4 Test your memory. Work with a partner and answer the questions. 1 Why do they paint the bride's hands? 2 What preparations do they make on the morning of the party? 3 How does the groom arrive? 4 Why does the bride give the groom rice? 5 Why does the couple walk around the fire?​

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my goals in life

we often hear that it is important to have goals in life because they make life meaningful and interesting. without goals it is unlikely that you will make any progress. when you set a goal you know where to move. even if there are any problems in your life you can still focus on your goal rather than these problems.

my main goal is to be happy. i have thought about it many times and i believe i have found the answer to the question “what is happiness? ” for me happiness is to become a successful professional, to love and be loved, to have a big friendly family and to help other people to change their lives for the better. as you can see, one big goal breaks up into several smaller ones.

at this stage of my life my primary goals are to complete secondary education with good results and enter one of the prestigious universities in order to get a high-quality education there. this will give me a good start in my professional career. understanding these goals helps me to study at school, do my homework with great diligence and try to learn something new every day.

i do not know whether i will be able to achieve all these goals, but even if i fail, i am sure that i will become a better person and i will find new goals to set in my life.

tv is very important thing in our life. we can say that tv is our eyes because tv helps us to know more about the world, about the others counties, about the events that happened in the world. tv even helps you to know more about yourself. i like to watch tv very much. i can do that all day, that’s why sometimes my mother makes me turn off tv. i have about 12 russian tv channels, they are: ntv, mtv, ort, rtr, and others. i also have few kosmos tv’s channels, for example: cartoon network, discovery channel, tve, and bbc. i like some of them and hate others. so here are some words about the channels that i like. so, my favorite channel is mtv. mtv is a music channel. 24 hours a day of music, can you believe it? i like to listen music very much, and sometimes i even make myself the music, that is why i enjoy watching mtv. i also like ntv. this channel has very interesting films, for example "er” - my favorite film and a lot of sport programs. i like sport, especially football. ntv usually shows us two-football match a week (one champion’s league match and one russian national championship’s match). i also like several foreigner channels, especially eurosport. and you know why! cartoon network is not bad, but i think that it’s better for children - not for me. that’s all about me. i also want to tell you about my parent’s favorite channels. my father likes different channels with action films. his favorite actor is sylvester stalonne. my mother likes talk shows, for example " я сама ” on tv6, and information programs, like "сегодня” on ntv, "время” on ort, and "вести” on rtr. she also likes bbc channels, which is one of the best information’s channels in the whole world. the bush house is a headquarters of the bbc world service. form this building the bbc broadcasts radio programmers to the whole world. the world service used to be called " the empire service ”. it started in 1932, broadcast only in english. at the first the announcers used formal english and used to speak very slowly and clearly. in the 1930s the bbc started broadcasting to the middle east. and in the 1938 it started broadcasting in arabic. very soon the bbc was broadcasting to all countries occupied by the nazis. the bbc got a reputation for honesty and accuracy. after the second world war the bbc continued its foreign languages broadcasts, and to this day broadcasts the news in thirty-nine languages. in the newsroom a hundred and twenty journalists work day and night, writing two hundred news bulletins every 24 hours. all news in the bbc are checked at least twice before it is broadcasting. that’s why the world service is not always popular with governments. the bb is the world’s largest international broadcaster. every week, one hundred and thirty million people listen to bbc world service radio. in 1992 the world service started broadcasting tv programs and today people in countries all over the world can see as well as hear the news from the bbc. cause of our different tastes, sometimes my family has a problem with choosing channels. somebody thinks that tv is bad, but i don’t think so. i believe that in the future tv will be better and everyone will like it.