3. Answer the questions to the text:

1. When and where was Mendeleyev born?

2. What Institute did Mendeleyev study?

3. Where did Mendeleyev work after graduating from the Institute?

4. When was Mendeleyev elected professor of the Petersburg Institute and University?

5. How many elements did Mendeleyev describe?

6. When did Mendeleyev publish his Periodic Table?

7. What subject did Mendeleyev pay attention to besides chemical elements?

Supplementary texts My Friend’s Family

I have a friend. My friend’s name is Igor. He is twelve. He is a schoolboy. Igor is a pioneer.

Igor’s hair is dark. He has brown eyes and a straight nose. He is not tall.

My friend’s family is small. He has a father, a mother and a sister. Igor’s father, Yakov Vasilievich, is an engineer at a shoe factory. He is forty-two. He is a Communist. Yakov Vasilievich is tall. He has black hair and brown eyes. Igor’s mother’s name is Zoya Trofimovna. She is a small woman. She has fair hair and blue eyes.

Igor’s sister Natascha is a nice little girl. She is like her mother. She is small and thin. Her hair is fair too. She has a round face and a short nose. Her hands and feet are small.

It is a very good family.

1. Answer the questions about Igor’s family.

1. Is Igor’s family large?

2. What is his family like?

3. How many sisters has he?

4. How old is Igor?

5. What is he?

6. Is Igor a pioneer or a Komsomol member?

7. What colour is Igor’s hair?

8. Is it dark or fair?

9. H

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   as he grey eyes?

10. What kind of nose has he?

11. Is Igor tall or short?

12. What colour are his eyes?

13. What is the name of Igor’s father?

14. What is he?

15. What is Yakov Vasilievich?

16. Is he a Communist?

17. Has Igor a mother?

18. What is she like?

19. Is Igor’s sister a little girl?

20. Is she like her mother?

21. What colour is her hair?

22. Whose sister is Natascha?

23. What kind of face has Natascha?

24. Is Natascha small and thin?

25. What kind of family is this?

2. Answer the questions.

1. Have you a family?

2. Is your family very large?

3. How many sisters and brothers have you?

4. Have you a mother?

5. Have you a father?

6. How old is he?

7. What is he?

8. Is your mother a pensioner?

9. What is your mother?

10. How old is she?

11. Are your mother and father English?

12. Have you a grandfather?

13. How old is he?

Our House.

We have a nice house. This is a picture of our house. You can see it is not very large. There are four rooms in our house: the living - room, the dining room, two bedrooms and the kitchen.

The door of the house is shut. You can see three windows. They are the living-room windows. The weather is fine and the windows are open you cannot see the kitchen windows. The kitchen is behind the living - room.

In front of the house we can see a small garden with flowers in it. Behind the house there is a garden. You can see flowers and trees in the garden.