Tamgaly-Tas is approx. 120 kilometres north-west of Almaty city, in Kazakhstan. The area is famous
for ancient stone carvings (1)
(call)
petroglyphs.
The rock carvings (2)
(fi d) by
archaeologists in 1957. The carvings
(3)
(make) almost 3,000 years ago by
a hunting, nomadic community using stone or metal
tools but not all of them date from the same period.
The daily lives and the spiritual world of the people
(picture): rituals, dances,
ornaments, hunting and herding scenes. The drawings
(5)
best
(see) in the
afternoon on a sunny day. From the nature of the
drawings, it is believed that the canyon
(6)
(use) as a tribal settlement for
nomadic peoples dating from the Bronze Age and
later. Some burial mounds and graves
(build) which indicates the area
was also a ritual site.
Unfortunately, many of the stone carvings
(8)
(damage) as the area suffers from
shifts in temperature, rock movements and fi es in
the steppes. However, the site (9)
(register) by UNESCO as World Cultural Heritage
and great care (10)
(take) to preserve
these outstanding natural and cultural features.
(7)
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I like this because it means I can read a book or a newspaper. On the Continent, everybody wants to tell you his life story. Some years ago I travelled by train from London to Paris. It was my first visit to Paris so I made up my mind to tour round France for my holidays. As I was going on a long journey I took a lot of books with me. There was an Englishman in the compartment with me and, in a typically English way, he did not speak a word during our journey through the English countryside or while crossing the Channel. But the minute we were in France he said, “Ah, now we are in France, we can talk.” And for the rest of the trip to Paris he told me his life story.

Exercise 1

Yesterday was Christmas Eve, the 24th of December. It (1) was a nice day. At first my friends and I sang carols in the streets. Then in the evening I (3) hung a Christmas stocking by the fireplace and (4) went to bed. At night Santa Claus (5) came. He (6) put presents into the stocking. In the morning I (7) found cool roller skates in the stocking.

Exercise 2

1. British people celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December. 2. Yesterday Sally got up at 6 o'clock. 3. Chris and Molly had a Christmas party on the21 st of December 4. We decorated the Christmas tree in the evening. 5. I got a Christmas card on Monday. 6. The children found a lot of presents in the morning. 7. We are going to the museum in January.

Exercise 3

1. Did you make a cake at Christmas ? 2. My sister reads Christmas magazines every day. 3. The children went to the Christmas party on Saturday /. 4. Do you celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December ? 5. Molly and Rick are pulling crackers now.