Переведите, пожалуйста, срочно!!! According to the Basic Skills Agency, one in six people in Britain has literacy problems. I th
Переведите, пожалуйста, срочно!!! According to the Basic Skills Agency, one in six people in Britain has literacy problems. I think we must ask why so many children are leaving school (after eleven years of compulsory education) unable to read and write their own language satisfactorily. I was once told by a highly literate woman that: 'Reading and writing isn't everything. We should learn to value people for themselves, they have other skills.' We were in a literacy centre at the time, full of adults struggling to learn their own language. A couple of people were in their seventies and had spent a lifetime covering up the fact that they couldn't read or write. Some of their excuses were creative. One man wrapped a bandage around his right hand whenever he had an official form to fill in. Other, more common, excuses are: 'I've forgotten my glasses' or 'My handwriting is bad'. I was a late reader myself, so I can empathize with the terror of looking down at a page full of incomprehensible black squiggles. I used to dread being asked to read by the teacher in my infant school (who was so unkind that my brain turned to porridge whenever I saw her). I learned to read during an absence from school. I was away for three weeks with mumps. My mother bought Richmal Crompton's Just William books, and I was so captivated by the ink drawings that I wanted to know what the captions said underneath. My mother read them to me, and somehow, by the time I went back to school, I could read the books myself. For those of you who don't know the William books, I'd better explain their attraction. They start in the 1930s when William Brown is an eleven-year-old boy. He lives in a village in the country with his family. His mother, Mrs Brown, is a long-suffering woman prone to headaches. Mrs Brown can't quite bring herself to think badly of William, though God knows there is daily evidence that he is the son from hell. Mr Brown is a permanently angry man. Unlike his wife, he is convinced that William is the spawn of the devil. William leads a gang called 'The Outlaws', but he is not a wicked boy. The books are wonderful and have a rich, sophisticated vocabulary. The reader sees the adult world through William's eyes and, like him, finds it a baffling, hypocritical place. William Brown hated school and was constantly in trouble. And, judging by the letters he wrote (ransom notes, usually), he struggled with his spelling and punctuation. My literary hero never grew up, but I hope that a good teacher out there in Fictionland persevered with him and that he left school able to read and write. Because I fear that William's 'other skills' - disorderliness, hand-to-hand fighting - would not have adequately equipped him for adult life. Unless, of course, he wanted to join the foreign legion, whose only entry qualification is that applicants must have hands and legs. Good teachers should be honoured by society. We should pay them more and stop being jealous of their long holidays. Boring, inadequate teachers should be sifted out before they leave teacher-training college. On no account should their fatal influence be allowed to pollute the lives of small children. One of my daughters wept every night for weeks because she was afraid of the 'shouting' teacher.
Согласно Основному Агентству мастерства, один из шести человек в Великобритании имеет проблемы с грамотностью. Я думаю, мы должны спросить, почему так много детей выходя из школы (после одиннадцати лет обязательного образования) не умеют читать и писать удовлетворительно на своем языке. Однажды мне сказала одна очень образованная женщина, что чтение и письмо - это еще не все. Мы должны научиться ценить людей, у них другие навыки. Мы были на пике грамотности в то время, когда много людей пытались изучать свой родной язык. Паре человек было уже за 70 и они провели всю свою жизнь, скрывая тот факт, что они не умели читать и писать. Некоторые из их отговорок просто творческие. Один человек забинтовывал правую руку, когда ему приходилось заполнять официальные бланки. Более распространенные отмазки: - я забыл свои очки " или "мой почерк очень плохой'. Я и сама научилась читать поздно, поэтому я могу понять ужас, как глядя на страницу видеть непонятные черные закорючки. Я боялась когда меня спросит что-то прочитать учительница в детской школе (которая была так жестока, что мой мозг превращался в кашу, когда я ее видела). Я научилась читать во время отсутствия в школе. Я отсутствовала три недели со свинкой. Моя мама купила просто книги Ричмал Кромптона "Уильям", и я была настолько очарована рисунками тушью, что захотела узнать, о чём были заголовки. Моя мама читала их мне, и почему-то, когда я вернулась в школу, я могла читать книги сама. Для тех из вас, кто не знает книги о Уильяме, я бы лучше объяснила их притягательность. Они начинаются с 1930 года, когда Уильяму Брауну было одиннадцать лет. Он живет в деревне с семьей. Его мать, миссис Браун,-многострадальная женщина, склонная к головным болям. Миссис Браун не может заставить себя плохо думать об Уильяме, хотя Бог знает, сколько есть ежедневных доказательств того, что он исчадье ада. Мистер Браун постоянно злой. В отличие от жены, он убежден, что Уильям - отродье дьявола. Уильям возглавляет группу под названием 'вне закона', но он не злой мальчик. Книги замечательные и имеют богатый, сложный словарный запас. Читатель видит мир взрослых глазами Уильяма и, подобно ему, считает этот мир сложным и лицемерным местом. Уильям Браун ненавидел школу и попадал постоянно в беду. И, судя по письмам, которые он писал (в примечаниях, как правило), он боролся со своей орфографией и пунктуацией. Мой литературный герой не вырос, но я надеюсь, что хороший учитель там, в придуманной стране, упорно с ним работал, и, что он вышел из школы, умея читать и писать. Потому что я боюсь, что 'другие навыки' Уильяма - распущенность, рукопашный бой - не были бы адекватны в его взрослой жизни. Если, конечно, он бы не захотел, вступить в иностранный Легион, для записи куда, подходящей квалификацией является то, что кандидаты должны иметь руки и ноги. Хорошие учителя должны быть почитаемы в обществе. Мы должны платить им больше и перестать завидовать их длинному отпуску. Скучные, неадекватные учителя должны быть отсеяны, прежде чем они выйдут из педагогического колледжа. Ни в коем случае не должно их пагубное влияние омрачать жизни маленьких детей. Одна из моих дочерей плакала каждую ночь в течение недели, потому что она боялась 'кричащего' учителя.
Simple Tense: I play football every day. I played football yesterday. I will play football tomorrow.
Continuous Tense: I am playing football now. I was playing football at that moment. I will be playing football at 3 o'clock tomorrow.
Perfect Tense: I have already played football. I had played football before my mother called me. I will have played football by 5 o'clock.
Perfect Continuous: I have been playing football for 2 hours. I had been playing football for 2 hours when my mother called me. I will have been playing football for 3 years next month.
Kyrgyzstan differs from other countries by its unique, virgin, diverse, beautiful nature, geographical position which defines a strict change of seasons, diverse relief (primarily, mountain), favorable policy towards tourism and liberal legislation.
94% of the territory of Kyrgyzstan is occupied with mountains. It has fantastic gorges covered with bright green grass, high fir-trees, and is filled with the crystal pure air. Murmur of the water in the tumultuous rivers and waterfalls are the only things which break the silence. Every gorge is unique and beautiful in its own way. The plexus of mountains located on the border with China is a location of the highest picks of the Tien-Shan mountain system - Pobeda Peak (7439 m) and Khan-Tengri (6995 m). From this point the gorges go to the west and south-west creating parallel ranges stretching for 300-400 km. The Republic southern border with Tajikistan is edged with the highest Chon-Alai (Zaalai) Range with the second highest peak in Kyrgyzstan – Lenin Peak (7134 m). Alpinists from all over the world strive for conquering these peaks. Kyrgyzstan is one of the largest regions that has the modern glaciers system. They occupy 4.2% of the territory of Kyrgyzstan with a total area of 8100 sq. km.
There are more than 2000 lakes and artificial storages in the country. The lakes occupy 3.4% of the territory. About 90% of them are high-altitude dams and enclosed lakes. Sary-Chelek Lake is a biosphere reserve located at the south-western slope of the Chatkal Range at a height of 1873.9 m above sea level. It impresses every tourist by its beauty. The high-altitude Issyk-Kul Lake, the second largest after Lake Titicaca, is sheltered between Tien-Shan mountains at the bottom of the huge tectonic basin at a height of 1606.7 m above sea level. The Lake differs from others by its geographical, climatic, and hydrological conditions. All these make it unique medical and recovering resource for holidaymakers. Annually hundreds of tourists spend their holidays on the beaches of the Issyk-Kul Lake.
Kyrgyzstan is interesting by not only the nature but also by its culture. The Kyrgyzs are rooted in nomads and they still have all attributes of the nomadic life. You will see a yurt – unusual portable dwelling decorated with a hand-made welt carpets and ribbons, will have an opportunity to taste the national cuisine. If you wish you can stay in yurt for some time and watch the everyday life: pasturage, koumiss making, and national horse games. You are going to feel a difference between the South and the North of Kyrgyzstan by visiting both parts of the country. This is the difference in climate, nature, and culture. Our site mission is to unveil our small sunny country for the rest of the world. The beauty of the mountain nature with its crystal pure air, the azure Issyk-Kul Lake with its warm and caressing sun, traditions peculiarities of the hospitable Kyrgyz people, historical monuments along the Great Silk Road – we want to make all of these accessible for you!
What gifts did your parents buy? Did you wear funny costumes? What songs did you sing? Did you dance to music? What did your mother cook? Did your friends send you greeting cards?