3. c) Put a/an before each countable noun. Put an X before each uncountable noun. 1.water 2.meat
3.meal
4.weather
5.furniture
6.news
7.people
8.pasta

I travel all over the world on business and my neighbour thinks my life is ___a__ long holiday. You know what business travel is like: up at dawn to catch ___a__ plane; breakfast in London, lunch in New York, luggage in Bermuda. When you're in __the___ sky, you see only snow in __the___ Arctic or Greenland. You have glimpses of ___the__Andes or __the___ Pacific. You're always exhausted. Your wife or husband complains you're never there to take __the___ children to school or put them to bed. When you get home, your neighbour says, "Another nice holiday, eh?" Give me Home, Sweet Home any day!

XVIII century occupies a special place in the history of education in Russia in this century is created secular school, attempted to establish a state system of education, development of the principles of secular education and training.

Reforms of Peter's time, the necessity of practical implementation of the economic, political. military and cultural transformation intensified the need for educated people. Invitation of relevant experts from European countries and the training of Russian youth abroad could not provide a solution to this problem. Development of education in Russia is becoming an important state task.

In the beginning of the century in Russia there are public schools of various types. These schools differ in practical orientation and at the same time were not by shoppy. They not only prepared specialists of various profiles, but gave General education (Russian and foreign languages, math, philosophy, policy and other) In most of the schools were preparatory Department where were taught reading, writing and arithmetic.

The first was opened in 1701, school of mathematical and navigation Sciences in the Sukharev tower in Moscow. The Director of the school appointed guest of the University of Aberdeen (UK) Professor, Фарварсона. In school taught the largest Russian educator, author of a textbook on mathematics L. F. Magnitsky. The curriculum included arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, navigation, astronomy, mathematical geography. Science studied progressively, as the students began their development from class to class. Prepared in the school sailors, engineers, gunners. In 1715, the senior classes navigation school were transferred to Saint Petersburg, on the basis of them was created Maritime Academy.

In capital cities were established also artillery (Pushkarskaya), engineering, medical school. When
Olonets and Ural plants on the initiative of the Century N. Tatishchev were created горнозаводские school. Vocational education centre in Moscow continued to remain the Slavonic-Greek-Latin Academy, which in 1716 trained up to 400 students.