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TRADITIONS & CUSTOMS OF GREAT BRITIAN.

                  Every nation and every country has its own customs and traditions.In    Britian traditions play more   importaint part in the life of the people than     in some other countries.         Englishmen are proud of their traditions and carefully keep them up.         It has been the law for about three hundred years that all the theatres     are closed on Sundays no letters are delivered only a few Sunday papers are     publshed.   To this day English families prefer cotage houses with gardens to flats     in a modern house with central heeting.English people like gardens.Sometimes      the garden in front of the house is a little square covered with cement

   painted green (in imitation of grass) and a box of flowers.         In English houses the fire-place has always been the centre of interest      in a room.For many months of the year people like to sit round the fire and

   watch the dancing flames.Fire places are decorated with woodworks,there is      a painting or a mirror over it.Above the fire there is usually a shelf with    a clock and some photographs.         Holydays are especially rich in old traditions and are different in  cotland,Wales and England.Christmas is a great english national holyday      and in Scotland it is not kept at all exeept by clerks in banks,all the     shops and factories are working.But 6 days later on the New Year's Eve the

Scots begin to enjoy themselves.People invite their friends to their houses      and sit the old year out and the new year in.In England on new Year's Eve a

   lot of people go to Trafalgar Square,at midnight,they all cross their arms     join hands and sing.People have parties too,they drink toarts to the New

   Year Children are happy to have presents.

       Four times a year the offices and banks in Britain are closed on Monday.     These public holidays are known as Bank Holidays.The British like to spend

   holidays out of the town in the open air.They go to the sea-side or to      amusements parks.          Londoners often visit the Zoo,outside  London they take their families      to Hamsted Heath ['hķmstid'hi@] a large natural park too.There is usually     a big fair with many different amusements for children merry-go-round,swings     puppet shows,bright baloons.

       One must also speak about such holidays ass All Fools Day,Hallowe'en     Bonfire Night,St.Valentines Day and such tradition as Eisteddfod (a festival

   of which culture).

           

SCIENCE IN OUR LIFE

        Today we see the world in which social,industrial and political order      has been greatly influenced by science.The development of science has      increased man's know-ledge of nature.          Modern experimental science began about 400 year ago.Man learned to use the      energy of fire water.Later man made steaw serve him.Nowdays man uses      thermonuclear energy and that of autimatter.          I'd like to dwell on electronics as not a day passes without the apearnce      of a new eletronic device.The first great progress in electronics came with    the invention of the vacuum tube or valve in 1904.it made broad casting    possible.the development of electronics during World War II gave us radars

    and electronic computers.        The first general purpose computer for scientific use was invented in

    1949.Today computers have become common they can do fantastic things.        Computer can condukt experiments in places which are too dangerous for

 people.Some computers are used in carves and mines to replace    workers.Besides thay can be designed for special purposes.        Thay can solve mathimatical

problems,make bank aubuts,play chess.New   supercomputers solve problems in many branches of industry,science and      culture.They are videly used in submarine navigation and in modern     hospital.Now much is being done to create artifical intellect.Science has     brought in to being a new atomic technologies.Elektric enginearing and      radio enginearin have been created in the some way.

        Science and technology have acheeved great progress in spase research.There    have been space flights,the launching of interplanetary stations in the

    direction of Mars, Radar contacts with the planets Mercury and Venus.Science    enters own flats.Many people have already forgotten what the world was like

    before television.several generations of children have grown up with TV as    a baby-sitter,teacher and companion.        A lot of kitchens in our flats are so well equipped that they look like a    control room.We are so used to all these that we can't (emmigenc) our life

    without science.

           

The United Kingdom

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 thousands small islands. Their total area is over 244 000 square kilometres.  The United Kingdom is one of the world's smaller countries. Its  population is over 57 million. About 80 percent of the population is urban.  The United Kingdom is made up of four countries: England, Wales,  Scotland and Northern Ireland. Their capitals are London, Cardiff,  Edinburgh and Belfast respectively. Great Britain consists of England ,  Scotland and Wales and does not include Northern Ireland. But in everyday  speech Great Britain is used in the meaning of the United Kingdom of  Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The capital of the UK. is London.  The British Isles are separated from the Continent by the North Sea  and the British Channel. The *western coast of Great Britain is washed  by the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish Sea.

The surface of the British Isles varies very much. The north of Scotland is mountainous and is called the Highlands. The South, which  has beautiful valleys and plains, is called the Lowlands. The north and  west of England are mountainous, but the eastern, central and south-   eastern parts of England are a vast plain. Mountains are not very high.  Ben Nevis in Scotland is the highest mountain (1343 m). There are a lot  of rivers iri Great Britain, but they are not very long. The Severn is the  longest rive?, while the Thames is the deepest and the most important  oae. The mountains, the Atlantic Ocean and the warm waters of the Gulf  Stream influence the climate of the British Isles. It is mild the whole  year round.  The UK. is a highly developed industrial country. It produces and  exports machinery, electronics, textile. One of the chief industries of  the country is shipbuilding. *  The UK is a constitutional monarchy with a parliament and the  Queen as Head of State.

 

           

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln is the most famous example of the **American  dream». Many Americans think that in their country a man may rise  from the lowest to the highest position in th*irland. That was exactly

what Lincoln did.  He was born in 1809 in a small farm in Kentucky. When Abraham  was quite young, the family moved to the wild forest land of Indiana. He

hardly had any education; he only learned to read and write and do  simple arithmetic. In 1830 Abraham left his father's farm and went to  Springfield, Illinois. There he became a clerk in a store and worked hard  to improve his education. In 1836 he became a lawyer.

He entered politics, too, and in 1834 became a candidate to the  Parliament of Illinois. He soon became a force in the political life. In  1847 he went as a Congressman to the National

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