55. a) history doesn't all consist of dark times. some pages of history are bright and give
people hope for the future. look at the pictures on p. 54 and comment on them. choose
one of the events and give a talk on it. make an outline of what you are going to say
beforehand.
b) what other historic events could you put under the categories of dark and bright pages
in history? you may ask your parents for advice.

- how much bread can she give them?

- how much meat does he eat?

- how much jam could he take?

- how much cheese did she buy?

the holiday of new year is very important for me, so i'll try to make the celebration memorable. i'll decorate my house with symbols of new year: stockings, evergreen tree, etc. then with my mum we'll cook a lot of tasties like pudding, turkey and a cake. in a new year night my family and i will have a good dinner and then we decided to go for a walk together. i think it'll be nice to spend this holiday with my mates.

the white leopard lives in горнолесных areas where the obvious preference gives chernopihtovo-kedrovo-shirokolistvennym to woods on the average and headwaters of the rivers. less willingly it occupies широколиственные woods and especially пирогенные the oak forests which areas as a result of annual fires increase. its area covering earlier northeast china, the korean peninsula and the ussuriisk territory south, was reduced now till critically small sizes. the modern area of a far east leopard covers only limited горнолесной area the area about 10-15 thousand in sq. km on a joint of three states of russia, the peoples republic of china, democratic people's republic of korea. the sizes of individual sites at a far east leopard small, about 5-8 thousand in hectare, and animals - strictly territorial predators: each adult animal has the site which isn't blocked with sites of individuals of the same floor.