Read and remember the following words and word combinations

erect – возводить

nomad – кочевник

original – первоначальный

Jail - тюрьма

Denomination - конфессия

mansion – дворец

recede – отступать, удаляться

Read the words and their explanations

Kyrgyz - a member of a Mongoloid people of central Asia, inhabiting Kyrgyzstan and a vast area of central Siberia;

Armoury - a secure place for the storage of weapons

Commandant - an officer commanding a place, group, or establishment

Mosque - a Muslim place of worship

Synagogue - a building for Jewish religious services

Read a joke and suggest the ideas on what it means.

Ink was joked to have been sold by the buckets.

Find in the text the English equivalents to the words or word combinations given.

Степные кочевники, кирпичные постройки, первозданные ворота, впасть в летаргический сон