Kemerovo

Kemerovo is located on the Tom River in the South of West Siberia. The city was founded in the year 1918. Its population is more than 560 thousand people. It is one of the largest industrial centres in the country. Nowadays the enterprises of Kemerovo produce different consumer goods. The production of its plants is well known all over the country.

Kemerovo is also an administrative and cultural centre. Its five districts are constantly changing. The architecture of buildings is quite modem and at the same time very simple. New apartment houses form long lines of beautiful buildings, which are nine-storeyed as a rule. The streets are broad and straight. The street traffic is rather heavy in the main thoroughfares. There are shops, cinemas, clubs, and libraries in each district.

All cultural institutions of the city arc situated in the centre of it. They are theatres (Drama Theatre, Musical Comedy Theatre, Puppet Theatre), a concert hall, a circus, museums, art galleries and exhibitions.

Sport is very popular with the citizens. There are stadiums, sports grounds and swimming pools in the city. There are nice parks and gardens in it. There are favourite resting-places of adults and children. They are crowded from early spring till late autumn. Some people like to roam about the quiet paths; the others, who prefer active way of resting, take part in different sideshows. In winter the citizens enjoy skiing and skating. The city is surrounded by beautiful countryside with forests, mountains, and lakes where there are numerous health resorts for people. All Kemerovites are proud of their native city.

Учебно-методические материалы по теме “Holidays” Holidays

1) a holiday a vacation holidays 2) to have a holiday to be on holiday (vacation) to go to some place for a holiday a month’s (two month’s) holiday 3) to have a rest to relax to have a good (great) time 4) to travel (by train, by plane, by sea, on foot) 5) tourist, holiday maker 6) health resort sanatorium holiday home holiday centre spa children’s camp to stay in/at 7) to go to the seaside at the seaside (on the seashore) by the sea 8) to swim in the sea to lie in the sun to sunbathe to lie on the beach to dive to go boating to get a suntan to get sunburn 9) to go out of town (to go to the country) to stay in town to go fishing to pick up berries, flowers to gather mushrooms to ride a bicycle to go to the forest to go to the dacha to go camping (to go hiking) to set up a camp to fix a tent to make a halt to spend time in the open air to have a picnic to go for a walk 10) to play snowballs to ski, to go skiing to go (down) hill skiing to skate, to go skating to make a snowman

11) to go abroad for a change of scene to dine at exotic restaurants to visit museums (art galleries) to go on excursion to look round the shops to buy souvenirs to spend a lot of money to get to know people to go sightseeing to take pictures of to enjoy picturesque places to be fond of sth / to be keen on sth

Read the text and explain the difference between holy days and highdays. Say why they are important for most people