6.5.2.1 9
In three minutes,
say or write as many true
sentences as you can using
the words below. Compare
with your partner.
yesterday at 3:00
• then • last Monday morning
• when
• last Friday evening at 8:00
• while
Yesterday at 3:00 I was reading
"Alice in Wonderland'. что что​

New Year is the most long-awaited (долгожданный) holiday. Many people associate it with magic and gifts. First of all it is surrounded by the wonderful smell of tangerines and Christmas trees, which helps to create a festive mood (праздничное настроение). People of all ages truly (искренне) believe that in New Year their goals (цели) and wishes will come true.
New Year is an international holiday, but in every country it is celebrated in many different ways (разными горький) food. In Spain on this day there is a tradition to swallow (глотать) one grape (виноград) for every time the bell chimes (звон курантов) and make a wish.
On New Year my family and I decorate the house and the Christmas tree and give each other gifts, wishing success (успех) in the New Year.
New Year’s Eve is my favorite holiday and I always look forward (ждать с нетерпением) to it.

For the celebration of Easter should be prepared in advance. The Church trains believers to the most important holiday of a seven-week lent — a time of repentance and spiritual purification. People of faith claim that the Paschal joy impossible to survive in its entirety, not when he had fasted, though not as strictly as it is prescribed by monastic rules.
All the rules of the celebration of Easter must begin with the Paschal services. It is very special, different from the usual Church services, very "light" and joyous. In Orthodox churches, usually Easter service begins at midnight, but it is better to come to the temple in advance so as not to be outside — most of the churches in Easter night full.
I always wondered how to celebrate this sacred holiday by all the rules. And here's what I learned The Easter Liturgy all believers always try to commune the Body and blood of Christ. And after end the service, the faithful "days all" - to greet each other with a kiss and the words "Christ is risen!"
When he got home, and sometimes directly in the Church, satisfied with the "Easter feast". During Easter week in all the churches, as a rule, allowed anyone to ring the bells. The celebration of Easter lasts for forty days — as much as Christ was to his disciples after the Resurrection.
On the fortieth day Jesus Christ ascended to God the Father. During the forty days of Easter, especially in the first week — the most solemn — visit each other at home, give painted eggs and cakes, play Easter games.
These traditions of celebrating I really liked, but unfortunately, in my family all of them are supported.
I would like to tell you how this day runs in my family. Every year we have the whole family waiting for Easter look. When you start all the preparations, I get up earlier than usual. We begin all training with what to paint eggs. First brother Eugene run to the forest to collect grass. I don't know how it's called, with a kind of low, greenish and fragrant. We do it and drop in my water for about two hours. Then drop in the resulting solution the eggs and look forward to when they are cooked and will be painted. Carefully take out and spread on a plate. This method of coloring eggs I like the most, because we don't use no chemicals, and use what nature has given.
Closer to the dinner at mom's "perfect" dough, and our family is taken for scones and cakes. Of course, all the work mom does, and Zhenya and sprinkle with ready-made rolls of different culinary decorations and poppy seeds.
All this is happening the day before. But here comes Easter Sunday. We without an alarm clock and get up very early, after washing, sit down to Breakfast. Breakfast begin with the words "Christ is risen!" and respond "truly risen!" And here the fun begins – we begin to "fight" eggs. When the winner in the end is determined, with a big appetite eat the "broken" eggs and all the yummy that mom zagotavlivayut (on this day the mother is trying to on the table was a lot of delicious food).
Easter Sunday really precious for me, because from morning to evening the whole family watch TV together, we play games, in General, have fun.
Yes, we can't observe all the traditions of the Orthodox, but we came up with their traditions. It seems to me that no matter how you spent this day. More importantly, after you have left with only bright and happy feeling!