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Exercise 3. Answer the following questions:
1. What is the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan?
2. What countries does it border on?
3. What is the climate of the Republic of Uzbekistan like?
4. What is grown on the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan?
5. When do the citizens of our country celebrate their national holidays?
6. What are the symbols of independency of our republic?
7. What does the article 18 of the Constitution guarantee?
8. What is our country rich in?
9. What industries are highly-developed?
10. What national customs and traditions do you know?


Exercise 4. Speak on the topic using the following words and word combinations: the Republic of Uzbekistan; occupies the territory of; square kilometres; situated in; borders on; the climate of Uzbekistan; continental; small amount of precipitation; using artificial irrigation; thanks to irrigation; considered to be an independent state; declares itself; equal and mutually beneficial agreements and contracts; partner-countries of the world; symbols of independency; governed by; the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan; according to article 18 of the Constitution; equal rights and freedoms; equal before the law; multinational country; representatives; the course of the home policy; religious liberty; rich in various mineral recources; branch of national economy; highly-developed; national customs and traditions.


Exercise 5. Make up your own topic using additional information.


THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev was born on July 24, 1957, in Zaamin district of Jizzakh region in the family of doctors. He is an ethnic Uzbek. He graduated from Tashkent Institute of Engineers of Irrigation and Mechanization of Agriculture in 1981 and received a degree in mechanical engineering. He has a title of Academic Candidate (PhD) in Technical Sciences, and Associate Professor.
Shavkat Mirziyoyev started his career in 1981 in Tashkent Institute of Engineers of Irrigation and Mechanization of Agriculture, where he worked as a junior research fellow, senior lecturer, associate professor, and eventually Vice Rector for academic affairs.
In 1990, he was elected deputy of the Supreme Council of the republic, and at the same time served as Chairman of the Credentials Committee.
Subsequentely, Shavkat Mirziyoyev was appointed hokim of Mirzo Ulugbek district of Tashkent city, Jizzakh province, Samarkand province and made a great contribution to the socio-economic development of the above-mentioned districts and provinces. Here he was actively and fruitfully involved in the elaboration and adoption of important legislative acts directed to the political and socio-economic development of the country and the implementation of democratic reforms.
Shavkat Mirziyoyev was approved as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2003, and three times (in 2005, 2010 and 2015) was reapproved in his post by both houses of the Oliy Majlis.
Following the death of President Islam Karimov, he was appointed by the Supreme Assembly as interim president of Uzbekistan on 8 September 2016. He was subsequently elected as president in the December 2016 presidential election, winning 88.6% of the vote, and was innaugurated on December 14, 2016. During his presidential years, Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev became the initiator of Five Strategies of the Development of Modern Uzbek Society, Five Initiatives of the Development of Uzbek Youth, the Programme of Poverty Eradication among the population of our country and many others.
Mirziyoyev is married and has two daughters, one son and five grandchildren. His wife, Z.M. Hoshimova, has a qualification of an engineer-economist, currently housewife. She in an initiator of the Programme on the Development of Hearing Problem Children.
Over many years of fruitful work in government and administration, for enormous contribution to the development of the country, improvement of the welfare of people, Shavkat Mirziyoyev was awarded the Order “Mehnat Shuhrati” (Glory of Work) and “Fidokorona Khizmatlari Uchun” (For Selfless Service).