Geography: Canada is the second largest sountry in the world. It’s on the northern part of North America. The biggest lakes are: Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, Great Bear Lake (shared with USA), Great Slave Lake (-||-), Lake Winnipeg (-||-),... Rivers: St. Lawrence River, Winnipeg, Saskatchevan, Columbia, Frazer, Yukon, Mackenzie, ... Canada is divided into seven regions, each with a different landscape and climate: The Pacific Coast, The Cordillera, The Prairies, The Canad
Canada is the second largest country in the world (after Russia). It occupies an area of 10 million square kilometers and has about 30 million inhabitants. The capital of Canada is Ottawa, the political, cultural and economic center of the country.
Canada is a varied landscape. There are the Rocky Mountains, the Mackenzie Mountains, the Coast Mountains and other ranges running north to south. The highest peak of Canada, however is not in the Rockies, is Mt. Logan. Of cour
The top of North America has been seen as a rich storehouse of minerals and furs. But to the native peoples it is simply home. They put it this way: “The land is just like our blood because we live off the animals that feed off the land.” They had unwritten maps and place-names and established hunting territories. Outsiders described the land as remote, barren, frigid (vzdálená, neúrodná, chladná). Yet (přesto) the north is no longer truly remote. Today there is air service to every hamlet. With aircraft
Car crash!!!!!!!!! One day it was bad weather! It raind very much and it was also a very dark evening. The president drove to the parlament with his san.When they were on the 30th km of their way they heard that at the 31st km was a car crash. The president thought that it was a normal accident, but when he saw it, he had a shock. There were five cars together and five people dead. And becouse he was so shocked, he was not able to stop this car and so he crashed into a police car. The doctores were there ve
Trosky – The ruins of a Gothic castle stand on two basalt cones. We can find it in the Bohemian Paradise. The castle is from the second half of 14th century and it was left in the end on 17th century. The higher tower { 514m } is called Panna /Virgin, the lower one is {504m} is called Baba /an old women/.
Opočno – It is a town and a chateau situated on the Golden Stream near Dobruška. The castle is mentioned for the first time in 1068. In 1560 / 1569 there was built a Renaissance chateau with arcades. It was restyled in the
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England went through dramatic changes in the 19th century. English culture, socio-economic structure and politics where largely influenced by the principles of science. Many social expressions occurred due to these changes. Transformations which categorized this time period could be observed in social institutions; for instance: the switch from popular Evangelicalism to atheism, emergence of feminism and the creation of new political ideologies (Liberalism, Conservatism and Radicalism). These are just a few of the changes that took place. All o
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) - The main topic of his books – the fate of young poor children and their life; their stories are very touching - English novel writer - His father was typist - Their family moved to London where Charles lived all his life - His childhood was very unhappy - When he was 10 he had to work in a factory - In his 12 he started to go to school and in his 15 years old he was at the begiing of studiing the law - His father had to go to jail - He was a writer in
Oliver Twist is one of the first social novels of the 19th century and one of the most famous novels written by Charles Dickens. The novel was filmed many times and succesfully played in theatre. In the workhouse of a provincial town seventy-five miles north of London a young woman gives birth to a boy, and dies. The child is named Oliver Twist and put into the workhouse orphanage, presided over by the ill-natured Mrs. Corney. At the age of nine Oliver is transfered to the workhouse and he is set to picking oakum. When Oliver is chosen a
His Life From a very early age Charles Dickens knew he wanted to be gentleman. Unfortunately the odds weren't in his favour. His family was on the edge of financial and social disaster. However they did have some limited funds put aside to send one of their children to a university or academy. Mr. and Mrs. John Dickens studied the talents and qualifications of all their children. They wanted to use the money earmarked for education where it would do the most good. It was as
My best Christmas present was a big red box . It lie under the Christmas tree when I was 6. I unpacked it and saw a hunders of manycoloured bricks. It was Lego- the best toy all over the world. That evening I started with building a hospital. Next day it built a garage for my new car....Next days after Christmas, I tried to build a different buildigs and things for example cars, family houses, animal etc.
Next Christmas I received again the Lego, but the box was bigger than the first. It was two castles with the fighters, dragons,
Chuck BERRY Born 1926 , rock musician and composer. "If you tried to give rock 'n' roll another name, you might call it ]Chuck Berry,[" John Lennon of the Beatles once said. At the height of Berry's popularity, in the last half of the fifties, other singers had more hits, but no one had more influence. During the sixties the Beatles and the Rolling Stones played a dozen of his songs note for note, and Bob Dylan acknowledged his debt to Berry as a lyricist.
The most quickly way of communicate is by telephone. But it is really expensive affair nowadays. Therefore many people have mobile phones nowadays. We are never alone and it is cheaper. Television and radio help people to learn more about the world they live in and this is a good relaxation. People listen to the radio a lot, especially for music and news. All radios played pop music, there are also radios, which specialized in select music. I listen radio only if ride the car. I prefer listening the cd’s or cassettes. Man
The first question which we have to ask if we want to speak about communication is: What is it? Communication is an exchange of informations. People can communicate in many ways. They can speak, write or they can use gestures. Many people can speak several languages. Everyone has his native language and most of them speak even some foreign language.
People use the bodylanguage all the time although they don’t awake to it. They move with hands or some other parts of their bodies and it can tell abroad very much about them. For ex
COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE For twelve years our family has been living in a seven – story block of flats, part of a modern housing development at the edge of our town. Those who live in the country often claim that they would never want to live in town and by no means in a block of flats. However, living in a town or in a village has its positive and negative aspects. First let’s talk about city live.
For the surrounding villages, a town is the centre of all activity. People come here from far away to buy many necessiti
Crimes are usually classified as treason (legal term for various acts of disloyalty), felony (any grave crime), or misdemeanor (a minor crime). In general, a misdemeanor is an offense for which a punishment other than death or imprisonment (uvěznění) in the state prison is prescribed by law. Crimes are sometimes divided according to their nature into crimes mala in se and crimes mala prohibita. Crimes mala in se comprises those acts that are thought to be immoral or wrong in themselves, or naturally evil, such as murder, rape, arson (žhář
There are many ways of spending leisure time in our town. We can go to the cinema,to the theatre,dancing, or we can stay at home and listen to the radio, watch television and read books.
There are two cinemas here which offer various films all the year round. On Sunday afternoon they show special films for children. Nowadays we can get the tickets straight away at the cinema,about half an hour before the performances.Some people like to sit at the back but I usually buy tickets to the first
Cultural life in our town is not so rich as in large cities. In spite of that there are some ways of spending leisure time.We can go to the cinema, to the theatre, or we can stay at home and listen to the radio, watch television and read books.
We have only one cinema in our town - Kino Svět.The repertory of the cinema is not specialized.Sometimes is necessary to book the tickets for a performance in advance if you wanted to avoid long queuing in front of the box office.The attendance has b
Look at one our day. One day takes 24 hours. We can divide the day in three parts. About eight hours we sleep. The next eight hours we spend at work or at school. And what about the last eight hours? It builds our spare time. In this time we can do what we want. People almost devote this time the sport or culture. The cultural life concentrates in the first place to the towns. There is not any problem to find the cinemas or summer cinemas, theatres, concert halls, museums, clubs, pubs with live
The Czech Republic is a state in Central Europe. There are 10,3 milion population and its area is about 80 000 sq km. Our state is surrounded by a ring of mountains - for example theŠumava range, the Czech Forest, Ore Mountains, Jizerské Mountains, Jeseníky, Beskydy and so on...
There are also big rivers - Vltava, Elbe (flowing into the North Sea), Oder (into Baltic Sea) and Morava. The climate is mostly continental.
One of our most important raw materials is coal. There are two kind of coal. The first black coal