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11. Complete these sentences with the name of the people from the country on the right.

Example: I've worked a lot with Germans/German people- GERMANY

I've spent lots of time with the French/French people. FRANCE

1. We do a lot of business with … JAPAN

2. I used to know a lot of ISRAEL

3. I have always found very friendly. BRAZIL

4. People often say that are reserved. BRITAIN

5. … are very organised. SWITZERLAND

6. I met a lot of … on my journey to Moscow. RUSSIA

Notes:

There are some names for the popular regions of the world:

Europe (e.g. Britain, Spain, etc.); the Mediterranean (e.g. Italy, Spain, etc)

the Far East (e.g. China, Japan, etc.); the Middle East (e.g. Egypt, Iran, etc.); the Caribbean (e.g. Jamaica, Trinidad, etc.)

South/Latin America (e.g. Brazil, Chile, etc).

12. What regions of the world are these countries in?

a) Germany b) Jamaica c) Japan d) Poland

e) Egypt f) Italy g) Argentina

h) Brazil i) England j) Ukraine

13. Complete the following sentences:

a) Athens is the capital of ... b) Moscow is the capital of …

c) Ankara is the capital of ... d) Warsaw is the capital of …

e) Seoul is the capital of … f) Madrid is the capital …

g) Ottawa is the capital of … h) Edinburgh is the capital of

____________

Text B

WORD FORMATION

1. Use the words given in the brackets to form the words that will logically fit the sentence.

GfK Ukraine has studied to what extent Ukrainians feel happy and 1) … (PLEASE) with life in comparison with Europeans and Russians by conducting a survey.

The number of Ukrainians who feel happy is on the rise with every 2) … (PASS) year. This can be 3) … (PARTIAL) explained by the age of the people. Such factors as age and health have a greater effect on the feeling of 4) … (HAPPY) of Ukrainians than material wellbeing. Although we are above all 5) … (SATISFIED) with our 6) … (FINANCE) situation and health, we complain more than the other countries’ citizens about our social life and relations with children.

Only one third of people who are over 60 are 7) … (SATISFY) with their life and only half of them consider themselves happy. The situation is clear because other surveys show that old-age pensioners have the highest level of depression in addition to poor health and social security. Besides, most of our old-age pensioners are women who remain alone in the twilight of their life.

There is a 8) … (TOTAL) different picture in the European Union. Its pensioners differ from their Ukrainian and Russian peers. They feel more satisfied and happy with age because they have managed to save money. Now they can travel a lot and spend time with their grandchildren. But it is difficult to achieve this if people don’t save funds. Having studied the 9) … (LIVE) standards of pensioners in Ukraine, Europe, and Russia, experts have concluded that in Europe the elderly are far richer than the young, whereas most of their Ukrainian and Russian peers have not accumulated 10) … (SAVE) and failed to adapt to new economic and social conditions.

And what caused no surprise are the factors that mostly poison our existence and make us 11) … (HAPPY). It is the level of financial security, not politics. Naturally, every nation may have its own reasons to say it is happy.

Notes: social security – соціальне забезпечення

. to what extent - до якої міри

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