New Year's Day - January 1 - Titles and decorations are conferred by the sovereign. St. Valentine's Day - February 14 - It's lovers day. On this day people send Valentine cards to a person of the opposite sex, usually anonymously, and change gifts. The cards have funny, loving or serious contents. St. David's Day - March 1 - the patron saint of Wales St. Patrick's Day -March 17 - the patron saint of Ireland. It is a public
Set in New York during the Jazz Age of the Roaring Twenties, Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is the story of one young man who is trying to live his dream and to gain his first love back.
The main character, Jay Gatsby, is like a tragic romantic hero. He still believes in American dream and tries to live up to it. In his youth days he fell in love with Daisy, a daughter of one rich man from their city. After a while he wanted to marry her but she told him: "Rich
In the Czech Republic there are four basic types of transport. It is car, train, air and water transport. Ocean and sea transport misses there. It results from geography position of our country.
The biggest share covers motorcar transport. It has the thickest net too. The new roads and highways are built there, that makes the transport quick and fluent. The old roads and highways are damaged and somewhere in regions they are in the bad technical condition. Highways are built with heavy
Why do people travel? Basically, we travel every day. We need to get to school, work, shops etc. In order to reach these places, we can use various means of transport. For example, students usually travel by bus or bike. Nowadays many people travel by car, either their own or their company´s. Other means of transport are trains, planes, ships and even your own feet. Another reason for traveling is to see different places, meet different people and culture. For this, people often travel abroad. The means of
I like travelling very much, because I can see many foreign cities and towns. I want to tell you about advantages and disadvantages of travelling by plane, bus, car, train and a ship.
Travelling by plane It´s very fast and comfortable kind of travelling. But it´s very expensive, and when we are travel by tourist class, we can have a health problems, because there is no space for leg. Some people, like my grandfother, can have health problems pressure too.
Travelling is a part of life of each of us. It is mostly our hobby. We can find new places, new culture, meet new people. A lot of people travel for their holiday for example to the see or to the mountains. Some people travel abroad to learn new language or to earn some money for example AU PAIR. Some people travel far away from their home because of starting new life in a place where they can be free where nobody knows them and where they can be on their own. But there are many other reasons for traveling. Probably the
like travelling very much. When I was on elementary school, I travelled with my family almost every year in some country of Europe. But now, I´d like spending my freetime with my friends and no with my parents. Yet now I look forward to my own holiday. I hope that when I will be older I will be very rich and I will can travel all around the world. My dream is go to some tropical island. So if I am rich, I will go there with my boyfriend or with my friends.The best time to go there will be august. I am born in summer so I love swimming, basking
Travelling, it’s a thing many people like to do. There are many reasons for travelling. People are fascinated by the foreign countries and their cultures. We might travel besauce of the job or moving. If you travel abroad you must have all the necessary documents like a passport. If you travel for example to USA you need a visa. We will need to exchange some money into the local currency of the country where we are travelling. An everyday form of travelling may be going shopping, commuting to scho
Millions of years before animals lived on land, there were trees on the Earth. But today trees are in serious danger.
In the 1970s, many of the elm trees in Europe were killed by Dutch elm disease. Now an even greater danger is threatening the forests and woods of Europe from northern Sweden to southern Italy. This new danger attacks all trees – deciduous trees like oak, beech and birch as well as coniferous trees like fir and pine. First the branches turn yellow and brown. Then the trees' need
Tutanchamon's mask was in Tutanchamon's krypt with some another treasures. There were chairs, throne from gold and silver, some beds, chests, sandals and gloves, vases and statues, hampers on food, pitchers on vine and pitchers with ointments, box, jewels, gold and silver bars, sceptres, lamps and fan from ostrich's feathers for repel flyes. Portrait's mask was made of wrought and furbish masiv gold metalplate. Mask is 54 cm high, 39,3 cm broad and 49 cm deep. It was on head and on shoulders Tutanchamon's mummy, on canv
United kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Geography: This countries coveres less than 2 per cent of the world´s land area. And the prime meridian of 0.o .pases through the odl observatory at Greenwich. No point in the country is more than 121 km from the sea.
Great Britain is divided into England, Scotland and Wales.The other island Ireland covers Northern Ireland, which belongs to the UK.
London is the capital of GB. Other towns: Oxford, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Stratford,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland
The first inhabitants were the Celts. In A. D. 43 the Romans began an invasion which resulted in the Roman occupation of Britain. The next inhabitants were anglo-Saxon in the 5th century. At the beginning of the 9th century the Danes and the Norsemen attacked England.
The UK has a population of about 57 million inhabitants. The UK covers an area of about 245 thousand square kilometre. The prime meridian of 0° passes through the old observatory at Greenwich. Great B
The USA Is situated in the southern part of North America. Their neighbors are Canada, Mexico and Russia. Their area is 9 mil. Sq. Km. And population is nearly 250 million. In USA live people of all possible origins, that is why is US called pizza. People speak American English, which is simpler than British E. The climate is various. In Alaska is arctic cold and in Florida subtropical warm. Mountains are Rocky and Appalachian Ms. The highest mountain is Mount McKinley in Alaska Range.
The USA is the fourt larges country in the world. They extend over more than one third of the North American continent. They border on Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, Canada and the Pacific Ocean. Port of the USA are Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands. The three largest cities are New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The country can be divided into 5 main areas. The Appalachian Mountains are geologically the oldest. To the west from this mountains we can find the Appalachian Plateau divided by the river walleys. Further to the west there is the Mississi
Geography The Usa is situated in the southern part of North America,between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans..Its neighbors are Canada in the north,Mexico in the south and the Confederation of Independent States in Alaska.It covers the area about of 9mil.sg kms.The highest mountain is Mount McKinley in the Alaska Rang and the lowest point is Death Valley..The largest river are Mississippi and the Misouri.In USA we can find desert too,e.g in Nevada The border with Canada is maded by Great Lakes Region(L.Superior,H
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Area: 9 529 063 km Population: 263,1 mil Density of population: 28 inhabitans/km Capital: Washington National language: English National currency: American dollar (USD)=100 cents USA comprises: Portorico, North Mariany, American Samoa, Guam, etc. The highest mountain: Mount McKinley 6194 m The most important river: Mississippi National parks: Yellowstone,Yosemite,Grand Canyon,Olympic Sequoia,Zion,Everglades,etc. Inhabitans: 74% white race
USA lie on the North hemisphere and are surrounded by Pacific Ocean on the west, Atlantic Ocean on the East and Alaska on the North of Canada is surrounded by Arctic Ocean. USA borders only two states - Canada on the north and Mexico on the south. The federation is divided into the 50 states including Hawaii Islands in the Pacific ocean and Alaska on the north of Canada. Each state has its own capital and the capital of the federation is Washington D. C. which is situated on the east coast. The official language is English but a lot of i
The United States of America is a federal republic of 50 states. USA has an area of 3,615,122 square miles. It’s making USA the 4th largest country in the world. The largest state is Alaska, the second largest state is Texas. The smallest state is Rhode Island. With more than 245 million inhabitants the USA is the 4th country in the world in the terms of population.
Mount Mc. Kinley (6,194m) is the highest peak in the USA, while part of Dead Valley in California is 86m below sea level. It is the lowest point in the USA. T
The USA is a federal republic in North America. Its neighbours are Canada and Mexico. It consists of 50 states. Two states are located separates. There is Alaska in the south and Hawaii in the Pacific. American´s the biggest city is New York, but the New York isn´t the capital. The capital is Washington D.C. There is a Federal Governments. The head of the government is President (George Bush). Each state has its own government. State government are responsible for polite and prison systém, education, health service, building roads and