11. Read and complete the sentences. These expressions and sentences can help you:
to walk or use a bicycle instead of going by car, to save energy,
to use less electricity, to turn off the lights when you leave a flat
or a house, to recycle used materials such as paper, bottles,
and metal, to plant more trees, bushes and flowers, to develop
international cooperation in order to solve ecological problems
together, to reduce car fumes, not to throw away litter in the
streets, parks, gardens, to keep our streets, parks, gardens, lakes
and rivers clean from rubbish, not to pollute lakes and rivers with
garbage or poisonous substances, thousands of plant and animal
species disappear because of air and water pollution, hunting,
global warming, deforestation, destroying habitats, to save as much
water as possible, to stop polluting air, water, soil, to take litter
to the nearest waste bin, not to throw litter in classes, corridors,
in squares, parks, streets, not to cut down trees, to be cleaner,
to reduce global warming, not to kill animals and birds, to lose
their habitats.
1. If people don't cut down trees,...
2. If we plant more trees, bushes and flowers, the air we breathe...
3. If people didn't throw litter, the streets...
4. Animals and birds wouldn't have lost their habitats if...
5. If we used public transport,...
6. If I were a President, I...
7. If people want to survive, they...
8. If we don't take care of our environment,...
9. If we don't create and preserve national reserves,...
10. If we had developed international cooperation,...
11. If we don't stop explosions on ammunition dumps,...
12. If we want to live a happy life, we have to...
Olympic games and Kazakhstan
July 17 at 11:35 am
Taufik KARIMOV, a political analyst
On the eve of the main sporting event of the quadrennial year-the London Olympics-let's remember the achievements of Kazakhstani athletes at the Olympic games of our time.
Participation of Kazakhstani athletes in the Olympic games of our time should be divided into two parts – first as part of the USSR national team, and then, after independence, as part of the national team under its national flag.
However, first I want to warn readers – here you will see some discrepancies with the generally accepted data. For example, it is believed that for the first time Kazakhstan took part in the Olympics in 1956, in my opinion – in 1952 (then, by the way, the first medal was won, and not in 1960, as it is believed).
The first Olympic champion-Kazakh in official sources is called the wrestler Zhaksylyk USHKEMPIROV (1980), although in fact this is Alzhan ZHARMUKHAMEDOV (1972). Without detracting from the merits of our outstanding athlete, we just note that Ushkempirov is indeed the first Kazakh Olympic champion who represented Kazakhstan directly. And Kazakh Zharmukhamedov, who became the champion of the Munich Olympics in the Soviet basketball team, then lived in Moscow and played for CSKA. Then we all lived in a single state called the USSR, and it often happened that the best athletes, and not only from Kazakhstan, played for other Union republics. However, in order