Exercise 1 Practice in using the Passive Voice. Change the following statements into their passive equivalents. Example 1. They know Tokyo is a huge city. It is known that Tokyo is a huge city. 1. They believe doctors are always ready to help people who are ill. 2. Everyone expects the new discovery will bring positive results. 3. People say that New York was discovered by an Italian navigators. 4. They say that according to Russian tradition honored guests are welcomed with bread and salt. Example 2. They offered me a cup of tea. I was offered a cup of tea. A cup of tea was offered to me. 1. They gave me a form to fill in. 2. They granted me a visa. 3. We’ll offer him by all means. 4. He has just told us a very amusing story.

Russian national suit is being used from ancient times and until present. it has notable features depending on region. can be festive or casual. distinctive feature of russian national suit - huge amount of clothes. clothes can be union and swing. suits of majors were made of expensive fabrics, with applications of gold, silver, pearls, costly buttons. such suits were passed by inheritance. style of the outfit haven't been changed by centuries. definition of fashion didn't exist. russian national suit became less popular when peter i in 1699 has forbidden wearing of russian national suit for everybody, except rednecks, monks, priests and lectors. base for a man's suit was a shirt or undershirt. over the shirt men put on zypun made of home cloth. base for the woman's suit was long shirt. shirts used to be decorated with fringes or embroidery, sometimes with pearls. married women should have necessarily  cover their hair, thus they wore volosniks and povoyniks and binded their hair with shawls, and when leaving the house they put on ornated kiks or kokoshniks.

the earth is in danger i want to tell you about our earth. i want to say what people ruins and want they can lose. many people want to save the earth, but they don`t know how to do it. they don`t know how to protect wild animals, plants, and how to keep water clean and air fresh. water is very important in the life of people. there is a lot of water on our planet. it is in rivers, oceans, lakes and seas. at the same time there is a little water on the planet. in many lakes and rivers the water is very dirty. sometimes people can`t swim in seas, rivers and lakes because water is dirty. in many places water is not able to drink and it is dangerous to use it when you cook. even fish die in such water. some people`s activities do a lot of harm to the forests. people cut down trees to build farms, homes and roads. many animals and plants lose their homes. many of them die. this is bad for the air of the earth too. modern plants and factories send a lot of smoke in the atmosphere. this is very bad, because nowadays it`s difficult to breathe in big cities. so, the problem now is to protect life on the earth, and to save our planet for the future. i believe that we must think about our planet and we mustn`t cut down trees, dump to the rivers. then in the future our world will be beautiful.