-Hello, Diana!
- Oh, hello, Kate! How are you?
-I'm fine thanks. By the way, I was going to ring you up!
-Well, go ahead!
-I hear, you are going to have your vacation soon, aren't you?
-Yes, you're right!
-I'd like to invite you to spend it together? Would you like to visit Turkey!
-Oh, I spent my last vacation there and I'd like to see something new!
-I see...What about Switzerland then?
-No. I don't like skiing at all! Besides it's rather cold there!
-May be Spain? I know a wonderfull place on the seaside there! You will certainly like it!
-Let me think!
-Oh! Come on! We'll have a nice time there together!
-O'key! I think it won't be too expensive!
-Don't worry, it's rather cheap!
-Привет, Диана!
- О, привет, Кейт! Как дела?
- Все в порядке Кстати, я собиралaсь тебе позвонить!
- Хорошо, что там?
- Я слышала, скоро у тебя будет отпуск, не так ли?
- Да, совершенно верно!
- Я хотела бы пригласить тебя провести его вместе? Не хотела бы ты съездить в Турцию?
-О, я провела свой последний отпуск там. Я хотела бы увидеть что-то новое!
- Понятно. А как тебе Швейцария?
-Нет. Я совсем не люблю кататься на лыжах! К тому же там довольно холодно!
- Может быть Испания? Я знаю чудесное место на берегу моря! Тебе там обязательно понравится!
-Дай подумать!
- О! Давай же! Мы хорошо проведем там время вместе!
-О'кей! Я думаю, это не будет слишком дорого!
- Не волнуйтесь, это довольно дешево!
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Kazakhstan’s distinct regional patterns of settlement depend in part on its varied ethnic makeup. Slavs—Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians—largely populate the northern plains, where they congregate in large villages that originally served as the centres of collective and state farms. These populated oases are separated by wheat fields or, in the more arid plains to the south, by semideserts and deserts where sheep breeders live in temporary quarters, usually yurts (round tents with sturdy pole frames covered by heavy felt).
Kazakh nomads formerly obtained their schooling and manufactured goods from Russian towns such as Troitsk, Orenburg, and Omsk, or, in the south, from the ancient cities of Transoxania, the Fergana Valley, and eastern Turkistan. After the Russian conquest established military governors and administrators in Alma-Ata (now Almaty), Uralsk (Oral), Yaik, and elsewhere, Kazakhstan began in the 19th century to develop its own cities. Qaraghandy (Karaganda), Öskemen (Ust-Kamenogorsk), and Rūdnyy (Rudny), which are typical Soviet planned towns, have straight, wide streets and multistoried buildings and accommodate industry around their fringes.