Krasnoyarsk

CONTINUOUS TENSES

5.Образуйте причастие l от следующих глаголов; соблюдайте правила правописания:

To ask, to speak, to make, to see, to play, to put, to have, to sit, to take, to choose, to do, to write, to copy, to answer.

7. Составьте предложения, используя Present Continuous:

Model: The girl (to wait for her mother) – The girl is waiting for her mother.

1) The boy (to talk to his father).

2) The students (to read a funny book).

3) Susan (to smile at Roger).

4) John (to look up new words in his dictionary).

5) Mary (to write an exercise).

6) Mr and Mrs Simpson (to have lunch at a restaurant).

7) The cashier (to take money and to give change).

8) My father (to work in the reference room of the library).

8.Дополните предложения глаголами в Present Continuous:

come, get, happen, look, make, start, stay, try, work.

1) You … … hard today. – Yes, I have a lot to do.

2) I … … for Bob. Do you know where is he?

3) It … … dark. Shall I turn on the light?

4) They have not got anywhere to live at the moment. They … … with friends until they find somewhere.

5) Are you ready, Kate? – Yes, I … ….

6) Have you an umbrella? It … … to rain.

7) You … … a lot of noise. Could you be quieter? I … … to concentrate.

8) Why are all these people here? What … …?

11.Переведите предложения на русский язык.

I was leaving the house when the phone rang.

She was doing her homework when they arrived.

He was playing tennis when they saw him.

They were going home when it started to rain.

14.Расскажите, что эти люди делали сегодня в десять часов утра.

1) Ann/type a letter – Ann was typing a letter.

2) Bob/talk to the manager.

3) Bill/drink a cup of tea.

4) Julia/drive to the airport.

5) Robert/visit a doctor.

1) The students/listen to the news.

2) The passengers/get off the plane.

3) John and Mary/visit an art gallery.

4) David/make a phone call.

5) The tourists/wait for a bus.

15.Ответьте на вопросы утвердительно:

Model: Was it raining? (hard) – Yes, it was raining hard.

1) Was the lady on your right listening? (with great attention)

2) Was Bob waiting in his car? (patiently)

3) Was the girl smiling? (happily)

4) Were the boys enjoying the play? (very much)

5) Was the cat lying in the basket? (comfortably)

6) Was Jim driving towards them? (quickly)

7) Was the cat in the basket mewing? (loudly)

Ex. 3 a. Read the text quickly and match paragraphs with headings a-h

a) Local festivals b) Foundation c) Landscape d) Area and climate

e) Water resources f) General information g) Major sights h) The development Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk

1. Krasnoyarsk....................... (situate) 4065 kilometers from Moscow along the Trans-Siberian railway. It takes about 2 days and 10 hours to get there from Moscow by train and about 4.5 hours by plane. Krasnoyarsk is the center of the vast Krasnoyarsk region, it is the second biggest city in Siberia after Novosibirsk and a powerful industrial center. There are about 950,000 inhabitants.

2. The city................... (found) in July of 1628 as a Russian border fort. Andrey Dubenskoy and cossaks arrived at the confluence of the Kacha River with the Yenisei River and constructed a fort to protect the border from attacks of native peoples.

3. An intensive growth of Krasnoyarsk began in 1735with the construction of the Siberian Route (the road M53 nowadays) which connected the towns of Achinsk and Kansk with Krasnoyarsk and with the rest of Russia. Growth continued in 1895 when a railroad.................. (build) here. On January 26, 1822, Krasnoyarsk....................... (give) the status of town and became the capital of the Yenisei Guberniya. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 numerous large plants and factories....................... (construct) in Krasnoyarsk: Sibtyazhmash, the paper factory, the hydroelectric power station (now the fifth largest in the world), and the river port.

4. The total area of the city, including suburbs and the river, is 348 square kilometers. The average air temperature in January is −15.6°C; in July, 18.5°C. The lowest temperature ever recorded was −52.8°C in January 1931; the highest, 36.2°C in July 2002.

5. Krasnoyarsk stands on the both banks of a mighty Yenisey river.The major rivers of the city area are also Mana, Bazaikha and Kacha. Due to the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric dam, the Yenisei never freezes in winter and is never warmer than 14°C in summer. There are several islands in the river, the largest of which are Tatyshev and Otdyha Isles. They....................... (use) mainly for recreation. The Yenisey......................... (cross) by a number of bridges, e.g. Kommunalny bridge, Oktyabrsky bridge.

6. To the south and west, Krasnoyarsk.................... (surround) by forests and mountains: Nikolayevskaya Sopka (notable for its ski jumping tracks), Karaulnaya Gora and Chornaya Sopka. The gigantic rock cliffs of the Stolby Nature Reserve rise from the mountains of the southern bank of Yenisey.

7. There are a number of historical buildings in Krasnoyarsk. On the top of the Karaulnaya hill, the St. Paraskeba Chapel (Часовня Параскевы Пятницы, 1804, rebuilt in 1854 to 1855) still stands. The chapel, displayed on the 10-ruble note, is one of the iconic images of the city.

Among other notable buildings are the house of the merchant Nikolay Gadalov (beginning of the 20th century), the Roman Catholic Transfiguration Chapel (Преображенский собор, 1911, also known as the Krasnoyarsk Organ Hall), the Regional Studies Museum stylized as an Ancient Egyptian temple, the Krasnoyarsk Cultural/Historical Center and the triumphal arch (2003).

8. There are a number of local holidays celebrated annually in Krasnoyarsk. The most significant holiday is the Day of the City celebrated in June. Other holidays and cultural events are: the Mana Festival, the International Museum Biennale traditionally held in the Krasnoyarsk Cultural/Historical Center, the avant-garde Museum Night festival, the Jazz on Yenisey festival, the Stolbist Day held many times a year, the Bikers' Rally. You can’t find a better place than Krasnoyarsk!