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Ученики 10 класса
Новиков Захар
Вяткина Мария
Гулуев Денис
Блаженова Александра
Мухаммедов Рустам
Кузнецова Анна.
C ontent:
- Food.(3-5)
- National (regional) symbols.(6-7)
- People’s activities.(8-10)
- Houses around the world.(11-13)
- F lags .(14-16)
- Geographical characteristics.(17-19)
Russian Food
People in Russia usually have three meals a day. They are breakfast, dinner and supper. Usually people do not eat much for breakfast. A usual breakfast includes sandwiches, omelet or corn flakes. But you will be able to try some traditional Russian dishes for breakfast. a cheese pancake re very popular for breakfast. cheese pancake are dough containing lots of cottage cheese fried on a pan. They are served with sour cream and honey.
cheese pancake
American Food
Americans eat a lot. They have three meals a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Most of Americans don't eat home but prefer to go to restaurants. They can choose from many kind of restaurants. There is a great number of ethnic restaurants in the United States. Italian, Chinese and Mexican food is very popular. An American institution is the fast food restaurant, which is very convenient but not very healthy.
However there are some principles of American cuisine (if we may call it so). Americans drink a lot of juices and soda, eat a lot of meat, fruits and vegetables, not much bread. In the morning Americans have cereal or scrambled eggs, milk or orange juice.
Chicken or fish, fried potatoes, vegetable salads, and desert: this is the most common menu for lunch. Dinner is probably the most important meal of the day, some people have family dinner, when all members of family have to be there.
For dinner Americans usually have meat, fried or baked potatoes with ketchup or sour cream, corn, peas, sometimes macaroni and cheese or spaghetti; ice-cream, fruit or cake may be for dessert.
Turkey, ham and apple pie are traditional for Christmas and Thanksgiving Day dinners.
England Food
English breakfast
The English proverb says: every cook praises his own broth. One can not say English cookery is bad, but there is not a lot of variety in it in comparison with European cuisine. The English are very particular about their meals. The usual meals in England are breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner.
Breakfast time is between seven and nine a.m. A traditional English breakfast is a very big meal. It consists of juice, porridge, a rasher or two of bacon and eggs, toast, butter, jam or marmalade, tea or coffee. Marmalade is made from oranges and jam is made from other fruit
- The English proverb says: every cook praises his own broth. One can not say English cookery is bad, but there is not a lot of variety in it in comparison with European cuisine. The English are very particular about their meals. The usual meals in England are breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. Breakfast time is between seven and nine a.m. A traditional English breakfast is a very big meal. It consists of juice, porridge, a rasher or two of bacon and eggs, toast, butter, jam or marmalade, tea or coffee. Marmalade is made from oranges and jam is made from other fruit
America . S tatue of Liberty .
People who come to New York by sea are greeted by the Statue of Liberty. It has become a symbol of the city (if not of the whole country) and an expression of freedom to people all over the world. The statue shows liberty as a proud woman draped in the graceful folds of a loose robe. In her uplifted right hand, she holds a glowing torch. She wears a crown with seven spikes that stand for the light of liberty shining on the seven seas and seven continents. In her left arm, she holds a tablet with the date of the Declaration of Independence. A chain that represents tyranny lies broken at her feet.
The Statue of Liberty was France's gift to America. It was designed by the French sculptor Bartholdi and presented to the USA in 1886. The Lady in the Harbour stands 151 feet tall, weighs nearly 225 tons and has a 35-foot waist. In 1986 she underwent a face-lift in honour of her 100th birthday.
There is a museum in the base of the statue devoted to the history of immigration to the United States.
365 steps lead from the entrance to the observation area in the seven-pointed crown (visitors are not allowed to climb to the torch). The views are breathtaking. The Lady of the Harbour is tourists' favourite souvenir. It takes the form of salt shakers and pencil sharpeners.
Great Britain. B ig Ben
The big clock on the tower of the Palace of Westminster in London is often called Big Ben. But Big Ben is really the bell of the clock. It is the biggest clock bell in Britain. It weighs 13.5 tons.
The clock tower is 318 feet high. You have to go up 374 steps to reach the top. So the clock looks small from the pavement below the tower.
But its face is 23 feet wide. It would only just fit into some classrooms.
The minute-hand is 14 feet long. Its weight is equal to that of two bags of coal. The hour-hand is 9 feet long.
The clock bell is called Big Ben after Sir Benjamin Hall. He had the job to see that the bell was put up.
Sir Benjamin was a big man. One day he said in Parliament, "Shall we call the bell St. Stephen's?" St. Stephen's is the name of the tower.
But someone said for a joke, "Why not call it Big Ben?" Now the bell is known all over the world by that name.
People’s activities. England .
Most people living in America are polite, courteous, smooth in communication with people you can chat. Americans respect each other, not because it is necessary, but because they are the people themselves, and simply got used to such treatment. People living in America, behave quietly and calmly. They can deal with. Americans are very competent, always decent look. The literacy rate of the American population is 97%.
People’s activities. Great Britain.
People in the UK are usually polite, complacent and friendly. Contrary to popular belief, the majority of Britons are very talkative and sociable. A good sense of humor characteristic of the entire country. British - proud and patriotic people often, and anyone who does not respect the British way of life, will be put in place, despite the fact that the British criticize their country more than any other nation. People go to the UK all year round in light clothing. Many Britons use endearing words to the end of sentences in conversation with strangers.
People’s activities. Russia .
One can not deny the talent of the Russian people. A characteristic feature Russian is the wealth of feelings and passions, in other words,
intensity of the inner life. Richness of the inner life and explains the surprising combination of opposite traits of the Russian character. Honesty, truthfulness, kindness and loyalty combined with isolation, lies, trickery, violence, cruelty, and fantastic hatred. Russian does not live with the mind and sense, he follows his heart. This explains his religiosity. Russian believe, they want to believe in something or someone: it must be understood not only in the religious
sense. One characteristic of the Russian is endurance. Russian accustomed to endure suffering and resentment.
Houses around the world. England .
House on some streets in England still do not have numbers, and are referred to as private property of a certain person. The house with the name, with its own name - a phenomenon that is common in England. According to statistics, in 1981 in England, there were about 20 million households. About two-thirds of all owner-occupied homes, most owned by landlords and rented rent. Houses in England is very beautiful, almost near each house planted with flowers, trees, bushes.
Houses around the world. Great Britain.
Home living room in Britain moved to the first floor, where the windows are made, and on the second floor are the bedrooms. In Britain, the external stone staircase constructed even in the XVIII century. House in Britain in appearance and in his plan resembles southern European type of housing has always been on the second floor and the first floor was used for household needs. The modern two-storey cottages, built often with the direct participation of urban architects, very little like the old house. Nevertheless, some traditional features are preserved in most new homes, it is primarily vertical layout, the location of bedrooms on the second floor, which had its origins in the ancient home of high-hall.
Houses around the world. Russia .
It turned out that the names of the houses were in pre-revolutionary Russia. Moreover, only in the XIX century in the address books began to appear number of buildings. Up to this point, every house had a name of its owner. In Russia, the desire is to provide homeowners their house from several others. Russia also has a tradition of naming buildings, but it is widely received only recently. The previously existing names are not official, and are subject to folk art. In Russia, mostly two or three-storey private house. House is fenced. Often people run in the yard dog.
F lags . England .
The national flag of America, also known as the Stars and Stripes, the official national symbol of America (along with the great seal and the anthem). Is a rectangular cloth with horizontal homolographic seven red alternating with six white stripes. In the square of dark blue - 50 five-pointed white stars. 13 stripes represent the 13 British colonies that formed the independent state. Blue square represents the Union. The number of stars in the blue box represents the number of states (currently there are 50). The red color symbolizes endurance and courage, dark blue - hard work, justice, vigilance, white - innocence and purity. The ratio of the flag's width to its length is 10:19.
F lags . Great Britain.
Flag of Great Britain - one of the national symbols of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Is a blue rectangular flag with a red cross in a straight white border superimposed on the red and white oblique crosses. Officially, the ratio of width and length of the flag is not set, but usually public authorities use flags with a width to length is 1:2, while in the Army and Navy flag is used with the ratio of width to length ratio 3:5.
F lags . Russia .
The national flag of the Russian Federation - its official state symbol (along with the coat of arms and anthem). Approved by Presidential Decree № 2126 of 11 December 1993 "On the State Flag of the Russian Federation." Is a rectangular cloth of three equal horizontal stripes: - white, middle - blue and the bottom - red. The ratio of the flag's width to its length is 2:3. Bly color means peace, purity, integrity, excellence, blue - the color of faith and fidelity, constancy, the color red symbolizes energy, strength, blood shed for their country.
G eographical characteristics . England .
England is two-thirds of the island of Great Britain. It has borders with Scotland to the west - with Wales. England landscape consists mostly of rolling hills, to the north the terrain becomes more mountainous. Mountainous and flat terrain conditionally divided by a line drawn between the mouth of the River Tees in the north-east and the mouth of the river Devon in the south-west. To the east is located slashes, which basically was drained for agricultural use. Six of the largest cities in England (descending population): London, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool and Manchester.
G eographical characteristics . Great Britain.
The state is located in the British Isles (the island of Great Britain and the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, a large number of small islands and archipelagos, the Channel Islands, Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands), the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea, and the south-east coast is only 35 km from the northern coast of France, which are separated by the English Channel. Greenwich Observatory in London is the place of determination of the zero meridian. Overall, Britain lies between north latitude 49 ° and 61 ° and between 9 ° and 2 ° east longitude.
G eographical characteristics . Russia .
Russia is located in the Northern Hemisphere, in the north of Eurasia. It is washed by the waters of the Pacific and Arctic oceans, as well as the Baltic, Black, Azov seas of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caspian Sea, while having the longest coastline (37,653 km). Ural Mountains and the Kuma-Manych depression divide Russia into the European and Asian parts, the latter includes the North Caucasus, Siberia and the Russian Far East. At the beginning of XX century, Mendeleev determined the geographical center of the Russian Empire at 63 ° 29 's. sh. 83 ° 20 '(about Turukhansk).