Проминская.Английский

IX. Translate into Russian:

1. Думаю, самый счастливый день в моей жизни – это моя свадьба. 2. Не понимаю, почему сегодня они играют хуже. 3. Ты можешь мне посоветовать хороший бесплатный антивирус? 4. Ее макияж вчера был очень неудачным. 5. Согласно последним исследованиям, самый сложный в мире язык – это язык североамериканских индейцев чиппева. 6. Самый редкий цвет глаз – зеленый. Только 2 % жителей Земли имеет зеленые глаза. 7. Сегодня воздух гораздо холоднее, чем вчера. 8. Английский мастиф – одна из самых больших пород собак в мире. 9. После 20 практических занятий я себя чувствую более комфортно за рулем. 10. Какой месяц в году самый короткий?

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UNIT V. RUSSIA

Language focus:

I. Study the vocabulary, memorize the words:

1.vast territory – обширная территория;

2.to be washed by – омываться (чем-либо);

3.to border on – граничить с (чем-либо);

4.to vary from smth. to smth. – изменяться от чего-либо до че- го-либо;

5.a valley – долина;

6.pure – чистый;

7.to be rich in smth. – быть богатым чем-либо;

8.a deposit of smth. – месторождение;

9.oil – нефть;

10.the current population – население в настоящий момент;

11.to be peopled – быть населенным;

12.a power – держава.

Vocabulary work:

I. Translate the following word -combinations:

pure air, pure crystal, pure cotton, pure sound; a valley between high mountains; ore deposit, rich deposits of oil, gold and coal; neutral territory, occupied territory, unexplored territory; to be rich in harvest; vegetable oil, corn oil, peanut oil, sunflower oil, coconut oil, cosmetic oil, holy oil; increase in population, decrease in population, local population, rural population, urban population, civilian population; military, economic, sea power; to border on the park, to border on Finland; to be

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washed by Indian Ocean; a vast collection of pictures; to vary from happiness to sadness.

II. Put the words from the box into sentences below:

power pure valley deposits of current population to be peopled to be washed by

1.The ________ of China is 1 339 735 people.

2.Gold mining industry develops ______ gold.

3.The Silicon ______ is a world center of high technologies in California, the USA.

4.Japan is ________ the Pacific Ocean in the east and in the South, East China and Japan Sea in the west and Okhotsk Sea in the north.

5.After World War II the status of great _______ got 5 countries: USSR, USA, Great Britain, France and China.

6.It's proved that _____ water is good for health and mood.

7.According to the legend the ancient coast of the Black Sea (modern day Turkey) _____ by Amazons who formed an independent women kingdom under the government of a queen Hippolyta.

Reading:

I. Read and translate the text:

TEXT I. RUSSIA

Russia is one of the largest countries in the world. The vast territory of Russia lies in the eastern part of Europe and the northern part of Asia.

Russia is washed by twelve seas and three oceans. The oceans are: the Arctic, the Atlantic and the Pacific. The Russian seas are: the White Sea, the Barents Sea, the Okhotsk Sea, the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea and others. Russia borders on many countries, such as Mongolia and China in the south-east, Finland and Norway in the north-west.

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The land of Russia varies much from forests to deserts, from high mountains to deep valleys. Russia crosses 11 time zones from the East to the West and several climatic zones from tundra to subtropics.

The main mountain chains are the Urals, the Caucasus and the Altai. There are a lot of great rivers and deep lakes on its territory. The longest rivers are the Volga in Europe, and the Ob, the Yenisei and the Lena in Asia. The largest lakes are Ladoga and Baikal. Baikal is the deepest lake in the world and its water is the purest on earth. The Russian Federation is rich in natural and mineral resources. It has deposits of oil, gas, coal, iron, gold and many others. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain one-quarter of the world's freshwater.

The current population of Russia is 141 million people. The European part of the country is much peopled, and the most population lives in cities and tows. Russia is a federal presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. According to the Constitution of Russia, the President is the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government.

The capital of Russia is Moscow, with the population of about 10 million. Russia is one of the leading powers in the world. It is one of the five nuclear weapons states and it possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. State symbols of Russia are the doubleheaded eagle and a tricolor: white-blue-red.

II. Find in the text:

страна, море, океан, юг, север, восток, запад, лес, пустыня, горная цепь, реки, земля, пресная вода, население, европейская часть, пересекать, большие и маленькие города, федеральный субъект, глава страны, глава правительства, столица, ядерное оружие, запас оружия массового уничтожения, двуглавый орел.

III. Translate into English:

1.Россия расположена в восточной части Европы и северной части Азии.

2.Обширная территория России омывается Северным Ледовитым, Атлантическим и Тихим океаном.

3.Россия граничит с Монголией, Китаем, Финляндией и другими странами.

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4.Россия располагает большим количеством месторождений полезных ископаемых.

5.Полезные ископаемые России включают нефть, газ, уголь, железо и золото.

6.Россия является федеральной президентской республикой, включающей 83 федеральных субъекта.

IV. Make questions to these answers:

1.11 time zones.

2.The Urals, the Caucasus and the Altai.

3.83 federal subjects.

4.10 million.

5.One-quarter of the world's freshwater.

V. Translate some facts about Russia:

-Russia shares borders with the following countries: Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan and the United States.

-Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area.

-The ten biggest cities of Russia are Moscow (10 million), Saint Petersburg (4,6 million) Novosibirsk (1,3 million), Yekaterinburg (1,2 million), Nizhny Novgorod (1,2 million), Samara (1,1 million), Kazan (1,1 million), Omsk (1,1 million), Chelyabinsk (1 million), Ros- tov-on-Don (1 million).

-Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism are Russia‘s traditional religions. Russian Orthodoxy is the dominant religion in Russia.

-Russia has a free education system and universal health guaranteed to all citizens by the Constitution.

6. Victory Day is one of the most popular holidays in Russia; it commemorates the victory over Nazism in the Great Patriotic War.

-The towers of Moscow Kremlin and Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow are main Russia's architectural icons.

-Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, has a brand of The Third Capital of Russia.

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Speaking:

I. Answer the questions:

1.Where does the vast territory of Russia lie?

2.What oceans and seas is Russia washed by?

3.What countries does Russia border on?

4.What are the main mountain chains, rivers and lakes in Russia?

5.What mineral resources are there in Russia?

6.What is the population of Russia?

7.What form of government is in Russia?

II. Work in pairs. Imagine one of you is a foreigner. Make dialogs, answering the questions:

1.What kind of state is Russia?

2.What are the biggest cities in your country?

3.What is the climate like in the country?

4.What nationalities live in Russia?

5.What places in Russia should a foreign tourist visit?

6.How often do you elect President?

7.What are famous sights in Moscow?

8.Which holiday is more important in your country, Christmas or New Year?

9.What are the traditional dishes in Russia?

10.What political party is ruling in Russia now?

III. Make a world quiz. Match the famous places with the countries they are situated in. Tell everything you know about them:

Guess what country?

1.The country of dynamic people and businessmen? Movies and cartoons, ―Cola‖ and baseball. All people seem to have the same dream

–to become rich.

2.The country of charming women, busy men who are mad about their job, the most obedient children. People of this country are good in making computers, cars and electronics. The country of the rising sun.

3.The country of the most generous people, beautiful women and strong men. Its people are very optimistic about their present and future. The country of a vast territory and beautiful nature.

4.The country of beautiful women, guitars and dances, wonderful wines and bullfighting.

5.The country of excellent perfumes, the motherland of impressionism and fashion.

6.The country of neat women and punctual men. Their language is a set of rules which are difficult to memorize. The country of beer and sausages.

IV. Can you name....

1.A famous Chinese politician?

2.Four American presidents?

3.An English boy who became a Prince of Cambridge?

4.Italian opera singer?

5.German rock group?

V. Give answer to these questions:

1.What are the main ethnic groups in Malaysia?

2.Which countries are in Scandinavia?

3.What are the five countries with highest population?

4.How many languages are there in the world?

5.What are the five most spoken languages?

6.The Gobi Desert extends through what two countries?

7.Gin, the drink derives from what European city?

8.What is the deepest fresh-water lake in the world?

9.What city is known as the «Eternal City»?

10.What are the five world oceans?

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VI. Answer these questions as quickly as you can: a) These are capital cities of which countries?

Brussels, Madrid, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Edinburgh, Ankara, Tokyo.

b) What nationality is/was:

Picasso; Charlie Chaplin; Walt Disney; Pele; Mozart; Gandhi; Tolstoy; Napoleon.

c) What languages do these words come from? karate, pizza, champagne, sauna, sputnik.

Writing:

I. Translate the passage from the text:

TEXT II. CULTURE OF RUSSIA

Literature

Russian literature is one of the most developed in the world. Russia's literary history dates back to the 10th century. The Golden Age of Russian Poetry began with Alexander Pushkin, the founder of modern Russian literature (the "Russian Shakespeare"). The 19th century is marked with the poetry of Lermontov and Nekrasov, dramas of Aleksandr Ostrovsky and Anton Chekhov, and the prose of Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail SaltykovShchedrin and Nikolai Leskov. The Silver Age of Russian Poetry (beginning of the 20th century) saw such writers as Bryusov, Bely, Blok, Gumilev, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Bunin and Gorky. The leading authors of the Soviet era included Zamiatin, Mayakovsky, Ilf and Petrov, Bulgakov, Pasternak, Sholokhov.

Arts

Classical painting: The Russian Academy of Arts was created in 1757, aimed to give Russian artists an international status. Notable portrait painters from the Academy include Fyodor Rokotov, Dmitry Levitzky, and Vladimir Borovikovsky. Realist painting: Realism came in

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the 19th century. The Peredvizhniki group of artists broke with Russian Academy and initiated a school of art liberated from Academic restrictions. Leading realists were Shishkin, Kuindzhi, Kramskoi, Levitan, Surikov, Vasnetsov and Repin. Russian avant-garde: The Russian avant-garde is an term used to define the wave of modernist art that flourished in Russia from 1890 to 1930. The term covers many art movements: neo-primitivism, constructivism, and futurism. Notable artists from this era include Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko and Marc Chagall.

Ballet

The original purpose of the ballet in Russia was to entertain the royal court. The first ballet company was the Imperial School of Ballet in St. Petersburg in the 1740s. During the early 20th century, Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova rose to fame. Soviet ballet preserved the perfected 19th century traditions, and the Soviet Union's choreography schools produced one star after another: Maya Plisetskaya, Rudolf Nureyev, and Mikhail Baryshnikov. The Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow and the Mariinsky in St. Petersburg remain famous all over the world.

Science and Innovation

In the 19th and 20th centuries Russia produced a large number of great scientists and inventors. Lobachevsky developed the nonEuclidean geometry, Mendeleev invented the Periodic table, Kotelnikov invented the parachute, Yablochkov and Lodygin were inventors of early electric lamps. Alexander Popov was among the inventors of radio. The greatest Russian successes are in the field of space technology. Tsiolkovsky was the father of theoretical astronautics. In 1961 on 12 April the first human trip into space was successfully made by Yury Gagarin. Other Soviet space exploration records include the first spacewalk performed by Alexey Leonov, the first space exploration rover Lunokhod-1 and the first space station Salyut 1. Nowadays Russia is the only provider of transport for space tourism services.

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Cuisine

Russian cuisine uses fish, poultry, mushrooms, berries, and honey. Crops of rye, wheat, and millet provide the ingredients for breads, pancakes, kvass, beer, and vodka. Black bread is very popular in Russia. Soups and stews include shchi, borsch, ukha, solyanka and okroshka. Pirozhki, blini and syrniki are native types of pancakes. Cutlets, pelmeni and shashlyk are popular meat dishes. Popular salads include Russian Salad, vinaigrette and Dressed Herring.

Holidays

There are eight public holidays in Russia. The New Year, Rozhdestvo, Defender of the Fatherland Day (February 23), International Women's Day (March 8), Spring and Labor Day (May 1); Victory Day (May 9); Russia Day (June 12) and Unity Day (November 4). Fireworks and concerts are common features of all Russian public holidays. Other popular holidays, which are not public, are Old New Year, Maslenitsa, Ivan Kupala Day and Peter and Fevronia Day.

National symbols

Matryoshka doll is a recognizable symbol of Russia, while the towers of Moscow Kremlin and Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow are main Russia's architectural symbols. Cheburashka is a mascot of Russian national Olympic team. Mary, Saint Nicholas, Saint Alexander Nevsky, Saint Sergius of Radonezh are Russia's patron saints. Camomile is the national flower, birch is a national tree. Russian bear is an animal symbol and national personification of Russia. Typical Russian souvenirs include Balalaika, Ushanka, Garmoshka, Vodka, Caviar, Valenki, Kalash, and Samovar.

II. Test your knowledge on Russian history, culture and geography. Make the test:

1) Which is the right chronological order (from old to new) of leaders of Russia?

Lenin – Stalin – Gorbachov – Khrutshev – Putin

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