Read Text 3C and answer the following questions.

1. What are the main industrial resources in Siberia?

2. When did oil extraction begin?

3. What expresses the enormous scale of everything in Siberia?

4. What is an impressive symbol of the inexhaustible strength and might of Siberia?

5. What is the Angara river famous for?

6. What is the climate of Siberia?

7. What is a huge depository of fresh water?

8. Have you ever been to Siberia? If yes, what can you add to the information given in the Text?

13. Consider the following statements.

1. Siberia is extremely rich.

  Do you agree? What is really meant?

2. Siberia is a highly industrialized region.

  Can you give your reasons? Why? Do you agree to that?

3. Siberia is a major granary.

  How do you understand it? Do you agree?

 

Discuss pros and cons of the fact that the mining of deposits is going on very fast in Siberia nowadays. Use the helpful expressions for supporters and the opponents given in Task 14 of Unit 1.

Find and reproduce the key sentence in each paragraph expressing the main idea.

Retell the Text according to the plan made up.

Make up a story about the Russian Federation based on the information given in the above Texts.

SPEAKING

 

DIALOGUE 1

On the Isle of Kizhi

 

Guide: This church is an excellent example of Russian wooden architecture. It was built at the turn of the seventeenth century and is made of wood. It was built with an axe alone, no other tools were used by the craftsman, and the wooden parts were joined without any nails.

Tourists: Fantastic! Unbelievable! Incredible!

Tourist A: It’s the most beautiful wooden church I’ve ever seen! Who was it designed by?

Guide: It was designed and built by one and the same man. There’s a legend about him. Would you like to listen to it?

Tourists: Yes, yes, of course!

Guide: Well, the legend says that after finishing his work he looked at the church and thought: “I’ll never be able to build anything better than this, even if it takes me a lifetime!” So he threw his axe into the lake and left the island for good!

 

Memorize and reproduce Dialogue 1.

Make up dialogues of your own using Dialogue 1 as a model and the information given.

 

Situations: You meet your friend and talk about:

    a) St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow (erected in 1561; commemorated to the capture of Kazan; it houses the tomb of the holy Basil that is in the north-eastern church; one of the legends; the English Queen heard about the Moscow miracle and asked the Moscow Sovereign to send those miracle-workers to England to create something similar; the masters set off on their long journey to England; but when they once stayed in an inn for the night they were blinded by some robbers, as it was claimed). 

    b) the Holy Trinity Cathedral in the St. Sergius Laura (situated in Sergiev Posad; it is the oldest building in the Laura, 1422-1423; built over the grave of Sergiy of Radonezh; adorned with frescoes by Andrew Rublev and Daniil Chorny; the frescoes have not survived; only some icons painted by Andrew Rublev and his pupils remained).

    c) any historical monuments / buildings in your region.

 

DIALOGUE 2

St. Petersburg

A.: May I ask you some questions about St. Petersburg?

B.: Certainly.

A.: When was it founded?

B.: It was founded in 1703 by Peter the First.

A.: Was St. Petersburg the original name of the city?

B.: Yes, it was originally called St. Petersburg, then it was called Petrograd, and later Leningrad.

A.: And when was it renamed Leningrad?

B.: It was renamed Leningrad after V.I. Lenin’s death in 1924. And now the city has its original name.

A.: Are there many places of interest in St. Petersburg?

B.: Oh, the whole city is a wonderful museum in itself because many famous architects took part in the creation of St. Petersburg.

A.: Name the most beautiful places of the city, please.

B.: With pleasure. They are the Peter-and-Paul Fortress, the Rostral Columns, the Bronze Horseman, Palace Square, Saint Isaac’s Cathedral and many others.

A.: What is the Bronze Horseman famous for?

B.: It is famous because it is the statue of the city’s founder, Peter the First. Pushkin wrote about this statue in his famous poem “Bronze Horseman”.

A.: Thank you very much.

B.: Not at all. I like St. Petersburg very much and it is real pleasure to speak about it.

 

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