The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is situated on the British Isles. It consists of 4 parts: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. England, Wales and Scotland occupy the territory of Great Britain. Northern Ireland is situated in the northern part of Ireland. The population is over 57 million people. The northern and western parts of the

I’d like to tell you about one of the episodes from the history of Ukraine. During the war of independence of the Ukrainians in 1648-1654 the leaders of the war realized that without the help of military Russia the complete victory over Poland was impossible. That’s why in 1648 Bohdan Khmelnytsky appealed to Russia with the request to admit Ukraine

There are some public holidays when people all over the country do not work. The major holidays are: New Year’s Day, Victory Day, May Day, Constitution Day, the Women’s Day, Independence Day. New Year`s Day There is one holiday which is loved by everybody: children and adults. This is New Year. People decorate New Year trees with toys and lights.

Life used to be fun for ‘teenagers’. They used to have money to spend, and free time to spend it in. They used to wear teenage clothes, and meet in teenage coffee bars and discos. Some of them still do. But for many young people, life is harder now. Jobs are difficult to find. There’s not so much money around.

Benjamin Franklin was self-educated» which means that he was too poor to go to school and therefore got good education. As a boy he helped his father to make candles, which were thought to look more romantic that electric lights. When he was twelve Benjamin was so interested in reading that he gave up eating in order to buy books.

THE PLACES TO VISIT. London is the capital of England. It is its political and business centre. The heart of London is the City. It is the oldest part of London. Many people work in the City but very few live there. There are a lot of banks and other offices there are too. You can visit some interesting places

Manchester is one of the English most important cities. It is located in the northern part of England, not far from Liverpool. Today the population of Manchester is 438,000. Manchester began, when a wooden fort was built by the Roman army on a plateau about 80 AD. The fort was rebuilt in stone about 200 AD. Soon a civilian settlement

Climate is the weather a certain place has over a long period of time. Climate has a very important influence on plants, animals and humans and is different in different parts of the world. Some scientists think that the world is becomming hotter. If you compare Moscow winter and summer temperatures at the beginning of our century and at its

Finishing school is the beginning of the independent life for millions of school leavers. Many roads are opened before them: vocational and technical schools, institutes and universities. But it is not an easy thing to choose a profession out of more than 2,000 existing in the world. Some pupils follow the advice of their parents, others can’t decide even after

The year is divided into four seasons: winter, spring, summer, and autumn. Each season has its good and bad sides. The weather in spring is generally mild but sometimes the days are really cold, especially in the beginning of the season. It is the time when everything awakes from its winter sleep. Summer is the hottest season. It’s time for

By the US Constitution the government of the nation is entrusted to three separate authorities: the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial. The executive power is vested in the President, who holds his office during the term of four years, and is elected together with the Vice-President. Among the duties and powers of the President listed by the Constitution are

Almost in every culture in the world there is a celebration of thanks for rich harvest. The American Thanksgiving began as a feast of thanksgiving almost four hundred years ago. In 1620, a religious community sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the New World. They settled in what is now known as the state of Massachusetts. Their first

My name is Alexander. I am a student of Kostroma Technology University. I am 17 years old. I am rather tall, thin. I am well-built, to my mind. I have an oval face with a straight nose. My eyes are rather big and brown. I have long eyelashes. My lips are neither thin nor full. My hair is dark and

How close are you as a family? We usually see each other at least once a month, maybe more often. We have lunch together on Sunday if we haven’t got anything special to do. We live in Tula, which is about an hour and a half away, but we always come to Moscow where my mother and father live. It’s

Books can fit almost every need, temper, or interest. Bookscan be read when you are in the mood; you don’t need to do it all the time. Books are both more personal and more impersonalthan professors. Books have an inner confidence which individualsseldom show; they rarely have to be on the defensive. Books canafford to be bold, and courageous, and

Evolution is the complexity of processes by which living organisms established on the earth and have been expanded and modified through changes in form and function. Human evolution is the biological and cultural development of the species Homo sapiens or human beings. Humans evolved from apes, because of their similarities. This can be shown in the evidence. Early humans are

Mankind always dreamed of overcoming gravitation and reaching other planets. But it was only in the 1960ies that this dream was to become reality. On the 12th of April 1961 the spaceship «Vostok» was launched into space with a man on board and after orbiting our planet successfully returned to the Earth. The first man to overcome gravitation and orbit

Never before in the history of the world have businessmen traveledas much as they do today. It is not surprising because we areliving in a world of growing international trade and expandingeconomic and technical cooperation. Though it is fascinating fortourist travelling, it has become the most tiring of alloccupations for many businessmen and experts. Therefore, choosing acomfortable hotel to stay

As you know, the 3-hour-14-minute film «Titanic» is no mere disaster movie. It’s an epic love story about a 17-year-old American aristocrat who is betrothed to a rich and hateful suitor but falls in love with a free-spirited artist, who won his third-class passage in a card game. It’s «Romeo and Juliet» on a sinking ship and has become an

Robert Burns is the national poet of Scotland. In his poems Burns sang the beauty and the glory of his native land. Burns was born in Alloway, near Ayr, on 25 of January 1759. His father, a small farmer, was a hard-working man. When Robert was 6, he was sent to a school at Alloway Miln. Robert and his brother