1 We are doing a test at the moment.
<span>2 We do a test after every unit. </span>
<span>3 It is not raining here today. </span>
<span>4 It hardly ever rains here. </span>
<span>5 We usually have English in this room. 6 l am sitting in the classroom now. </span>
<span>4 Complete the text with the present simple </span>
<span>or present continuous form of the verbs in brackets. </span>
<span>My cousin Carrie usually wears jeans, but now she is wearing a white dress. She is getting married today. I think she looks fantastic. Carrie usually goes to the hairdresser’s, but today the hairdresser is </span><span>styling her hair at home. l am painting her nails with some beautiful pink nail varnish at the moment. l am Very excited about today!</span>
Once upon a time in a Russian village lived an old peasant. He had three sons. The two elder sons were clever, but the youngest was a fool named Ivanushka. The family had a wheat field. One day they noticed that at night something had come into the field and trampled the wheat. The old peasant sent his sons to guard the field.
On the first night the eldest son went to the field, but did not try hard enough to stay awake and fell asleep. On the second night the middle son went to the field, but he too fell asleep and did not see anything.
On the third night Ivanushka went there. At midnight he saw a great chestnut-gray stallion wearing a gold saddle and a silver bridle. The stallion started to eat and trampled the wheat. Ivanushka managed to catch the wonderful horse. The stallion said, "Let me go free, I will be your friend. If you need something, go to the field, whistle and say, "Sivka-Burka, appear here!" I will come and help you".
Ivanushka agreed and let him go free. It happened about that time that the tsar, who had no son, organized a contest to determine who would succeed him as tsar. He placed his beautiful daughter on the top floor of a very tall tower and announced that the man who could reach the princess jumping on a horse and could take the ring from her finger would win her hand in marriage and rule the land. The older brothers decided to go to the competition, but Ivanushka stayed home.
When his brothers left, he whistled and called Sivka-Burka, who rose thundering out of the ground. Ivanushka climbed in his right ear and climbed out of the left ear a very handsome, well-dressed young man. Then he rode to the competition to try his luck. Sivka jumped trying to reach the princess. Ivan was very close to her, but couldn't quite reach the ring. He quickly turned the horse and galloped home. There he turned back into his previous self. When his brothers came from the tsar's courtyard they told Ivanushka about the handsome man who almost reached the princess. Ivanushka only laughed at them.
The next day the same thing happened. On the third day, Ivanushka and Sivka-Burka reached the princess and took the ring from her finger. Then they galloped away so quickly that nobody could even see Ivanushka's face. At home he turned back into his previous self but he had one hand in a bandage. His brothers asked him, "What is wrong with your hand?" He laughed and said, "Nothing serious, just a scratch".
<span>Three days later, the tsar invited everyone to a feast. The old peasant came with his three sons. They sat at the table ate, drank and had fun. At the end of the feast the tsar's daughter herself served honey to the guests. When she approached Ivanushka, she noticed the bandage on his hand and asked him, "Good young man, why do have a bandage on your hand? Let me look at it!" And there everyone saw the ring on his finger. The princess said, "Dear father, here is my fiance!"</span>
His red-white-blue design dates back to the time when Britain ruled the seas.
In fact, the flag should be called "Union flag", but now it is more often called "Union Jack", and write both words in small letters.
The modern design of the flag appeared in 1801, when Ireland became part of the United Kingdom. However, the first flag was established by Royal decree on 12 April 1606, was a little different: it was not a diagonal red lines - the so-called cross of St. Patrick. The flag was the result of a merger in 1603 the English and Scottish thrones under king James (First of England and Sixth of Scotland) .
Several options were proposed Royal banner, mostly representing the various combinations of crosses of St. George and St. Andrew, however, none of them never liked Jacob. Instead, he just put one flag to another that many Scots still think it is a mistake, because their flag was under British and they can't understand why their flag from the bottom.
Scottish sailors even redid the flag in their own way and still a few years to use them.
From the outset, the Union Jack was the Maritime flag, to use it on land and is not even supposed.
Kings can do everything
"The modern concept of the state flag fluttering on the building or in the garden, simply did not exist, as there was no Nations. Was Kingdom," says Graham Bartram, chief Vexillology, or a specialist in flags, the Institute flag. Accordingly, it turns out, Bartram notes that "since England and Scotland were at that time separate countries, Yakov created the flag for the country, which still does not exist."
According to him, the Union Jack was a Royal flag, and, at least in theory, remains so to this day.
In the XVII century savvy explorers used a flag to avoid paying port fees: then, a similar privilege is extended only to the warships. Because who ascended the throne after James and Charles I were ordered to raise the flag only on the ships of His Majesty, that is, on the ships of the Navy.
Even today, posting the "Union Jack" on a civilian ship is considered a criminal offence.
Jack in the name of "Union Jack", likely the same a tribute to naval etiquette: the so-called sailors national flag on military ships. However, there are other theories: according to one, the word is derived from the word "Jack-et" ("jack-et") of the doublet, which was worn by the soldiers. According to another, it is derived from the name of the king - which in Latin sounds like "James" and the French "Jacques".
Anyway, the debate about what to call the flag when it is not flying on the mast of the ship, but somewhere on land: "the Union Jack" or "Union flag" - continues to this day. Being a Royal flag, the Union Jack was abolished by Oliver Cromwell in 1649. Restored along with the monarchy - 11 years.
In 1801, the design of the flag complements the red diagonal cross representing the Union with Ireland, and after some changes made by the command of the Navy, the flag gradually began to be used on land.
"In the 1800's Britain had created an Empire, and she wanted a flag to mark their belonging to the acquired lands," says historian Malcolm Farrow.
And then, the national festival made a "Union Jack" even more necessary: military parades - especially after the First world war, Royal anniversaries have needed the symbolism.
But even in 1918, the flag has not yet become a national symbol, says Farrow.
"We use a lot of different flags, red and white Navy flags and even the Royal standard" - recalls the historian.
Today no one asks the question of whether the "Union Jack" national flag of the Kingdom of great Britain and Northern Ireland. Of course, it is. But it turned out not thanks to the political will, but rather by itself.
Lifetime of my dog was 14 years(Срок жизни моей собаки был 14 лет)
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Robert haven't a nice living-room in his flat my sister isn't an accountant on our firm. We havrn't two lectures and two seminars evry .