1. answer the questions. 1) why are people busy some weeks before christmas? 2) where can people get christmas cards? 3) where is a christmas tree from? 4) what are the traditional christmas dishes? 5) what is boxing day? 6) do english people like christmas? 2. complete the sentences 1. many children make their cards at ……. 2. father christmas puts the presents in the children's ……….. 3. there is a very big christmas tree in the centre of ……… 4. on christmas people wish their nearest and dearest a ………. 5. they do not………. on that day.
ответьте на следующие вопросы:
1. What types of newspapers are there in the United Kingdom?
Какие типы газет издаются в Великобритании? Quality papers and tabloids.
2. What do “quality” newspapers specialize in?
На чём “качественные” газеты специализируются? They publish serious analitical materials on business, politics and economy.
3.What is the main aim of “popular” newspapers?
Какова главная цель “популярных” газет (таблоидов)? It's entertaining.
4. What can you say about the circulation of the entertaining newspapers?
Their circulation is much larger compared to “quality” papers.
History tells us that the question of who is still the first to invent the phone is open. Many believe that the phone is in the modern sense was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. A native of Scotland, who lived and worked first in Canada and then in the U.S., made in 1876, it would seem impossible. He was able to give the speech sound in space with the help of electricity.Some historians argue that the German scientist Philip Rice, another 15 years before Bell made a similar device. In order not to damage the reputation of Bell, the documents were hidden for a long time. The initiator of hiding, according to some, was an English businessman Sir Frank Gill.