Astana is a modern city with a favorable environment attractive for tourists and comfortable for residents and guests of the Kazakh capital to live in.
Astana became the capital of new Kazakhstan in 1998 for a variety of reasons. By the end of the XX century, the country’s former capital Almaty was facing a heap of difficulties hampering further development of the city: the problem of overpopulation (over 1.500.000 inhabitants); traffic congestion; deteriorating environmental conditions. Moreover, compact planning of the “southern capital” in practice, restricted modern development of the city.
2 In the evening I help my Mum to clean the room and towash up after the dinner.
3 It's going to rain heavy but you haven't taken an umbrella or an raincoat
4 What do yoy prefer to do on your days off? I usually get very tired after my work and I really want to have a good rest
5 You'd better stay at home in a such nasty weather. The wind is blowing the rainy clouds in the sky
6 The letters are usually sent on Monday but today they have been sent earlier.
7 We haven't made up our mind where to go this summer yet, but we hope to set off to the Crimea.
8 He said his father would come late as he had much work to do and a meeting afterwards. He didn't know the time it finished.