Reading Task 2. Read the text and mark the sentences True or False. Haiti in Ruins After Huge Earthquake Television pictures are slowly beginning to show how great the damage is in Haiti following the huge earthquake on Tuesday. A magnitude 7.3 quake, just 16km from the capital, hit the Caribbean nation as people were going home after work. Much of the country has been devastated.Many major buildings in the capital Port-au-Prince have collapsed, including the Presidential Palace and the UN headquarters. Haiti's Pres’dent Rene Preval described the scene in the capital as "unimag”nable". The ”ed Cross says up to 3 million people have been affected. Mr. Preval fears "well o”er 100,000 people" may h”ve died.Haiti's amba’sador to the USA, Raymond Joseph, said there was "no way“of estimating" how m”ny casualties there were. Countries around the world are acting quickly to send whatever help they can to Haiti. Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world. More than half of its people live below the poverty line on less than two dollars a day. It is one of the poorest-equipped countries on Earth to deal with such a catastrophe. The nation was still trying to recover from being hit by four deadly hurricanes in 30 days in 2008. Its economy is in ruins and it has a long history of corruption and coups. Reading
Task 2. Read the text and mark the sentences True or False. 1. Most Haitians were having their breakfast when the earthquake hit.​

1) переменный ток(точнее синусоидный ток) периодически(regular) меняет направления.

2) это невозможно перевести. как ты знаешь в , есть разные варианты звучания букв, так вот regular worlds(слова с обычным звучанием) - это слова, в которых буква представляет собой наиболее распространённый звук(most common sound). например: kin (кин) - это regular word, а kind (кайнд) - уже нет. irregular words(сложные слова)

3) контакты между нашими бизнес-партнерами были регулярными

но если там вдруг не contacts, а contracts тогда regular contracts = обычные контракты

4) практически не было клиентов в ресторане - вечером, кроме завсегдатаев(regulars)

social pressure is a very difficult theme. it's a direct influence on people, as a result changing their attitudes, values of behaviors. in psychology, developed in the 1950s. the methodolody called asch paradigm(парадигма эша). which considers how individuals defied main group and the effect of such influences on opinions and beliefs. in this experiment only 5%(persent) of members were always stayed by the crowd. i also felt this pressure on myself. for example, when you want to ask the teacher a question, but you don't do it. because classmates will think you're blunt. or second example, if you're grow up in "right" family and you'd mastered the right things. some bands could use this stuff against you, they'll call you "cry-baby" or somthing. reverse psycholody at work and in the end a youngster joins the gang.

today socia media provides a massive new digital arena for peer preasure and influence. research shows that actions and influence on social media may lead to changes in identity, conviction or habits in real life for us.