6 Choose the correct answers. TOUR BOAT DISASTER
Last night, twenty tourists__on a boat in the Indian
Ocean when it started filling with water. The boat turned
over, but some of the passengers, inciuding two British
women,__
with it during the night. Twenty-one-year-old
Katherine Ostojic and her younger sister, nineteen-year-old
Alice, __on the part of the boat that was above the water
for ten hours. When they __any other boats, they decided
that they __to an island that they could see on the
horizon. But the island __as near as they thought, and it
took them over eight hours to get there. The journey was very__
When they reached the island, they saw that it had
an active volcano. Fortunately, some fishermen found the
sisters and rescued them. Katherine and Alice were very__
and now they are safe in Bali At the moment, they__
emails to their parents so that they __ that their
daughters are alive. Because of their adventure, the two girls
have changed their travel plans and they are returning to the
UK next weekend.
1 a are
2 a stay
3 a sat
4 a didn't see
5 a swam
6 a isn't
7 a retired
8 a cross
9 a are writing
10 a are knowing
b was
b stayed
b sit
b don't see
b should swim
b wasn't
b tired
b relieved
b write
b knew
C were
c stays
C sits
c didn't saw
C swim
c weren't
c tiring
C proud
c wrote
c know
This is a very happy week. Everyday there is a special activity. For example, on Tuesday different games are held in the open air. Everyone can take part in them. On Wednesday you have to visit your mother-in-law and eat pancakes at her place. On Thursday you can go sled-riding. On Sunday a straw effigy symbolizing winter is burnt.
2) It is one the most favorite of all holidays in Russia. As in Western countries on Christmas Eve, Russians give "New Year" presents, Children receive their presents under the New Year Tree on the morning of the 1st of January. Traditionally just prior to midnight there's a Presidential speech broadcast nationally. When the clock strikes Midnight, people pop open thier champaign bottles and raise a toast. With the first glass they congratulate each other as the clock strikes 12 times and fireworks fill the sky. The week before the New Year is a busy one with shopping, parties at work, decorating pine and fir-trees, and cooking the years most delicious meals. The main folk heroes of this holiday are Father Frost (Did Moroz) and his grand-daughter "Sniguron'ka" (The Snow Girl). The tradition of predicting fortunes on this night is very popular among young people.
A peculiar tradition includes writing down on a piece of paper your wish for the coming year, then dropping it in to your champagne and drinking it as the clock stikes twelve times. Another "fun" folk tradition pacticed mainly in the villages on New Year night is for the unmarried girls to go outside and throw one of thier boots over the Hosts' fence. Whichever way the toe of the boot ends up pointing indicates where the future husband will come from. Nearly all businesses remain closed from December 31st to January 8th.