Answer the questions
1. What is the main holiday in our country? And in Great Britain? And in the USA?
2. When is Christmas celebrated in Russian and in Europe?
3. On what day do people honour veterans in the UK and in the USA? In Russia?
4. What is a bank holiday?
5. How do people celebrate Thanksgiving today? What is the origin of this holiday?
6. What is Boxing Day?
7. What holidays does your family celebrate?
8. What is your favourite holiday? Why?
9. Does your family have any special New Year traditions?
10. Do you cook and eat any special holiday meals?
11. Do you celebrate any religious holidays?
12. What new holidays have appeared in our life during the last few years?
13. Have you ever tried to celebrate any foreign holidays?
14. Translate the underlined expressions and use them in your own sentences.
Example: She a student. She’s a teacher.
B isn’t
1 We to France last summer.
C went
2 I always toast for breakfast.
B have
3 your brother play the guitar?
A Does
4 My mum doesn’t like to work.
B driving
5 They TV at the moment.
A ’re watching
6 I to Rome.
B ’ve never been
7 What tomorrow afternoon?
B are you going to do
8 We to Rome and then we drove to Florence.
A flew
9 She to school today because she’s ill.
A doesn’t go
10 I at the moment because I’m on holiday.
A ’m not studying
11 Have you ever Japanese food?
B eaten
12 They pizza. They had pasta.
A didn’t have
13 Who your favourite actors?
B are
14 How often to the cinema?
B do you go
15 They early on Sundays.
C don’t get up
16 This is interesting book. Have you read it?
B an
17 I often go shopping the weekend.
C at
18 The children played in the garden.
C happily
19 These shoes aren’t . Look! They’re too small.
C mine
20 there any biscuits?
A Are
21 She hardly travels abroad.
B ever
22 Paul left work an hour .
C ago
23 How chocolate do you eat?
B much
24 This is film I’ve ever seen.
A the best
25 I’m younger my sister.
B than