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 Nigel Balchin, a modern English
writer, was born in 1908. He is the
author of several novels, stories and screen-scripts.
Among the passengers travelling home by train from Florence there
was a certain Miss Bradley.
I only noticed her when passing down the corridor, because of her
really remarkable plainness.
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Katherine Mansfield, an outstanding English short-story
writer of the
20th century, was born in New Zealand in 1888 and died in 1923. She is
the author of a number of excellent short stories which deal with human
nature and psychology.
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About 5,000 years ago, a remarkable
way of life, or civilization, grew
up along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. It flourished for over
3,000 years, longer than most other civilizations in the world's
history. Egypt is among the most influential of Arab states. It lies
between Africa and the Middle East. |
Babylon is just one among many small
Mesopotamian kingdoms when
Hammurabi becomes its ruler in about 1790. He defeats his rivals in the
region, and establishes a society based on the rule of law (and famous
also for the skill of its astronomers and mathematicians). By the end of
his reign the whole of Mesopotamia is under central control for the
first time since the empire of Sargon, 500 years earlier.
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The Olympic
Games have a very long history. They began in 777 BC in
Greece and took place every four years for nearly twelve centuries at
Olympia. They included many different kinds of sports: running, boxing,
wrestling, long jumping, throwing of disks, chariot races, etc. |
The first
European explorer who saw Manhattan Island was Giovanni da
Verrazano, an Italian merchant who was in the service of the French
king, Francis I. The date was April, 1524. Today a bridge which carries
his name, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, is one of the city’s most
impressive sights. It is the longest suspension bridge in the world.
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In Washington, DC, 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue is a very special address.
It’s the address of the White House, the home of the President of the
United States.
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If you go to
Australia it will seem to you rather an upside-down world.
The seasons are the other way round. Summer is from December to
February, autumn from March to May, winter from June to August, and
spring from September to November. New Year is at midsummer, midwinter
is in June. |
Сanada is he
second largest country in the world. It covers the northern
part of North America and its total area is 9,975,000 square
kilometers. Canada’s only neighbour is the USA. The boarder between the
two countries is the longest unguarded border in the world.
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland is situated on
the British Isles. The British Isles consist of two large islands, Great
Britain and Ireland, and about five thousand small islands. Their total
area is over 244, 000 square kilometers.
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Denmark officially Kingdom of
Denmark, kingdom (2005 est. pop.
5,432,000), 16,629 sq mi (43,069 sq km), N Europe. It borders on Germany
in the south, the North Sea in the west, the Skagerrak in the north,
and the Kattegat and the Oresund in the east. Copenhagen is Denmark's
capital, largest city, and chief industrial center. |
Moscow is the capital of Russia, its
political, economic, commercial and
cultural centre. It was founded 8 centuries ago by Prince Yuri
Dolgoruky. Historians have accepted the year of 1147 as the start of
Moscow’s history. Gradually the city became more and more powerful.
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PARIS city (1999 pop. 2,115,757; metropolitan area est.
pop.
11,000,000), N central France, capital of the country, on the Seine
River. It is the commercial and industrial focus of France and a
cultural and intellectual center of international renown. The city
possesses an indefinable unity of atmosphere that has fascinated
writers, poets, and painters for centuries. |
Without doubt one of the principal
reasons for coming to London is to
take advantage of the excellent shopping facilities for which this great
city is famed.
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The Russian
Federation is the largest country in the world. It occupies
about one-seventh of the earth surface. It covers the eastern part of
Europe and the northern part of Asia. Its total area about 17 million
square kilometers. The country is washed by 12 seas of 3 oceans: the
Pacific, the Arctic and the Atlantic. |
The United
States of America is the forth largest country in the world
(after the Russia, Canada and China). It occupies the southern part of
North America and stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. |
The Volga (Russian: Волга, Tatar
Cyrillic: Идел, Latin: Idel) is the
largest river in Europe in terms of length, discharge, and watershed. It
flows through the western part of Russia, and is widely viewed as the
national river of Russia. In fact, eleven out of the twenty largest
cities of Russia, including its capital Moscow, are situated in the
Volga basin. Some of the largest reservoirs in the world can be found
along the Volga.
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Schwarzenegger received a Golden
Globe Award for Best Newcomer for his
performance in Stay Hungry (1976). He was also featured in Pumping Iron
(1977), a bodybuilding documentary. With his intense physical strength
and size, Schwarzenegger was a natural for action films. He became a
leading figure in several popular 1980s action movies, including Conan
the Barbarian (1982). |
Albert
Einstein is known all over the world as a brilliant theoretical
physicist and the former of the theory of relativity. He is perhaps the
greatest scientist of the 20th century. Some of his ideas
made possible the atomic bomb, as well as television and other
inventions.
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Anton
Pavlovich Chekhov was born in 1860 in Taganrog. In 1879 he went to
Moscow, where he studied medicine. Though he practiced little as a
doctor in his lifetime, he was producer of medical knowledge than of his
writing talent.
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for her work to obtain aid for
refugees
in Cambodia, Darfur and Jordan, to name just a few. In 2005, Jolie
received the Global Humanitarian Action Award from the United Nations
Association of the USA for her activism on behalf of refugee rights. She
continues to travel the world to drawing attention to global issues. |
Wild child
Avril Lavigne hit big in summer 2002 with her spiky-fun debut
song, "Complicated," shifting pop music into a different direction.
Lavigne, who was 17 at the time, didn't seem concerned with the glamour
of the TRL-dominated pop world and such confidence allowed her star
power to soar. |
Actor, director, musician. Born John
Christopher Depp II in Owensboro,
Kentucky, on June 9, 1963. Raised in Florida, Depp dropped out of school
at age 17 in hopes of becoming a rock musician. He fronted a series of
garage bands, including The Kids, which was once opened for Iggy Pop. |
Forty-third president of the United
States; former governor of Texas
(1994-2000). Born July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut. Bush — often
referred to as simply "W" — is the eldest son of former President George
Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush. He grew up in Midland,
Texas, where his father worked in the oil business. |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of
the greatest ever born. Like
Shakespeare, he stands at the summit of human achievement. In every
form, from serenade to fugue, from piano concerto and symphony to the
heights of grand opera, his music amazes, enchants and invades the
memory.
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Though Oscar
Wilde is know today primarily as a playwright and as the
author of the Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) – his only novel – he also
wrote poetry, fairy tales, essays and criticism, all of the most popular
spokesman in the late XIX century advocating the doctrine of
aestheticism, which insisted that art should be primarily politics,
religion, science, bourgeois morality. |
«Books and
friends should be few
but good», says an English proverb. «Except a living man there is
nothing more
wonderful than a book! The book is certainly one of the greatest
inventions of
man. It is a friend and a teacher. We learn many things by reading
books. Books
teach people to live. The book is a faithful friend. They form our
values and
our characters. |
Foreign languages are absolutely necessary for us nowadays
because of
our growing international contacts with all the countries of the world. |
Finishing school is the beginning of the independent life
for
millions of school leavers. Many roads are open before them:
technical schools, institutes and universities. But it is not 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 leaving
school. |
The United States of America is one of the
greatest countries in the world. It is
situated on the North America continent and is washed by two oceans: the
Pacific and the Atlantic. The USA boarders only two countries — Canada and Mexico. |
It is difficult to imagine our
life without TV,
radio, cinema and theatre.TV is a great force
in the world. It enriches our intellect, gives us opportunities to
see the best actors and performances, to hear the latest news, to listen
to
political discussions. TV gives
wonderful possibilities for
education and helps us to relax after a day's work. |
Until
recently the
history of the english theatre has been build around actors rather
then companies. It has been hard to find any London theatre that
even had a consistent policy. |
Cinema has
got an
important role in the life of any society. Cinema has become a part of
the modern way of life. There is no denying that cinema is an excellent
vehicle of culture. Its possibilities are unlimited. In the earliest
years of cinema its power to show the contemporary events was recognized
and appreciated. More than anything else this unique quality secured
popularity for the film as a new form of instruction and entertainment. |
Let me
introduce myself. I
am … . I am from … . I was born in … . I have been living in this town
since my childhood.
Now
I am going to tell you about my family. We are a family of five.
We are friendly and getting all right.
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Shoping
(I)
There
are many shops and supermarkets in our city. They
are Zangar, Ardager, Ramstor, Smat, Resey, Astana etc.
My
family has a shopping day. It is Saturday. We get up early this day.
Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. My
father and I usually go to Ramstor because it is near to our house. |
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