My favourite food is pizza. I like all kinds of pizza and other Italian dishes. For my birthday, my parents always try to arrange a pizza party. There are times when we simply order pizza for lunch or dinner, just because there is no time for cooking. Out of my mum’s home cooking I prefer Ukrainian borscht. It’s a special red cabbage soup, which is tastier to eat with sour cream. Borscht is a traditional Russian and Ukrainian dish and many foreigners want to try it when visiting these countries. In general, I can say that I am a good eater. I like many types of food, among them fruit, vegetables, sweets and cakes, etc. However, there are some products which I don’t like eating. They are mushrooms and fish. My mother knows about it and she tries not to use these products in dishes.
1. What may happen, the luck or unluck, if a black cat will cross your way? (Что может произойти, удача или неудача, если чёрный кот перебежит вам дорогу?) 2. Why the russians are so superstitious? (Почему русские так суеверны?) 3. Who is a brownie and where does he dwell? (Кто такой домовой и где он обитает?) 4. What the russians do to brush away the unluck and evil ghosts, knocking by wood or splitting through the left shoulder three times? (Что русские делают, чтобы отогнать неудачу или злых духов, стучат по дереву или плюют через лечо 3 раза?) 5. What will bring the luck, seeing the black cat or pig on the street? (Что принесёт удачу, если увидишь чёрную кошку или свинью на улице?) 6. What kind of flowers cannot be given as gift? (Какие цветы нельзя дарить?) 7. What a source of russians' strange superstitions? (Откуда произошли странные суеверия русских?) 8. Are there any superstition in other countries as similar as in Russia? (Есть ли в других странах такие же суеверные обычаи, как в России?)
