Reading Task 1. Read the text carefully. Do the tasks below.
Natural phenomena
Our amazing planet is mysterious and extraordinary. It is full of unique phenomena and mysteries. Every day nature pleases us with beautiful sunsets, autumn cobwebs, and a starry sky. Someone enjoys the morning dew, others breathe the frosty air while admiring the white canvas of hoarfrost. But often nature amazes and makes admire such phenomena that literally fascinate or, conversely, induce terrible fear.
You can observe various natural phenomena in different places on Earth. For example, aurora can be seen in the Northern Hemisphere. For the first time the northern lights saw the Scandinavian peoples, deciding that this is a manifestation of the wrath of the gods. In fact, the aurora has an electrical origin. Millions of charged particles collide in air molecules thereby forming a glow. Thanks to oxygen, light is reflected in yellow, green and red. Blue and purple are formed with nitrogen.
Rainbow is the most joyful and amazing phenomenon of nature. A rainbow can be observed immediately after a rain, in the form of reflection of sunlight in water droplets that remain in the air after a rain. The light is refracted and gives us seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, dark blue, purple. Rainbow is also double.
The inhabitants of the earth very often can observe an amazing cosmic phenomenon - star rain or stargazing. If you look at the sky, we will see a lot of luminous points that fly from top to bottom towards our planet. During the flight, these points, like her small stars, leave behind a trail of luminous stripes. They do not reach the earth, and burn in the atmosphere in the form of a bright flash. In fact, as scientists explain, falling bodies are not stars, they are meteors. Meteor rain is formed annually during the collision of the Earth with the cosmic flow of meteor particles.
Task 1. Mark the sentences TRUE or FALSE.
You can see different natural phenomena in one site of our planet.
Shine is represented blue, green and red because of oxygen.
Actually, as academics say, shooting flashes are not stars.
Out of all possible road trips – the best one is by car. The moment when you finish packing, put everything inside the, sit inside it, buckle up look at your friend sitting next to you, smile and…go! And then begins the most wonderful part of the road trip. It is not the place you are heading to – it is what you see from the opened window of the car. The best part is when you leave you home before the dawn. The DAWN! I really like to meet the first flashes of the awakening new day. Long before the dawn when you look in the direction of the east you see how the sun informs the world about its arrival. It paints the dark sky with its beams and the last stars disappear.
I love to meet the sun, while driving out a road trip in a car. I am amazed by its game and its morning flashes of the sun rays. First, you notice a crimson-red stripe on the horizon. Then, the stripe becomes orange, pink and eventually the sun fills everything around. And it always seems like for the first time in your life you see a green leaflet, the trees, which grow right next to your car window and a light gaze over the nature which waking up to meet a new day.
Two seasons of the year are perfect for a road trip – spring and autumn. Spring is my favorite season of the year. In my opinion, it is the most beautiful time of the year. Because when you are sitting in a car on your way to your destination - you open the car windows and can actually feel that the world is clean and ready for a new life. The green grass is so fresh that when you inhale you can scent it in your lungs. You close your eyes…take a deep breath and all the sudden you hear the spring birds singing the fascinating music. Sometimes, among the trees you see the birds twisting nests or at least you hope that it is what you see. I like to observe the spring nature. The nature glorifies the arrival of spring. The air is filled with a fragrant smell of the plants. A road-trip during spring is wonderful this is why I love it so much.
A road-trip for in autumn is beautiful, too. The golden warm autumn! The golden brush touches everything around – the gardens, the fields, the groves, the woods. The carpet of nature is covered with yellow and orange leafs. The whole Earth has been covered by color foliage as if you drive through a fine carpet. This is the moment of good bye of the summer and the begging of winter. The air is sharp, cool and fresh. You simply put on a warmer sweater but never put the window up!
A road trip for me is the moment of communication with nature; it is a dialogue between the nature and me. The beauty that you observe during a car road trip refreshed you, purify you soul and you mind!
John said that he had got two tickets for a new film. and saked if Mary Would like to go.
Mary said thad she would be busy that evening. She asked what time it would begin.
John answered that it would begin at half past eight.
Mary said that was all right. She thought that she would have enough time to do all I was planning to.
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Peter asked how long Ann was going to stay there.
Ann said that she was going to stay there A fortnight
Peter said that she would have enough time to see the sights
HE asked if she Would like to begin the next morning.
Ann agreed.
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A man apologized. He asked If Ann could speak English.
Ann said that she could speak a little.
The man asked me how he could get to Red Square from there?
Ann said that he could take the 12 bus and that it would take him ten minutes to get there.
The man thanked Ann.