Упр.2 Уроки 7-8 Юнит 3 Рабочая тетрадь New Millennium English 10 класс
2 Read the text and fill in the gaps with the verbs in brackets.CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIAMost Australians (1) have been dreaming of a white Christmas for centuries.
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2 Read the text and fill in the gaps with the verbs in brackets.
CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA
Most Australians (1) have been dreaming of a white Christmas for centuries. But the traditional European Christmas (2) doesn’t fit with Australia’s thirty-degree heat. Thankfully things (3) are changing now.
Christmas in Australia (4) happens in summer. But not so long ago they (5) tried their best to deny the reality of a summer Christmas. The only Christmas cards published (6) portrayed white winter Christmases. All this was a bit ridiculous in a country where 80 percent of the land (7) has never see a snowflake, even in winter.
However, the last ten years (8) have witnessed some big changes in the Australian lifestyle. Many Australians now (9) believe that the country should break its connections with Britain. So now Christmas (10) has got an Australian identity. On Christmas day you (11) find a lot of kids on the beach playing with their new surfboards, building sandcastles rather than snowmen. Indeed one of the typical Australian Christmas presents that nearly every Australian (12) receives once in their life is a beach towel.
Christmas in Australia however hasn’t escaped the commercial aspect. Like most other countries, the religious meaning of Christmas (13) is lost amongst gift giving, Christmas sales and special offers.
What is unique though is something that most Australians (14) are starting to cherish (лелеять). That is a Christmas of sunshine, surf and sand.
Although to many Europeans this may seem strange, to many Australians it is now the only Christmas worth dreaming of.