Методические указания по теме "Город". Богомолова А.Ю - 4 стр.

    1.3 Give the equivalents to the underlined words

1) The reconstruction of the factory takes a lot of money.
2) We’ll do out best to fulfill your order soon.
3) What ‘s the aim of your visit? Why are you bothering me?
4) The creation of the palace lasted several years.
5) The first trade contacts were set up between their corporations last year.
6) The town was built on a place which was famous for its location.

    1.4 Read the text, pay attention to the following words

       [ ]                  [ ]                    [ ]                          [ ]

inside                     land                swampy                      shore
similar                    abbey              forest                       forming
exist                      magnificent
existence                  establish
                            gradual
                            similarity

        1.5 Text I Read the text, translate it

                    A Few Facts from the History of Big Cities

      London, the capital of Great Britain, is one of the oldest cities in Europe. When
Julius Caesar crossed the English Channel and invaded Britain as far as the Thames
in the middle of the first century B.C., people had already settled there and were liv-
ing on both sides of the river.
      Like many other very old cities, London was never planned. It grew around two
centers – a fort the Romans built on one bank of the Thаmes, and an abbey, founded
later on the other bank. As time went by, the place round the Roman fort developed
into the City of London the country’s business center, the abbey is now known as
Westminster Abbey.
      By the middle of the first century A.D. London had already been in existence for
about a hundred years. Road leading to other towns had changed into streets market
grounds became squares.
      At about the same time, in the year 1147, in a part of the world Londoners had
never heard of, a town was founded by Prince Yuri Dolgoruky on a site which he
chose for its beauty and convenient in the middle of a magnificent forest, on the bank
of a river called the Moskva. The river gave its name to the city which later, became
the capital of the Russian state. When the first trade contacts were established be-
tween England and Russia, the English pronounced the name of the Russian capital
their own way Muscovy. From this comes the modern Muscovite, a person living in
Moscow.
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