While-reading task: complete the sentences with the following: unspoiled, futuristic buildings, huge reserves, mingle with, landlocked country 1. …. is country far from oceans. 2. …. means a big volume of minerals. 3. when something is not touched by people and not changed it is … . 4. when constructions look modern with unusual design they are called ….. 5. … is to communicate and interact with the others closely. task 2. open the brackets and use the past continuous tense. 1. when the telephone rang, mr. jackson (to play) the piano. 2. robert (to sweep) the floor, when mother came into the room. 3. when i came to see mary she (to read) an english book. 4. john (to work) in the garden when the film began. 5. when father returned home jim (to do) his homework.

1. landlocked country

2. huge reserves

3. unspoiled

4. futuristic buildings

5. mingle with

task 2. 1) was playing

2) was sweeping

3) was reading

4) was working

5) was doing

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.nigeria is not the largest country on the african mainland, however, it ranks first in terms of population among all african countries.

2.the national nigerian currency is called "naira".

3.nigeria gained independence from britain in 1960, having experienced several military coups since then.

4.nigeria is africa's largest oil producer.

5.the official language in nigeria is english, but there are more than five hundred languages in the country. this is due to the great ethnic and cultural diversity of the local tribes living in nigeria.

6.nigeria is a semi-denominational country, muslims and christians are almost equally divided, although some locals adhere to traditional local beliefs.

7.nigeria ranks second in the world in the number of films produced annually, second only to india, and the nigerian film industry focus, by analogy with golluvudom, called nollywood.

8.one in two nigerians uses a mobile phone.

9.nigerian athletes have been participating in the olympics for more than half a century, and have since won dozens of medals.

10.nigeria has its own standards of beauty - it is fashionable to be overweight.

11.according to modern data, almost four hundred different tribes live in nigeria.

12.the population of nigeria is larger than the population of russia

13.the name of the country comes from the name of the powerful river — niger.

14.the flag was created in modern nigeria in 1959 by a local student

15.nigeria is home to about a sixth of all indigenous africans.