I live in Bashkortostan it is my Motherland. But not everyone knows that there are seven wonders of Russia in Bashkortostan. They are Shulgan-Tash (kapova cave), Salavat Yulayev monument, Baskir honey, the Shihany mountains, the Iremel mountain, the gold nugget called Iredyk bear, the border between Erope and Asia.
The natural monument Shylgan Tash (kapova cave) is one of the largest Karst caves in the South Urals. It is situated on the right bank of the Belaya River.
Another wonder is the monument of Salavat Yulayev in Ufa. Salavat Yulayev is a national hero of Bashkir people. The sculpture is the biggest one in Russia (9,8 meters, 40 tones).
Bashkir honey is a visiting card of Bashkortostan. According to the scientific research Bashkir honey is the best in the world by its quality.
The Sheehany represent reef mass of the late Paleozoic era (about 20km along). Iremel mountain is in Beloretsky district of Bashkortostan and it is a natural monument to beauty (12km)
Gold nugget Irendyk bear weighing 4 kilograms and 788 grams was found in 1992. Now is is Kept in the National Bank of the Republic of Bashkortostan.
And the last wonder is border line of Europe and Asia. The boundary between 2 parts of the world runs through Bashkiria. I am proud of my native land and the republic welcomes guests friendly and hospitably.
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Mustai Karim
He was born on October 20, 1919 and in the village of Klyashevo (now Chishminsky District Bashkortostan) in a peasant family, in ethnic Bashkirs.
In 1941 have graduated from Bashkir State University, Faculty of Language and Literature.
After graduation he joined the Red Army and was sent to Novocherkassk Higher Military Command School of Communications. In May 1942, with the rank of second lieutenant sent to the 17th Motor Rifle Brigade. In August 1942, seriously wounded, was about six months in hospitals.
After recovery, returned to the forefront as a correspondent for the front-line newspapers. He was a Member of the CPSU from 1944. Throughout the The Great Patriotic War Mustai Karim was at the front, and he was a correspondent for the front-line newspapers.
Mustai Karim began writing in the middle of the 1930s. In 1938 his first book of poems, "The detachment moved", was published. The second, "Voices of Spring", was published in 1941. After that, he published more than 100 poems and prose collections, and more than 10 dramatic works.
Most famous works:
collections of poetry and poems, "Black Water", "Return", "Europe-Asia", "Time" plays "The land of Aigul", "On the night of the lunar eclipse", "Salavat", Do not leave the fire, Prometheus! Works of Mustai Karim were translated into dozens of languages, Russia and the world.
National poet of Bashkiria Mustai Karim died after two heart attacks on the 21st of September 2005 being in the Republican Cardiological Center in Ufa. He was buried at Mohammedan Cemetery (Ufa)
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Rudolf Nureyev
| Russian dancer, choreographer and ballet director Rudolf Nureyev, was born in a train between Lake Baikal and Irkutsk in Siberia 17 March, 1938. He was one of the true superstars of 20th-century dance. Many compared him with legendary Nijinsky. He started his ballet training in Ufa at the age of 11 and after 6 years, moved to the Vaganovs Leningrad ballet school, where he studied under A. Pushkin. In 1958 he became a soloist of the Kirov Ballet. In 1961 he went on a tour with the company, and defected in Paris, launching his carrier in the West. Nureyevs first performances were with the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas; in 1962 he appeared on the American television and danced with Chicago Opera Ballet. In the same year he signed a contract with the Royal Ballet, London as a permanent guest soloist. He never became a member of a Western company, preferring to collaborate with different troupes temporarily. Work with Eric Brun and partnership with Margot Fonteyn were great influences on his artistic development. He danced with her in Giselle, in Marguerite and Armand by F. Ashton, in Swan Lake and in many other ballets. He created roles in numerous works by many different choreographers. In 1964 he began to choreograph. His first production was Swan Lake that he made for the Vienna Opera Ballet and where the role of Prince became dominant. In 1977 he created his version of Romeo and Juliet by S. Prokofiev for the London Festival Ballet; in 1979, Manfred for the Paris Opera Ballet; in 1980, The Nutcracker in Berlin. In 1962 Nureyev published his Autobiography. In 1973 he directed, together with R. Helpmann, a film-ballet Don Quixote where he also danced the role of Basile. He appeared in principal roles in films Valentino (1977) and Exposed (1983). From 1983 to 1989 he was director of the Paris Opera Ballet, where he created his versions of the great Russian classics, such as Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, La Bayadère and also Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet by S. Prokofiev. All these productions are still in the Paris Opera Ballet repertoire. He died in Paris on 6 January 1993. |
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Zaki Validi
Kind of activity: prominent statesman and public figure, specialist in Turkic philology, one of the organizers of the creation of the Bashkir Autonomous Republic and its first leader.
Years of life: December, 10, 1890 July 28, 1970
Creative biography: he was born in the Bashkir village Kuzyan of Sterlitamak region, Ufa Province in the family of mulla and became one of the stateliest figures in the national movement of the first half of -th century.
His ideas about independence and unity of Muslim republics are in keeping with the state politics of nowadays Russia. In 19 years old, Validi taught Turkic history and history of Arabic Turkic literature at the Kazan Medresse Kasymia, studied Oriental languages at Kazan University. Then he published his first scientific work History of Turks and Tatars. Before the October revolution he worked in Petrograd for Office of Muslim faction in the 4th State Duma, he was a member of Temporary Central Commetee of Russian Muslims. He also became a member of constitutive meeting from the Bashkirs - federalists of Ufa Gubernia.
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Since the middle of November he took part in the Bashkir revolutionary processes actively. He entered the Bashkir Government, headed a military department, commanded the Baskir troops, he was a military minister of temporary government. In 1924 year in Berlin he participated in the rebirth of Turkestan national association Dzhamiat simultaneously got into contact with orientalists of Europe. In 1925 he moved to Turkey and taught Turkic history at Istanbul University. At the same time he continued his academic education in Vienna and gave lectures at the University of Bonn and in Gottingen. In 1939 he came back to Turkey and in a year his work the history of Turkestan was published in Kair.
In May 1944 Validi was arrested and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but after 17 month staying in prison he was released. After war he began to give lectures at the university again and took up the problems of history mythology using the ethnographic and folkloristic data and other disciplines. In 1951 under his chairmanship The 21st International Congress of Orientalists took place in Istanbul. 2 years later he founded the Institute of Islam research. He was an organizer and member of many scientific societies, Honourable doctor of the Manchester University.
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Mazhit Gafuri
Mazhit Gafuri (Abdulmazhit Nurganeyevich Gafurov) was born on the 2nd of July 1880 in the village of Zilim-Karan, Sterlitamak region. He studied at several Muslim schools. In his free time he worked at the golden mines. Later he worked as a teacher for some time, collected the samples of folk art, and got interested in Russian literature. This life experience was reflected in his works.
He worked in the genres of poetry, prose and play writing. His first books were based on the principles of realism. In his stories "A Year of Hunger" or "A Sold Girl", "Orphans", "The Poor" and some others the author severely criticized class inequality and social injustice. He also showed the realistic life pictures, true characters, beautiful sceneries, allegories and sharp satire.
Realistic flow prevailed in his work. His stories "Blackfaced", "Gold Fields of a Poet" constituted the basis of Bashkir prose in the Soviet period.
The play "Red Star" is the first Bashkir play that created the images of peasants during the Civil War.
After the revolution Gafuri devoted himself to the reconstruction and development of Bashkir literature and its genres.
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Sergey Aksakov
Sergey Timofeyevich Aksakov was a 19th-century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family life, as well as his books on hunting and fishing.
Sergey was born in Ufa and brought up in the family estate at Novo-Aksakovka in Orenburg guberniya, where he acquired a lifelong love of nature. He was also introduced to literature by his mother at an early age.
He was educated at the Kazan Gymnasium and then, in 1805 (in the first year after its founding), at Kazan University, though he himself said he was ill prepared for a university education (and some of the professors, brought from abroad, taught in foreign languages). He was also distracted by his obsessive interest in the theater.
He left the university in 1807, and the following year went to St. Petersburg to take up government service. He resigned from the civil service in 1811 and moved to Moscow, where he was active as an amateur in literary and theatrical life and published his first verse anonymously in 1812.
In 1816 he married Olga Semenovna Zaplatina, and the couple had six sons and eight daughters. He began publishing translations, reviews, and articles in the early 1820s, though his important work came much later. He retired from the civil service in 1838.
Around 1840, encouraged by Gogol, he began writing the book that would make him famous, A Family Chronicle. While he was working on that, he published books about two of his favorite activities since his youth, Notes on Fishing(1847) and Notes of a Hunter in Orenburg Province (1852).
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In 1843 Aksakov settled in the village of Abramtsevo, where he entertained writers including Gogol, Turgenev, and Tolstoy and which was also frequented by his Slavophile sons, Konstantin and Ivan. In the late 1850s he published his most enduring works, The Family Chronicle.
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1. Yellow submarine (The Beatles)
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
Till we found the sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
Chorus:
We all live in our yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in our yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
And our friends are all aboard
Many more of them live next door
And the band begins to play
Chorus:
As we live a life of ease
Every one of us has all we need
Sky of blue and sea of green
In our yellow submarine
Chorus:
Exercise 1: Listen to the song and fill in the gaps with a word you hear:
Yellow Submarine
In the town where I was _________ (1)
_________ (2) a man who ___________(3) to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines.
So we __________ (4) on to the sun
Till we __________ (5) the sea of green.
And we lived beneath the ____________ (6)
In our yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.
And our friends are all aboard,
Many more of them live ____________ (7).
And the band ______________ (8) to play
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.
And we live a life of _____________ (9),
Everyone of us has all we need,
Sky of __________ (10) and sea of ____________ (11)
In our yellow submarine.
Exercise 2: What is the song about? Tick the topics mentioned in the song:
a. traveling;
b. environment problems;
c. sea;
d. water pollution;
e. undersea world;
f. life of a sailor;
g. modern art;
h. music.
Exercise 3: Choose one topic from Ex.2 and make a list of questions you will ask your partner. Then work in pairs and practice the dialogues.
Exercise 4: Put the verbs in the correct tense form:
A sailor who (live) in Boston (sail) to the sea one summer day. The weather (be) good, hot and sunny. While he (sail), he (see) many ships passing by. Suddenly he (see) a small fishing boat with two young men. They (cry):Help us, please! -Whats the matter? asked the sailor. We (get) lost. Where are we?they asked him. So the sailor (answer): Well, my friends, (not; worry). You (be) now almost fifty km from the sea shore. Its not so far, really.
Exercise 5: Use the song and your imagination to complete the story in writing:
A man called ____________ lived in __________. He worked as a ______________.
So one day he invited ________________ to a ________________. He was wearing _____, ____________, _________ and________. Lets sail to the far-away countries, he made a suggestion. Where to? asked one of the men. To ____________, was the answer. They decided to set off on _______________ at__________________ in a _________.On the ____________ day of their journey they saw a ________________. So they
2."I Just Called To Say I Love You" (Stevie Wonder)
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No New Year's day to celebrate
No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away
No first of spring
No song to sing
In fact here's just another ordinary day
No April rain
No flowers bloom
No wedding Saturday within the month of June
But what it is, is something true
Made up of these three words that I must say to you
I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart
No summer's high
No warm July
No harvest moon to light one tender August night
No autumn breeze
No falling leaves
Not even time for birds to fly to southern skies
No Libra sun
No Halloween
No giving thanks to all the Christmas joy you bring
But what it is, though old so new
To fill your heart like no three words could ever do
I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart
I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care, I do
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart
Of my heart,...... of my heart
Exercise1. Listen to the song and fill in the right words/phrases
No New Year's day _______ 1.
No chocolate covered candy hearts ________2.
No first of spring
No song to sing
In fact here's just another ________3.
No April rain
No flowers bloom
No wedding Saturday within the month of _____ 4.
But what it is, is something true
Made up of these three words that I ______________5.
I just called to say I _________6.
I just called to say how much I ______ 7.
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it __________________ 8.
No summer's high
No warm July
No harvest moon to light one tender ______________ 9.
No autumn breeze
No falling leaves
Not even time for birds _____________ 10.
No Libra sun
No Halloween
No giving thanks to all the Christmas joy you bring
But what it is, though old so new
To fill your heart like no three words could ever do
I just called to say _________ 11.
I just called to say how much ________ 12.
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart
I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care, I do
I just called to say I love you
And ______________________13.
Of my heart, of my heart.
Exercise 2. Interpret the following words/ phrases:
1.chocolate covered candy hearts
2. wedding Saturday
3. from the bottom of my heart
4. Libra sun
5. could ever do
6. how much I care
Exercise 3. Find the words, phrases that describe the nature, seasons of the year. Is there any connection with the character`s feelings and nature?
Exercise 4. Find the synonyms to the words:
| to call | a | attention | |
| candy | b | delight | |
| joy | c | to ring | |
| care | d | sweet |
Exercise 5. Make up the new words from the following ones: fly, care, heart.
(fly -flight; 2. care - careful, careless 3. heart - hearted, heartless, kind-hearted)
Exercise 6. Find the beginning or the end of the sentences in the song, translate into Russian:
| to give away | |||
| ordinary day | |||
| Made up of these three words | |||
| Not even time for birds | |||
| But what it is | |||
| To fill your heart like.. | |||
| 7. | And I mean it... |
Happy New Year(ABBA)
No more champagne
And the fireworks are through
Here we are, me and you
Feeling lost and feeling blue
It's the end of the party
And the morning seems so grey
So unlike yesterday
Now's the time for us to say
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes our will to try
If we don't we might as well lay down and die
You and I
Sometimes I see
How the brave new world arrives
And I see how it thrives
In the ashes of our lives
Oh yes, man is a fool
And he thinks he'll be OK
Dragging on feet of clay
Never knowing he's astray
Keeps on going anyway
Seems to me now
That the dreams we had before
Are all dead nothing more
Than confetti on the floor
It's the end of a decade
In another ten years time
Who can say what we'll find
What lies waiting down the line
In the end of eighty-nine
Exercise 1. Listen to the song and fill in the gaps with a word you hear:
No more _______________________1
And the fireworks are through
Here we are, me and you
Feeling lost and feeling ____________________2
It's the end of the party
And the morning seems so grey
So unlike ________________________3
Now's the time for us to say
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a ______________________4 now and then
Of a world where every _____________________5 is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes our will ____________________6
If we don't we might as well lay down and die
You and I
Sometimes I see
How the brave new world ________________________7
And I see how it thrives
In the ashes of our lives
Oh yes, man is a ___________________8
And he thinks he'll be OK
Dragging on feet of clay
Never knowing he's astray
Keeps on going _____________________9
Seems to me now
That the dreams we had _________________________10
Are all dead nothing more
Than________________11 on the floor
It's the end of a _________________________12
In another ten years time
Who can say what we'll find
What lies waiting down the line
In the end of __________________________13
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Exercise 2. Learn the glossary.
champagne ,fireworks ,be through ,
lost ;
(lost effort )
feel blue
seem-
grey , , ,
now and then
neighbour , , ()
hope
will ;
lay down ; ;
(lay down the duties of office )
die ; , ; ; , ; .:
(Im dying for a glass of water
The smile died from his lips. .)
dead , ;
brave ,
arrive ;
thrive - ,
ashes , ;
drag on ; ( , )
clay
go (run) astray ,
keep on going
confetti
(sprinkle, throw confetti , )
What lies waiting down the line
In the end of eighty-nine , 1989
Exercise 3. Make up your own sentences, using these words.
Exercise 5: What is the song about? Tick the topics mentioned in the song:
a. travelling;
b. environmental problems;
c. New Year;
d. shopping;
e. love;
f. life;
g. relationship;
h. sea.
Exercise 6: Make up a story about the relationship between a boy and a girl, using this song. Tell it to the partner. Compare your stories.
| 4.We are the world (M.Jackson) There comes a time When we hear a certain call When the world must come together as one. There are people dying And it's time to lend a hand to life the greatest gift of all. We can't go on Pretending day by day That someone, somewhere will soon make a change. We are all a part of God's great big family And the truth, you know love is all we need. We are the world We are the children We are the ones who make a brighter day So let's start giving. There's a choice we're making We're saving our own lives. It's true we'll make a better day Just you and me. Well, send them your heart So they'll know that someone cares And their lives will be stronger and free. As God has shown us by turning stone to bread And so we all must lend a helping hand. We are the world We are the children We are the ones who make a brighter day So lets start giving There's a choice we're making We're saving our own lives It's true we make a better day Just you and me When you're down and out There seems no hope at all But if you just believe There's no way we can fall Well, well, well, well, let us realize That a change will only come When we stand together as one We are the world We are the children We are the ones who make a brighter day So let's start giving There's a choice we're making We're saving our own lives It's true we'll make a better day Just you and me |
Exercise 1. Listen to the song and fill in the gaps with a word you hear:
| There comes a time When we heed a certain call When the world must come ________________1 as one. There are people dying And it's time to lend a hand to life The greatest _____________2 of all. We can't go on Pretending day by day That someone, somewhere will soon make a _________________3. We are all a part of God's great big _________________4 And the _____________5, you know love is all we need. We are the world We are the ___________________6 We are the ones who make a brighter day So let's start giving. There's a choice we're making We're saving our own ______________________7 It's true we'll make a better day Just you and me. Well, send them your _______________8 So they'll know that someone cares And their lives will be stronger and free. As God has shown us by turning stone to _______________9 And so we all must lend a helping hand. We are the ________________10 We are the children We are the ones who make a brighter day So lets start ______________________11 There's a choice we're making We're saving our own lives It's true we make a ____________________12 day Just you and me When you're down and out There seems no hope at all But if you just _________________13 There's no way we can fall Well, well, well, well, let us realize That a change will only _____________________14 When we stand together as one We are the world We are the children We are the ___________15 who make a brighter day So let's start giving There's a choice we're_______________16 We're saving our own ____________________17 It's true we'll make a better day Just you and ___________________18 |
Exercise 2. Make up your own sentences, using the words from the key.
Exercise 3: What is the song about? Give the main idea of the song.
Exercise 4. Put all the verbs in the song into Past Simple tense.
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