Our planet Our planet is very large and beautiful. There are many continents, seas and oceans on it. Men have sailed across the oceans, discovered new lands on our planet and have explored them. In old times, voyages were hard and dangerous, but all the same, brave sailors made voyages. They reached the shores of far-off continents and islands. When the explorers returned home, they wrote about the nature of new lands, about the people who lived there and about their traditions. (80 words)
Manchester Manchester is the second largest city in Lancahire after Liberpool.It is an industrial capital of the North of England. It has a good climate which is neither very cold nor very hot.
Manchester is 56 kilometres away from the sea, but it is the third largest port in Great Britain. Manchester is a very old city. The population of Manchester itself is about half a million people, but there are nine other cities not far from Manchester. (74 words)
Great men Many great men have lived and worked in Edinburgh. Robert Burns, the great Scottish poet, published his first book of poems in Edinburgh.
There is a monument to him in the city. Walter Scott is in the main street of the city. Robert Louis Stevenson, a famous English writer, was born and lived in Edinburgh. He loved the city and wrote about it in his best. (64 words)
Cambridge Cambridge is the second oldest University City in Great Britain after Oxford.Cambridge is on the river Cam and takes its name from this river. There are twenty nine colleges in Cambridge. A large part of the population of the city is teachers and students. Cambridge while they study there – in the streets of Cambridge you can see many young men wearing dark blue or black clothes and black square caps. (70 words)
AbaiKunanbayev Abai Kunanbayev was born in 1845 and died in 1904. He was born in Chingis Mountains in Semipalatinsk region.He was a poet, thinker and composes. His popularity was a magnet that attracted not only the Kazakhs, but also many other free – thinking people of the eastern world . Having an excellent knowledge and understanding of Kazakh folk music, he composed several melodies for those of his verses. (65 words)
Astana Astana is the centre of political life of Kazakhstan.Residence of President, the Parliament and the Government are located here. Astana is a modern growing city, a political, financial, economic, cultural centre of the state. There are many places of interest in Astana. The palace of the youth and the Bridge across the Ishym River, the Regional Museum of the fine Arts. (60 words)