Class 5-A. May, 21st.

• Work Book  p.105-106;
• write the translation to the given word combinations.

Ukraine

Ukraine is the largest country in Europe. It stretches from the mountains in the west to the steppes in the east, and from the marshes in the north to the seas in the south. Ukraine borders on Russia , Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova.

The longest river in Ukraine is the Dnipro. It divides the country into right-bank and left-bank Ukraine, and flows south to the Black sea. Ukraine is washed by the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. The deepest point of the Black Sea is 2,210 m.

Ukraine has picturesque scenery and a temperate continental climate. It has cold winters with snow and warm summers.

Ukraine is mostly a flat plain with extremely fertile black earth soil.

Mount Hoverla (2,061 m) in the Carpathians is the highest mountain in the country.

Ukraine is famous for its forests with plantations of pine, oak, beech and birch. Most forests are in the Carpathians and Polissia.

Ukraine has more than 3,000 lakes. In the Shatski lakes in the North-West there are a lot of fish: perch, pike and carp.

The population of Ukraine is 43 million people. More and more people are moving from villages to towns and cities. There are five cities with a population of more than 1 million. They are: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Odessa.

The state language is Ukrainian.

The national flag first appeared in 1848. The flag has two stripes: a blue one above a yellow one. The colours are symbolic – yellow for wheat in the fields and blue for the sky above them.

The Ukrainian anthem is a song called “Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished”. Its lyrics were written by Pavlo Chubynskyi and set to music by Mykhailo Verbytskyi in 1863. The song became the state anthem in 1996.

The national emblem (coat of arms) of Ukraine is a trident. It is the most ancient of all the Ukrainian symbols. The classic shape of the Ukrainian trident was found on the coins of Volodymyr the Great, who ruled in the 10^th century.