Kazakhstan is my Motherland Kazakhstan was established as the Republic of Kazakhstan in December 1991. The country is the second largest of the former Soviet republics with a total land of over 2.724 million square kilometers. This country shares its border with the Russian Federation to the north and north-west; to the east with China and to the south with the central Asian republics of Kyrgyzstan, (Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan).
The Ural River flows through the western portion of Kazakhstan to the Caspian Sea. The central region of the country includes the Kazakh Steppe to the north and deserts of central Asian in the south-west.
The country is rich with mineral resources such as copper, gold, iron, lead, nickel, silver, tin, uranium and Zink with deposits of oil and natural gas. (112-words)
London What is this London is the capital of Great Britain, its political, economic and cultural centre. London is situated on the both banks of the River Thames. Traditionally London is divided into several parts: the City, Westminster, the West End and the East End. The City is the heart of London. Numerous banks, offices and firms are situated there. It is the financial centre of the UK. Westminster is the historic centre of government. The West End is the richest and most beautiful part of London. The East End is the poorest part of London. There are a lot of factories and docks here. The East End is populated by working class families.
Mr. Smith is going to London. On his way to London he meets ten children, five boys and five girls, with bags on their hands, with apples in his bag, each girl has twelve apples in her bag and each boy has eleven apples in his bag. The apples are red and nice. All the children like to eat apples. How many apples in all are the children carrying to London? (148 words)
Breakfast It is half past seven. Vera, her mother and her sisters are in their living-room. Versa mother is a very nice woman. She is thirty-six. She is a very tall. She has fair hair and grey eyes, her face is round.
Versa father is a worker. He is not at home. He is at the factory. Vera, her mother and her sisters are having their breakfast. They are sitting at the table. There are plates, forks and spoons on the table. Vera is putting butter on a piece of bread. Her little sister has a cup of tea in her had. A cup of tea, Vera. (92 words)
Dima Dima is a village boy. He lives in a village near Smolensk. His village is not very large. The streets of the village are green.
Dima’s family has a house. There are three rooms and a kitchen in the house. They have a kitchen-garden.
Dima is a schoolboy. He is in the fifth form. He is a good student. Dima’s parents are farmers. They work on a farm. They have a cow, a pig and two sheep. Dima helps his mother and his father. He likes his village very much.
It is winter. It is January. January is the second winter month. In minter the weather is usually cold. It snows in winter. The days are short and the nights are long. The streets, the houses, the trees and the fields are white with snow.
I live in a village near Omsk. I like my village in winter. We have holidays in winter. We do not go to school. The first of January is New Years Day. On that day we have a New Year Tree at home and in our school. We play with snowballs in the yard. We have a good day. We like winter holidays very much. (172 words)