9. Answer the following questions:

•What did you learn about Nikolay Rezanov?

•What was his participation in the work of the Russian-American Company?

• Why did he sail to Russian America?

•What was he impressed there by?

• Why did Nikolay Rezanov call Russian settlements a “drunken republic”?

• In what way did he suggest to solve the problem of the serf system in Russia?

• Why was it important to establish court there?

• What kind of disputable lawsuits did the court have to investigate?

• What decision for the problem of famine did Rezanov come?

• What was the result of his trip to California?

10. Write if the statement is true (t) or false (f):

• Nikolay Rezanov had a military education.______

• He loved Russia. ______

• The number of Russian people prevailed over the local people in Russian America._____

• To develop Russian America he suggested sending young men to Russia every 5 years. ______

• Boys and girls were sent to Russia by tens._____

• Rezanov insisted that all natives, living in Russian America had to study the Russian language. _____

• He was the first to compose the Russian-Japanese dictionary._____

• The natives had to be present at court always. _____

• To supply Russian America Rezanov decided to buy bread and dairy products in California._____

• Commercial ties of the Russian-American Company with California were not successful. ____

• The higher clergy did not allow a Christian Rezanov to marry a Catholic Conchita Arguello. _____

•N. Rezanov played an important role in exploring of Russian America. _____

11. Translate the sentences with the key vocabulary into Russian.

12. Speak about the life of N. Rezanov.

13. Describe the hardships of Russian settlers in America.

14. Explain how the Indians depended on the RAC.

15. Make up a list of useful things made by N. Rezanov for the improvement of people’s life in America:

16. Think how the activities of N. Rezanov in Russian America characterize him.

17. Speak about the love story between N. Rezanov and Conception de Arguello.

18. Give a key sentence to each paragraph.

19. Give a summary of the text.

20. On your own. Use the Internet and other sources to find some information about other deeds of N. Rezanov. Prepare a presentation.

Lesson 14. Decline of the rac and Sale of Russian Estates in America

1.Study the key vocabulary:

income -доход

charges on the maintenance - расходы на содержание

remote and defenseless territory - отдалённая и уязвимая территория

to outweigh potential profit - перевешивать потенциальную прибыль

contemporaneous acquisition – одновременное приобретение

to lessen - преуменьшать

to overextend – чрезмерно простираться

to obtain –приобретать

to tap resources – выкачивать ресурсы

to devote attention – обращать внимание

2. Replace the following words by the antonyms:

Income, charge, remote, defenseless, to outweigh, profit, to lessen, to obtain, to devote;

3. Match the following words and word-combinations to their definitions:

•to purchase ____________________________________________________________________

•to lay out money for something or somebody_______________________________________

• to pay attention ________________________________________________________________

•additional money _______________________________________________________________

•object located very far off something _______________________________________________

• to get something from the nature _________________________________________________

•difficult to defend _______________________________________________________________

•to do several deeds at one and the same time _______________________________________

•to make something smaller _______________________________________________________

4. Translate into English:

• доходы компании

• расходы на содержание отдалённой и уязвимой территории

• перевешивать потенциальную прибыль по сравнению с доходами компании

• одновременное приобретение территории на Амуре

• преуменьшать значение компании

• чрезмерно простираться на отдалённой и уязвимой территории

• приобретать эту отдалённую территорию

• выкачать ресурсы Аляски

•обращать внимание на развитие отдалённой и уязвимой территории

5. Make up sentences with the word-combinations from exercise 4.