Eighteen-year-old Becky Greenberg is working for Volunteer Asia for a month.1 She helps to look after old and sick animals at an elephant camp in Thailand. We asked her about the project. What 2 do you do every day? 3 I get up very early to give the elephants breakfast. 4 Elephants need a lot of food, so this can take quite a long time. How much food 5 does an elephant eat? At least 100 kg a day. But 6 one elephant does not have all that for breakfast! Our elephants have three meals a day. 7 They are eating lunch at the moment.8 Are the elephants going out today? Yes,9 we are taking them to the river this afternoon.10 It gets very hot after lunch and 11 they love) playing in the water.
One of the national festivals of English-speaking countries is Halloween. It takes place on October 31 on Allhallow’s Eve. The pumpkin is a symbol of this festival in which offensive face is cut out. A lighted candle is put into the pumpkin. It was considered that pumpkin left about the house on All Saints' Day drove off malignant demons. The song “Monster Mash” by Bobby Pickett is an informal hymn of this festival. On this day parties are held and people put on suits of the terrible creatures and monsters from films. Children go from house to house, sing songs and try to get sweeties. Besides that games and fortune-telling are widely spread on Halloween. At night children and teenagers tell each other horror stories and legends and the most popular legend is about Bloody Mary. She is said to appear in a mirror when her name is called three times. Organization of attractions where visitors are got scared is also an important tradition. On this holiday television broadcasts a lot of horror films and animations. On this day we can show our fantasy and live in the world of dead for a little while. Halloween has been gaining in popularity in Russia recently.
