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Dear students!
We congratulate you with the beginning of new school session! We wish you success in studying, good luck!

We honoured the memory of the heroes

Our country won the war at the terrible cost: the total number of dead exceeded 27 million. On the 8th of May citizens of our town met in Victory square to honor the memory of those who died to defend peace and happiness of our Motherland. The veterans of the war told us about those difficult days. The 9th Form student of our school E. Ponomaryev and students from other schools told the poems devoted to the war heroes. We honoured the memory of the heroes with a minute of silence. The people brought the burning candles and flowers to the memorial. The weather was not good that evening and it seemed that the Earth cried with people.
We should always remember what our great-grandfathers and grandfathers have done for peace on the Earth. We should do our best to live in peace and friendship with all peoples.

9 MAY - Victory day!

Victory Day!
On May 9, the people of the Russian Federation celebrate the anniversary of their Great Victory in the Great Patriotic War against fascist Germany. We are proud that our grandparents and army of USSR played the decisive part in defeating fascism.
The Second World War was a grim trial for the Soviet Union's people and their army. Hitler's army was the strongest in the capitalist's world.   Fascist Germany had occupied France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Norway and other European countries. It had economic resources of almost all of Western Europe. However, despite the severe defeats at the beginning of the war, the Soviet Army managed to launch a counter-offensive near Moscow towards the end of 1941  and defeated the enemy troops. This way the first important defeat of the fascist German army in the Second World War.
Our historic victory on the banks of the Volga in 1942 shook the enemies to its very foundation. 330,000 Germans were surrounded and defeated. After this splendid victory the Soviet Army began to deal the enemy stronger and stronger blows. Having driven the fascist invaders from the Soviet territory, the Soviet Army helped the peoples of European countries to liberate their lands from fascist oppression.

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1.    played the decisive part -сыграли решающую роль
2.    a grim trial - суровое испытание
3.    economic resources - экономические ресурсы
4.   despite the severe defeats - несмотря на жестокие поражения
5.    to launch a counter-offensive - предпринять контрнаступление
6.    to its very foundation  - до самого основания
7.    to deal a blow - нанести удар
8.    Having driven - выгнав
9.    to liberate  - освободить
10.   oppression - угнетение 

To Great Patriotic War veterans!

We congratulate all world's veterans on such important for us holiday - Victory day! We wish strong health, happiness and clean blue sky above your heads!
Special greeting for our home town veteran Vasili Davidovich Ivanov, who had reached the Reichstag in Berlin at the 9th of may 1945.

V.D. Ivanov

the Reichstag

May

The name comes from the Roman goddess Maia, who was the goddess of the fields, of fertility (плодородие) and abundance (изобилие). It is very good name for the month when everything is in flower. 

Ideas for Easter!

 You can use our advice to make your holiday brighter!

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 There are interesting recipes for your Easter table!
 

Carrot’s bed

     

·       A slice of bread

·       A slice of processed cheese

·       Three carrots

·       Dill

·       Butter or mayonnaise

Spread butter or mayonnaise on bread. Put cheese on. Cut carrots in two. Put dill’s “tail” in every half of carrot. Place carrots on sandwich. Bon appétit!

 

The chickens

·       Boiled potato

·       Boiled egg

·       A slice of red capsicum

·       Boiled beet

·       Boiled carrot

·       Caviar

·       Parsley

·       Mayonnaise or soured cream

Cut boiled potato in two, cut slices off from potato’s bottom for steadiness. It is an “egg-shell”. Make potato balls: using sharp edge of table spoon remove core from potato.

Cut boiled egg into two. Remove the yolk and grate it. Spread mayonnaise or soured cream on potato balls and strew them with grated yolk. It is a chicken.

Make the “bills” from the capsicum, the “eyes” from caviar.

Grate or cut the white of the egg, boiled carrot and boiled beet into thin bars. Get mixed the vegetables and lay them out on a plate. It is a    “nest”. You may pour vegetable oil on it. Bon appétit!

  

Sandwich "Merry rabbit"

Try it for fun! This is a psychological test!

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dffr73vf_54c22gczhq

Body parts

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dffr73vf_28dgzwrtdd
 

HUMAN BODY IN IDIOMS

Настоящее владение иностранным языком подразумевает умение говорить, пользуясь характерными для этого языка выражениями, фразеологическими оборотами. Фразеологические обороты - это особые единицы языка, характеризующиеся цельностью значения, устойчивостью лексического состава и синтаксической структуры. Они используются в речи готовыми, т.е. их надо знать в том виде, в каком они установились в языке, и с тем значением, которое закрепилось за ними. Сейчас вы можете познакомиться с идиомами,в которых есть часть человеческого тела. Читайте, запоминайте и просто наслаждайтесь!

HUMAN BODY IN IDIOMS.
Eyes.

To eye – уставиться; пристально глядеть
To have one’s eye on – содействовать
To keep an eye on – следить внимательно
To make eyes at – строить глазки
The naked eye – невооруженный взгляд
Black eye – синяк, «фингал», «фонарь».
With an eye to – с намерением, с целью
To see eye to eye – соглашаться
In the twinkling of an eye – очень быстро
All my eye – это неправда; это враки
The evil eye – дурной глаз
An eye-opener – неожиданно что-то разоблачить
Turn a blind eye to something – делать вид, что не замечаешь.


Hair.


Bush of hair – копна волос
By a/the hair – на волосок, чуть-чуть не
To have (get) somebody by the short hair – командовать кем-либо; держать в ежовых рукавицах
A hair on one’s neck – источник раздражения; неприятностей
Both of a hair – одного поля ягода; сделаны из одного теста
Hairy about (or in) the heel – невоспитанный
Make one’s hair curl (stand on end) – так испугать, что волосы станут дыбом
Stroke somebody against the hair – гладить против шерсти
To a hair – точь-в-точь; как раз
Get in (somebody’s) hair – раздражать
To keep one’s hair on – не волноваться; прибодриться
Split hairs – спорить по пустякам
Not turn a hair – оставаться невозмутимым
Hair-do – прическа
Let down one’s hair – разоткровенничаться; развязать язык
Long hair and short wit – волос долог, ум короток
A hair of the dog that bit you. – Чем ушибся, тем лечись. Клин клином вышибается.

Ear.
To have long ears – быть любопытным
To be all ears – слушать очень внимательно
Wet behind the ears – молокосос; неопытный
Dry behind the ears – зрелый; знающий дело, опытный человек
To din into somebody’s ear – прожужжать все уши
To be up to the ears in love – быть по уши влюбленным
In one ear and out the other. – В одно ухо вошло, в другое вышло.
To turn a deaf ear to something, somebody – пропускать мимо ушей; слушать невнимательно
I would give my ears for (or to)… - Я бы всем пожертвовал ради…
To prick up one’s ears – напрячь слух; приготовиться внимательно слушать
To have (put on) merchant’s ears – делать вид, что не слышал
Willing ear – благосклонное внимание
Little pitchers have long ears – не при детях сказано
Walls have ears – у стен есть уши.
To play by ear – играть по слуху
To strain one’s ears – напрячь слух
Deaf as an adder (as a beetle, a stone, a post) – глухая тетеря

Cheek.
1. cheek by jowl – рядом; бок о бок
2. have the cheek to say something – иметь наглость сказать что-то
3. to one’s own cheek. – все для себя одного; в свой карман
4. Cheek brings success. – Смелость города берет.
5. cheeky – нахальный
Chest.
1. to get a thing off one’s chest – облегчить душу; чистосердечно признаться.
2. hope chest – Am. Сундук с приданым
3. chest voice – грудной; низкий голос
4. A cross on your chest or a cross in the ground. – Грудь в орденах или голова в кустах.

April

The origin of the word April is not known exactly. Perhaps the word comes from the Latin word "aperire" which means "to open". It is the months when the buds open.

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February

The name comes from the Roman word "februo", which means "to purify by sacrifice" This month was the "month of purification" of the Romans. 
The Anglo-Saxons called it Sun Month - the month when the sun returned.

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