9. Explain the meaning of the following words and word combinations in English and use them in your own sentences:

1. own vision of everyday rules 9. culinary experimentation

2. aspirations 10. to be beneficial

3. to raise children 11. to be strongly attached

4. militant feminism 12. to be well observed

5. absurdity 13. future prosperity

6. to be inappropriate 14. to be the noticeable part

7. to break into song 15.to be accompanied

8. woodcarving 16.to preserve weaving

10. Find in the text the words or word combinations which have the meanings similar to these ones in the exercise, translate them into Ukrainian.

View points, to change, difficult to understand, to exhibit a tendency to, precious things, at first sight, ambitions, basis, to grow children, fair people, important and necessary, to start a song, a lute-like instrument, “travelling news”, modern life, to decorate, with flowers, bellicose/warlike, irrelevant, to be devoted to, a good life, traditional bread, something that is not based on clear thought or reason, something that is based on old ideas of magic, not in accordance, easy to notice.

11. Make up a dialogue using the word combinations below:

ancient rituals, entrancing, artistic inclination, manifestations, to accompany, to attach to, prosperity, to be oriented, to be inappropriate, real gems, noticeable, to be further popularized, to be well observed, to be beneficial.

12. Close the book and try to remember as many facts from the article as you can. Speak by turns with your partner.

13. Write a short essay (up to 200 words) on popular traditions in Ukraine. Provide your essay with additional information.

Grammar focus

14. Define the type of the simple sentences. Decide whether they are two-member or one-member sentences.

1. Ukrainians have always been very hospitable people.

2. Have you ever been to a Ukrainian village?

3. You know that Hutsul dresses are multi – colored, don’ you?

4. Get acquainted with Ukrainian national culture.

5. What an emotion!

6. How wonderful that dancing is!

7. Handicraft.

8. They adorn tablecloths.

9. To see that ritual dancing, to hear that folk music, but not now.

10. - What are you watching?

• Celebration.

11. Let us not tempt the fate!

12. Do you agree or want to contradict?

15. Work in pairs. Present your opinions about customs and traditions in Ukraine using simple sentences (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory) and complex sentences with subject, predicative, object, attributive and adverbial clauses.

16. Speakers tend to use proverbs to comment on a situation, often at the end of a true story someone has told, or in response to some event. They are useful and enjoyable to know and to understand. Do you think proverbs can characterize a nation? How? Work in pairs. Discuss this point and present your opinions.

17. In what situations would you say the following? Match these idiomatic phrases with the Ukrainian equivalents.

1. Don’t shout till you are out of the wood.

2. Fiddle while Rome is burning.

3. You must have come out of the ark.

4. Wash one’s dirty linen at home.

5. You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.

6. Forgetful head makes a weary pair of heels.

7. A cat in gloves catches no mice.

8. The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet.

9. A bolt from the blue.

10.All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

1. Чи ти з неба впав?

2. Бенкет під час чуми.

3. Не кажи гоп, поки не перескочиш.

4. За дурною головою нема ногам спокою.

5. Не виносити сміття з хати.

6. Рука руку миє.

7. Без труда – нема плода.

8. І хочеться, і колеться.

9. Грім серед ясного неба.

10.Треба не тільки працювати, але й розважатися.

18. Do you use proverbs in your speech? When do you use them? Give some more examples of proverbs which are often used in conversations. Explain what they mean.

UKRAINE’S STATE SYSTEM OF POWER

1. Find the appropriate definitions for the words on the right:

1. monarchy

2. dictatorship

3. independence

4. republic

5. democracy

a) a state governed by representatives and, usually, a president

b) a state ruled by a king or a queen

c) government of, by and for the people

d) system of government run by a dictator

e) freedom from outside control; self-governing

2. Decide on the government type of the country you live in. Present your opinion.

3. Listening

Listen to the information about the system of power organization in the USA to compare it with the ones in Britain and Ukraine. Make notes of the information you hear.

4. Draw the table similar to that below and fill it in with the necessary information. Work in pairs and discuss how the systems of power are organized in Britain, the USA and Ukraine.

	Britain	The USA	Ukraine
consists of	……… countries; each is divided into counties	50 states; each is divided into counties	……………..
is governed from	London	…………..	…………..
Laws are made by	…………..	…………..	…………..
which consist of	House of Commons and House of Lords	…………..	…………..
Members are called	……….s of ……… (“MPs”) (Commons)	…………..	…………..
They are elected	every five years or less (Commons)	…………..	…………..
Head of government is called	……….. Minister (“PM”)	…………..	…………..
Is head of government separately elected?	No; leader of majority party in House of Commons becomes PM	…………..	…………..
Real power is held by	PM and his/her ministers (“cabinet”)	…………..	…………..
Do local or regional government bodies have any power?	partly responsible for education, health, care, police, roads	…………..	…………..
How many large political parties are there?	three; Labour (………… – wing), …… – (right-wing) and Liberal Democrats (centre)	…………..	…………..
Ceremonial head of state?	King or …………..	…………..	…………..

 5. Which system of state power organization, in your opinion, is more appropriate? Why? Discuss in groups and present your opinions.