PLAN 5 You received some money for your birthday from someone in your family. Make notes about what you want to say in a thank you email. Use the questions in Exercise 2.
2 Read Tom's email again and answer the questions. 1 Who is Tom writing to? Why? 2 What present did she give him? 3 What is he going to do with this present? 4 What does he promise to do?
The city was founded in 1221 by prince yuri ii of vladimir. in 1612 kuzma minin and prince dmitry pozharsky organized an army for the liberation of moscow from the poles. in 1817 nizhny novgorod became a great trade center of the russian empire. in 1896 at a fair, an all-russia exhibition was organized. during the soviet period, the city turned into an important industrial center. in particular, the gorky automobile plant was constructed in this period. then the city was given the nickname "russian detroit". during world war ii, gorky became the biggest provider of military equipment to the front. due to this, the luftwaffe constantly bombed the cityfrom the air. the majority of the german bombs fell in the area of the gorky automobile plant. although almost all the production sites of the plant were completely destroyed, the citizens of gorky reconstructed the factory after 100 days.
China — this is a very unique country, famous throughout the world. it has many characteristics, which single it out from the other countries. first this is the most populated country and because of this reason there is a big number of the chinese, who move to other countries and settle there. china also belongs to a small number of states governed by the communists. its area is more than nine million square kilometers and it is the fourth biggest country on our planet. the territory of this state is regarded the cradle of our civilization, which appeared on the shores of the third-longest yellow river located in asia. another superior characteristic of china is its most complex and largest economy, and it will not be a surprise for someone that this is the world’s greatest exporter of goods. one more superlative form will be used to describe the army of the state, as being a nuclear weapon country, there is the biggest standing army and the defence budget is rated number two in the whole world. is not it interesting to know more about china?
