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1. Music in Ukraine Over the centuries the Ukrainian people have created music. Music art of Ukraine is very rich, it reflects our life, our ideas and emotions. In their folk songs the Ukrainian people showed their heroic past connected with the defence of the Motherland, the struggle for national freedom. Bandura, kobza and sopilka are national musical instruments […]...
2. Shakespeare is the most famous British playwright in history People know his name in almost every country in the world. But who exactly was William Shakespeare? That is the question! Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon on 23 April, 1564. Families were big in those days. William had seven brothers and sisters. But his parent’s weren’t poor; his father, John Shakespeare, was a successful businessman […]...
3. Моя страна Украина – My country Ukraine My name is Milena, and I was born in Ukraine, I live here is about 15 years. Ukraine is my Motherland and I`m very proud to live here. So I`d like to tell you about my country. Ukraine is one of the largest countries of Eastern Europe. The capital of Ukraine is Kyiv. It is […]...
4. Lesia Ukrainka (1871-1913) Larisa Kosach (pen name Lesia Ukrainka) was born in Novgorod-Volynsky on February 25, 1871 which is now in Zhytomir Region. Her father was a lawyer and her mother was a Ukrainian writer (pen-name Olena Pchilka). When Lesia was nine, her parents moved to the town of Lutsk and settled at an estate near Kovel. Because […]...
5. Білет № 15 Відповіді на білети. Англійська мова Ви берете участь у роботі літературного гуртка своєї школи. Розкажіть про свого улюбленого поета, дайте коротку характеристику його творчості. The roots of Ukrainian culture lie deep in the history of the nation. Having gone through centuries of hard and sometimes tragic developments, it is still alive in the hearts of people, in their customs, traditions […]...
6. HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY There were Slavic settlements on the territory of the modern European part of Russia still long before Christ. However, as a beginning of the Russian state the 9 th century is held when the Old-Russian state here had been formed. In 988 Vladimir the Great has accepted the Christianity and have spread this new religion […]...
7. Famous People of Russia Much was done by people to reach the present state of human development. It is necessary to say that great contribution to the development of the world science and culture, literature, music and painting was made by the Russian people. The names of Russian scientists and writers, poets, composers and painters are world-famous-Pushkin, Lermontov, Chehov, […]...
8. История одного театра – The history is of theatre Art is long, life is short. I completely agree with this proverb. I’m interested in theatres and I want to tell you about the history of the English theatre. The Backfires theatre was built in 1576, and the Globe, which is closely connected with Shakespeare, in 1599. William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays. Many of them, […]...
9. Vasyl Simonenko (1935-1963) Vasyl Simonenko is one of the greatest and most popular Ukrainian poets. He was born on the 8th of January 1935 in the village of Byivtsy in Poltavskaya region. His father died very early, so his childhood was rather difficult. He studied at school very well and in 1952 he entered Kyiv University at the […]...
10. O`Henry My favorite foreign writer is O. Henry. He was born in 1862. O. Henry is one of the most widely published American authors. His works have been translated into many languages. The best of his stories were published in books: “Cabbages and Kings”, “The 4 million”, “Heart of West” and others. His credo was-art should […]...
11. A short history of film New Zealand In New Zealand, where the film industry had long been marginal, Peter Jackson first came on the scene in 1987 with his twisted science fiction gore film Bad Taste, which he also acted in, photographed, and edited. Next were the puppet horror film Meet the Feebles (1989) and the darkly humorous splatter film Dead Alive […]...
12. Ray Duglas Bradbury (1920) Ray Bradbury is an American author of many imaginative science-fiction short stories, novels and plays. Ray Bradbury was born on August 22,1920, in the town of Wokehan, Illinois, into the family of an electric plant worker. His mother was a devoted cinema fan, and Ray got his second name after his mother’s favourite actor, a […]...
13. HISTORY OF THE UK Like every old country on Earth the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland long and very interesting history. Since ancient times Celtic and Anglo-Saxon tribes inhabited these numerous islands, not far from Europe. In the first century before Christi Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, came to Britain on purpose to make it a […]...
14. Эрнест Хемингуэй и его произведения – The highlights of E. Hemingway Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. For a serious writer he achieved a rare cult-like popularity during his life time. E. Hemingway was a prolific letter writer and many of his letters were published in “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters”. The influence of Hemingway`s writings […]...
15. Еnvironmental Protection in Our Country Захист навколишнього середовища став однією із найбільш пекучих проблем 20 сторіччя. Наша планета дає людям мінеральні ресурси, ріки, ліси, поля – усе, що складає основу промислового і сільськогосподарського виробництва. Розвиток промисловості негативно впливає на природу усього світу. Діяльність людини часто дуже забруднює землю і воду. Це дуже небезпечно, тому що це шкодить здоров’ю людей. Аварія […]...
16. London, Jack (1876-1916) The novelist and short-story writer Jack London was, in his lifetime, one of the most popular authors in the world. After World War I his fame was eclipsed in the United States by a new generation of writers, but he remained popular in many other countries, especially in the Soviet Union, for his romantic tales […]...
17. Pushkin Pushkin is the most important Russian writer of all time, like Shakespeare in England or Dante in Italy. Pushkin provided the standards for Russian arts and literature in the 19th century. Pushkin was born in Moscow in 1799 into an upper-class family. In 1811 he entered a lyceum at Tsarskoye Solo. The education offered at […]...
18. Famous writers There are many famous English writers. Among them are William Shakespeare, Keepling and many others. I will tell you about the life and work of Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming, because I like their books most of all. Ian Fleming is the author of internationally famous James Bond spy novels. And in his life […]...
19. Как написать хитовую песню! – How to write a song! Have you ever written a song? If your answer is “yes”, you will have more experience in this question. After reading this article you find something interesting for you. If your answer is “no”, why not to try it right now? Let’s see what you should know to write a song! Step by step: 1. […]...
20. Lina Kostenko (1930) Lina Kostenko, a wide known Ukrainian poetess, was born on March 19, 1930 in Rzhyshchiv, Kyiv region, into the family of school teachers. She studied at Kiev Pedagogical Institute and graduated from Gorky Institute of literature in Moscow. Her first poems were published in the early 1950s. Lina Kostenko belonged to the Ukrainian writers of […]...
21. Ivan Franko (1856-1916) Ivan Franko was born on the 27lh of August 1856 in Drohobych county, Galicia. The son of the village blacksmith Ivan graduated from gymnasium in 1875 and began to study classical philology, Ukrainian Language and literature at Lviv University. His first literary works were published in the student’s magazine. Franko’s political and publishing activities attracted […]...
22. Жизненные ценности человека – Vital values of the person What is the vital value of the person? Certainly it what values to what aspires and of what he thinks. Different people think differently, will condemn, argue or impose therefore the point of view wrong and even to the inappropriate. One can appreciate work, career, a place in a society; another on the first place […]...
23. A short history of film India For the hypercommercial Indian film industries, the musical romance film still reigns supreme, yet alternative visions continue to challenge their dominance. Whereas the musicals were surefire box office propositions, more marginal Indian movies relied on private financing and government grants to defray production costs. We have already traced the career of director Ritwik Ghatak, one […]...
24. Far North – the “country of white silence” The Far North is diverse. This is glaciers and stony deserts of Arctic Region, drifting ice of the Arctic seas, tundra, sometimes sad, low and waterlogged, sometimes dry covered with a motley carpet of blossoming grass in summer. These are dense bushes and single trees, larches groves of fur-trees, gnarled birches. The Far North – […]...
25. История Самарской области – The History of the Samara region More than two million seven hundred twenty thousand one hundred seventy one persons Russian – the basic population of the Russian Federation live in the Samara Region. The formation of the Russian population of the Samara area occurred in the sixteenth – nineteen the centuries for the account of a resettlement from the other places. […]...
26. My grandmother country house You are lucky if you have grandmother in the country to go to. Visiting our old relatives gives us excellent chance to become children again. Every time you are at your grannies they start to take care of you. That’s why everybody loves his grannies very much. Countryside is always the nicest place for everybody […]...
27. Vasyl Stus (1938-1985) To speak about such Ukrainian poet as Vasyl Stus is not such an easy task as it might seem. The thing is that the names of such writers as Taras Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrainka, Ivan Franko are well-known to the readers, but they belonged to the previous century. As for the names of modern writers, they […]...
28. A short history of film Leni Riefenstahl Notable in the Nazi’s use of the cinema to further their own ends was the career of propagandist and documentarian Leni Riefenstahl. Born in Berlin in 1902, Riefenstahl rapidly emerged as the foremost filmmaker of the Reich. A genuine artist, she gave her considerable skills to the Nazi cause, most notably in her “documentary” of […]...
29. A short history of film Canada Canada had a resurgence of cinematic activity in the 1970s thanks to a generous subsidy program to encourage national filmmaking. The two major Jane Campion’s Sweetie (1989), a tale of sibling rivalry between Sweetie (Geneviève Lemon, left) and Kay (Karen Colston), is one of the most personal films of the New Australian cinema. Filmmakers to […]...
30. The history of International organization the City and Guilds The City and Guilds has been founded in 1878, which the main purpose was to establish a national system of technical education in the UK. The first exams were held in cotton manufacture, steel manufacture, gas manufacture, wool dyeing, alkaline manufacture, telegraphy and qualitative blowpipe analysis. But the organization went out on a new level […]...
31. Человек, с которым я бы хотел поговорить – The person I would like to speak to The person I would like to speak to. The question is interesting enough, and strange as it may seem it has made me thinking. . . I`ve never meditated on this theme before but when started, it appeared that there is quite a large number of questions which I could ask different people. I could […]...
32. Письмо моему американскому учителю – A letter to my American teacher Hello, Marty! This is Valentina from Stary Oskol in Russia. Do you remember me? I was in the summer camp in Anapa with my grandmother. How are you? Do you have many students this year? I am very happy because this year my parents gave my a great present – little sister! Her name is […]...
33. Tourism and its history Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. A tourist is someone who travels at least eighty kilometres (fifty miles) from home for the purpose of recreation, as defined by the World Tourism Organization (a United Nations body). A more comprehensive […]...
34. Знаменна подія в історії України. An Outstanding Event in Ukrainian History У житті будь-якої країни є події, що зберігаються протягом століть. Україна має довгу історію, що відбиває різні стадії її історичного розвитку, численні періоди її процвітання й занепаду. Довгий час наша країна жила під владою Польщі, Литви і Росії. З 1922 по 1991 рік Україна входила до складу Союзу Радянських Соціалістичних Республік під назвою Українська Радянська […]...
35. My Favourite Writers Я люблю читати. Звичайно я беру книги в бібліотеці, але в мене багато їх і вдома. Мені подобається читати книги про знаменитих людей і детективи. Література багато значить у моєму житті. Вона допомагає формувати характер і краще зрозуміти життя. У російській і зарубіжній літературі є імена, що дуже дорогі мені. У російській літературі я високо […]...
36. COMPOSITION CULTURE AND SCIENCE IN UKRAINE Much credit in the development of Ukrainian science is due to M. Ostrohradsky (mathematics), O. Bodyansky (linguistics), V. Antonovich (history), V. Obraztsov, M. Strazhenko, V. Filatov (various branches of medicine). The creation of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1918 – was an event of historical importance. Among its founding members were Volodymyr Vernadsky, a […]...
37. Taras Shevchenko Taras Shevchenko, born 9 March 1814 in Moryntsi, Kyiv gubernia, died 10 March 1861 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Artist, poet, and national bard of Ukraine was born a serf. Shevchenko was orphaned in his early teens and grew up in poverty. At the age of 14 he was taken by his owner, Engelhardt, to serve […]...
38. Духи – “J`adore” от Christian Dior – Description of one of the famous perfumes – “J`adore” and explanation of its importance to me Last year, having dropped in one of the cosmetics shops, I came across there a long line of bottles filled with majestic aromas of various perfumes, but one of those little bottles caught my eyes immediately. It was among other perfumes of the same brand Christian Dior, the bottle was shining in the light of […]...
39. Мои размышления о красоте – My thoughts about beauty “Not every beauty inspires love: sometimes it gladdens the eye, but did not conquer the heart”. M. Cervantes. Writers, composers and artists are always talking about the man in their books, music and art. What is he like? Good, honest, fair, smart, brave or evil, faint-hearted, stupid? The artist watches the people trying to understand […]...
40. New Zealand – the Country of Long White Clouds Нова Зеландія, незалежна держава і член співдружності держав, розташована на південному сході Австралії. Країна складається з двох великих островів. Першими тут оселилися маорі. Це було 1000 років тому. Маорі відносяться до полінезійців. Наприкінці 19 сторіччя сюди прийшли британці. “Аврора” – перший британський корабель, що завітав до Нової Зеландії. Британці вели справжні війни з маорі. Тисячі […]...