fun!

Test 2

8 к упражнению l

Language Families

There are ten main language families in the world. The languages of one family are like members of a real family. For example, nearly all the languages of mod­ern Europe are relatives. They form part of one large group of languages which we call the Indo-European languages. English, Greek, Russian, French, German, Spanish and many more belong here. They are all like cousins to each other.

Some of them are closer to each other; they are like brothers and sisters. For example, Russian, Ukraini­an, Bulgarian. All of them belong to Slavonic languag­es. German and English belong to Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages such as Swedish and Norwe­gian also get into this group. French, Spanish, Portu­guese and Italian belong to the Romance languages. All of them came from Latin, but the closest to Latin is Italian.

UNIT3

Listening+ Section № 9 к упражнению l How Bear Lost His Tail

Back in the old days, Bear had a tail. It was long and black and Bear wagged it. Fox saw this and he decided to play a joke on him. The fox made a hole in the ice right near the place where the bear liked to walk. When the bear was coming by, he saw a lot of fish lying all around the fox. Suddenly the fox took his tail out of the hole in the ice and with it he took out another big fish.

"Hello, Brother," said the fox. "How are you this fine day?" The bear said he was alright and asked if the fox was fishing. "Oh, yes," answered the fox. "Would you like to try?" The bear agreed. So they went to some place up the lake. The fox knew this place very well. The lake there was not deep enough to catch winter fish. But the fox said: "Here you can catch many fish. Place your tail in the hole and wait. You must wait long. When a fish catches your tail, I will shout. Then you must pull as hard as you can to catch your fish. But do not move at all till I tell you." The bear agreed.

He sat down next to the hole, placed his long beauti­ful black tail in the icy water and turned his back. The fox watched him for a time and then, very quietly, went back to his own house and went to bed. The next morning he woke up and thought of the bear. "I wonder if he is still there," the fox said to himself. "I'll just go and see."

The bear looked like a little white hill in the middle of the ice with his tail in the frozen water. He was fast asleep. The fox began to laugh. Then he decided it was the time to wake up the poor bear. He came very close to him, and then shouted: "Now, bear!!!" The bear woke, up and pulled his long tail as hard as he could. And his tail broke off. Whack!: just like that. The bear turned around to look at the fish but instead he saw his long lovely tail caught in the ice. "Ohhh," he cried, "ohhh, fox. I will get you for this." But the fox ran away. The bear was very unhappy. He went back to his cave and did not come out until spring. So it is like that even to this day. Bears have short tails, sleep all winter, and have no love at all for foxes.

10 к упражнению 2 American Zoos

Text A

The Lincoln Park Zoo began in 1868 with a pair of swans from New York's Central Park, making it the country's oldest zoo. In four years buffalo, prairie dogs, foxes, deer, wolves and more joined the swans — and finally an elephant, a pair of tigers and a lion in 1889, the zoo's first non-North American animals.

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