.9 Read the text and choose the correct answers. Super Gran It was broad daylight and lots of people were out shopping in Northampton city centre on Saturday, Suddenly, a gang of six criminals attacked a jewellery shop. They were wearing black jackets and black ski hats to hide their faces. Their plan was to smash the big glass windows of the jewellery shop, steal as much valuable jewellery as they could and then quickly escape on motorbikes before anyone could do anything. They thought that nobody would stop them. But they were wrong. As the gang were smashing the window, a seventy-year-old woman saw what they were trying to do She ran up to them and started hitting the men on the head with her handbag. The men were very surprised when they saw that their attacker was an old lady. They were so shocked that they dropped the jewellery and tried to run away. But now other shoppers had seen what was happening and came to help the old lady. The shop assistants locked the shop and called the police. Four of the men were arrested. The whole incident was filmed on the mobile phone of a passer-by. He put the film on the Internet and the story was in all the newspapers: "Granny stops armed robbers'. And what about the old lady? Nobody knows who she is! Police questioned people at the scene, but they said she had gone to have a cup of tea and then quietly disappeared Find synonyms in the text Crowd, to assault, gangster, to crash, costly, mistaken, to slap, astonished, scene, to interview
The family unites New Year-Семью объединяет Новый год.
Russians have a lot of old traditions-Россияне имеют много старых традиций.
Our friends like to get presents -Наши друзья любят получать подарки.
It is important for the British to preserve their traditions.-Британцам важно сохранить их традиции.
There are many royal in Britain traditions-В Британии много королевских традиций
It is not polite to jump the queue in Britain-(Если дословно,то-Невежливо прыгать,перепрыгивать очередь в Британии.) Но правильнее перевести так-Невежливо проходить без очереди в Британии. (Т.е Невежливо будет опередить кого-то или несколько человек в очереди;не дожидаясь своей очереди)
1 Francis Drake sailed around
the world between 1577 and 1580
on the orders of Queen Elizabeth
2 Marie Curie once said that the use
of x-rays during the war saved
the lives of many injured men.
3 Blackbeard and his crew attacked
ships on the Atlantic Ocean and
Caribbean Sea to get their treasures
4 Ivan the Terrible terrorised
and killed thousands of people
during his reign
5 in 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte invaded
Egypt with an army
of nearly 33,000 men
6 The Europeans feared
the Vikings because they were
extremely strong warriors who
made surprise attacks.
7 Ivan the Terrible was just 17 years
old when he became
the first tsar of Russia.
8 Queen Elizabeth made
Francis Drake a knight in 1581.
9 They found
a huge
navy and attacked them
10 During his second voyage to the
New World, Christopher Columbus built
the new colony
of La Isabela.
11 Blackbeard hid the treasures he stole
from different
ships on land
12 The Vikings often buried
their dead at sea, on burning boats.
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