- •Е. А. Таушканова, а. А. Хлызова conversational topics
- •My homeland
- •1. Read Text 1a and translate it using Vocabulary. Text 1a. Russia
- •Vocabulary
- •2. Translate these sentences into English.
- •3. Tell about your country.
- •4. Make a photo presentation and a commentary to it on the topic: ‘The most interesting place(s) to see in Russia’
- •5. Are you proud of your country? Write an essay on the topic.
- •1. Read Text 2a and translate it. Text 2a. Capital of our country
- •2. Practice the pronunciation of the geographical names.
- •3. Tell about your country’s capital.
- •4. Write a short story about your visit (or your future visit) to Moscow.
- •Read Text 3a and translate it. Text 3a. Geographical position of the Urals
- •Text 3b. Industry and mineral resources of the Urals.
- •Text 3c. History of the Urals
- •13. Answer the questions.
- •Text 3d. Cities, sights and people
- •Text 3e. Education and new technological projects
- •26. Find the English equivalents in text 3e.
- •27. Use the information from the text to prove the following:
- •29. Read text 3f and translate it. Text 3f. Yekaterinburg – the capital of our region
- •31. Have you ever thought what personal contribution to the life of the Urals, to the life of your native town you can make? How can you be useful? Discuss it with your group mates.
- •1. Read Text 4a and translate it using Vocabulary. Text 4a. Krasnoturyinsk
- •Vocabulary
- •2. Derive the adjective from the noun: history − historical.
- •3. Find the sentences with these key words in text 4a.
- •4. Find the English equivalents in text 4a.
- •5. Prepare an excursion around Krasnoturyinsk, show your guests all the sights of our town, tell them about the history of your hometown.
- •6. Read text 4b and translate it. Text 4b. Severouralsk
- •7. Answer the questions.
- •9. Find the sentences with these words in text 4b and translate them.
- •10. Use the questions below text 4b as a plan and tell about Severouralsk.
- •T ext 4c. Karpinsk
- •12. Answer the questions.
- •13. Put the words into the right order to make correct sentences.
12. Answer the questions.
1. What villages does Karpinsk include?
2. When did the first settlement appear?
3. Who started to build plants?
4. Why did the plant get its name?
5. Was Bogoslovsk a big town?
6. What are the main enterprises of Bogoslovsk?
13. Put the words into the right order to make correct sentences.
1. Bogoslovsk brass works, Maksim Pohodyashin, in 1769, started to build, plants, including.
2. An industrial, Karpinsk, is, center.
3. Appeared, settlement, the first, here, in 1759.
4. No tram, it’s a pity, but, is, Karpinsk, there, any, in, more.
5. And, Karpinsk, is, a, in, Russian, small, very, town, unique, Sverdlovsk region.
6. The plant, after, the settlement, and, got, names, St. John’s Cathedral, their.
7. A town, importance, cultural, also, of, it, is.
8. Bogoslovsk, a suburb, in, was renamed, 1933, of, Nadezhdinsk, and, as, Ugolni, became.
