Vocabulary

stomach-ұлтабар

to cough-жөтелу

to feel-сезіну

heart-жүрек

two hundred-екі жүз

week-апта

Questions:

How do you feel?

What is your temperature now?

Have you ever had the flu?

How did you feel when you were ill?

Did you go to the district polyclinic or did you call a doctor?

How did the doctor examine you?

SPORTS GAMES

What makes all people kin

People all over the wo are very fond of sports ai games. That is one thing which people of every nation, ity and class are united.

The most popular outdoor winter sports are shooting, hunt­ing, hockey and, in the countries where the weather is frosty aw

there is much snow - skating, skiing and tobogganing. Some people greatly enjoy figure-skating and ski-jumping.

Summer affords excellent opportunities for swimming, boating, yachting, cycling, gliding and many other sports. Among outdoor games football takes the first place in public interest: this game is played in all the countries of the world. The other games that have firmly established themselves in fa­vour in different countries are golf, lawn-tennis, cricket, volley­ball, basket-ball, and so on. Badminton is also very popular.

All the year round many people indulge in boxing, wres­tling, athletics, gymnastics and track and field events. Scores of young girls and women go in for calisthenics.

Among indoor games the most popular are bil­liards, table tennis, draughts and some others, but the great international game is

chess, of course. The results of chess tournaments are studied and discussed by thousands of enthusiasts in different countries. So we may say that sport is one of the things that makes all people kin.

Vocabulary

hunting-аңға шығу

hockey-хоккей

figure-skating-фигурное катание

swimming-жүзу ..

cycling-велосипедпен жүру

golf- гольф

cricket-крикет

volleyball-волейбол

basketball-баскетбол

badminton-бадминтон

boxing-бокс

athletics-атлетика

gymnastics-гимнастика

billiards-бильярд

table tennis-үстел теннисі

chess-шахмат

Questions:

What kind of sport do you go in for? 2. Do you play draughts? 3. Do you attend hockeyfhockey matches? 4. Did you ever try figure-skating? 5. What is the most popular sport in Kazakh­stan? 6. What is the difference between a "sport" and a "game"? 7. What sports and games do you know? 8. What is the great national sport in Kazakhstan? 9. What kinds of winter sports do you know? 10. Do you go in for skiing? 11. Is sum­mer a good time for sports? 12. What kinds of summer sports are you fond of? Which is the most famous football team? Which is better, to go in for basketball or volleyball?

Try to describe your favourite game.

Read and retell the text: "What makes all people kin"SPORT IN KAZAKHSTAN

1. Kazakh people have a lot of national sport games such as «baiga» (the horse races), Zhamby (the low shooting) and au-dazyspak (the wrestling on the horses). 2. There are about 420 sport schools in Kazakhstan. More than 165 thousand young people study in them.

Independent Kazakhstan became a member of the World Olympic Committee 1994.

Kazakhstan sportsmen have been demonstrating very good results at different international competitions since that time. Our team took the eleventh place in command test among the 100 teams in the World Olympic Winter Games in Nagano. We took the 26-th place (among the 187 teams) in Atlanta. That was я great result in spite of all our difficulties.

Our boxers were successful in a command test. They took jjie second place, the first place was taken by sportsmen from Cuba.

In 1998 in the Year of National Unity and National History declared on the initiative of President Nazarbaev the first in the history Republic Competitions in National Sport Games were held in August. The participants from all parts of Kazakhstan had an opportunity to demonstrate their strength, beauty, bold­ness and skills.

KAZAKH NATIONAL GAMES

KYZ KUU («Overtake the girl») - young boys and girls are participants in this game. The girl on the horse does her best to gallop from the young man but as soon as the latter tries to overtake (approach) her she lashes him with a whip. If - up to a certain place -the young boy fails to overtake her she would "reward" him with whipping again. If he is a success he earns a kiss.

AUDARYSPAK ("Wrestling on horseback") - this kind of national sports requires skills both in hand-to-hand fighting and in trick riding. In fact two men fight while on horseback. Wins the one that brings his adversary down of his horse.

KUMIS ALU ("Pick up the coin"). The essence of the game is that while galloping at full speed a young man should P'ck up a silver ingot off the ground - such had been condition of the game in old days. Nowadays a handkerchief replaces the • ingot. This contest particularly impressed Alexander the Great ^when he visited Central Asia. According to historians' evidence

on watching kumis all he exclaimed "That's a sort of trainij). worthy of a warrior on horseback".

KOKPAR (" Fighting for a goat's carcass"). A most popular game. It stems from an ancient cus­tom according to which one, who wants to get rid of all evil, should sacrifice a goat. Not infrequently tak­ing part in the game is up to 1,000 horsemen. The garrte unfolds on an almost infinite steppe range. On the opposite ends of an immense field

they arrange goals of teams adversaries. It is into them that th symbolic carcass of the goat should be thrown, while the throi proper is preceded by a desperate flight between the teams to gt hold of the carcass.

VOCABULARY

good results - жақсы көрсеткіпггер

to declare- хабарлау

horse-ат

silver-күміс

handkerchief-қол орамал

custom-салт-дәстүр

Questions

1. What kind of national sport games have Kazakh people?

2. When Independent Kazakhstan became a member of tbt World Olympic Committee?

3. What place took our boxers in a command test?

4. Which are the most popular sports in our country?

5. Which is the most famous football team? Who is the strongest sportsman in our country?

6. What kind of open-air games do you know?

7. What game requires the sleight of hand?

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8. What kind of American games similar to Kazakh do you

know? What is the most popular sport in Kazakhstan?

Read and retell the text: "SPORT IN KAZAKHSTAN"

Make up a dialogue on the: "Kazakh national games"

AT THE DEPARTMENT STORE Carrie goes to a department store

Carrie reached Dearborn Street. Here was the great Fair store with its crowds of shoppers. She thought she would go in and see. She would look at the jackets.

She paused at each article of clothing. How pretty she would look in this, how charming that would make her! Carrie stopped at the jewellery department. She saw the ear-rings, the bracelets, the pins, the chains.

But the jackets were the greatest attraction. When she en­tered the store, she already had her heart fixed on a jacket with large mother-of-pearl buttons. The cut was all the fashion that fall. She said to herself there was nothing she would like better.

Here she saw Drouet who was coming up to her smiling.

"Let's go and look at the jackets", he said as if he had read her thoughts.

When Carrie got the jacket in her hand, it seemed so much nicer. The salesman helped her on with it. It fitted perfectly. It was just her size, not a bit loose. She looked quite smart.

Carrie turned before the glass. She could not help feeling pleased as she looked at herself. It was so becoming.

"That's the thing", said Drouet. "Now pay for it".

"It's nine dollars", said Carrie, after she had asked the sales-woman how much it was. She took out one of the bills and gave it to the cashier.

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From there they went to a shoe department where Came tried on some shoes. Drouet stood by and when he saw how nice they looked, said: "Wear them".

Then Drouet advised her to buy a purse made of leather, a pair of gloves and stockings.

Carrie thought that she would come the next day and buy herself a skirt to match the new jacket.

VOCABULARY

department store-әмбебап дүкені

fashion-сэн

jewellery department-зергерлік дұкен

bracelet-білезік

salesman-сатушы ер адам

to рау-төлеу

to buy-сатып алу

gloves-қолбактар

to advise-ақыл, кеңес беру,

shoe-аяқ киім

sales-woman-сатушы эйел

size-размер

jacket-жейдеше, жакет

Describe your last visit (with your Mum) to a department

store.

Write 10 questions on the text.

HOW TO SHOP

In America, just as in England, you see the same shops with the same windows in every town and village.

Shopping, however, is an art of its own and you have to learn slowly where to buy various things. If you are hungry, you go to the chemist's. A chemist's shop is called a drugstore in the United States. In the larger drugstores you may be able to get

drugs, too, but their main business consists selling pens, pencils, writing paper, sweets, toys, belts, other things. Every drug-store has a food counter with high stools in front of it and there they serve various juices, coffee, ice-cream, sandwiches, omelettes _and other egg dishes.

If you want cigarettes, go to the grocer, if you want to have your shoes cleaned, go to the barber; if you want a radio, go to a inan's shop; if you want a suitcase, go to the chemist's, on the other hand, if you want to send a telegram, don't go to the post-office, because telegrams are handed by private companies. Nor has the post-office got anything to do with the telephone either, as telephone service is done by the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. . •

Whatever you buy, it may be exchanged later for something in the same shop. This is a great pastime with the Americans. A great many people do not really buy things - they get them for later exchanges. It is not unusual at all to see a lady bringing back a hat with a lot of fruit on it and exchanging it either for real fruit or a real hat.

You do not need to time your shopping very carefully be­cause you will find some shops stay open all night in New York. The big department stores keep open till 9 p. m. once a week. If you want a meal at any time of the day or night, that is quite easy. If you have a party in your house and at 2.30 a.m. you de­cide to have some music, you can run down to the corner, buy a piano and it will be brought to your home within hall an hour.

VOCABULARY

barber-шаштараз

Со-компания

meal-тамақ

slowly-жәй

d rugstore-дэріхана

drugs-дэрі-дәрмек

рареr-кағаз

sweets-кәмпиттер toys-ойыншықтар ice-cream-бал мұздақ

Work in pairs. Ask each other questions (and answer them) about what shops you will go to and what you will b« if you come to Paris.

HOLIDAYS IN THE USA Halloween

On October 31-st Brit-ish people celebrate Hallow­een. Though it is not a public holiday, it is very dear to those who celebrate it, espe­cially to children and teen­agers. This day was origi­nally called All Hallow's Eve because it fell on the eve of All Saints' Day. The name was later shortened to Halloween. According to old beliefs, Halloween is the time, when the veil between the living and the dead is partially lifted, and witches, ghosts and other super natural beings are about.

Now children celebrate Halloween in unusual costumes and masks. It is a festival of merry making, superstitions spells, for­tune telling, traditional games and pranks.

Few holidays tell us much old the past as Halloween. Its origins dateback to a time, when people believed in devils, witches alld ghosts. Many Halloween customs are based on be­liefs of the ancient Celts, who lived more than 2,000 years ago in what is now Great Britain, Ireland, and northern France.

Every year the Celts celebrated the Druid festival of Samhain, Lord of the Dead and Prince of Darkness. It fell of October 31, the eve of the Druid new year. The date marked tW end of summer, or the time when the sun retreated before trtf

powers of darkness and the reign of the Lord of Death began. The Dun god took .part in the holiday and received thanks for the year's harvest.

It was believed that evil spirits sometimes played tricks on October 31. They could also do all kinds of damage to property. Some people tried to ward of the witches by painting magic signs on their barns. Others tried to frighten them away by nail­ing a piece of iron, such as a horseshoe, over the door.

Many fears and superstitions grew up about this day. An old Scotch superstition was that witches - those who had sold their souls to the devil - left in their beds on Halloween night a stick made by magic to look like themselves. Then they would fly up the chime attended by a black cat.

VOCABULARY

to celebrate-тойлау

witches-жын-шайтандар

ghosts-аруақтар

to believe-сену

beliefs-сенімдер

ancient-ескі, ежелгі

Celt-кельт

door-есік

a black cat-қара мысық

Answer the questions:

1. Does the following statement correspond to the content of the text?

Halloween is a public holiday in Great Britain.

2. Does the following statement correspond to the content of the text?

The original name of the festival was All Hallows' Eve.

3. Does the following statement correspond to the content of the text?

British people usually decorate a New Year tree on that day.

4. Does the following statement correspond to the content of the text? Many people try to know their future on that day.

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS IN THE USA

There are light public holidays a year in the United States that is days on which people need not to in to work. There are: New Year, Martin Luther^King's Day, Presidents' Day, Memo­rial Day, Independence Day, Labour Day, Columbus Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas.

Presidents' Day is celebrated in February. It is the day on which two great Americans are honoured: George Washington, the country's first President, and Abraham Lincoln, the Presi­dent who headed the country during the Civil War and put an end to slavery. Both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were born in February.

Memorial Day. On Memorial Day Americans honour the soldiers killed in war. There are always parades on this day. Memorial Day is celebrated on the last Monday in May, and that's why it marks the beginning of the summer season. Many people spend this day on he beach.

Independence Day. The Fourth of July, or Independ­ence Day, is, of course, the most important American holiday. In was on July 4, 1776, that the American colo­nies declared their independ­ence from Britain. The Fourth of July is a traditional day for family picnics and, at night, fireworks.