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VI. Say what you have learned about:

  • Economic growth of Russia before 1860s

  • Feudal economic system of Russia

  • Peasant majority of population

  • Negative effect of the Crimean War on Russian economy

  • Rapid growth of industries by the end of XIX century

  • Foreign aid in increasing of economy

Think and give extensive answers.

Grammar exercises

VII. Translate the sentences. Practise the use and translation of sentences taking into account Sequence of Tenses (§22).

1. He said that he was no longer interested in the discussion of this problem. 2. He asked me if I knew about the largest contracts concluded by the firm. 3. We didn’t know whether our plan would bring us success. 4. The engineer said that he didn’t think that the office works would be interesting for him. 5. He asked me whether I had known about the planning and fulfillment of his mission. 6. It was announced that the expedition had already left Moscow. 7. We were told that you were good at mathematics. 8. He reported that the firm was holding talks about a new bridge to be built here.

VIII. Supply the correct forms of the verbs (§ 11). Translate the sentences.

1. Majority about 80% of the population in Russian empire (to be) serfs. 2. Serfs (to work) on land owned by the state or wealthy landlords.

  1. Russia`s feudal economic system (to encourage) economic growth.

  2. Russia (to make) rapid leap into a new XX century. 5. Serfs (to emancipate) in 1861. The Trans-Siberian railway, the largest in the world, (to build) thanks to rapid growth of the iron and steel industry. 7. People working in their own businesses (to calculate) the cost of their own time spent in running companies and firms. 8. Boom (to be)

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a period of increased business activity when a rising demand for all goods (to result) in increased industrial production.

At leisure

1. Read the article without a dictionary, try to retell it. Word origin

X-RAY

One day in the year 1895, the German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was exper imenting with the conduction of electrical charges through gases contained in a vacuum tube. Suddenly he found that the radiation was passing through objects that were opaque to ordinary light. The discovery was startling, and years after a curious friend asked the pro fessor: «What did you think, when this happened!» «I didn’t think,» he replied, «I experimented.» He named his discovery X-RAYS, the X signifying that the nature of the radiation was unknown.

2. Translate the proverbs, think of Russian equivalent, give a situation using them.

  • Wealth is nothing without health.

  • To kill two birds with one stone.

3. A glimpse of Great Britain. Teens and Internet

Today`s young people feel themselves lost, helpless and alone without the Internet. They do not know how people survived without it!

The number of teenagers using the Internet is growing around the world. According to a recent study, teens are much brighter with computers than adults and use the Internet more often and for more varied reasons — to communicate with friends, to make new friends, to play games, download music, get news, shop, research homeworks and ask health questions.

Email is losing its privileged place among teens. It’s only used to communicate with ‘adults’, such as teachers. Young people prefer instant messaging (IM) and text messaging as ways to connect with their friends. IM is already hugely popular in Great Britain and its advantages are obvious.

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