Сочинения

Questions

1.                   How is Easter called in Ukraine?

2.                   How is the last Sunday before Easter called?

3.                   What do people do on this day?

4.                   How is the week before Easter called?

5. What does Easter mean?
6. What does Easter begin with?

Questions

1.                   What does Christmas mean?

2.                   When is it celebrated?

3.                   What is the most interesting part of the feast?

4.                   What is the characteristic feature of Christmas?

5.                   What are the traditional Christmas dishes?

6.                   How do you celebrate Christmas?

Questions

1.                   Are sports popular in Ukraine?

2.                   When did Ukraine’s participation in the world Olympic movement start?

3.                   Who won the first gold medal for Ukraine?

4.                   What famous Ukrainian football teams do you know?

5.                   What Ukrainian gymnasts do you know?

6.                   What is Yana Klochkova known for?

7.                   Why is Sergey Bubka so famous among Ukrainian sportsmen?

Questions

1.                   When was the first higher school founded in Ukraine?

2.                   When was Kyiv University founded?

3.                   When was Kharkov University opened?

4.                   What is the main task of higher education in our time?

5.                   What is the system of entering the higher educational establish­ment?

6.                   When do applicants have their entrance examinations?

Questions

1.                   When did Brotherhood Schools begin to appear?

2.                   What curriculum was the first?

3.                   What were students taught at the schools?

4.                   Was the discipline strict?

5.                   What was the contribution of these schools to Ukrainian culture?

6.                   What was the purpose of founding brotherhood schools?

Questions

1.                   What is public education in Ukraine connected with?

2.                   What were the main types of schools in the 9^lh century?

3.                   What was taught in elementary schools?

4.                   What happened at the end of 1860s?

5.                   Which two forms of education existed at the beginning of the 20^th century?

6.                   Do you know any specialized schools?

7.                   What is the educational language in your school?

Questions

1.                   Is secondary education in Ukraine compulsory?

2.                   What is the basic link of the system of education?

3.                   Do we have schools for gifted children?

4.                   What establishments provide post-secondary education?

5.                   Do foreign students study in Ukraine?

Questions

1.                   When was Lina Kostenko bom?

2.                   Where did she study?

3.                   Why were not her works published in Ukraine?

4.                   What is her poetry like?

5.                   What are her most popular works?

6.                   Is Lina Kostenko known abroad?

Questions

1.                   When was Ivan Franko bom?

2.                   Where did he study?

3.                   Where were his first works published?

4.                   Why was he arrested?

5.                   What did he think of M. Drahomanov?

6.                   What is I. Franko famous for?

Questions

1.                   Where was Vasyl Stus bom?

2.                   Where did he study?

3.                   Why did he move to Kyiv?

4.                   What were his first collections of poetry?

5.                   Why was he arrested?

6.                   Did he write in prison?

7.                   What are his prison works about?

8.                   Where did he die?

Questions

1.                   When was Vasyl Symonenko born?

2.                   Where did he study?

3.                   What was his first book of poems?

4.                   When did he go to Cherkassy?

5.                   What does his poetry reflect?

6.                   At what age did he die?

Questions

1.                   When was Lesia Ukrainka bom?

2.                   What is her real name?

3.                   Did she go to school?

4.                   Did she have problems with her health?

5.                   Do you know any of her works?

6.                   Did she write only in Ukrainian?

Questions

1.                   When was Taras Shevchenko born?

2.                   Was his childhood happy?

3.                   How did he become free?

4.                   How did he become Bryullov’s pupil?

5.                   Where did Shevchenko study?

6.                   Why was he arrested?

7.                   What are his literary works?

8.                   Why is Shevchenko considered an outstanding figure in Ukrainian history?

Questions

1.                   When did the modem Ukrainian literature appear?

2.                   What is Ivan Kotlyarevsky famous for?

3.                   What is Kharkiv of the 1830s known for?

4.                   What did the early poetry of Taras Shevchenko show?

5.                   Who started Ukrainian realism first from women-writers?

6.                   What gave a relative freedom to Ukrainian literature?

7.                   Who were the «Writers of the Sixties»?

Questions

1.                   Why is our planet in danger?

2.                   What is happening to our forests?

3.                   Why is the air pollution a serious problem?

4.                   What is the main cause of the greenhouse effect and acid rains?

5.                   What can we do to save the planet?