Exercises

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?

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

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.

Exercise 3. Answer the questions.

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?

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