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Main industrial cities

Read, translate in-writing texts about Luhansk and Odessa, answer the questions after each text.

Luhansk

Luhansk is one of the regional centres of Ukraine. It is situated on the banks of the Luhan and the Vikhova Rivers. The city is large industrial centre. It is called the cradle of southern metallurgy. Such branches of industry as machine building, locomotive building, coal-mining. Light and food are well-developed there.

There are five higher educational establishments in the city. There are also two theatres – the Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre and the puppet theatre – in Luhansk. Beside them there is the philharmonic society, a circus and different museums in it. The most famous of them is the museum of V.I. Dal.

The place, where Luhansk is situated now, was inhabited in the first half of the 17^th century. In the 17^th-18^th centuries that territory was owned by the Don Cossacks Army.

Luhansk as a town was founded in 1795. Nowadays it is a modern city with new districts, wide streets and marvelous parks.

Questions

1. What rivers is Luhansk situated on?

2. What kind of city is it nowadays?

3. What branches of industry are well developed in Luhansk?

4. how many theatres are there in Luhansk?

5. Is it a modern city of Ukraine?

Odessa

Odessa is the Black Sea gateway to Ukraine. It is the country’s largest commercial Black Sea port and a large industrial city. Odessa is a crossroads of cultures, languages and trade.

In the 18^th century Russia took this region and constructed a new port at Odessa. It was named after the ancient Greek colony Odessos. By the 1880-s it was the second-biggest Russian port and an important industrial city.

The beauty of Odessa is in Prymorsky boulevard with its beautiful buildings and the Potemkin Steps. The 193 steps, built between 1827 and 1841, descend from the statue of Duc de Richelieu. At the eastern and of Prymorsky boulevard Pushkin statue and a British cannon since the Crimean War stand in front of the Odessa City Hall.

Several of the city’s fine museums are the Museum of Maritime History, the Literature Museum, the Pushkin Museum, the Museum of Western and Oriental Art and others.

Odessa is famous for its beaches. The southern beaches are less crowded and more picturesque than the northern ones. The Arkadia area is the most popular and has lots of restaurants and activities.

Questions

1. Why is Odessa called the Black Sea gateway to Ukraine?

2. What famous people lived in Odessa?

3. Which place is considered the beauty of Odessa?

4. Why is Arkadia called the most popular beach area?

Самостоятельная работа № 2

Types of hotels

Read and translate the text in writing, answer the questions after it.

All kinds of lodging for several nights, including hotels, can be divided into several categories:

1. Hotels proper (that offer the greatest variety of services, amenities, and price ranges and tend to be situated nearer to the city centre);

2. Motels (specially designed for motorists, so having enough parking lots to accommodate all the guests who have brought their cars with them);

3. Apartment hotels (probably the cheapest type of hotels; they are small buildings with ten – twenty rooms and practically no additional services);

4. Youth hotels (the cheapest kind of temporary lodging specially designed for young people who need to find beds for the night during a short period of time; a room does not have less than six beds and often more – so that you have to live with a number of strangers);

5. Bed-and-Breakfast (reserving bed-and-breakfast in advance is practically the only way of getting it – here walk-ins are virtually impossible. They are just ordinary apartments or rooms in theses apartments that reservation agencies rent for their customers from owners. They fall into two categories: hosted apartments, a bedroom in the apartment where the host is present, and unhosted apartments, entire apartments that are temporarily vacant).

When travelling on business people almost always stay at hotels. It is advisable, therefore, to remember the following:

1. The first thing to do is to book a room in advance either by letter, telephone or telegram. Otherwise you may arrive at the hotel and be told that there are no rooms. It is neither convenient nor customary just to walk into a hotel and say that you want a room. Customers with no reservation are viewed with suspicion at all hotels. On the other hand, in many holiday resorts if you come in the period beginning in late October and ending in April (out-of-season), when all the hotels are practically empty, your just walking in and requesting a room will be quite welcome.

2. On arrival at the hotel go to the reception desk in the lobby and confirm your reservation. The clerk will then give you a registration form to fill in and sign (the form is filled in BLOCK LETTERS). In smaller hotels you simply sign the visitor’s book and give your permanent address.

3. At large hotels you may ask any service by telephone. You tell the operator if you wished to be called at certain time, you call room service when you want a meal or drinks sent up to your room, valet or maid service if you need something (a suit or dress cleaned or pressed).

4. Let the hotel management know well in advance the day and time of your departure.

Questions

1. Why is it advisable to reserve rooms in advance?

2. How can you reserve rooms?

3. Where do you go on arrival at the hotel?

4. Where is reception desk situated?

5. What will you do at the reception desk?

6. What services can you ask for by telephone?

7. What should you do before the departure?

8. What kinds of temporary lodging do you know?

9. How are they different?

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