We and our feelings.

WE AND OUR FEELINGS

1. Read, translate and memorize them:

happy, happiness, to be really happy, the place you were born in, the best place in the world, East or West, home is best, there is no place like home, fight to be free, the most important thing, love for your birthplace, with a great respect for the history of our country.

2. Read the text and answer the following questions:

1. What is happiness?

2. Why do we say that struggle is happiness too?

3. How do you understand the word “Motherland '?

4. Is love of Motherland happiness either?

What Is Happiness?

All people of the world want to be happy. But what is happiness? There are many answers to that question. Happiness is when you are loved and when you love somebody, when you have real friends who can always understand you, a job you like. Happiness is peace and love of Motherland. As you see, we need very much to be really happy.

What were Alexander Matrosov, Oleg Koshevoy, Cholponbai Tuleberdiev and thousands of other young heroes thinking about during the last minutes of their lives? Perhaps about giving their lives in the great struggle for the happiness of millions of people.

Alexander Matrosov

Alexander Matveyevich Matrosov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Матве́евич Матро́сов (February 5, 1924 – February 22 or 27, 1943), born in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipro) was a Soviet infantry soldier during the Great Patriotic War (Second World War), awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union for blocking a German machine-gun with his body.

Oleg Koshevoy

Oleg Vasilyevich Koshevoy Russian: Олег Васильевич Кошевой) (June 8, 1926 – February 9, 1943) was a Soviet partisan and one of the founders of the clandestine organization Young Guard, which fought the Nazi forces in Krasnodon during World War II between 1941 and 1945.

Cholponbai Tuleberdiev

And now we are happy! We are happy to live in our Motherland. But the most important thing is when your love for your birthplace comes together with pride of the history of our country and its people. It is great happiness for you!