СДЕЛАЙТЕ О ВИТЕБСКЕ 5. Work in pairs and answer the questions about your
place.
1. Where is your city / town / village located?
2. When and where was it founded? 3. When was it
first mentioned? 4. Is it ancient? 5. Does it have any
buildings which date back to the 17th–19th century?
6. Was it destroyed during the war? 7. What is it
famous for? Does it have any famous sights? 8. Are any
international events held in it? 9. Does it suffer from
heavy traffic? 10. What new objects will be built in it
in the futurе?
Every summer in June, thousands of people visit the Pskov land. They come here to the village of Mikhailovskoye to the wonderful festival of poetry, to see the places where he lived and worked.
Pushkin is always alive for us, he is the man we all know and love, the greatest of poets. Generations come and go, but Pushkin still remains. We are all grateful to Pushkin for each line of his works. Pushkin is not only a great poet for us. He is the perfect man combining brilliant talent with civil courage. His name is associated with our love for the Motherland, and the best in our life.
Hundreds of new concepts, hundreds of new words have appeared in the language in the years that have passed since his death, but not a single word of his poetry has become obsolete. Everything written by Pushkin continues to live. It has not become something of the past, it does not need any corrections and hardly needs commentary. His feelings and his views still correspond to our own feelings and views.
We admire the great world of Pushkin's poetry as a whole, each of us finding some special lines for ourselves, lines showing his sympathy and respect for his people. The reader cannot imagine his inner world without him.
2. hopefully
3.argue
4. luckily
5.reasonable
6.intelligence
7.explode
8. distruction
9. strenght
10. forgotten
11. cruelty
12. good
13. hight
14. beneficial
15. sleepy
16. suspicious
17. sadness
18. wamth
19. youth
20. apparitional
21. humorous
22. flight
23. profitable
24. economical
25.introduce
26. knowledge
27. comfort
28. creativity
29. difficulties
30. explanation
31. confidence
32. kindness
33.energetic
34. corrections
35. healthy
36. please
37.denial
38. prohibit
39. agreement
40. threatened
41. probability
42. poverty
43. hard
44. assistance
45. arrival
46. saved
47 measurement
48. peaceful
49. truth
50. endanger