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ПОЛУЧИТЬ ОТВЕТ At the funeral, the girl's father broke _________ and started crying.
Two men broke _______ of prison.
The fire broke ___________ in his basement and quickly spread upwards.
My motorbike broke __________ on the motorway and I had to walk to the nearest garage.
The robber broke __________ the house by smashing a window.
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When the lawyer fell off the chair, everyone broke __________ laughter.
Their school usually breaks ___________ for the summer in June.
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Read the paragraph from the Internet blog ‘What Are the Best Seeds for Growing Microgreens?'. Fill in the gaps with the correct parts of the sentences.
*Read the parts of the blog and choose titles for them. BY DAY TRANSLATIONS: 2 OCTOBER 2018 1. It is often said that language and culture are closely related. But linguists are still debating whether culture is responsible for shaping language, or if it is the other way around. What remains a fact is that the use of a language is definitely culture-related. Some linguists believe that an individual’s way of thinking is formed by language. The effect the language exerts on an individual can even put a limit on the ideas and thoughts of people and even their conduct. 2. Linguistic markers can have an effect on the perception of people, according to communication scholars. Linguistic markets are speech features that may be used to indicate the social identity of a person. There are studies regarding how women speak. Some markers may be for uncertainty, saying that most women end their speech with tag questions. Women, they say, are fond of using qualifiers such as perhaps and maybe, and often include disclaimers when they speak. They are also fond of using a variety of colours while speaking, such as lilac or aqua or baby pink, instead of using standard colour works like blue or yellow or orange. 3. The origin of language is something that will perhaps remain obscure forever. It has been the subject of many debates, but, no one has come up with a specific answer of where language came from. This is vastly different from the study of the origin of the different languages, so you must not confuse the former with the latter. Language forms different connections that determine its use.
*Read four texts. Imagine you are releasing an article in a magazin and have to choose illustrations for each text. Match the texts to the pictures below. A. If you are a fan of warm fried rings of dough that we lovingly call donuts, join in celebration of the National Donut Day! This American “holiday” is celebrated on the first Friday of June; it is a tradition that dates all the way back to 1917, when Salvation Army volunteers were sent to take care of the US soldiers fighting in World War One. Seeing how homesick and miserable the soldiers were, the women decided to do something special. Sure enough, the hot tempting smell of fresh donuts worked like a charm in lifting their spirits! Since then, it has become a US tradition. What’s even better is that many stores have joined in this fun tradition by handing out free donuts to customers during the entire day. B. On Saturday April 6th, thousands of adults and children all over the world got together in their respective cities with one purpose in mind to have a good old-fashioned pillow fight with total strangers! Now in its sixth year, the hour-long event is the invention of an organization called Urban Playground. The organizers think that the pillow fights area harmless way for people to free from stress and have some fun. The rules? No hitting anyone with a camera or anyone without a pillow! This year, over 100 cities from Washington D.C. (USA) to London (England), and even Istanbul (Turkey) and Sao Paolo (Brazil), participated in this fun celebration. Judging from the videos, they were all a great success! C. Indians love festivals! The most popular is Holi, the festival of colour, held annually at the beginning of spring. As with all Hindu festivals, this one also has a number of different folk tales associated with it. The majority center around the triumph of good over evil. What’s so great about this day? There are some fun processions, folksong and dance performances, but the best part is the ritual of splashing friends and even total strangers, young and old, with dry colours, water guns and using evenbuckets of coloured water. At about midday, the friendly chaos comes to an end and people living close to oceans or rivers, usually take a dip in the water to clean themselves, before going home to a homemade feast and a well-deserved siesta. D. Every July, the people of Spain celebrate the Catholic Festival of Corpus Christi with parades, mystery plays and various other fun celebrations. However, the town of Castrillo de Murcia adds an event called “El Colacho". While the origins of the tradition which dates back to 1620 are unknown, the event is held to keep away evil spirits. The “El Colacho”, a man dressed in a bright yellow and red outfit, represents the devil who runs from the entrance of a church and jumps over mattresses upon which lie all the babies who have been born during the year. Besides having that magical ability of sending away evil spirits, the “El Colacho” also has to be a very good jumper! No wonder, it is sometimes called the world’s most dangerous festival event. E. The Boryeong Mud Festival started as fun beach event in 1998. Today, it attracts over 1.5 million visitors who come to Boryeong, South Korea, every July, for the nine-day event that promises “well-being through mud”. If you like the idea of mud-slides, mud massages, mud football etc., this is the festival you will definitely not want to miss! The mud is considered rich in minerals and is used to manufacture cosmetics, in fact, the event was created to promote Boryeong mud cosmetics, but has become a popular festival. Nowhere else can you throw on a swimsuit, cover yourself in five different shades of mud and parade the streets with 50,000 of your closest friends. Festival-goers have their pick of activities like the Mr. Mud contest, mud wrestling and mud races.
*Read four texts. Imagine you are releasing an article in a magazin and have to choose illustrations for each text. Match the texts to the pictures below. A. If you are a fan of warm fried rings of dough that we lovingly call donuts, join in celebration of the National Donut Day! This American “holiday” is celebrated on the first Friday of June; it is a tradition that dates all the way back to 1917, when Salvation Army volunteers were sent to take care of the US soldiers fighting in World War One. Seeing how homesick and miserable the soldiers were, the women decided to do something special. Sure enough, the hot tempting smell of fresh donuts worked like a charm in lifting their spirits! Since then, it has become a US tradition. What’s even better is that many stores have joined in this fun tradition by handing out free donuts to customers during the entire day. B. On Saturday April 6th, thousands of adults and children all over the world got together in their respective cities with one purpose in mind to have a good old-fashioned pillow fight with total strangers! Now in its sixth year, the hour-long event is the invention of an organization called Urban Playground. The organizers think that the pillow fights area harmless way for people to free from stress and have some fun. The rules? No hitting anyone with a camera or anyone without a pillow! This year, over 100 cities from Washington D.C. (USA) to London (England), and even Istanbul (Turkey) and Sao Paolo (Brazil), participated in this fun celebration. Judging from the videos, they were all a great success! C. Indians love festivals! The most popular is Holi, the festival of colour, held annually at the beginning of spring. As with all Hindu festivals, this one also has a number of different folk tales associated with it. The majority center around the triumph of good over evil. What’s so great about this day? There are some fun processions, folksong and dance performances, but the best part is the ritual of splashing friends and even total strangers, young and old, with dry colours, water guns and using evenbuckets of coloured water. At about midday, the friendly chaos comes to an end and people living close to oceans or rivers, usually take a dip in the water to clean themselves, before going home to a homemade feast and a well-deserved siesta. D. Every July, the people of Spain celebrate the Catholic Festival of Corpus Christi with parades, mystery plays and various other fun celebrations. However, the town of Castrillo de Murcia adds an event called “El Colacho". While the origins of the tradition which dates back to 1620 are unknown, the event is held to keep away evil spirits. The “El Colacho”, a man dressed in a bright yellow and red outfit, represents the devil who runs from the entrance of a church and jumps over mattresses upon which lie all the babies who have been born during the year. Besides having that magical ability of sending away evil spirits, the “El Colacho” also has to be a very good jumper! No wonder, it is sometimes called the world’s most dangerous festival event. E. The Boryeong Mud Festival started as fun beach event in 1998. Today, it attracts over 1.5 million visitors who come to Boryeong, South Korea, every July, for the nine-day event that promises “well-being through mud”. If you like the idea of mud-slides, mud massages, mud football etc., this is the festival you will definitely not want to miss! The mud is considered rich in minerals and is used to manufacture cosmetics, in fact, the event was created to promote Boryeong mud cosmetics, but has become a popular festival. Nowhere else can you throw on a swimsuit, cover yourself in five different shades of mud and parade the streets with 50,000 of your closest friends. Festival-goers have their pick of activities like the Mr. Mud contest, mud wrestling and mud races.
Read the text. Match the words and phrases to their definitions. PUMA In 1948 Rudolf Dassler left his brother's company Adidas to set up his own shoe company - Puma. After success with its products on football pitches and athletic tracks, Puma became a limited partnership. It had further success at the Olympic Games and World Cups with players such as the famous Brazilian footballer Pele wearing Puma shoes. In the 1970s it had success with tennis shoes and by 1981 many American football stars had used Puma shoes. Later, the tennis stars Martina Navratilova and Boris Becker won the Wimbledon Tournament wearing Puma shoes. In 1986 Puma became a corporation and went public on the Munich and Frankfurt stock exchanges. At that time, Puma introduced many innovations in shoe design such as the "trinomic" and "disc system" shoes. Jochen Zeitz was appointed CEO in 1993 and a year later Puma made some profit for the first time since going public. After that Puma established Puma North America as a wholly-owned subsidiary. In 1998 Puma combined sport and fashion when it launched a collection with Jil Sander, a fashion designer. It also placed products in top Hollywood movies. In 2000 Puma launched www.puma.com. It was successful in the first year of its operation. It also continued to combine fashion and clothing, cooperating with many leading designers. The company also launched clothing and footwear for business travellers to wear on business trips. Puma products are very popular. New models of its shoes are snapped up by fashion-conscious people. Its products are outsourced and distributed in more than 80 countries. Puma is planning a worldwide rollout of its concept stores to expand its market.
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Read the text and match the correct answer. If you’ve ever been a member of a book club, you know that choosing the titles to read can be very difficult. Finding books that teens like and, at the same time, that are good for discussion is even more difficult. The Reader’s Club Team wants to make your job easier by highlighting a few of the titles that have caused interesting discussions in our own teen book clubs, specifically those in grades 6-9. Reading a book is useful for mental and emotional health. A good book is a good way to travel in different places, meet the characters, understand their feelings, learn something new and get an amazing experience. Unfortunately, nowadays it’s tough to get a teen or preteen to read or join a book club. Still, there are some brave souls who are interested in getting these young minds into a beneficial environment of reading. Are you willing to? If yes, this is definitely the article you are looking for.
Read the text and choose the right phrases. There is ONE EXTRA phrase you don’t need to use.
Read the text and fill in the gaps with the right phrases. There are TWO EXTRA phrases you don’t need to use.
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Choose the word that matches the given definition. ... is a type of work that you feel you are suited to doing and to which you give much of your time and energy.
Choose the word that matches the given definition. ... is the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services.
Read the text and decide if the statements are True, False or Not Stated. Why I decided to spend a year studying abroad Well, generally I thought it would be an adventure and a great learning opportunity to live in a totally different culture. I chose Mexico because I have been learning Spanish now for three years and I wanted to improve my language skills. The best part of my experience It’s very difficult to choose just a few, but one of the best things has definitely been the experience of living with a host family. Mexicans are very warm, outgoing people and my hosts have been treating me like part of their family. During my first week, they invited their whole family for dinner to meet me, and it was fun but quite overwhelming trying to answer all their questions in Spanish. I’ve also been learning to slow down and relax and take an afternoon siesta after a big lunch, like the rest of the family! It’s been fantastic living in one of Mexico’s oldest cities, too, with its beautiful 16th century architecture. It’s a great feeling when you start to feel like you belong in a foreign place. Little things like knowing the answer when strangers ask you directions or getting around without getting lost are so rewarding. Challenging parts of staying abroad Well, I’ve been struggling a bit to get used to the hot weather, but now I wear a hat. It was also difficult to get used to the spicy food, but now I’m really enjoying it. I still have difficulty understanding social etiquette. Last week, for example, a new Mexican friend invited me for dinner and I turned up exactly on time. My host seemed a bit surprised. I found out later that Mexicans usually turn up for an appointment at least half an hour later. Without a doubt, this has been the best experience of my life so far. I’ve become more self-confident, patient and outgoing, and my Spanish has improved even more than I expected. Steven Marshall
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