1. What do you know about Russia? Match the above pictures 1-6 with descriptions a) – f). What information can you give about the pictures?

a) The Cathedral of the Redeemer d) Peter the Great

b) The Red Square e) Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation

c) The flag of Russia f) First Russian cosmonaut

SAYING DATES

Years	Ordinal numbers
1984 nineteen eighty four 2010 two thousand and ten	1st first 2nd second 3rd third 4th fourth 5th fifth
Dates
3rd April 1998 (BrE) the third of April, nineteen ninety eight 3 April 1998 (BrE) April the third, nineteen ninety eight April 3, 1998 (AmE) April third, nineteen ninety eight

2. New year is Victory day is Women’s day is Independence day is Christmas is Day of Knowledge is Day of the defender of Motherland is

   on 9th May on 1st September on 7th January on 23rd February on 31st December on 12th June on 8th March

   There are many national holidays in Russia. Match the dates with the holidays.

HISTORY OF RUSSIA

3. Use the dictionary to find the meaning of the following words:

to found/to establish, to destroy, to rule, efforts, to invade, to divide into.

4. Can you say what these dates mean in the history of Russia? Use the dates to complete the sentences below.

862 988 1240 1552

1812 1762 to 1796 30 December 1922 27 May, 1703

on 22 June 1941 on 7th November, 1917 in December 1991

1. Tradition says in … the Viking Rurik came to Russia and founded the first Russian dynasty in Novgorod.

2. Vladimir “the Saint” became Christian in...

3. In …, Kiev was destroyed by the Mongols.

4. After the final battle of Russo-Kazan Wars in ... Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) transformed Russia and Tatar khanates into a multiconfessional state.

5. Tsar Peter I of Russia founded Saint Petersburg on …as the capital of the Russian Empire.

6. Catherine II (Catherine the Great), who ruled from …, continued the efforts to establish Russia as one of the Great Powers of Europe.

7. Napoleon’s efforts to invade Russia failed in ….

8. On 7th November …Vladimir Lenin headed the Bolshevik Revolution.

9. After victory in the Civil War, the Russian SFSR together with three other Soviet republics formed the Soviet Union on ….

10. On …, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union that was the beginning of the Second World War.

11. The USSR was divided into fifteen independent republics….

LANGUAGE SKILLS: SHOWING LACK OF CERTAINTY & SURPRISE

D. Make up short dialogues expressing lack of certainty and surprise. Use prompts given below.

e.g. If I remember rightly, Vladimir Lenin studied in Kazan.

Really? It’s news to me. When was it?

1) There are more than 200 holidays in Russia and only 7 are state ones!

2) In 1240 Kiev was destroyed by the Mongols.

3) The first animal in space was a Russian dog, Laika.

4) Viking Rurik founded the first Russian dynasty in Novgorod.

5) 13 cities in Russia have population over 1 m.

6) The USSR was divided into fifteen independent republics.

7) The Russian Federation is home to as many as 160 different ethnic groups.

SAYING NUMBERS	Numbers
	100 a/one hundred 1000 a/one thousand 1 000 000 (1m ) a/one million 3 000 000 000 (3bn) three billion
Bigger numbers
3  560 three thousand five hundred and sixty (BrE) sixty (AmE) 5 98, 374 five hundred and ninety-eight thousand, three hundred and forty- seven(BrE) ninety-eight thousand, three hundred forty-seven(AmE)
Decimals		Vulgar fractions
16.5 sixteen point five 17.38 % seventeen point three eight percent 0.185 (nought) point one eight five		1/8 a/one eighth 3/8 three eighths 1/2 a/one half 3/4 three quarters 20/83 twenty over eighty three

E. Write in words how you would say the numbers in brackets, in British English. The first one is done as an example for you.

1) 456, 780 - four hundred and fifty six thousand, seven hundred and eighty

2) 1, 230 5) 120, 330 8) 3/8

3) 12, 300 6) 12.33% 9) 0.169

4) 12,030 7) 1/5 10) 174, 607, 513

F. What is the answer to these sums? Write the sums and the answers in figures.

1. Twelve multiplied by eight is - 12 x 8 = 96

2. One hundred and forty four divided by twelve is -

3. Twenty eight multiplied by three is -

4. One point five million multiplied by three is -

5. Seven hundred eighty-nine divided by six is -

6. Thirty seven point five multiplied by five is -

7. One million six hundred divided by five is -

G. Read some statistics about Russia.

	Moscow	St. Petersburg	Nizhniy Novgorod
Population	10,469,000 (2003 census)	4,596,000 (2005 census)	1,370,200 (2007 census)

	Russian	Tatar	Ukrainian	Chuvash
Ethnic groups	81.5 %	3.8 %	3.0 %	1.2 %

SAYING FIGURE 0 (BrE)