1.
1 My father's name is Eric.
2 My friends' names are Jeff and Joe.
3 Bill's cousin is Jill .
2.
1 I am not British. Am I British?
2 My friends are not thirteen. Are my friends thirteen?
3 Charlie Chaplin is not American. Is Charlie Chaplin American?
3.
1 I have got two brothers.
2 He has got a mobile phone.
3 Have you got a dog?
4.
Become became become
Fly flew flown
Drink drank drunk
See saw seen
Holidays & Traditions of Kazakhstan.
Source for this section: http://www.president.kz/
NAURYZ
- a holiday of spring, is the most momentous and ancient festivity of
Oriental nations. In fact, it is a New Year's Eve according to the
ancient Oriental calendar. It has yet another name "Ulys Kuni"("The
first day of the New Year") or "Ulystyn uly kuni" ("The great day of the
people").
They say that the more you celebrate the Nauryz holiday, the greater your success throughout the year.
When
the holiday comes, Kazakhs put on festive clothes, pay visits to each
other, and exchange congratulations, best wishes and good luck in the
coming year. The festivities are accompanied by widespread merry-making,
games, traditional horse-races, and various other activities.
Traditionally
they cook and make all sorts of tasty meals during the holidays,
symbolizing well-being and abundance in the coming year. The feast is
usually served at noon, and is preceded and followed by a prayer in
honor of the fore-fathers. At the conclusion of the feast, the eldest of
those present gives his blessings (bata) so that prosperity will be
with the family.
When Kazakhs celebrate Nauryz, presence of the
number seven is essential - it embodies seven days of the week – the
time units of universal eternity. In front of aksakals ("white beards"or
old men) they put seven bowls with the drink of "Nauryz-kozhe",
prepared of seven grades of seven types of cereals.
BERKUTCHI, or
“hunting with a golden eagle,” is a tradition that has been practiced
for ten centuries. The Kazakh belief is that presenting a fledgling
hunting bird to a boy is tantamount to wishing him to be a brave and
strong young fellow.
Training a golden eagle is a rare and
painstaking art. The bird just caught (photo at left) is being slowly
trained to its master (a berkutchi). The man training the bird doesn't
sleep for several nights with the bird being subjected to similar
discomfort. First, the bird must take food (pieces of raw meat) from its
master's hand only. When the eagle gets used to the hunter, its horse
and its dog, it undergoes the next phase of training: first it "hunts"
stuffed foxes and only after mastering that will it then proceed with
real hunting.
Along, past, through,into,up,down,over,across, towards.
1. come
2. seen
3. come
4. gone
5. been
6. gone
7. spoken
8. worn
<span>My favourite writer — Mikhail Lermontov. In my opinion, is the greatest poet, prose writer and dramatist of Russian and world literature. No doubt, he is a genius of literature, such as Alexander Pushkin and Alexander Griboyedov.Lermontov lived a short but very interesting and eventful life. Turning to his biography, here you can find a lot of very interesting facts about the life of the poet, as well as the history of the origin of his kind. So, for example, we know that the Lermontov family came from Scotland and was traced back to mythical bard-prophet Thomas Learmonth. In 1613, one of the members of this genus was taken prisoner by the Russians in the capture of the fortress of White, and other so-called Bielsko Germans had entered the service of the Muscovite Tsar. He converted to Orthodoxy and became, under the name of Yuri Andreevich, the founder of a Russian noble family of the Lermontov family. Mikhail knew about his Russian roots, and dedicated the poem "Desire", written in 1831, his Scottish ancestors.</span>