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- •Методические рекомендации для работы с комплектом контрольных заданий
- •Unit 1 grammar practice практические задания по грамматике
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- •King Alfred the Great (849-899)
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- •The Names of the Months
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- •More on Scottish History
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- •Physical Features
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- •The First Cinema Films
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- •May Week at Cambridge
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- •Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
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- •Economic problems, policies, and decisions
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- •The economic environment
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- •Appendix1 the pronoun местоимение
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- •Сводная таблица изменений видовременных форм глагола в действительном залоге Appendix3
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Stamp Curiosities
The first stamp in the world was an English stamp. It was made in 1840 to pay the postage on letters going to different parts of the country.
But why do people all over the world collect stamps? The answer is very simple. Stamps are always interesting because they have pictures on them of the countries they came from; pictures of animals and birds living in jungles or on far-away islands; and pictures showing the peoples of different countries, dressed in their national costumes.
A stamp-collection is not only a good textbook of history and geography. It is also a source of information on many other subjects.
Stamp-collecting helps people from all continents to become friends and get to know each other better.
Sometimes there are mistakes on stamps, but you will see them only if you know geography, history, music and many other things as well. Here are some examples.
The St. Kitts and Nevis stamp, issued in 1903, shows Christopher Columbus looking through a telescope, an instrument which was unknown in his day!
The Newfoundland stamp, issued in 1886, shows a seal on an icefloe. It looks like any other seal till you look at its front legs and see that it has feet instead of flippers. For a long time collectors who have a knowledge of zoology thought that this was another stamp mistake. However it was discovered that the great Grey Seal of Newfoundland really has forefeet instead of flippers. The artist had been right after all.
On a German stamp, issued in 1956 in commemoration of the composer Schumann, the music printed on the stamp was not written by Schumann. It was written by another German composer Schubert. Stamp-collectors knowing music well saw the mistake at once. The post-offices stopped selling these stamps and today one can be found only in a few collections.
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May Week at Cambridge
The most interesting time of year in which to visit Cambridge is during May Week. This is neither in May nor a week. For some reasons which nobody remembers, May Week is the name given to the first two weeks in June, the very end of the University year.
May Week denotes not so much a particular period of time as the general atmosphere of relaxation at the end of the year's work. It starts for each undergraduate when he finishes his examinations.
Everything as far as possible has to happen in the open air-parties, picnics, concerts and plays. May Week seems like a celebration of the coming of spring, till then ignored in favour of examinations, and this spirit of release seems to take over the entire (the whole) town. People go to the river behind the colleges which stand next to the river to watch May boat races, in which young energetic men are ready to show off their skill.
Music and drama also have a part to play in the festivities. Nearly every college of the University (and there are over 20 of them) holds a May Week concert or presents a play in the open air.
But the most important events are the May Balls for which some girls do their best for month in advance to get invitations. College May Balls are the climax of May Week and for many undergraduates are the final event of their university life, when the river is lit with coloured lights, ballroom orchestra plays for dancers and punts glide romantically down the river.
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