1 match.1 we're meeting this evening at -2 i'm going by3 we're shooting today in front of —4 they're filming the second scene in5 the extras are standing next —6 the first day of shooting is on —7 the main character is walking out —8 they're going —a the post office.b home later today.c to the police car.d monday.e eight o'clock.f the afternoon.g of the kitchen.h plane if it's not too expensive.​

1. He has got few friends as he isn’t very sociable.
2. I drink much coffee. I like it.
3. You must not eat too much salt. It’s bad for your health.
4. The Smiths have got little money. They aren’t rich.
5. He has got very many books at home. He doesn’t read them.
6. Walk quicker, please. We have very little time.
7. She likes writing letters. We got many of them from her last year.
8. There are very few people who don’t know that the Earth is round.
9. Have you much work to do today? – No, not very much.
10. He wants to know everything. He asks too many questions.

Olympic games and Kazakhstan

July 17 at 11:35 am

 Taufik KARIMOV, a political analyst

On the eve of the main sporting event of the quadrennial year-the London Olympics-let's remember the achievements of Kazakhstani athletes at the Olympic games of our time.

Participation of Kazakhstani athletes in the Olympic games of our time should be divided into two parts – first as part of the USSR national team, and then, after independence, as part of the national team under its national flag.

However, first I want to warn readers – here you will see some discrepancies with the generally accepted data. For example, it is believed that for the first time Kazakhstan took part in the Olympics in 1956, in my opinion – in 1952 (then, by the way, the first medal was won, and not in 1960, as it is believed).

The first Olympic champion-Kazakh in official sources is called the wrestler Zhaksylyk USHKEMPIROV (1980), although in fact this is Alzhan ZHARMUKHAMEDOV (1972). Without detracting from the merits of our outstanding athlete, we just note that Ushkempirov is indeed the first Kazakh Olympic champion who represented Kazakhstan directly. And Kazakh Zharmukhamedov, who became the champion of the Munich Olympics in the Soviet basketball team, then lived in Moscow and played for CSKA. Then we all lived in a single state called the USSR, and it often happened that the best athletes, and not only from Kazakhstan, played for other Union republics. However, in order