Методические указания по английскому языку для студентов 1 курса всех специальностей. Терехова Г.В. - 7 стр.

         3.10 Creative work

           1.    You are the Moscow mayor, you’ve got much money for improvement of the city. What will you
    spend the money for? Why?
      2.There is a new monument to Peter the Great by Tseretely, the architect, in Moscow. Do you like it? What
famous people would you like to erect a monument to? What famous people will you name the streets after? Why?


4 Section IV


4.1 Read the text. Give good translation

                                          Moscow, the Heart of it All.
       I had used to think Rome the loveliest city in the world until I came to Moscow. But the beauty of Rome is the
beauty of “ a rose-red city, half as old as Time “, all that is new in it is vulgar, whereas Moscow’s beauty is not that of
ruin or romantic memory, but something living and ardent in every street and stone. The Kremlin has its rose-red
antique loveliness, yet it is the vital heart of Russia, the soul of the new country as it was the soul of the old, the
monument of enduring Russianness.
         The wide streets and boulevards, the palaces and dignified grey stone buildings, the broad magnificence of the
Theatre Square, each is an interdependent part of the lovely whole.
         The Kitaiskaya Wall is still a part of the Russian character, but the Colosseum has no part in the Rome of
today. All the ruins of Rome are only lonely exiles that do not fit in, like the Gothic towers and churches of Paris. But
the Cathedral of St. Basil, the red walls and exotic blue domes with their golden stars, the gold and silver of the other
great churches, these are in no way strangers in the city.
         Moscow is a perfect whole, the heart of it all, the capital of the great union of republics that covers half
Europe and half Asia.
                                                        Ralph Fox “People of the Steppes”
                                                         Boston, 1945


         4.2 Give back translation of any part of the text


         5 Section V


          5.1 Read the story about Matryoshka. Retell it using the support words and expressions:
        the appearance, is associated with, an art patron, a manufacturer, a set of wooden dolls, could be inserted( to
insert- вкладывать, вставлять), when assembled, when taken to pieces, looked like each other and differed, the joiner’s
workshop (столярная мастерская), at the World Art Exhibition in Paris, won the Gold Medal, design, got its second
birth, folk( народный).

                                             Matryoshka

         The appearance of the popular Russian toy “matryoshka” is associated with Elizaveta Mamontova, the wife of
Mamontov, a famous Russian art patron and manufacturer. She kept a toy shop. Once she ordered a set of wooden dolls
of different sizes so that they could be inserted into each other. When assembled, they made one toy. When taken to
pieces, they made a line of dolls which looked like each other and differed only in size. The joiner’s workshop at
Abramtsevo was the first to do that job. Matryoshka attracted everybody’s attention at the World Art Exhibition in Paris
in 1990. The doll impressed the visitors so much that it won the Gold Medal for its original design and colourful
painting. In Sergiev Posad it got its second birth at the folk arts workshop.

        5.1.2 Make up a dialogue based on this information. Participant №1 is a Russian-speaking person,
participant № 2 –a foreigner


         5.2 Read the dialogue outloud in class and think of a heading for it


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