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Exercise ninety-five.

Listen to the text for the information on the flags of Russia, the UK, and the USA.

Follow the text in Appendix one.

Text one.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The flag of the United Kingdom is called the Union Flag or the Union Jack. In sixteen oh three, King James the First of England or Jack for short, united England and Scotland. Then in eighteen oh one, there was the Union with Ireland. Now the flag combines the emblems of the three countries: England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, united under one monarch. Wales is not represented in the flag, because at the time the flag appeared in sixteen oh six, Wales was already united with England.

The Union Jack is a combination of the crosses of three patron saints of the country.

The red cross of Saint George for England on a white background, the white diagonal cross of Saint Andrew for Scotland on a blue background, the red diagonal cross of Saint Patrick for Ireland on a white background.

Text two.

The United States of America.

The American flag is known as the Stars and Stripes. It consists of fifty stars, which represent the fifty states. Thirteen red and white horizontal stripes, seven red and six white, stand for the original thirteen states that were united in seventeen seventy-six.

The first flag was called the Grand Union Flag. It combines the flag of Great Britain with the thirteen stripes. It showed that these first thirteen states were British colonies. After the War of Independence, all thirteen states became free and the flag changed. The British flag in the corner was replaced by stars. Every time a new state entered the Union, a star was added.

So now, today's flag shows the thirteen stripes for the original number of states in seventeen seventy-six, plus the fifty stars which represent today's total.

Text three.

The Russian Federation.

The Russian flag is sometimes called the Imperial Flag. It consists of three equal stripes of white, blue and red. The first flag of this design appeared more than three hundred years ago.

Peter the Great adapted the flag from the national flag of the Netherlands. Later, a black two-headed eagle on a golden background was added to the flag of Russia. The flag existed until the revolution in nineteen seventeen.

In the nineties, with the democratic changes, the three-color flag was restored again. On the twenty-first of August, nineteen ninety-one, the flag was officially adopted by the Russian President and the Russian Parliament.

In Russia, the colors of the current flag symbolize: white, frankness and generosity; blue, honesty and wisdom; red, courage and love.