ОТВЕТЫ НА ЗАДАНИЯ 2 ТУРА по английскому языку
1 TASK “HER MAGESTY FOOTWEAR…”
- Louis XIV, well known as the King of the Sun, was very fashionable and he ordered shoes with heels for the coronation ceremony from the famous shoemaker from Bordeaux in 1660.Then he issued a decree to wear high heels in 1673.
- The red colour was only for the rich and for the noble and important persons.
- Louis XIV was not very tall (163 cm) and the shoes with high heels (13 cm) helped him have a taller height.
- Nobody could wear shoes with heels higher than the red heels of the King.
- Northern people of Russia have the patterns on the soles of their footwear. Such boots leave footprints in the snow. It helps to find the way and people if they get lost. Also their footwear serves as amulets against evil spirits, protect from diseases and troubles. And besides the shoes with them are beautiful and show which folk (ethnic group) the owner of the footprints belongs to.
2 TASK “LONDON INSTALLATION”
- On the 5th of August, 2014 the installation, called Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, was unveiled at the Tower of London’s dry moat. This event marked one hundred years since the first full day of Britain's involvement in the First World War. The poppies are symbols of Remembrance in the UK. 888,246 ceramic poppies, created by artists Paul Cummins and Tom Piper, were installed, one for each British or colonial soldier killed in the First World War.
- School installation
3 TASK "TRAFFIC LIGHT"
- This object is a Traffic Light.
The world's first traffic lights were installed near the British Houses of Parliament in London at the intersection of George and Bridge Streets in 1868. They were invented by . The design combined three semaphore arms with red and green gas lamps for night-time use (the green tinted lens meant go, while red meant stop), on a pillar, operated by a police constable.
- After only a month of use, on 2 January 1869, as a result of a leak in one of the lines the device exploded and injured the police officer who was operating the light. Thus, despite its early success, the semaphore traffic system was immediately dropped in England and abandoned until electric signals became available.
- In our country the first traffic lights appeared on the 15th of January 1930 in Leningrad at the junction of Nevsky and Liteyny Avenues. The same year on the 30th of December they were put on the corner of Petrovka Street and Kuznetsky Bridge in Moscow.
- We celebrate “The Birthday” of traffic lights on the 5th of August. The world's first electric traffic signal was installed on the corner of Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street in Cleveland, Ohio, on this day in 1914. This year we have celebrated its 100th anniversary.
