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2. Answer the following questions:

  1. Where is Belarus situated?

  2. What countries does it border on?

  3. What is the territory and the population of the republic?

  4. What is the ratio of urban population to rural?

  5. How many regions are there in Belarus? Name the largest cities in Belarus.

  6. What is the capital of Belarus? What is the population of the capital?

  7. What is the climate of Belarus? What is the climate affected by?

  8. How many lakes and rivers are there in the republic?

  9. What is the name for the largest Belarussian forests?

  10. What are the state languages?

  11. What educational establishments are there in our republic?

  12. What do you know about Belarussian industry and agriculture?

  13. What deposits does Belarus possess?

  14. What are the results of the nuclear catastrophe?

  15. What hypotheses of the country’s name do you know?

  16. When was the name “Belarussia” used for the first time?

  17. What are the highest bodies of state power in Belarus?

  18. When did the republic become an independent state?

  19. When do we celebrate the Day of Independence?

III. Comprehension and Word Study.

1. Say whether it is true or false:

  1. The Republic borders on Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.

  2. There are nearly 2000 rivers in Belarus.

  3. The largest lake in Belarus is Naroch.

  4. The population is more than 20 million people.

  5. About 70% per cent is rural.

  6. The climate of Belarus is maritime.

  7. Most part of Belarus is a hilly country.

  8. More than a half of the territory is covered with forests and bushes.

  9. The Republic of Belarus consists of six regions with centers in the cities of Minsk, Vitebsk, Brest, Gomel, Polotsk and Mogilyov.

10) The Chernobyl catastrophe is a tragedy for the whole nation.

11) There are deposits of petroleum, coal, slate coal, brown coal and diamonds.

12) Belarus doesn’t cooperate with any countries except the Russian Federation.

13) The old name of Belarus is “A land of Gods”.

14) Belarussian people suffered much in the course of their history.

15) The President of the Republic of Belarus is the head of the state.

16) The Declaration of State Sovereignty was adopted by its Supreme Soviet on June, 1990.

2. Join the halves.

A

B

  1. There are different hypotheses

a) Belarussian and Russian.

  1. Most part of Belarus is

b) from the nuclear catastrophe that took place in Chernobyl in 1986.

  1. The nature and the climate have suffered much

c) a sovereign independent state.

  1. The main crops cultivated here

d) “A land of Bogs”

  1. The state languages are

e) are potatoes, herbs, flax, grain and vegetables.

  1. Nowadays Belarus is

f) as to the origin of the name.

  1. The most widespread languages of business are

g) including all its leading branches: power, machine-building and chemical industries.

  1. The old name of Belarus is

h) a flat country.

  1. Belarus has a developed heavy industry,

i) of petroleum, coal, slate coal, brown coal, dolomites.

  1. There are deposits

j) Russian, English and German.