7. Answer the following questions:

• What was the role of the Bering Strait in the history of North America?

• Where did the first people come to America from?

• What kinds of Russian people were the first to settle in Alaska?

• What kinds of businesses did Russia start to develop there?

• Were the conditions of resettlement more difficult in Siberia or Alaska?

• What was the result of the attempt to solve the “Amur question”?

• How do you understand the USA "idea" of the Anglo-American control over the Pacific Ocean?

• Whom could Russia rely on in the middle of the 18^th century?

8. Find in the text the sentences with the key vocabulary and translate them into Russian.

9. Complete the sentences:

• The Bering Strait was _________________________________________________ .

• Scientists think ___________________________________________________ .

• Russian Alaska attracted many people. Among them were bad people, such as:

______________________________________________________, and good people, for example: ______________________________________________

• Russian people settled not only in Alaska but _________________________________ .

• The reason to move to Alaska was ___________________________________________ .

• __________________________________________________ competed for furs there.

• Alexey Golovkin had the aim to negotiate with the Manchurians about____________

_______________________________________________________________________________ .

• As long as foreign goods were better than the Russian ones ______________________

_______________________________________________________________________________ .

• Only the wise strategy and policy of the Russian government ____________________

____________________________________ .

10. Find out on map №14 the location of the first peoples in America. What people settled in the north of America?

11. Look at the map. What local peoples populated the territory of North America when the Russians came there?

12. Prove that it was very important for Russia to solve the “Amur problem”.

13. Analyze the text and find facts depicting the real danger for Russia of the USA "idea" of the Anglo-American control.

14. Give a key sentence to each paragraph.

15. Give a summary of the text.

Lesson 11. Functions of Russian Trade Stations on the American Shores

1. Study the key vocabulary:

f ur hunting enterprise – пушной промысел

soundly – умело, хорошо

to grasp the matter – понять суть дела

propagation of the culture – пропаганда куль­ту­ры

huge fortune – огромное состояние

to intend – намереваться что-то делать

estates – владения

raw material processing factory – завод по пе­-

ре­работке сырья

to embody a plan – осуществлять план

outstanding person – знаменитый человек

to get a permit – получить разрешение

glorious history – славная история

2. Replace the following words and word-combinations by the synonyms:

Soundly, to grasp, huge, to intend, estates, to embody, outstanding, glorious;

3. Match the following columns:

to earn to visit America to strengthen modern to organize Y.P. Khabarov’s active to supply with furs to get a permit

fur hunting enterprise soundly propagation of the culture huge fortune to intend estates raw material processing factory to embody a plan glorious history