Answer the questions

1.What is your native place?

2. Where is it situated?

3. What is its population?

4. When was it founded?

5. Whom was it founded by?

6. What kind of city ( village) is it?

7. What does it look like?

8. Do you like your native place?

9.Is it an important railway junction ( a great river port, a center of industry and commerce)?

10.Does it play a great role in the cultural life of the country?

11.What is the center of modern city?

12.How many parts is it traditionally divided into?

13.How was the Kremlin used in old times?

14.What famous Russian citizens were born and lived here?

15. What street do you live in?

16. Do you know the history of your native place?

17. Are there any places of interest there?

18. Describe the best sights of your native place if there are any.

19.The names of famous people bring glory to our Motherland, do you know the names of these people who were born or lived in your native place?

20. Are you proud of your native place? Why?

21. If you were a mayor what would you change in you native place to make the way of life of its population better?

Билет 22.

My flat

By the way, my family live in one of the picturesque places in Nizhny Novgorod – not far from the park Shweytzaria. Our house is located in Gagarin street, it’s a five-storeyed block of flats. The apartment is on the third floor and has three rooms, a hall, a kitchen, a bathroom and a balcony.

The sitting-room is the largest and most comfortable room in the apartment, there is a TV-set, a sofa, two arm-chairs and a carpet on the floor. The room is very cosy – my Mother spent a lot of time decorating it with pictures, flowers and nice curtains. We enjoy our free time together in this room.

The two bedrooms are divided between my parents and me with my brother. They are smaller than the sitting-room, no doubt. My brother and me like our room very much though it’s not very large. There are two beds, two tables, two chairs, a computer and a carpet on the floor. The walls are decorated with posters and other interesting things brought by me and my brother from different expeditions. There is a guitar hanging on the wall. We take it to our expeditions because my brother can play the guitar very well, better than me, and knows many songs.

The kitchen is handily arranged: there is a gas-stove, a frige, a deep sink, built-in cupboards and a table that folds against the wall when not in use.

He flat has all modern conveniences: central heating, gas, electricity, cold and hot water, a lift and a chute to carry rubbish down.

I like my flat very much.

Topical Vocabulary

- high-storeyed building - многоэтажное здание

- apartment - квартира

- floor - этаж

- elevator ( lift) - лифт

- living-room - зал

• carpet -ковер

• sofa - диван

• bedroom - спальня

• armchairs - кресла

• double-bed - двуспальная кровать

• bedside stand - прикроватная тумбочка

• dressing table - туалетный столик

• cosy - уютный

• chest of drawers - комод

• rug - коврик

• with all modern conveniences - со всеми современными удобствами

• central heating - центральное отопление

• electric appliance - электроприбор

• microwave oven - микроволновая печь

• mutual -взаимопонимание

Аnswer the questions

1. Where does your family live?

2. What floor is your apartment on?

3. Is your flat large or small?

4. How many rooms are there in your apartment?

5. Has your flat all modern conveniences?

6. What room is the smallest in your flat?

7. Do you have your own room?

8. Do you like it? Describe it.

9. Is your kitchen large?

10. What is the number of your flat?

Билет 23.