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4. In each line choose one word that doesn’t belong to the group. Explain your choice. Start your sentences with the phrases:

I’m sure…, In my opinion…, It’s evident that …, It’s true that…, I believe …

1) legislative, executive, supreme, judicial

2) city, centre, town, capital

3) treeless, independent, important, unimportant

4) manifest, longest, biggest, oldest

5) plain, mountain, community, river

6) state, peninsula, country, region

  1. Answer the following questions:

  1. When was the independence of Ukraine declared?

  2. Where is Ukraine situated?

  3. What is the territory of Ukraine?

  4. What is the population of Ukraine?

  5. What is the capital of Ukraine?

  6. What are the biggest cities in Ukraine?

  7. How many rivers are there in Ukraine?

  8. What mountains are there in Ukraine? Where are they situated?

  9. Is the legislative power in Ukraine represented by Parliament or by President?

10) Who is the head of the Cabinet of Ministers?

  1. Read and translate the following quotations. Say if you agree or disagree with them. Explain why.

  1. Almost everything that is great has been done by youth. (B. Disraeli)

  2. No nation was ever ruined by trade. (B. Franklin)

  3. Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. (A. Einstein)

  4. You can never have a revolution in order to establish democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. (G. Chesterton)

  5. Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. (Aristotle)

  6. The execution of the laws is more important than the making them. (T. Jefferson)

  1. Read and translate the following proverbs and sayings. Give their Ukrainian equivalents. Try to memorize them.

  1. East or west, home is best.

  2. There is no place like home.

  3. What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.

  4. Sweep before your own door, and we’ll have a clean city.

  5. United we stand, divided we fall.

  6. Fear the Greeks bringing the gifts.