Card 1. Discuss with your partner the topic "Countryside". The following questions will help you to organize your talk: l) What is your favourite place in the countryside?
2) Where is it located?
3) What is special about it?
4) What can you do in this area?
5) Why do you like it? Card 2. Discuss with your partner the topic "Countryside". The following questions will help you to organize your talk:
l) Do you live in a town or village?
2) What kind ofplace is it?
3) Do you like living there?
4) What are the main tourist attractions in your home town / village?
5) What place there do you like best? Why?
Card 3. Discuss with your partner the topic "Countryside". The following questions will help you to organize your talk:
1) Do you know your hometown/village well?
2) Where is it situated?
3) What does it look like?
4) Do tourists like to visit your town/village?
5) Is your hometown a good place to live in? Why / Why not?

III Choose the correct words: 
6) Do you think my sister and I have much _in common___? 
in common/unlike/alike/in person 
7) Catherine was worried that her mother would be angry __with___ her, because Catherine lost her favourite book. 
As/with/because/about 
8) I want my children to have friends they can rely _on___. 
About/over/at/on 
9) Parents shouldn't choose friends for their children, as parents are from a different generation that has different __circumstances. Circumstances/situations/explanations/expectations 
10)Emma thinks that weddings nowadays have lost their _significance. Signature/argument/drawback/significance

Everyone knows the photograph of one of the wonders of the world - cones grand Egyptian pyramids, the tombs of the Pharaohs and the stone statue of guardian - the Sphinx. His eyes seem to be directed far back into the mists of the millennium, at a time when the ancient Egyptians lived along the banks of the Nile. Ancient Egypt is still a mysterious country in many respects. It is called the "gift of the Nile", because without the spills of the river life here would be impossible. In those places is very hot, the sun beats down mercilessly, almost never rains. But every year the Nile overflows, leaving, after returning to their shore, a layer of fertile silt, which for many millennia, grown abundant harvests.The ancient Egyptians were great builders. Until now, the imagination grandiose ruins of the temples to the gods, who, they believed, that made heaven, and earth, and water, control the sultry, vseissushayuschimi desert winds. Plants and fertility, love and hate, darkness and light, illness and death - all had their gods and spirits.Their gods the Egyptians portrayed in the form of animals and birds or people with the heads of birds or animals. The myths about them have arisen in those ancient times when on the site of the pyramids was flat as a table, the desert, and the place of the Sphinx - rock of yellowish sandstone. Only developed a deep faith in the gods could encourage later generations of people for the construction of grandiose temples and tombs. Myths about the gods and their deeds - good and bad - the Egyptians were recorded on papyrus scrolls, carved in stone temples, depicted on the walls of the underground tombs. Total 200 years ago, a French scientist JF Champollion managed to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and return from oblivion myths, legends, legends of an ancient civilization.Many Egyptians feared the gods, because they, like all the forces of nature, were cruel to the people. And some, reputed to be good helpers and protectors, very fond of.Gods lived among the first people (it firmly believed every Egyptian) and reigned in the valley of the Nile.