This is my friend’s flat. There are two rooms, a bathroom, a living room and a kitchen in the flat. The rooms are large and light. The kitchen is not very large. In the bedroom there are two beds, a wardrobe and two chairs. The living room is light and cozy. There is a sofa, a large table and some chairs there. A TV set is near the window. There is a piano in the corner of the room. My friend’s daughter Nina can play the piano. She is eight, but she can play very well. We like to listen to her. She helps her mother to clean the flat. I often visit my friend and we have tea in the living room and watch TV ответить на вопросы: 1) How many rooms are there in your friend’s flat? 2) What is there in the bedroom? 3) Describe the living-room. 4) Does Nina play the piano? 5) How does she help her mother? 6) How old is Nina? 7) Do you often go to see your friends?

1. __ALTHOUGH travelling by plane is fast, its expensive ___AND bad for the environment.

2. Car-racing is exciting, BUT it’s very dangerous.

3. I love exciting places, SO I want to go to a city.

4. It’s usually very hot in Australia UNTIL the end of April.

5. I would like to go to the beach first, THEN we can go to the restaurant.

6. I like to eat beef, ALTHOUGH I do like to eat chicken.

7. AND you’re saying you want to go diving?

8. I want to go snorkeling, diving THEN to the opera.

9. UNTILyou finish your homework you can’t watch T.V.

10. It’s foggy and stormy outside, SO you should wear a coat AND boots.

In 20 of may, 1954, the government adopted a decree on the development of the first missile (ICBM). To do this instructed Sergei Korolev Samara enterprise "TsSKB-Progress". February 17, 1959 from the landfill Baikonur successfully launched the series "seven". On this same rocket was the first manned flight into space. Today Samara is one of the leaders of the aerospace industry in the country. It employs hundreds of thousands of people, attended dozens of enterprises of city and region.In 12 Of April 1961 the voice of Levitan said of humanity the conclusion of the spacecraft with a man on Board into orbit. The world stood in awe and then exploded with joy. Yuri Gagarin became a symbol of the victory of the human mind.All Kuibyshev (Samara residents) knew that after landing, the first cosmonaut of the earth in the Saratov region, the aircraft flew with him to the airfield of the plant "progress", and Gagarin before the flight to Moscow kept in the city of Samara on the 1st clearing to the guest house.Actually, not somewhere, and on the Samara earth, went to Baikonur 2 of the first stage of the carrier rocket "R-7". Pride? She came when on 12 April 1961, on television, they saw the start of "seven" and the smiling face of Yuri Gagarin. And not with just anybody but with "progressframe" after landing, having arrived in Kuibyshev, met first in the history of mankind cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.In this capsule, manufactured at the plant "Progress" landed Yuri Gagarin.For the entire period of existence of the plant "Progress" went into space 1600 rockets and spacecraft 800.2003-present General Director "TsSKB-Progress" A. N. Kirilin, who was born 13 July 1950. in the village of chernorech'e in the Volga area of Kuibyshev region.The staff of the factory TsSKB "progress" in the postwar period. April 12, 2007, in the year of the 45th anniversary of the Samara space engineering held the official opening of the Museum "Cosmic Samara". The Museum has become an integral part of urban and regional tour routes.View of Samara and its surrounding area from space.