EXERCISE 21. Fill in the blanks with the articles a, an, the where necessary Everyone from ... Britain is ... British, but only ... people from ...
England are ... English. Don't call ... Scottish or Welsh person ... En-
glish. He won't like it. Everyone speaks ... English, but they do not all
speak it in ... same way. ... Scottish person has to listen carefully to un-
derstand ... Londoner. And when ... Welsh person speaks, everyone
knows at once where he comes from. ... Welsh are especially proud of
their language, and you can see ... road signs in ... Welsh all over Wales.
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Marie Curie ( Mari Sklodowski) was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1867.She was the youngest of five children. Her parents were teachers.She studied Physics and Maths at the Sorbonne and got her Master’s degree in both subjects there .There she altered her name to Marie. When she graduated from university,she met Pierre Curie.They fell in love and got married.They both started examining uranium and other elements. It took them four years to isolate the radioactive source which she named radium. For this, they gained a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. In 1906, her husband died in an accident. In 1911, she got a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.She designed the first mobile X-Ray machine and travelled with it along the front lines. Marie died in July,1934 in Paris.We all owe her our respect and admiration.

Thailand is one of the countries of South-East Asia, which has been attracting Russian tourists for many years. More and more of our compatriots move to Thailand for permanent residence. What attracts us in this country? Climate? Maybe the sea and ecology? On the pages of this site we will try to answer all these questions.                       

Тайланд - это одна из стран Юго-Восточной Азии, которая уже не один год притягивает к себе российских туристов. Все больше и больше наших соотечественников переезжает в Таиланд на ПМЖ. Что же привлекает нас в этой стране? Климат? Может быть море и экология? На страницах этого сайта мы и постараемся ответить на все эти вопросы.