Chapter One. The Boy Who Lived. Part 3 of 6 "At home": from “Mrs Dursley had had a nice, normal day” to “How very wrong he was.” 1. Find the English equivalent for: 1. наблюдения, 2. не в состоянии (не могут) объяснить, 3. режим сна, 4. звонили (на телевидение), 5. ливень, 6. падающие звёзды, 7. с замирающим сердцем, 8...

Adults and children are frequently confronted with statements about the alarming rate of loss of tropical rainforests. For example, one graphic illustration to which children might readily relate is the estimate that rainforests are being destroyed at a rate equivalent to one thousand football fields every forty minutes – about the duration of a normal classroom period. In the face of the frequent and often vivid media coverage, it is likely that children will have formed ideas about rainforests...