You were asked to prepare a report about the most important inventions of the 20th century. Tell your friends:

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You were asked to prepare a report about the most important inventions of the 20th century. Tell your friends:

- what invention you consider the most important;

- what devices you often use and what for;

- why it is difficult for people to do without computers and mobile phones.

The 20th century has given us plenty of things that improve our lives: TV, calculators, mobile phones, CDs. It has also given us some household objects that make our lives easier and more comfortable. We use food processors and vacuum cleaners every day, we need WI-FI routers and portable hard drives at work. Our lives fully depend on technical progress and gadgets nowadays.

Personally I consider computers the most important invention ever. Almost every home, school and office has a computer. It has become the most essential part of our daily life. Needless to say, computers can be used for education and fun. It seems that computers are a useful addition to our fast-moving world of high technology. I strongly believe computers save a lot of valuable time. Stored information can be found immediately. Computer programmes allow us to learn, draw, play or communicate with people all around the world.

Speaking about the devices I often use in my life, they are a memory stick and a mobile phone. I need a memory stick to store the most important information, films, documents. I take it to school, when I visit my friends and when I travel. My memory stick has everything I need to study, remember or share with other people. This device is portable, small and very comfortable to use.

In addition, I can’t imagine my life without a mobile phone. It connects me to the whole world. I can get in touch with my relatives, parents and friends. I have a quick Internet access in it. I can also take pictures, watch films, read e-books or listen to music with the help of it. It entertains me and helps to learn something new.

I reckon for modern people it is impossible to do without computers and mobile phones. They simplify our life, work, studies. They are handy, multifunctional, so we save a lot of time and nerves thanks to these inventions. They have become our little assistants and friends in this modern, quick and busy life.

 

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Imagine that you are participating in the Summer language camp activities. The people from different countries are among you. Tell them about the history of your city/town, the main historical landmarks and the places worth visiting in your city/town.

To begin with, I’d like to say that everybody loves the place where he or she was born, spent his childhood and had a lot of pleasant moments. For me Lugansk is such a place.

My city is not very old – it is 220 and it was built by the order of the Russian Empress Katherine II as a settlement for workers of the foundry (литейный) plant. It started its history from the territory where Kambrod district is now. It became bigger and bigger year by year. Today it has four districts for about 400 000 people who live in Lugansk.

If you want to learn the history of my native place, it is necessary to visit the Regional Museum of Local Lore, where you will learn some interesting information about the birth of our place and what is more amazing what links Lugansk has with Great Britain. In 1795 an Englishman, Carl Gaskoin (from Scotland), established the first iron-works (чугунный завод) here. It supplied the Black Sea fleet and the southern fortresses with guns. The "godfather" of Lugansk foundry plant was a commander-in-chief of the Black Sea fleet, Admiral Nickolai Mordvinov, and the "godmother" was Empress Catherine II, who signed in 1795 the edict (['i:dɪkt] указ) on the settlement of the foundry plant on the river Lugan.

The most first street of the city was English Street. At that time many engineers from Scotland came to work at the foundry and they settled there. On the same street, in the family of a factory physician ([fɪ'zɪʃ(ə)n] – врач), Vladimir Dal, the author of “Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language”, a close friend of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, was born in 1801. The House-Museum of Vladimir Dal is situated there. Now it’s a small one-story house and nearby we can see the monument to Dal.

It’s a fact that many churches were built in Lugansk. But the only church that has survived is Peter and Paul church in the oldest part of the city, in Kamenny Brod district. St. Vladimir Cathedral was founded in 1993.Today it has enough space for three thousand believers.

The statue of Virgin Mary and the church in the centre of Lugansk are very beautiful. Near the Regional Museum of Local Lore you can see two unique British tanks Mark-5 “Ricardo”, which are the part of the memorial complex “Monument to Revolutionary Fighters”. Both tanks were produced in the United Kingdom in 1917-1918. During the Civil War the tanks were supporting the fighting troops (войска) of Denikin. Now the tanks are used as historic monuments.

Among the historical landmarks of my city I’d like to mention our Heroes Square which is in the centre. It was built to hounor the solders who lost their lives in the World War II. Our city has some more very interesting places which can tell you a lot of interesting facts about Lugansk and its citizens.

But as people say “Seeing is believing.” And I invite you to visit Lugansk. This place is worth visiting

 

 

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You were asked to prepare a report about the most important inventions of the 20th century. Tell your friends:

- what invention you consider the most important;

- what devices you often use and what for;

- why it is difficult for people to do without computers and mobile phones.

The 20th century has given us plenty of things that improve our lives: TV, calculators, mobile phones, CDs. It has also given us some household objects that make our lives easier and more comfortable. We use food processors and vacuum cleaners every day, we need WI-FI routers and portable hard drives at work. Our lives fully depend on technical progress and gadgets nowadays.

Personally I consider computers the most important invention ever. Almost every home, school and office has a computer. It has become the most essential part of our daily life. Needless to say, computers can be used for education and fun. It seems that computers are a useful addition to our fast-moving world of high technology. I strongly believe computers save a lot of valuable time. Stored information can be found immediately. Computer programmes allow us to learn, draw, play or communicate with people all around the world.

Speaking about the devices I often use in my life, they are a memory stick and a mobile phone. I need a memory stick to store the most important information, films, documents. I take it to school, when I visit my friends and when I travel. My memory stick has everything I need to study, remember or share with other people. This device is portable, small and very comfortable to use.

In addition, I can’t imagine my life without a mobile phone. It connects me to the whole world. I can get in touch with my relatives, parents and friends. I have a quick Internet access in it. I can also take pictures, watch films, read e-books or listen to music with the help of it. It entertains me and helps to learn something new.

I reckon for modern people it is impossible to do without computers and mobile phones. They simplify our life, work, studies. They are handy, multifunctional, so we save a lot of time and nerves thanks to these inventions. They have become our little assistants and friends in this modern, quick and busy life.

 

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