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Interesting Places of Moscow Cathedral Square Today Summer in the Urals Pyotr Filippovich Ushakov is 95! You have lakes of kindness in your eyes ... The Buildings of Cathedral Square HEALTHY Body, Healthy mind First day of school Friendship Editor-in-chief : Elena V. Vatoropina 624021, Russia, Sverdlovsk region, Designers : Olga Vaganova Sysert, Novyi District, 25 Web: школа1-сысерть.рф Photographers : Maria A. Udintseva, Bruce Bertrand, Ilia D. http://friendship1.ksdk.ru/ Krivonogov, Anton S. Sharapov, Vadim Lebedev Е-mail: [email protected] Correspondents : Maria Kucheryavaya, Bruce Bertrand, Vasilina Starkova, Alexandr Buzuev, Vladislav Surin Magazine for young learners who love English and want to know it Summer is a small life ….....…....................... 4 Summer in the Urals .……………………………………...…. 4 Krimea - 2020 ..……………………………………………...…. 4 Travelling around Russia ……………………...... 5 My trip to the South of Russia ………………………...…. 5 Our Compatriots ……………..………………....….. 7 Pyotr Filippovich Ushakov is 95! ………..………........... 7 We are for healthy lifestyle! ………...……....…. 8 An annual holiday for tourists ..………...……….…….... 8 School Life ………….………………………….……… 10 You have lakes of kindness in your eyes ………..…….. 10 Happy Teacher’s Day! My favourite teacher ….......... 11 Healthy body, healthy mind! ………………...….………… 12 Unusual History lessons …………………………………….. 13 Our guests …………....…………………………...….. 14 Interesting Places of Moscow: The Buildings of Cathedral Square ………………………………………….…... 14 Discussion Club ………….………………………..... 17 Is graffiti an art form? ……………………………………... 17 School uniform: for and against …..…..……..…………. 17 Keep up your English! ………….....……...……... 18 Introductory words and phrases …………………….…… 18 The world’s tourist attractions ………………………….. 18 Our Translations ………………………..……........ 19 Why do we get obsessed with TV characters? …..……. 19 Crossword …………………………………...……...... 20 British vs American …………………………...…………...…. 20 3 Friendship № 17 September - October 2020 Summer is a small life Summer in the Urals This summer was unusual because I recommend this type of spending coronavirus spoiled everything and holidays because if you don’t travel we didn’t have any trips. I spent my far from your native place you start summer holidays with my grand- exploring your own region. It’s not parents. We spent most of our time less exciting than exploring other in the garden. The weather was hot countries. There are so many inter- and sunny. The temperature of air esting places in the Urals and our was up to +40°C. It was quite hard nature is beautiful! to work there but the result was In conclusion, I’d like to say that very tasty)) Sometimes my grandpa this summer was good for me in let me drive his ZHIGULI. It was spite of the fact that not everyone exciting and I can’t wait to buy my liked it. own car. Vladislav Surin, 10A Crimea - 2020 A trip to Crimea was a big question ple’s hands. for my family due to the pandemic. I was at the parade in Sevastopol. It But we took a chance and on July 3 was devoted to the Day of the Rus- we safely passed the Crimean sian Navy. It is a national holiday Bridge. in the Russian Federation and a There were no usual entertainments senior holiday in the Russian and so it was the right decision for Armed Forces. The day honors the us to travel to different places sailors in units of the Russian Na- along the coast where we could be vy and its specialized arms. It is surprised by something. Moreover celebrated annually, on the last there were no problems with hous- Sunday of July. The modern fighter ing because we were one planes performed the most difficult of the first vacationers at stunts and it caused delight. the sea. Everything was But the most exciting event for me pleasing: the season of was the cable car trip to the moun- cherries and strawberries tains. Ai-Petri is a peak in the Cri- and the long-awaited hot mean Mountains. The name has weather and fresh sea air Greek origin, and is translated as and gentle waves of the St. Peter. That was a mesmerizing sea. feeling from the strength and beau- Nature had time to rest ty of nature where you feel small and renew itself. I had and defenseless. After the cable car never seen such a huge we climbed for a long time. What horde of jellyfish in my extremes did we meet on the life. It was a jellyfish mountain? We could stand on the cocktail! I was afraid to edge of a chasm and look down, swim because these crea- walk a wobbly bridge over a gorge tures were everywhere or take an extreme solo descent and they were the masters down from the mountain. If my of the sea. parents had allowed me to do that I I happened to see graceful would hardly have dared. These are swans in the Swan Lake my impressions of my vacation in in Yevpatoria. They were Crimea this year. not at all afraid of people Vasilina Starkova, 7C and took food from peo- 4 Friendship № 17 September - October 2020 Travelling around Russia My trip to the South of Russia During my holidays, I went to Hero City Volgograd with my family. My grandparents live in Volgograd. We went to the monument «The Motherland Calls». Then we went to Astrakhan, one of the oldest economic and cul- tural centers of the Lower Vol- ga. It is often called the south- ernmost outpost of Russia and the Caspian capital. The weather was hot and sunny. Every morn- The Motherland Calls is the com- ing we went fishing and caught positional centre of the monument- huge walleyes and carps. ensemble «Heroes of the Battle of Some days later we went to Kis- Stalingrad» on Mamayev Kurgan lovodsk, a spa city in Stavropol in Volgograd. It was designed by Krai, in the North Caucasus re- sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and gion which is located between structural engineer Nikolai Nikitin, the Black and Caspian Seas. and declared the tallest statue in It was in Kislovodsk that I con- the world in 1967. It is the tallest quered my first peak at altitude statue in Europe and the tallest of 1200 meters above sea level. statue (excluding pedestals) of a We climbed the mountain Kras- woman in the world. noe Solnishko and saw Mount The statue is an 85-metre figure of Elbrus from it. a woman stepping forward with a Then we went to the village of raised sword. The statue is an al- Divnomorskoe. It is at the Black legorical image of the Motherland, Sea. The most amazing things I which calls on its sons and daugh- remember were an Old Park and ters to repulse the enemy and re- a ship washed up on the beach. turn to the attack. The Motherland The Old Park turned out to be a Calls is highly complex from an miniature of many ancient at- engineering point of view, due to tractions: the Egyptian pyra- its characteristic posture with a mids, the statue of the Sphinx, sword raised high in the right hand etc. My summer trip was unfor- and the left hand extended in a gettable! calling gesture. At night, the sculp- I love my country. It is so differ- ture is illuminated by floodlights. It ent and beautiful! There are so was specially illuminated as part of many interesting places in it to a light show titled «The Light of the visit! Great Victory», marking the victory Vadim Lebedev, 7A over Nazi Germany. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 5 Friendship № 17 September - October 2020 Travelling around Russia This summer I went to Vityazevo. One day we went to the waterfalls It is situated at the Black Sea not of Kwaho in Gelendzhik. The wa- far from Anapa. We got there by terfalls of Kwaho are located at plane. 900 meters above sea level. The The weather was hot and sunny. water in the waterfalls was crystal The water in the sea was clean clear and very cold. There were and warm. Sometimes it rained. many little springs with mineral We liked when it rained, because water there. it made the air very fresh. We I liked Vityazevo and Gelendzhik swam in the sea and got sunburnt very much. I will definitely go every day. We often ate ice there again one day. cream. There were so many types Alexander Buzuev, 7A of ice cream in Vityazevo! I adore ice cream! Lake Baikal Iriklinsky Reservoir. Orenburg region I think every student likes hol- plane because it would give us fishing on the lake. By the end idays best of all and waits for more time to rest. It was July of our exciting trip I had made them as I do! I would like to that is why the weather was many photos of picturesque tell you about my holidays. generally warm and calm but landscapes and bought some Frankly speaking I spent most some days a strong wind was souvenirs for relatives and of my summer holidays cy- blowing. During one week we friends. All of us liked that cling and walking around the visited some famous places trip very much. So I recom- city. and ate the local food – omul mend everyone go there and One day I went to Lake Baikal fish. Some of the dishes were enjoy Russian nature! with my parents. It was a unusual but really delicious. Alexander Kirillov, 10A great trip! We went there by We also had a little voyage 6 Friendship № 17 September - October 2020 Our Compatriots Pyotr Filippovich Ushakov is 95! Pyotr Filippovich Ushakov is winter offensives previously, a veteran of the Great Patri- their counter-offensives af- otic War and our country- ter the German attack at man. Kursk were their first suc- P.F. Ushakov was born on cessful summer offensives September 25, 1925 in Sys- of the war.
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