Make notes about two people
you know.
Someone who has already finished his/
her education and started work. What
kind of studies did he/she do?
Someone who has finished school but is
still studying. What kind of studies is he/
she doing?

In fact, big ben is the largest of the six bells of westminster palace in london. but it has long been associated with the name of the clock tower, which in september 2012 was officially called “elizabeth tower”. the decision to rename the tower was made by the british parliament to mark the 60th anniversary of the reign of queen elizabeth ii. the tower was built in 1858. the project architect was augustus pugin. the height of the tower and spire is 96.3 m. the palace of westminster, and therefore the tower, is on the parliament square next to westminster abbey. on the opposite side of the palace there is the thames embankment. the clock tower is the largest four-sided clock mechanism in the world, and in addition, with the most accurate clocks. at the base of each of the four clock dials there is a latin inscription “domine salvam fac reginam nostram victoriam primam” (“god save our queen victoria i”). around the perimeter of the tower, on the left and on the right of the clock, there is another phrase in latin – “laus deo” (“glory to god” or “praise the lord”). there used to be a prison in big ben. the last prisoner of big ben was a fighter for women’s rights emmeline pankhurst. now, next to the parliament there is a monument to her.

My vse lyubim khodit' v zooparki, no chto dumayut ob etom sami zhivotnyye? stoit li lyudyam soderzhat' zhivotnykh v nevole?
s odnoy storony, eta problema imeyet mnozhestvo polozhitel'nykh aspektov. naprimer, zhivotnyye nakhodyatsya pod postoyannym kontrolem cheloveka. yesli im trebuyetsya pomoshch', lyudi pomogayut, vykhazhivayut zhivotnykh. krome togo, lyudi khotyat uvelichit' chislo populyatsiy zhivotnykh, yesli oni nakhodyatsya pod ugrozoy. takzhe pokhod v zoopark podnimayet nastroyeniye lyubomu cheloveku.
s drugoy storony, zhivotnyye zhivut ne v yestestvennoy srede, a v kletkakh. ne vse zooparki imeyut bol'shoye prostranstvo. opredelennyye vidy zhivotnykh mogut nakhodit'sya ne v svoyey srede obitaniya. takzhe lyudi mogut vyvozit' zverey nezakonno iz prirody.
v zaklyucheniye ya mogu skazat', chto soderzhaniye zhivotnykh v zooparkakh imeyut bol'she plyusov, chem minusov. rabotniki zooparkov pytayutsya sdelat' tol'ko luchshe zhivotnym.