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aspiration – стремление, сильное желание.
rectangular – прямоугольный.
tricolor – трехцветный флаг.
cloth – скатерть.
stripe – полоса, нашивка, лампас.
width – ширина, широта.
petal – лепесток
clarity – чистота, прозрачность, ясность.
virtue – добродетель, достоинство.
purity – чистота, непорочность.
intention – намерение, стремление, замысел.
disposition – расположение, диспозиция.
mutual – обоюдный, взаимный. Общий.
kin – родня, родственники, родство.
The National Flag of the Republic of Bashkortostan is a symbol of its state sovereignty, reflects its aspiration to be a democratic law– based state, readiness for political, socio – economic cooperation with all republics and states and, first of all, with the Russian Federation. The national Flag is a rectangular tricolor cloth with an emblem width (from below upwards) on its right and reverse sides.
In the centre of the write stripe there is an emblem of golden colour – a circle, in the centre of which there is a stylized kurai flower consisting of seven petals.
The ratio of the width of the flag to its length is 1:2.
The upper, middle and lower stripes make 1/3 of the width of the flag.
The blue colour in the National Flag of the Republic of Bashkortostan stands for the clarity, virtue, and purity of the intentions of the republics peoples; the white one – for their peaceful disposition, openness, readiness for mutual cooperation; the green one – for freedom, the eternity of life. The kurai flower is a symbol of friendship, its seven petals, placed in the centre of the write stripe, symbolizes seven kins who stated the consolidation and unification of the peoples of Bashkortostan on its territory.
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I. Find in the text equivalents to the following Russian words and phrases: государственный флаг Республики, государственный суверенитет, демократическое правовое государство, трёхцветное полотно, стили, ясность, добродетель, чистота помыслов
II. Answer the questions:
1. What does the National Flag of the Republic of Bashkortostan symbolize and what does it reflect?
2. What does the Flag look like? What is it made of?
3. What colour is each stripe from below upwards? What does each stripe symbolize?
4. What is there in the centre of the white stripe?
5. What is there in the circle?
6. What is a “kurai”? What does it symbolize?
7. What is the ratio of the width of the flag to its length?
8. How many petals does the kurai flower have? What do they stand for?
9. Make a report on the National Flag of the Republic of Bashkortostan.
III. Describe the national flags of Great Britain, the USA, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Bashkortostan company them, discuss their similarities and differences.
