Seven wonders of Bashkortostan

I live in Bashkortostan it is my Motherland. But not everyone knows that there are seven wonders of Russia in Bashkortostan. They are Shulgan-Tash (kapova cave), Salavat Yulayev monument, Baskir honey, the Shihany mountains, the Iremel mountain, the gold nugget called Iredyk bear, the border between Erope and Asia.

The natural monument Shylgan – Tash (kapova cave) is one of the largest Karst caves in the South Urals. It is situated on the right bank of the Belaya River.

Another wonder is the monument of Salavat Yulayev in Ufa. Salavat Yulayev is a national hero of Bashkir people. The sculpture is the biggest one in Russia (9,8 meters, 40 tones).

Bashkir honey is a visiting card of Bashkortostan. According to the scientific research Bashkir honey is the best in the world by its quality.

The Sheehany represent reef mass of the late Paleozoic era (about 20km along). Iremel mountain is in Beloretsky district of Bashkortostan and it is a natural monument to beauty (12km)

Gold nugget “Irendyk bear” weighing 4 kilograms and 788 grams was found in 1992. Now is is Kept in the National Bank of the Republic of Bashkortostan.

And the last wonder is border line of Europe and Asia. The boundary between 2 parts of the world runs through Bashkiria. I am proud of my native land and the republic welcomes guests friendly and hospitably.

Тема 3

Mustai Karim

He was born on October 20, 1919 and in the village of Klyashevo (now Chishminsky District Bashkortostan) in a peasant family, in ethnic Bashkirs.

In 1941 have graduated from Bashkir State University, Faculty of Language and Literature.

After graduation he joined the Red Army and was sent to Novocherkassk Higher Military Command School of Communications. In May 1942, with the rank of second lieutenant sent to the 17th Motor Rifle Brigade. In August 1942, seriously wounded, was about six months in hospitals.

After recovery, returned to the forefront as a correspondent for the front-line newspapers. He was a Member of the CPSU from 1944. Throughout the The Great Patriotic War Mustai Karim was at the front, and he was a correspondent for the front-line newspapers.

Mustai Karim began writing in the middle of the 1930s. In 1938 his first book of poems, "The detachment moved", was published. The second, "Voices of Spring", was published in 1941. After that, he published more than 100 poems and prose collections, and more than 10 dramatic works.

“Most famous works:”
collections of poetry and poems, "Black Water", "Return", "Europe-Asia", "Time" plays "The land of Aigul", "On the night of the lunar eclipse", "Salavat", “ Do not leave the fire, Prometheus!” Works of Mustai Karim were translated into dozens of languages, Russia and the world.

National poet of Bashkiria Mustai Karim died after two heart attacks on the 21^st of September 2005 being in the Republican Cardiological Center in Ufa. He was buried at Mohammedan Cemetery (Ufa)

Тема 4

Rudolf Nureyev

Тема 5

Zaki Validi

Kind of activity: prominent statesman and public figure, specialist in Turkic philology, one of the organizers of the creation of the Bashkir Autonomous Republic and its first leader.

Years of life: December, 10, 1890 – July 28, 1970

Creative biography: he was born in the Bashkir village Kuzyan of Sterlitamak region, Ufa Province in the family of mulla and became one of the stateliest figures in the national movement of the first half of ХХ-th century.

His ideas about independence and unity of Muslim republics are in keeping with the state politics of nowadays Russia. In 19 years old, Validi taught Turkic history and history of Arabic Turkic literature at the Kazan Medresse “Kasymia”, studied Oriental languages at Kazan University. Then he published his first scientific work “History of Turks and Tatars”. Before the October revolution he worked in Petrograd for Office of Muslim faction in the 4th State Duma, he was a member of Temporary Central Commetee of Russian Muslims. He also became a member of constitutive meeting from the Bashkirs - federalists of Ufa Gubernia.

Since the middle of November he took part in the Bashkir revolutionary processes actively. He entered the Bashkir Government, headed a military department, commanded the Baskir troops, he was a military minister of temporary government. In 1924 year in Berlin he participated in the rebirth of Turkestan national association “Dzhamiat” simultaneously got into contact with orientalists of Europe. In 1925 he moved to Turkey and taught Turkic history at Istanbul University. At the same time he continued his academic education in Vienna and gave lectures at the University of Bonn and in Gottingen. In 1939 he came back to Turkey and in a year his work – the history of Turkestan was published in Kair.

In May 1944 Validi was arrested and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but after 17 month staying in prison he was released. After war he began to give lectures at the university again and took up the problems of history mythology using the ethnographic and folkloristic data and other disciplines. In 1951 under his chairmanship The 21st International Congress of Orientalists took place in Istanbul. 2 years later he founded the Institute of Islam research. He was an organizer and member of many scientific societies, Honourable doctor of the Manchester University.

Тема 6

Mazhit Gafuri

Mazhit Gafuri (Abdulmazhit Nurganeyevich Gafurov) was born on the 2^nd of July 1880 in the village of Zilim-Karan, Sterlitamak region. He studied at several Muslim schools. In his free time he worked at the golden mines. Later he worked as a teacher for some time, collected the samples of folk art, and got interested in Russian literature. This life experience was reflected in his works.

He worked in the genres of poetry, prose and play writing. His first books were based on the principles of realism. In his stories "A Year of Hunger" or "A Sold Girl", "Orphans", "The Poor" and some others the au­thor severely criticized class inequality and social injustice. He also showed the realistic life pictures, true characters, beautiful sceneries, allegories and sharp satire.

Realistic flow prevailed in his work. His stories "Blackfaced", "Gold Fields of a Poet" constituted the basis of Bashkir prose in the Soviet period.

The play "Red Star" is the first Bashkir play that created the images of peasants during the Civil War.

After the revolution Gafuri devoted himself to the reconstruction and development of Bashkir literature and its genres.

Тема 7

Sergey Aksakov

Sergey Timofeyevich Aksakov was a 19th-century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family life, as well as his books on hunting and fishing.

Sergey was born in Ufa and brought up in the family estate at Novo-Aksakovka in Orenburg guberniya, where he acquired a lifelong love of nature. He was also introduced to literature by his mother at an early age.

He was educated at the Kazan Gymnasium and then, in 1805 (in the first year after its founding), at Kazan University, though he himself said he was ill prepared for a university education (and some of the professors, brought from abroad, taught in foreign languages). He was also distracted by his obsessive interest in the theater.

He left the university in 1807, and the following year went to St. Petersburg to take up government service. He resigned from the civil service in 1811 and moved to Moscow, where he was active as an amateur in literary and theatrical life and published his first verse anonymously in 1812.

In 1816 he married Olga Semenovna Zaplatina, and the couple had six sons and eight daughters. He began publishing translations, reviews, and articles in the early 1820s, though his important work came much later. He retired from the civil service in 1838.

Around 1840, encouraged by Gogol, he began writing the book that would make him famous, «A Family Chronicle». While he was working on that, he published books about two of his favorite activities since his youth, «Notes on Fishing”(1847) and «Notes of a Hunter in Orenburg Province» (1852).

In 1843 Aksakov settled in the village of Abramtsevo, where he entertained writers including Gogol, Turgenev, and Tolstoy and which was also frequented by his Slavophile sons, Konstantin and Ivan. In the late 1850s he published his most enduring works, «The Family Chronicle».

Раздел 3

Разработки песен.

1.“ Yellow submarine “(The Beatles)

In the town where I was born

Lived a man who sailed to sea

And he told us of his life

In the land of submarines

So we sailed up to the sun

Till we found the sea of green

And we lived beneath the waves

In our yellow submarine
Chorus:

We all live in our yellow submarine,

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

We all live in our yellow submarine,

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

And our friends are all aboard
Many more of them live next door
And the band begins to play
Chorus:
As we live a life of ease
Every one of us has all we need
Sky of blue and sea of green
In our yellow submarine
Chorus:

Exercise 1: Listen to the song and fill in the gaps with a word you hear:

Yellow Submarine

In the town where I was _________ (1)

_________ (2) a man who ___________(3) to sea

And he told us of his life

In the land of submarines.

So we __________ (4) on to the sun

Till we __________ (5) the sea of green.

And we lived beneath the ____________ (6)

In our yellow submarine.

We all live in a yellow submarine,

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.

We all live in a yellow submarine,

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.

And our friends are all aboard,

Many more of them live ____________ (7).

And the band ______________ (8) to play…

We all live in a yellow submarine,

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.

We all live in a yellow submarine,

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.

And we live a life of _____________ (9),

Everyone of us has all we need,

Sky of __________ (10) and sea of ____________ (11)

In our yellow submarine.

Exercise 2: What is the song about? Tick the topics mentioned in the song:

a. traveling;

b. environment problems;

c. sea;

d. water pollution;

e. undersea world;

f. life of a sailor;

g. modern art;

h. music.

Exercise 3: Choose one topic from Ex.2 and make a list of questions you will ask your partner. Then work in pairs and practice the dialogues.

Exercise 4: Put the verbs in the correct tense form:

A sailor who (live) in Boston (sail) to the sea one summer day. The weather (be) good, hot and sunny. While he (sail), he (see) many ships passing by. Suddenly he (see) a small fishing boat with two young men. They (cry):”Help us, please!” -”What’s the matter?” – asked the sailor. “We (get) lost. Where are we?”–they asked him. So the sailor (answer): “Well, my friends, (not; worry). You (be) now almost fifty km from the sea shore. It’s not so far, really.”

Exercise 5: Use the song and your imagination to complete the story in writing:

A man called ____________ lived in __________. He worked as a ______________.

So one day he invited ________________ to a ________________. He was wearing _____, ____________, _________ and________. “Let’s sail to the far-away countries”, he made a suggestion. “Where to?” asked one of the men. “To ____________”, was the answer. They decided to set off on _______________ at__________________ in a _________.On the ____________ day of their journey they saw a ________________. So they…

2."I Just Called To Say I Love You" (Stevie Wonder)

No New Year's day to celebrate
No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away
No first of spring
No song to sing
In fact here's just another ordinary day
No April rain
No flowers bloom
No wedding Saturday within the month of June
But what it is, is something true
Made up of these three words that I must say to you
I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

No summer's high

No warm July
No harvest moon to light one tender August night
No autumn breeze
No falling leaves
Not even time for birds to fly to southern skies
No Libra sun
No Halloween
No giving thanks to all the Christmas joy you bring
But what it is, though old so new
To fill your heart like no three words could ever do
I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care

I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care, I do
I just called to say I love you

And I mean it from the bottom of my heart
Of my heart,...... of my heart

Exercise1. Listen to the song and fill in the right words/phrases

No New Year's day _______ 1.
No chocolate covered candy hearts ________2.
No first of spring
No song to sing
In fact here's just another ________3.
No April rain
No flowers bloom
No wedding Saturday within the month of _____ 4.
But what it is, is something true
Made up of these three words that I ______________5.
I just called to say I _________6.
I just called to say how much I ______ 7.
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it __________________ 8.

No summer's high
No warm July
No harvest moon to light one tender ______________ 9.
No autumn breeze
No falling leaves
Not even time for birds _____________ 10.
No Libra sun
No Halloween
No giving thanks to all the Christmas joy you bring
But what it is, though old so new
To fill your heart like no three words could ever do
I just called to say _________ 11.
I just called to say how much ________ 12.

I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care, I do
I just called to say I love you

And ______________________13.
Of my heart, of my heart.

Exercise 2. Interpret the following words/ phrases:

1.chocolate covered candy hearts

2. wedding Saturday

3. from the bottom of my heart

4. Libra sun

5. could ever do

6. how much I care

Exercise 3. Find the words, phrases that describe the nature, seasons of the year. Is there any connection with the character`s feelings and nature?

Exercise 4. Find the synonyms to the words:

Exercise 5. Make up the new words from the following ones: fly, care, heart.

(fly -flight; 2. care - careful, careless 3. heart - hearted, heartless, kind-hearted)

Exercise 6. Find the beginning or the end of the sentences in the song, translate into Russian:

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