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Exercise 5. Match the English words with their Russian equivalents




Exercise 4. Find ten different verbs in the UNIT and make sentences in the past simple with them.

Exercise 3. Answer the questions.

Exercise 2. Say whether these sentences are true or false and explain why.

Exercise 1.

A. Find the Russian equivalent for:

the Neglinnaya river, the Garden Ring, the Boulevard Ring, Kitay-Gorod, Metropol Hotel, Rossia Hotel, Kitaygorodsky Passage, Slavyanskaya Square, Red Square, Kremlin, White City, Tower of Seven Peaks, Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Skorodom, Kamer-Kollezhsky Rampart

B. Where are they located?

 

1. Moscow was founded as a stone fortress.

2. Moscow was first mentioned in the chronicles as a wooden fortress on a high hill at the confluence of two rivers, the Moskva and the Yauza.

3. The walls of the wooden fortress were replaced with red stone by Dmitry Donskoy.

4. Moscow's second ring is called Kitay-Gorod.

5. Nothing is left of the Kitay-Gorod.

6. Kitay-Gorod was a complete ring around Kremlin.

7. The Boulevard Ring also began as a fortress.

8. White City was built under the eye of Fyodor Kon.

9. Fyodor Kon was Russian monarch in 1586—1593.

10. Kremlin was called the Czar's City for its size and beauty.

11. White City was the largest stone fortress in Moscow.

12. White City had twenty-seven towers, two of which served as gates.

13. The ten squares of the Boulevard Ring used to be ten gate towers.

14. The Cathedral of Christ the Savior stands on the site of the Tower of Seven Peaks.

15. Moscow's shortest-lived fortress was the Skorodom.

16. The Skorodom burned down in 1592.

17. Instead of rebuilding the Skorodom, Moscow built the road in its place.

18. The Garden Ring is called so because people who wished to build a house along the road were asked to lay out gardens before their homes.

19. The Kamer-Kollezhsky Rampart was built during the reign of Peter the Great.

20. Only few connected streets have survived from the Kamer-Kollezhsky Rampart.

1. Is Moscow having any traffic problems at the moment?

2. How can these problems be solved?

3. How many road rings does Moscow have at present?

4. What does the author of the UNIT compare the map of Moscow to? Why?

5. How is the city’s administrative border called?

6. When was the Moscow largest ring built?

7. How long is the largest road ring?

8. How long is the Third Transport Ring Road?

9. Are there any tunnels, bridges and overpasses on the Third Transport Ring Road?

10. Does Moscow have transport rings only for cars?


1. found

2. mention

3. replace

4. disappear

5. descend

6. cross

7. adjoin

8. build

9. stand

10. erect

11. rebuild

12. demolish

13. appear

14. lay out

15. serve

16. create

17. reduce

18. continue

19. add

20. mark

 

A. примыкать

B. появляться

C. отмечать

D. упоминать

E. разрушать

F. исчезать

G. уменьшать

H. добавлять

I. служить чем-либо

J. продолжать

K. пересекать

L. создавать

M. восстанавливать

N. заменять

O. стоять

P. основывать

Q. возводить

R. спускаться

S. строить

T. разбивать (сад, парк)


UNIT 3. WEATHER PROVERBS

People have been forecasting the weather for centuries. They once looked to plants and animals for hints about what the weather would do. For example, before it rained, some people often observed that ants moved to higher ground, cows lay down, pine cones opened up, frogs croaked more frequently, and sheep’s wool uncurled. Over the years, people began to notice other natural clues to upcoming weather, and several weather "sayings" grew up over the years.

When looking at weather proverbs, keep this in mind: they are usually based on someone’s observations and not on scientific studies. Because climates and weather patterns differ throughout the world, a weather proverb based on observations in one location may not be valid in another location. Some proverbs arose simply from coincidence, not weather patterns, and therefore may seldom hold true. But under certain circumstances, some proverbs do hold up to science.

Here are some that, under the right circumstances, have proven valid.

"Red Sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky in the morning, sailor takes warning."

When the western sky is especially clear, there is often a red sunset. That's because as the sun sets, its light shines through much more of the lower atmosphere, which contains dust, salt, smoke and pollution. These particles scatter away some of the shorter wavelengths of light (the violets and blues), leaving only the longer wavelengths (the oranges and reds.) If an area of high air pressure is present, the air sinks. This sinking air holds air contaminants near the earth, making the sunset even redder than usual. This would be the “red sky at night.” In the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere, weather systems most often approach from the west. Since high pressure generally brings fair weather, this type of red sky at sunset would indicate that clear weather is approaching, which would "delight" a sailor. If the sky is red in the eastern morning sky for the same reasons as above, then the high pressure region has most likely already passed from west to the east, and an area of low pressure may follow. Low pressure usually brings clouds, rain or storms, a warning for sailors.

"Clear moon, frost soon."

If the atmosphere is clear, the surface of the earth will cool rapidly as heat is radiated away at night. There is no "blanket" of clouds to keep the heat that the ground absorbed during the day from radiating back up into space. If the temperature is low enough on these clear nights and there's no wind, frost may form.

"A year of snow, a year of plenty."

A continuous covering of snow on farmland and orchards delays the blossoming of fruit trees until the season of killing frosts is over. It also prevents the alternate thawing and freezing which destroys wheat and other winter grains.

"Halo around the sun or moon, rain or snow soon."

The halo around the sun or moon is a layer of cirrus clouds made of ice crystals. These ice crystals act as tiny prisms, forming a white or sometimes colorful halo around the sun or moon. It often indicates an approaching warm front and an associated area of low pressure. Rain or snow will not always follow, but there is a higher probability of it after a halo is seen, and the brighter the circle, the greater the probability.

"Rainbow in the morning gives you fair warning."

In the morning, when the sun is in the east, the shower and its rainbow are in the west. As the weather in the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere moves mostly from west to east, the morning rainbow indicates that rain is moving from the west toward the observer.

"When the stars begin to huddle, the earth will soon become a puddle."

When clouds increase, whole areas of stars may be hidden by clouds with groups of stars, still in the clear sky, seem to huddle together. The clouds are increasing, so the chance of rain is increasing too.

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