LEAVE THE GERMAN
The holiday is now inextricably linked for most people the year such as Easter or Christmas. And many have it accustomed to use their vacation travel and recreation.
Historically, the holiday was not a term earlier. In Middle Ages, the word for the permit a knight to move away for a short time from the wake of his prince. "Holiday" since the Roman Empire were the days when not met, the court .
the opportunity to travel and longer time to recover there was not always. For the first time in 1903 were some workers annual leave, which was three days. 1930 had the German workers a holiday from three to fifteen days. Only in 1974 was introduced in the old Federal Republic (legal) minimum leave of 18 days. It was and usually is paid holiday pay. Of course there is also time to longer holiday, Germany has not only to the countries where they dispense to his vacation sometimes but also to those where you can enjoy a long recovery. Some people share their annual leave in short sections (to to keep their jobs), for example, Christmas, Easter and Pentecost .
recovered it is a pleasure at home and abroad. The Germans are loves to travel. More than half spend the holidays outside the residence. They say that travel bug is the most beautiful all diseases. Many German takes it in the warmer southern countries . It makes foreign travel to Spain, Italy, in the neighboring countries such as Austria, France, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, etc. It also travels like to England, Scandinavia and Europe in addition to North and South America, to Asia and in some African countries .
are asked city breaks in the main cities and cultural centers European countries, especially to Paris, Brussels, Vienna, Amsterdam, Rome and Others
Today, like a lot boundaries, and to travel freely through the most European countries. The inhabitants of the old federal states like to get to know the eastern areas of Germany.
In a word, people prefer the active holiday.
second Answer the following questions:
1) Since when did the Germans leave? How long does the holidays?
2) What does the word "vacation" before?
3) Can be divided in Germany, the annual leave?
4) Can we say that the Germans have travel fever?
5) How do you understand the words of JW Goethe "Travel broadens the mind"?
OKTOBERFEST
Some six million visitors to the five Million liters of beer, over 400 rides, booths and fun shops, good 12 000 employees, these are the technical specifications of the largest folk festival the world, the Munich Oktoberfest. Visitors to the festival come from the most remote places on earth.
The hard time is 16 days (late September - early October).
The biggest festival in Germany, the visitors from around the world is attracting , the Munich Oktoberfest. After the Middle Ages in very popular horse race in the 18th Century always more disappeared, labored the sergeant in the National Guard, Franz Baumgartner to let them back to life. He suggested Majoir Dali'Armi, on the occasion of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig - the future King Ludwig I - with Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen again to hold horse races. The king was delighted. Five days after the wedding, on 17 October 1810 was a horse race held in the presence of the court. The success of the race, played out on the grass in front of the gate Sendlinger , was celebrated by the National Guard in accordance with this proposed Major DaH'Armi to call the race course in honor of the Crown Princess "Theresienwiese" and the hard alljä hrlicl to repeat . The proposals were fully agree. In it - 1811 - won the race an agricultural associated exhibition, and 1818 subjected to the first showman and beer hosts the Oktoberfest grounds. The Oktoberfest was born.
Answer the following questions:
1) ; Where is this party?
2) What was the occasion of this celebration?
3) How did the name "Theresienwiese"?
4) Why subjected 1818, the fairground hosts and beer on the Theresienwiese?
5) Does your country such similar events? Where? celebrates How to these festivals?
6) Are they connected with the history of the country ?
THE BERLIN ECONOMIC
In Berlin there is optimism: businessmen and officials, scientists and artists are pushing in the new German capital. The population is increasing within a few years to double. Hun-dreds of thousands of new jobs result, companies are founded to new industries form up, corporations relocate their main sit-in the former Prussian province's capital.
there is currently in Berlin but hangover. The unemployment rate rose since 1991 in the western part of 9.4 percent to 14.1 percent, a weak Cher consolation: it will be there only that, in the east from 12.2 percent to 11.9 percent fell.
Most jobs disappeared in the manufacturing sector: The number of employees decreased from 265 000 in 1991 to 166 100 in July 1994 - a decline of 40 percent.
Yet Berlin has all chances for a revival. The transport sector can be an important engine for rapid economic growth . Some 20 billion marks, in the coming years be invested in transport projects to the 40 years insulated front town to reconnect with the West.
The service can also prosper, already is the percentage of workers in the manufacturing sector with 25.9 percent almost 13 percentage points below the national average. The number which is in the service sector workers in Berlin, however, significantly higher than the national average of almost one million people - two thirds of all work force - are here ini public service, and conditions in retail, cleaning and hotels, universities and theaters, banks and insurance companies gene busy. About 65 percent of jobs are in the western part of the city.
Answer the following questions:
1) Why is the population of Berlin in the past few years?
2) In which part of Berlin, the unemployment rate higher?
3) In what area were down jobs?
4) Why Berlin has all chances for recovery?
5) How many Berliners are employed in the service?
