1. Определите части речи в предложениях первого абзаца. 2. Выпишите три предложения, где встречается глагол to be.
3. Выпишите 5 предложений, где встречается смысловой глагол как сказуемое.
4. Выпишите из текста 5 существительных, 5 смысловых глаголов, 5 прилагательных.
5. Выпишите 5 существительных во множественном числе, образуйте форму единственного числа.

MY SUMMER HOLIDAYS
I like summer holidays very much. It is warm and I have a lot of free time in the fresh air. Usually I spend June at the sea-side. We go to Sochi. My parents and I have been there several times. It is a nice town and there are many interesting places to see.
The weather is usually fine. It is hot, the sun shines all day. I like to swim in the Black Sea and sunbathe on the beach.
In July my parents go to their work and I go to a sports camp. The camp is situated not far from our city and it takes us two hours to get there. We have many interesting things to do there. There is a forest near our camp and we pick berries and mushrooms in the morning.
In the afternoon we play games, swim in the river, read books and magazines. In the evening we dance, go for a walk, play chess and watch TV.
When August comes I go to the country to visit my grandmother and grandfather. They have a big old house in a village and I come to see them and to help. There is much work to do. I water the plants - carrots, cabbages, beets, take care of hens and geese, help my grandfather to repair the old house.
I return back to the city at the end of August. I meet friends, we tell each other interesting stories about our summer time. In a week or so we start our new school year and begin to dream about next summer.

At the moment, there is no consensus on what the preconditions for the collapse of the USSR do not exist. However, most scholars are united in the fact that their beginnings were laid in the very ideology of the Bolsheviks, which, albeit in many respects formally, recognized the right of nations to self-determination. The weakening of central power has provoked the formation of new power centers on the outskirts of the state. It is worth noting that similar processes occurred in the very beginning of the 20th century, in the period of revolutions and the collapse of the Russian Empire.
In short, the causes of the collapse of the USSR are as follows:
a crisis provoked by the planned nature of the economy and leading to a shortage of many consumer goods;unsuccessful, in many respects unreasoned, reforms, which led to a sharp deterioration in the standard of living;massive discontent of the population with interruptions in food supplies;an ever-widening gap in the standard of living between citizens of the USSR and citizens of the countries of the capitalist camp;aggravation of national contradictions;weakening of central authority;the authoritarian nature of Soviet society, including strict censorship, the prohibition of the church and so on.Here are the consequences of the collapse of the USSR:
• a sharp decline in production in all countries of the former USSR and a drop in the standard of living of the population;
• the territory of Russia decreased by a quarter;
• Access to seaports has once again become more difficult;
• the population of Russia has decreased - in fact, by half;
• the emergence of numerous national conflicts and the emergence of territorial claims between the former Soviet republics;
• Globalization has begun - processes that transformed the world into a single political, information, and economic system were gradually gaining momentum;
• The world became unipolar, and the only superpower was the United States.

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1) - Yes, I really hate injustice. One of the most popular injustice is educational corruption. it's unfair, when rich students can easily pass exam by moneys, meanwhile others students study very hard and without results:(

2) - My dad has a good sense of humor:) His stories are insanely funny. And my best friend (имя) is very funny too. He is my classmate and we laugh everyday at school.

3) - I am good at dark comedy! "Never break someone's heart, they only have one. Break their bones instead, they have 206 of them" is my favorite joke:)

4) - Yes, I'm very polite person. For example, I always say please when I make a request!