Question

Listen to the text and decide what holiday we are going to speak about today. (Nauryz)


There is a legend in Central Asia that every year during the night between the 21st and 22nd of March (the spring equinox), the wise elder Kadyr-Ata walks across the Earth. Kadyr-Ata brings people happiness and wealth, and he also possesses special magical powers. At three o.clock in the morning, Kadyr-Ata opens the door to the sky and lets Spring come to the world. At this time, he breathes life into the earth; he renews the earth from its death-like winter state, and brings it back to spring.

For the Kazakh nomads, the arrival of spring was a time for great celebration. Life was hard for nomads on the Kazakh steppes, and Nauryz marked the end of the difficult winter season and the beginning of spring renewal. With spring came the beginning of a new year’s cycle of life, the time of year when the nomads happily said goodbye to harsh winter weather, welcomed warm weather, and rejoiced in the birthing season of their valuable livestock upon which they depended for food and their very livelihoods.


TASK2: Read the text and match the definitions with the underlined words:

Cruel, severe;
Show signs of great happiness;
Member of a tribe that travels about;
Animals kept for use or profit;
Time of the year when day and night are of equal length;
Being useful or desirable;
Need, rely on in order to exist;
Means of living;
Having or showing experience, knowledge, good judgement;
Make new;

Answer 1

Below are given the words of the related to the definitions.

Explanation:

Words            Definition

Death like  = Cruel, severe

Rejoice  = Show signs of great happiness;

Nomads  = Member of a tribe that travels about

Livestock = Animals kept for use or profit

Equinox = Time of the year when day and night are of equal length

Valuable = Being useful or desirable

Depend = Need, rely on in order to exist;

Livelihood = Means of living;

Possesses = Having or showing experience, knowledge, good judgement;

Renew = Make new