Vocabulary

via –

research institute –

accessible –

marcher –

carriage –

conveyor –

therefore –

outstanding –

to exceed –

to exile –

alteration –

to resolve –

Exercises

I. Try to translate the following words without using a dictionary:

Theater, museum, tractor, platform, pioneer, auditorium, amphitheater, limit, gigantic, acoustics, opera, ballet.

II. Define the part of speech of the following words:

Originally, exhibition, accessible, technology, direction, theatrical, scenographic, thickness, radically, version, capacity, numerous.

III. What are the following names connected with?

Alexander Z. Grinberg, Innokentii V. Kirensky, Traugot Ya. Bardt, Mikhail I. Kurilko, Boris A. Gordeev, Peter L. Pasternak , B.F. Materi, Sergei A. Polygalin.

IV. Make up 12 questions of all types to the text.

V. Find the false sentences and correct them:

1. House of Science and Culture originally consisted of four buildings.

2. Alexander Z. Grinberg and Innokentii V. Kirensky developed special system of «Teomass».

3. With the use of a special 360° film projector films were to be projected on the outer surface of the cupola during performances.

4. A conveyor-gallery was planned under the stage and above the amphitheater.

5. The reinforced concrete cupola of Novosibirsk Theater was an outstanding construction for the time.

6. The cupola was 50 m wide and 35 m high.

7. Mikhail I. Kurilko made the final version of the project of the building.

8. In 1945 reconstruction of the building to an ordinary theater started.

9. To improve the building's acoustics a glass ceiling was hung from the reinforced concrete vault.

10. A small, six-column portico appeared on the facade.

VI. Choose the correct preposition.

1. A theater was … the time considered as the most accessible tool of socialist propaganda.

a) at

b) on

c) in

2. Films were to be projected … the inner surface of the cupola … performances.

a) in, for

b) on, during

c) at, after

3. A conveyor-gallery was planned … the stage and … the amphitheater.

a) under, in front of

b) above, behind

c) around, under

4. However its thickness was only8 cm, which equals 1/750 … the diameter.

a) for

b) by

c) of

5. There he made the final version of the project … the basis of G.M. Dankman's technological scheme.

a) on

b) in

c) to

6. The carrying capacity of the auditorium was reduced … 2,500 … 1,900 people.

a) by, with

b) from, to

c) from, under

7. The problem of providing the main auditorium with a good acoustics has not been resolved … now.

a) to

b) for

c) till

8. In 1937 the model of Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater was exhibited … the Exposition Internationale des Arts et des Techniques in Paris.

a) in

b) at

c) from

9. … 1938 Traugot Ya. Bardt, the originator of the «Teomass» system, was arrested.

a) on

b) in

c) at