February 8

Check your progress

2 Jim and Ashley haven’t got the same color eyes.

3 Sandra and Kate have got five cousins.

4 I have got a new bicycle, but I hate it.

5 I haven’t got any sisters.

Exercise B

A. Hello, what would you like.

B. Hi. I,d like  a kilo of rise and some sugar, please.

A. Anything else?

B. Yes, and some eggs, please.

A. OK, that’s six Euros, please.

B. OH, and I’d like an apple, and a banana, please.

 

 

 

 

February 1

My favorite food

Specialists are divided regarding the chronology of khachapuri. According to Darra Goldstein, who wrote the book The Georgian Feast about the dish, khachapuri probably dates back to the 12th century when Georgia experienced a period of renaissance, but its specific root remains unclear.6 Dali Tsatava, former professor at the Georgian Culinary Academy, suggested that khachapuri could be a “cousin of the pizza” as the concept of the dish might have been brought by Roman soldiers who crossed Europe, well before the addition of tomatoes in the 16th century.7

November 2

Autum

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale

Love the trees until their leaves․ Fall colors are funny

Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground․

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower․

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too,

have known autumn too long.

It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.

loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.

October 14

English classwork

1) The targets concert is at the centre. true
2) The concert is on Friday night. false
3) Izzie wants to go, but but Kate doesn’t want to go. false
4)Chuck is the singer from The targets. true
5) Chuck is on the phone with mark. false

April 4

Easter in Armenia

Armenia has its own unique Easter celebrations and traditions. Easter is one of the brightest holidays of the Armenian Apostolic Church. It is a moveable feast, the day of the celebration is not fixed and each year it is different. The feast of the holiday is always celebrated from 22 March to 26 April (35 days).

Easter is also known as  Surb Zatik. Remembering the resurrection of Jesus is a way to renew daily hope that we have victory over sin.

Visiting church, funny games, colorful eggs, bread, greens and all the goodies make Armenian Easter very enjoyable.

Another interesting tradition is coloring of eggs. Easter eggs are dyed red using the traditional method of immersing them in an infusion of red onion skins – representing the blood of Christ. A favorite egg-tapping game is played by children and adults alike. You hold a hard-boiled egg upright, the other person holds their egg upright, and you tap their egg. If you crack the other person’s eggshell first without breaking your own, you win and get their egg. You keep doing this until the person with the most eggs wins. All the children play this game.

Armenians cook rice with raisins where rice is the symbol of the humanity, and raisins represent all Christians.

The easter table also includes Armenian fish Ishkhan and red wine, which symbolize the flesh and blood of Christ.

The most popular bread for Easter is Chorek. It is a sweet bread. It’s especially loved by kids. Chorek is a rather sweet and puff bread, that’s why it’s not an everyday dish, but is made once a year, during Easter.

March 23

March 20.24

My house is (biger, the biggest) than yours.

This flower is (the most beautiful, more beautiful) than that one.

This is the (interesting, the most interesting) book I have ever read.

Non-smokers usually live (longer, the longest) than smokers.

Which is the (more dangerous, the most dangerous) animal in the world?

A holiday by the sea is (good, better, the best) than a holiday in the mountains.

It is strange but often a coke is (more expensive, the most expensive) than a beer.

Who is the (richer, the richest) woman on earth?

The weather this summer is even (bad, worse, the worst) than last summer.

He was the (cleverer, the cleverest) thief of all.

February 23

Carnival

ONCE UPON A TIME there lived a husband and wife who did not see eye to eye. The man called his wife stupid and she returned the compliment. They were always fighting about something or other.

One day, the man bought a hundred pounds of butter and rice, hired a man to carry it on his back and took it home. His wife was furious. “Didn’t I always say you were stupid!” she cried. “What did you go and buy so much butter and rice for? Thinking of holding a wedding for your son, for a funeral banquet for your father?”

“What are you talking about? What funeral banquet, what wedding? Take it and put it all away. It’s for the Carnival.”

The wife calmed down, took the stuff and put it away. Some time passed and the woman waited and waited, but the Carnival did not come. As she was sitting by the door one day, she saw a man hurrying by along the street. She raised one hand to her forehead and called: “Hey, brother, come here for a minute!”

The young man stopped.

“You’re not the Carnival by any chance, are you, brother?” she asked.

The man saw at once that there must be something wrong with her up top and thought to himself: “Aha, I’ll say I am, and see what happens.”

“Why, of course, sister. I’m Carnival. What is it?”

“Well, all I have to say is that after all, we’re not your servants, to keep your rice and butter for such a long time! Aren’t you ashamed of yourself,? Why haven’t you ever shown up to take your stuff away?”

“Why so angry, my dear? That’s just what I’ve come for. I’ve been looking for your house for a long time but couldn’t find it.”

“Well, alright, come on and take it then.”

The man hurried into the house, grabbed the butter and rice, put it on his shoulder and took off for his village.

When the husband came home in the evening, the woman told him: “The Carnival came at last. I gave him back his things and he took them away.

“‘What Carnival…? What things, Woman!?”

“The butter and the rice. . . . I saw him coming along the road, looking for our house. I called him over, gave him a good telling off and had him carry the stuff away on his back.”

“Oh, stupid one. You’ve ruined me! Which way did he go?”

She showed him and the man mounted his horse and rode after the Carnival.

Meanwhile, the Carnival, making good his escape, glanced back and noticed a man on horseback riding after him. He realised at once that it must be the woman s husband. The man rode up to him and said: “Good day, brother. Have you seen a man going this way?”

“Yes, indeed, I did see one.

“What was he carrying on his back?”

“Butter and rice.

“Ah, he must be the one I’m looking for. Did he go by long ago?”

“Quite a time.”

“Do you think I can catch him up if I ride fast?”

“How could you?” said the Carnival. “You’re on horseback, but he was on foot. By the time your horse has taken four steps—one, two, three, four—the man will already have walked away on his two feet: one-two, one-two! Much faster than you!”

“What shall I do then?”

“Well, you can leave your horse with me and go on foot like him if you like. Maybe then you’ll catch him up.

“Yes, yes, well said!” And he climbed off his horse, left it with the other man, and set off on foot—one-two, one-two.. . . As soon as he was out of sight the Carnival loaded his burden on the horse’s back, turned off the road and galloped home.

Our man, however, walked on and on and finding nobody turned round and came back—to find both the horse and the stranger gone. He returned home and husband and wife started fighting anew: the man because of the butter and rice, the woman because of the horse. And they are fighting to this day. He calls her stupid, and she returns the compliment.

And the Carnival listens and laughs to himself.