Extra reading 1 Read the text, then answer the questions. 1 Why do people in Kazakhstan eat so many dishes from different countries? 2 What is love? 3 Which traditional Kazakh foods are healthy? 4 How do people in Kazakhstan show that guests are welcome? Food and drink How often you traditional Kazakh dish? Do you know which traditional Kazakh foods are healthy? People from many different

Евгений Плющенко – знаменитый российский фигурист. Он уже больше пятнадцати лет занимается этим видом спорта и до сих пор считается одним из фаворитов соревнований и лучшим фигуристом мира.

Evgeny Plushenko is the famous Russian figure skater. He does more than fifteen years this sport and still it is considered one of the favourite competitions and the best figure skater of the world.

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Андрей Кириленко – баскетболист. Уже почти 20 лет занимается профессиональным баскетболом, и больше половины из неё играет в Национальной Баскетбольной ассоциации. Там тоже зарекомендовал себя как отличный игрок и завоевал своё крепкое место в стартовом составе.

В нашей необъятной стране тоже много таких людей, которые могут обратить на себя внимание и очаровать многих. Этого они смогли добиться трудолюбием, долгими и упорными тренировками, крепкими нервами и честными играми.

Andrei Kirilenko is a basketball player. Nearly 20 years plays professional basketball, and more than a half of it plays in the National Basketball Association. There too I proved as the excellent player and I won the strong place in starting lineup.

In our immense country too there are a lot of such people who can attract attention and fascinate many. They could achieve it diligence, long and persistent trainings, strong nerves and fair play.

Nowadays gender roles are shown as a global problem and therefore a lot of people are trying to break the system and act differently. But is that possible? Can one really go against nature itself?

To begin with, our roles are assigned from the birth, when girls are told to behave properly, while brash behaviour among boys is often encouraged. That affects the jobs we choose - it's very rare to meet a male caretaker, or say, a female builder. Moreover, as was said above, our physical entity is important, too. It was scientifically proven that women are more capable of nursing and raising a child rather than men. Or the fact that men are typically taller and stronger than women, making it possible to do a hard labour.

Nevertheless, the world around us is changing and drastically so. Firstly, many psychologists state that the environment the person was brought up in affects his visualisation of self, of male or female. There are terms such as toxic masculinity (which by the way means the negative influence of masculine behaviour) of which we are trying to get rid of. For example, the amount of women in STEM (science, technologies, engineering, and maths) is increasing day by day, because there is societal acceptability, society is ready to change and offer equality among genders.

Just remember that "the blue is for boys and pink is for girls" were set thousands of years ago. But that doesn't mean we can't change them today, in the era of globalization.