Read а paragraph about the Ukrainian language and complete it using the appropriate articles. Change capital letters to lower case letters at the beginning of a sentence if necessary. Listen to the recording and check your answers. 1) ___Ukrainian belongs to 2) ___ Indo-European family, 3) ___ Slavonic group, and is spoken by over 50 million people throughout Ukraine and 4) ___ world. 5) ___ modern literary Ukrainian developed from 6) ___ colloquial language of 7) ___ 17th and 18th centuries and shares some traits with 8) ___ Belorussian, another East Slavic language. 9) ___ written Ukrainian uses 10)___ Cyrillic alphabet. 11) ___ Ukrainian is accepted to be 12) ___ official language of 13)___ Ukraine, since it was declared 14) ___ independent in 1991, but 15) ___ vast majority of 16)___ population is functionally bilingual. 17) ___ Ukrainian is 18) ___ very melodic and beautiful language and is worth being learnt. 19) ___ Ukrainian, as well as 20) ___ Italian, is considered to be one of 21) ___ most romantic languages in 22) ___ world. So, if you want to declare your love in 23) ___ unique way you should learn Ukrainian phrases. 24) ___ standard 25) ___ Ukrainian language is regulated by 26) ___ National Academy of 27) ___ Sciences of Ukraine (NANU), particularly by its Institute for 28) ___ Ukrainian Language, Ukrainian language-information fund, and 29) ___ Potebnya Institute of Language Studies.
Maiden
Husband once suggested to his wife that, if they went out and built a snowman, instead of sitting in the house all day. Wife agreed, but instead wanted to build a snowman girl - Snegurochku.tsely day carefully collected and formed the Snow Maiden. They put two bright blue beads for eyes and a bright red ribbon for her mouth. Then they were to look at their beautiful creation. As they watched, they noticed something that seemed like Maiden smiling. The pair then realized that she was alive. After she smiled her hair curled up, she went into the house. Peasant couple, finally, the daughter of self-made!
Maiden rose, beautiful. Her eyes shone bright blue and her flaxen hair hung down to her waist. Maiden, however, was very pale, no color in the cheeks or lips, it made it a little less beautiful.
As winter passed in the spring, and the weather started getting warmer, Maiden started to behave strangely. She does not want to go outside to play with other children, and she began to hide in dark places of the house. The husband and wife began to worry about her.
Soon summer came and the Maiden was more closed than ever. One of her friends asked her to join him on a trip into the woods to pick berries. Maiden did not want to join in, but due to the persistence of her parents went together. In the forest, Snow Maiden was sure that it remains in the shadows. When dusk came her friends made a fire, and playing games, jumping on him. Maiden, however, was sitting near the ice rechki.ee friends asking them to join the game, but does not want to go to the Snow Maiden. the night went on, the Snow Maiden is very lonely, very near the river, and decided to join the game. "Jump over the fire!" her friends shouted that she would jump over the fire. Maiden stepped ran to the fire, jumped, and melted. Poor peasant couple was childless again.
2. Do you speak english? Yes, I speak English.
3. Do yo heve english lessons every day? Yes, I have english lessons every day.
4. Are you lessons interesting? Yes, they are very interesting.
5. Are you sometimes tired after lessons? Yes, rarely I am tired after lessons.
6. Why do you study foreing language? I study foreign Language for my job in future.
7. Why can't you speak English well? I can't speak English well, becouse I don't had practice in English speaking country.
8. Why do you learn grammar? I learn grammar, becouse I want to be a professor.