Ответы на задание №1 "EVOLUTION OF ALARM CLOCKS”
1. THE FUNCTIONS OF MODERN ALARM CLOCKS:
Wake you up in time; Keep and display time; Keep different alarms for different times; Show the weather features; Show the time in the dark; Let the user listen to the radio and MP3; Prepare coffee and toasts before you get up; Splash cold water on you; Have a vibrating function, etc.
2. "ALIVE” ALARM CLOCKS:
A COOK сrows exactly the same time, never makes mistakes.
A CAT sits near the head and mews for 10-15 minutes before the alarm clock in the morning, first softly, then louder. If you do not respond, it begins its nose to touch your face and lick a rough tongue.
A DOG that wakes up for their owners in the morning. Signal is the alarm bell. From time to time it bits the feet or hands and makes the owner get out of the bed.
THE ADVANTAGE OF «ALIVE» ALARM CLOCKS:
"Alive" alarm clocks are not only more pleasant, but also more effective. During the contact the brain starts to work actively, and the awakening is much faster and the positive emotions are very useful in the morning.
USUAL ALARM CLOCKS:
Analog & Retro Alarm Clocks with Hands; Battery Powered Alarm Clocks; Electronic Alarm Clocks.
UNUSUAL ALARM CLOCKS:
Service target, Service-piggy Banclock, Service "Caution - Bomb!", Puzzle Alarm Clock, Clocky, Sleeptracker, Noise grenade, Pillow, Pill, Dumbbell, Handle, Hockey, TV, The Finger Dance, Flying Alarm Clock, Laser Target Alarm Clock, iSleep Alarm Clock, Paper Alarm Clock, Smash Alarm Clock, Gun Operated Alarm Clock, Carpet Alarm Clock, Directors Edition Alarm Clock, etc.
Ответы на задание №2 "AN UMBRELLA”
1. AN UMBRELLA is a device which protects people against the rain or sun. First umbrellas were intended as the protection from the sun, not the rain. An umbrella was used as a shelter from the rain by Englishman, Jonas Henvey in 1750.
2. DANIEL DEFOE "ROBINSON CRUSOE”
Daniel Defoe (about 1660 - 1731) was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, now most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe”. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, he wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets and journals on various. "Robinson Crusoe” is a fictional autobiography of the title character. Crusoe leaves the safety of his comfortable middle-class home in England and goes to sea. He is shipwrecked and becomes a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad. He meets cannibals, captives and mutineers, and is eventually rescued.
One of the most famous umbrellas in literature is the one made by Robinson Crusoe.
"I covered it with skins, the hair upwards, so that it cast off the rain like a pent-house, and kept off the sun so effectually that I could walk out in the hottest of the weather with greater advantage than I could before in the coolest, and when I had no need of it, I could close it, and carry it under my arm”.
KINDS OF CLOTHING, WHICH PEOPLE CAN WEAR WITH AN UMBRELLA:
Rainproof jacket; Raincoat; Cloak; Waterproof Pack Suit; Mackintosh; Windbreaker; Wellingtons; Western boots; Galoshes; Thick-soled shoes; Rain boot; Mittens; Scarf, etc.
Ответы на задание №3 "A CRISP DESSERT”
1. American sweet dessert - WAFFLES. But they differ from our crispy waffles. They are small "browns", which is prepared in a special double pan
(waffle) and have a distinct "pattern" honeycombs. Their specialty baked from dough cooked on slaked soda, while in other countries the recipes used in yeast dough. American waffles differ from their foreign "sisters" and externally: they are thin, square shape. In America, there is a chain of restaurants called "Waffle House» (Waffle House): the first one opened in 1955.
The Americans celebrate two holidays in honor of this sweet dessert:
THE NATIONAL WAFFLE DAY – ON AUGUST, 24TH and THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF WAFFLE – ON MARCH, 25TH.
2. THERE ARE SOME HOLIDAYS IN RUSSIA WHICH ARE CONNECTED WITH SOME KINDS OF MEALS:
1) MASLENITSA The most characteristic food is blini (pancakes). Round and golden, they are made of butter, eggs and milk.
2) EASTER is the oldest Christian holiday. Russian Easter foods include kulich, paskha, eggs.
3) SAVIOR OF THE APPLE FEAST DAY The holiday has a pre-Christian origin and is associated with harvesting of ripe fruits, especially apples. The others are: honey savior and nut savior.
4) THE NEW YEAR holidays are always connected with hope, fun, tangerines and olivie (a salad with potatoes, carrots, peas and eggs). Every housewife has her secret ingredient for it.
5) AN ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS
People visit their relatives on this day carrying rice pudding with raisins, which is called "kutya”.
