Sports Questions

(provide food) in abundance (charities try to provide food in abundance for adapting places )

To stop over in ... (on the way to countryside we stopped over in Tver')

off the beaten track (Third world countries are off the beaten track)

to put sb up (I put my friends up and we had a nice sleepover)

To embark on (a journey) ( We've embarked on an exciting new project)

to set off (we used to sit "na dorozhku" before setting off)

to play a vital part in (A modern industrial sector must play a vital part in the economy of any nation our size.)

disastrous (Climate change could have disastrous effects on Earth.)

on a gigantic scale (You can find beaches, cities, culture and scenic beauty on any continent, but only on an African safari can you encounter spectacular wildlife on a gigantic scale .)

to be under debate (There are a few critical issues still under debate.)

fragile (Be careful with that vase - it's very fragile.)

to locate one's prey (That allows the birds to locate prey both horizontally and vertically for more accurate detection.)

to come about (I didn't believe that my dream would come about)

to encounter sth (They encountered serious problems when two members of the expedition were injured.)

fellow researcher (Three years ago, Nell said, a fellow researcher who was not a part of his study tested this theory.)

every now and then (We still get together for lunch every now and then)

man-made (poisons) (Pictures are man-made, frozen moments in time that have little to do with normal behaviour of organisms.)

to be under threat (Animals in the zoo will be under threat, if we don't take care of them)

to lay the foundation for (The two leaders have laid the foundations of a new era in cooperation between their countries.)

enormous (He ate an enormous helping of pasta.)