Методические указания по теме "Город". Богомолова А.Ю - 16 стр.

     7.2 Text The Kolomenskoye State Museum and Preserve

A.   Learn to read the new words (a student finds them himself).
B.   Read the text and translate into Russian the sentences marked with a circle.

                                  The text

       The first mileposts were put up in the second half of the 17th century between
Moscow and the village of Kolomenskoye. °It used to be the countryside residence of
the tsar. The former village of Kolomenskoye is now well inside Moscow.
       The Museum and the preserve are well known for the Ascension Church. °The
church was built to mark the birth of Vasiliy III’s son, the future Ivan the terrible.
       It was the time when Russia was at with Sweden. °Peter the Great Supervised
the construction of fortifications to protect Arkhangelsk from the sea. A pine log but
was built for Peter the Great at the mouth of the Severnaya Dvina. ° Later it was
transferred to Arkhangelsk and in the year 1934 it was brought to Moscow. ° After
the restoration the log hut of Peter the Great was put in Kolomenskoye.
       °The village of Kolomenskoye witnessed the return of the victorious troops of
Moscow’s Prince Dmitriy Donskoy after they defeated the Tatar hordes on the field
of Kulikovo in 1380. Ivan the Terrible often visited the place. Peter the shown in the
exhibitions mounted in the old buildings of Kolomenskoye.

     C. Write down a chain of questions about the text.

           7.3 Text The Wonderful world of the Theatre

     A. Read the text and fill in the gaps with the following words and expressions:

        Lasted public theatre, close to, performed, the audience’s favorite, for the
        first time, historical, held.

                                       The text.

       In 1702, Peter the Great ordered to open the first _ _ _in Red Square _ _ _Ni-
kolskiye Gate. It was called the Comedy House. It was a one-storied building holding
400 people. The plays _ _ _ there had biblical and _ _ _ plots. The gates of the Krem-
lin, the KitaiGorod and the White Town were not closed down till a very late hour on
Mondays and Thursdays when the performances were _ _ _. _ _ _ used to be a jester.
Foreign actors were the first to perform there. In 1704 Russian actors performed there
_ _ _ . The theatre _ _ _ till the year 1707.

     B. Render the Russian text into English using the following support words and
        expressions: in the 1730 (several thirties), to get burnt, at the order of, to be
        provided with mechanical wonders, to hold, opera and musical performance.
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