II Read the text and say how many bank holidays there are in all the countries of the UK.

Speak about holidays in Russia.

What are 'bank' holidays?

British bank holidays are Public Holidays and have been recognized since 1871. The name Bank Holiday comes from the time when banks were shut and so no trading could take place.

There are currently eight permanent bank and public holidays in England, Wales and Scotland and 10 in Northern Ireland. These include Christmas Day and Good Friday, which in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are common law holidays (they are not specified by law as bank holidays but have become customary holidays because they are celebrated by everybody.

Even though banks are still closed on these days many shops today now remain open. Shops, museums and other public attractions, such as historic houses and sports centres, may close on certain public holidays, particularly Christmas Day.

Questions:

1. Where does the name Bank Holiday come from?

2. How many permanent public holidays are there in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?

3. What British and American holidays do you know? Name some of them.

4. Do the British give each other presents on holidays?

5. Which of the British holidays would you like to be celebrated in Russia? Why?

6. What holidays are very popular with Russian people?

7. How are some of these holidays celebrated?

8. Do you know any interesting traditions for these holidays?

9. Which are your favourite holidays? How do you celebrate them?

10.Do you usually celebrate holidays with your friends or with your relatives?

III Speak to your partner. You begin the conversation.

In October you’re going to England. Speak to your foreign friend, who lives there, and ask him/her what the weather is usually like there in October; how often it changes. Ask your friend to recommend you what clothes to take with you.

CARD 19

I Read the article and answer your teacher’s questions.

DAILY BREADby O`Henry

Miss Martha was 40 years old but she was not married. She had her own shop where she bread, both fresh and stale which was cheaper.

There was a customer who called at her shop two or three times a week. The man was not young but he was very pleasant. He wore heap clothes but they always looked nice on him. He always brought stale bread and never fresh. Miss Martha decided that he was very poor.

She often thought of him and was always sorry that she couldn’t invite him to have dinner with her. She wanted to talk to him, to know more about him. She liked the man and began wearing her best dress. She wanted to help the ppr man but didn’t know how tot do it.

Once when her customer called on her to buy stale bread, Miss Martha had an idea and a good one, as she thought, to help him. She put some butter in the stale bread.

The next day two men came into the shop. One of them was her customer and the other – a young man. The customer was very angry and couldn’t speak to her. So the young man told Miss Martha everything. “We work together in the same office”, he said. “We use stale bread to take away to pencil lines from our plans. We have worked at a plan of a new district for six months. We finished it this morning and began taking away pencil lines from it with your bread. You see, as there was butter in the bread the plan is good for nothing, and we can` t show this plan to anybody now.”

When the men left, Miss Martha went to her room, took off her best dress and put on her old one.

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Questions:

1. What did Martha sell in her shop?

2. Who came to her shop two or three times a week?

3. Why did Martha decide to help the man? What did she do?

4. Why were the man and his friend angry?

5. How do you think Martha felt when the men left the shop?

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