Home reading. Text 13

special - особенный

greeting - приветствие

I.Translate the words and complete the sentences.

1. I like all (праздники).
2. We (празднуем) the New Year on the first of January.
3. I like to (украшать) the New Year tree.
4. Alesya usually (посылает поздравительные от­крытки) to her relatives and friends.
5. Her (любимый праздник) is her birthday.
6. Alesya (приглашает) her friends to her birth­day party.
7. We (встречаем) veterans on the Victory Day.
8. My mother makes a big birthday cake with (свечи) on it.
9. We always (получаем) and give presents on the New Year’s Day.?

II.Correct the sentences.

1. Liz asks Alesya about her school.
2. The Victory Day is in January.
3. Alesya decorates the New Year tree with candles.
4. Alesya invites friends to the New Year party.
5. The Women’s Day is not a holiday.
6. There is one holiday in May.
7. Alesya is sad because she doesn’t get presents.

III. Say:

a) what Alesya does on the New Year and on her birthday;

b) what holidays she likes.

IV.Answer the questions.

1. What holiday do we celebrate in winter?
2. Why do children like the New Year?
3. Who gets presents on the eighth of March?
4. On what day do war veterans come to school?
5. ? What holidays do children like and why??

V.Speak about your favourite holiday and say how you celebrate it.