Christmas Crossword
ACROSS
1. Pumpkin or mincemeat
3. Santa's ride
6. Celebration
8. Newborn
9. Northpole crew
13. Word of praise
14. Words on a Christmas card
17. It's opened on Christmas
DOWN
1. Alternative word to 17 across
2. Christmas drink
4. Christmas dinner centerpiece
5. Dec, holiday
7. Christmas warmer
8. "Jingle
10. Christmas tree
11. O. Henry's "The Gift of the
12. What carolers do
15. French Christmas.
16. Snow glider
2 Mum, may I go out and play with friends? I have _already_ done the washing up.
A: Do you know where Jennifer is?
B: Yes, I have usually seen her.
4 Everyone has heard the bang. But nobody knows what has happened _yet_
5 My sister is _still_ at university because she has decided to get her Master's degree.
6 I have _never_ gone to the dentist before. I'm feeling nervous.
7 Have you _ever_ been to Rome? The Colosseum is worth seeing.
Taras Shevchenko
Artist, poet, national bard of Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko was born on 9 March, 1814 in Moryntsi, Kiev gubernia. He was born a serf. When he was a teenager he became an orphan, and grew up in poverty. When he was 14, his owner, Engelhardt took him to serve as a houseboy. And Taras travelled with him to Vilnus and to St Petersburg. In Vilnus Taras for the first time heard different languages, Lithuanian, Russian and Polish and there he saw people whom their masters made free. When Engelhardt noticed the boys skiils in painting he apprenticed him to the painter Shiriayev for four years.
Shevchenko was an outstanding poet and a highly accomplished artist. There are 835 works written by him, although 270 are known to have been lost. His collection also contains over 150 portraits, 42 self-portraits. There are many landscapes, watercolours and etchings. The best is "A Dream" , "Haidamaki" , "Katerina" .
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