Speech exercises.

Exercise 1. Make up a story about the Kremlin and Red Square. You must mention other sights of Moscow in your story.

Exercise 2. Tell about Kaluga, its history and its sights.

Exercise 3. Tell about several Russian cities.

Written tasks.

Exercise 1. Write a letter to your pen friend. There is a part of her letter.

“… Our class has won the competition and we are going to make a trip to your country. We must arrange the programme of our visit. What can you recommend us to see in your country? What cities and what parts of Russia is it better to see?

Hope to hear from you soon.

Love,

Mary”

Observe the rules of letter writing.

Exercise 2. Write a composition answering the question: Are you proud of your native /settlement/town/city? Why/why not?

Follow the plan: 1. Make the general statement of the problem

2. Give reasons why you are proud of your native place

3. Give facts which spoil you attitude to your native place

4. Make a conclusion

Russian cities during the great patriotic war.

Exercise 1. Pronounce the following words paying attention to the way of pronunciation of the stressed vowels.

/a:/ advance, starve

/i:/ siege, besiege

/i/ persistence

/ou/ loads

/u:/ troops

/e/ enemy, surrender, shell, terrible

/æ/ battle, attack

/۸/ crush, plunge, suffer, bloody

/כ/ occupy /ai/

/ei/ invasion, liberation, save

Exercise 2. Translate the words into Russian using the dictionary.

a) siege, loads, persistence, troops, invasion, enemy, advance;

b) to surrender, to besiege, to starve, to shell, to crush, to plunge, to suffer, to be driven to, to save;

c) terrible, bloody.

Exercise 3. Define the ways of the construction of the following words and group them according to the parts of speech. Guess their meaning.

Persistence, freedom, besiege, heroism, defensive, unusual, icy, endless, heroic, fully, agreement, military, militant, rename, starvation, tankman, artillerist, seaman, famous, fortress.

Exercise 4. Do you know when the Second World War began? What country was invaded first?

Text 1

Exercise 1. Look through the text and say a) why some cities bear the title of the City-Hero;

b) what Cities-Hero you know

On the 22^nd of June 1941 the Soviet Union was attacked by fascist Germany and the invasion of the fascist troops began. The war brought to people a lot of grief. Our people did their best to stop fascists. They gave their lives for the freedom of our Motherland. There are a lot of cities in our country which bear the title of the City-Hero. They are called so, because the citizens and soldiers didn’t allow the enemies to enter the city or they showed wonders of heroism during the defense and liberation of these cities. Among them there are Moscow, St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Tula, Kursk, Novorossiysk and others. We mustn’t forget that former Soviet republics also made great contribution into the victory over fascist Germany. On the territory of the former USSR we must mention such cities as Kiev, Minsk, Brest and some others.

Text 2

Exercise 1. Read the text and say why the ice-road was called “The Road of Life”