No one plant in the world was connected so closely with the life of the primitive man and the culture of the first civilization as lotus. We can observe the motion of the people following the places of historical locations of lotus around the world. Many ancient myths and legends about the structure of the universe are connected with the lotus. The delta of the Great Russian River Volga is the most northern place of location of lotus in the world.
Nobody can enplane where lotus appeared from. Maybe some of birds of passage brought lotus seeds in their stomachs from India. Maybe lotus had been growing up here from time immemorial. Lotus nuts can lie at the bottom of reservoir during thousands years.
Lotus always attracted people's attention. Some of them admired the beauty of lotus flowers making legends about them. Others decorated their dwellings and altars with lotus. Other people used it like a medicine.
It is impossible to describe all the beauty of the fields of blooming lotus. Enormous, about one meter in diameter, round leather-like dark—green with wax thin coating leaves cover the surface of the water. Over them hundreds of wonderful flowers rise on their high and strong stems. Delicate fragrance of flowers resembles the smell of almond.
Lotus is the relic plant. You can see its pictures on the walls of ancient Egyptian temples.
It is a very unusual and mysterious flower. Lotus blooms only three days changing its color from bright pink to absolutely white.
Not long ago the fields of lotus were investigated by an extrasense and he came to the conclusion that leaves of lotus absorb an enormous quantity of cosmic energy. The plant accumulates this energy and returns it to the environment. Lotus fields are the places with the strong positive energy. Just because of this fact it is very healthy to visit lotus fields.
Тексты для самостоятельной работы студентов:
1. Агабекян И.П., Коваленко П.И. «Английский для технических вузов», Ростов-на-Дону, 2003, стр. 77-79 – The Russian Federation., стр. 81-83 – Moscow.
2. Спехова Л.Н., Методическое пособие по английскому языку по теме «My country- Russia» для студентов 1 курса всех специальностей, Астрахань 2006, стр. 3-56.
3. Тажетдинова Н.С. Методическая разработка по разговорной теме «The Astrakhan Region» для студентов всех специальностей, Астрахань 1999, стр. 2-4 – The Astrakhan region, стр. 7-27 – Additional material for reading.
Part 5. Страны изучаемого языка (Великобритания, США, Австралия, Новая Зеландия):географические, политические и культурные аспекты.