Chapter 2. Meals. Shopping

Text 1. Meals.................................................................................................................................................. 13

Text 2. Shopping.................................................................................................................................................. 15

Additional texts for reading

Text 1. Meals in England.................................................................................................................................................. 18

Text 2. Shopping in the UK.................................................................................................................................................. 19

Chapter 3. University. Week days

Text 1. Oleg’s student life.................................................................................................................................................. 20

Text 2. Oleg’s ordinary working day.................................................................................................................................................. 23

Additional texts for reading

Text 1. Student life in Great Britain.................................................................................................................................................. 25

Text 2. An account of a typical day at Oxford University.................................................................................................................................................. 26

Chapter 4. Free time. Travelling

Text 1. Oleg’s free time.................................................................................................................................................. 28

Text 2. The Kirillovs’ week-end.................................................................................................................................................. 31

Text 3. Oleg’s trip to Minsk.................................................................................................................................................. 33

Additional texts for reading

Text 1. Sunday in England.................................................................................................................................................. 34

Text 2. Adventure holidays at Beacon Park.................................................................................................................................................. 35

Text 3. Travelling.................................................................................................................................................. 37

Chapter 5. Future profession

Text 1. Oleg’s future profession.................................................................................................................................................. 39

Additional texts for reading

Text 1. School teacher.................................................................................................................................................. 40

Text 2. Economist.................................................................................................................................................. 41

Text 3. Philologist............................................................................................................................................... 42

Text 4. Historian.................................................................................................................................................. 43

Text 5. Ecologist.................................................................................................................................................. 44

Chapter 6. Youth life

Text 1. Oleg is a teenager.................................................................................................................................................. 46

Additional texts for reading

Text 1. Problems of young people’s unemployment.................................................................................................................................................. 47

Text 2. Leisure activities of youth.................................................................................................................................................. 48

Chapter 7. The Republic of Belarus. Cities of Belarus

Text 1. Belarus.................................................................................................................................................. 50

Text 2. Minsk.................................................................................................................................................. 52

Text 3. Mozyr.................................................................................................................................................. 54

Additional texts for reading

Text 1. From the history of Belarus.................................................................................................................................................. 57

Text 2. From the history of Minsk.................................................................................................................................................. 59

Chapter 8. Great Britain. London

Text 1. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.................................................................................................................................................. 61

Text 2. London.................................................................................................................................................. 65