Государственное образовательное учреждение

высшего профессионального образования города Москвы

«Московский государственный институт индустрии туризма имени ю.А. Сенкевича»

Факультет туристского сервиса

Кафедра английского языка

Английский язык

MOSCOW

Автор-составитель:

Бакланова н.В.

Москва

2015

C O N T E N T S

Unit 1. Introduction 4

Unit 2. The History of Moscow. Part 1 6

Unit 3. The History of Moscow. Part 2 9

Unit 4. Tverskaya Street 15

Unit 5. Triumphalnaya Square 18

Unit 6. Pushkin Square 20

Unit 7. Tverskaya Square 22

Unit 8. From Tverskaya Street to Red Square 24

Unit 9. Red Square. Part 1 31

Unit 10. Red Square. Part 2 36

Unit 11. The Alexander Gardens 41

Unit 12. Manezhnaya Square 44

Unit 13. The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour 48

Unit 14. The Pushkin Fine Arts Museum 53

Unit 15. From Volkhonka Street to the Novodevichy Convent 55

Unit 16. The Novodevichy Convent 57

Unit 17. From the Novodevichy Convent to the Sparrow Hills 62

Unit 18. The State Moscow University on the Sparrow Hills 66

Unit 1. Introduction.

Vocabulary File.

Ex.1 Listen, look, repeat.

1. a thoroughfare – шоссе, проспект, оживленная улица

2. an embankment – набережная

3. an architectural monument – архитектурный памятник

4. unique -уникальный

5. a buzz – жужжание

6. to impress – производить впечатление

7. to be famous for smth – славиться чем-либо

8. hospitality – гостеприимство

9. to acquaint oneself – познакомиться

10. ancient – древний

11. to sense – почувствовать, ощущать

Ex. 2 Read the sentences with the new words.

1. a thoroughfare – шоссе, проспект, оживленная улица

Tverskaya street is the main thoroughfare of Moscow.

2. an embankment – набережная

The Moskva-river embankments look very beautiful.

3. an architectural monument – архитектурный памятник

4. unique – уникальный

There are a lot of unique architectural monuments in Moscow.

5. a buzz – жужжание

6. to impress – производить впечатление

The buzz of the great city impressed him so much.

7. to be famous for smth – славиться чем-либо

8. hospitality – гостеприимство

Muscovites are famous for their hospitality.

9. to acquaint oneself – познакомиться

10. ancient - древний

The guide helped to acquaint ourselves with this ancient city.

11. to sense – почувствовать, ощущать

I could easily sense the friendly atmosphere in the family.

Ex.3 Fill in the gaps with the right words from the box in the necessary form.

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an architectural monument a buzz unique

an embankment hospitality to be famous for(2)

to acquaint oneself ancient(2) to impress

a thoroughfare to sense

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1. Traffic on the city’s main .............................. is very busy.

2. The ............of Moscow streets can .................... anybody.

3. I .................. the warm and friendly atmosphere of the town at once.

4. Muscovites ................................ their ........................... .

5. We were driving along the Moskva-river ................................ .

6. St. Petersburg ............................. its beautiful and ................... architecture.

7. I’d like .................................. with this .................... tradition.

8. There’s a great number of ......................................... of the past in this .............town.

Welcome to Moscow, the capital of Russia and the fourth largest city in the world. Its bright lights, great buildings and thoroughfares, the Moskva-river embankments, wonderful and often unique architectural monuments of the past, crowds of people on its streets, the buzz of the great city with the population of more than 12 million people can impress anybody. Muscovites are famous for their hospitality and do everything they can to help guests to acquaint themselves with the ancient but forever young city and to sense its warm and friendly atmosphere.

Unit 2. The History of Moscow. Part 1.