- •2. Go through the vocabulary to avoid difficulty in understanding and
- •3. The context of the sentences will help you understand them. Pick up suitable
- •4. Make sure you’ ve got the meaning of the words. Now match the columns
- •5. While reading fill in the missing phrases given below. Entitle each
- •6. Complete the sentences through the multiple – choice ending
- •7. Now refer to the text again and match the beginnings with the proper
- •8. Suggest the Russian for the following. Make up your own sentences with
- •9. Match the verbs with the nouns in Table 6 to produce the phrase from
- •10. Insert the prepositions from the box in the blanks. You may use them
- •11. Do you ever make mistakes in the usage of the words ‘ historic ‘ and
- •12. Choose an alternative and answer the questions:
- •13. Choose a word or a phrase from the text which means nearly the
- •14. In the lines find an odd word and underline it
- •15.Which of the new words can you substitute for each italicized word or a
- •16.From the text pick up the sentences with the Passive Voice and give
- •17.Change these sentences into the Active Voice structure. Follow the
- •18. Do the opposite
- •1 9. 19. Find mistakes if there are any and make the forms correct
- •20. What do you think of the statements? Are they true or false? Mark
- •21. Give answers to these questions with some seven
- •22. Write a letter to a pen – friend about your plans after graduating from the
- •23. Read the article and pick up from the figure below the
- •24. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following:
- •25. Put the words into the right order
- •Important that.
- •26. Answer the questions
- •27. Refer to the second passage and say if you agree or disagree with the
- •28. Write an article about an organization / a person who did or is doing a
- •29.Get acquainted with the abstracts from the unesco World Heritage
- •30. “ Nomination of the Russian Cultural Property to the unesco World
- •Методические указания по английскому языку
27. Refer to the second passage and say if you agree or disagree with the
author of the article. Give your grounds.
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28. Write an article about an organization / a person who did or is doing a
lot to preserve cultural or natural heritage. Read the article about
Nicolas Roerich and get acquainted with an example of such activity
Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947), also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh was a Russian mystic, painter, philosopher, scientist, writer, traveler, and public figure. He created thousands of paintings (many of them are exhibited in well-known museums of the world) and about 30 literary works. Roerich was an author and initiator of an international pact for the protection of artistic and academic institutions and historical sites and a founder of an international movement for the defence of culture. Roerich earned several
nominations for the Nobel Prize.
In 1929, Roerich in collaboration with doctor of international law from Paris University G.G. Chklaver prepared a draft of an agreement dedicated to protection of cultural values (Roerich’s Pact). Coupled with the Pact Roerich proposed a distinctive sign for identification of protected objects – Banner of Peace which was a white cloth containing a red ring and three red circles inscribed in it. The sign symbolized a unity of the past, present and future into the ring of eternity .
Banner of Peace on the painting “Pax cultura”. 1931
The paragraphs of the Pact run as follows:
Roerich’s Pact has large educational value. “A pact for protection of cultural treasures is not only needed as an official body, but as an educational law that, from the very first school days, will educate the young generation with noble ideas of preservation of the whole mankind’s true values”, – wrote N. Roerich. Roerich’s Pact became the first international act especially devoted to protection of cultural values. It was a unique agreement in this field, which was accepted by a part of international community before the second World War. The idea of the Pact was welcomed by R. Rolland, B. Shaw, R. Tagore, A. Einstein, T. Mann, H. Wells.
The Pact was signed in the White House in Washington, on April 15, 1935 with the participation of US President F. Roosevelt. Originally, the document was ratified by 21 countries of the American continent. Later the Pact was validated by 15 countries more. In a few years after the war, Roerich’s Pact played an important role in forming of international law standards and public activity in the field of protection of cultural heritage.
✶ Nicolas Roerich –Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org.>wiki/ Nicolas Reorich