XXVI. Take a plan of Moscow, St.-Petersburg, your native town, etc. Prepare 8-10 questions to help your fellow-students discuss it in class

XXVII. a) Render the following in the form of a dialogue. b) Get ready with a situation for your fellow-students to give it in the form of a dialogue:

Ваш знакомый, с которым вы вместе работали на Севере, приезжает на несколько дней в Москву. Он никогда раньше не был в столице и просит вас посоветовать ему, с чего начать осмотр города. Вы охотно соглашаетесь. В Москве много мест, которые стоит посмотреть. Для начала вы предлагаете побывать на Красной площади, на Воробьевых горах, осмотреть новое здание Московского университета. Ваш знакомый просит объяснить ему, как добраться до центра.

XXVIII. Find English proverbs concerning travelling, provide them with Russian equivalents, ask your fellow-students to illustrate them.

XXIX. Ask your friend to give you as much information as possible about:

his native town; a place in Britain he knows; one of the capitals of our republics.

XXX. Get together with one or two other students and have a friendly talk. The situation is this:

You are friends planning a trip to St.-Petersburg. There are a lot of things that need to be done. Each of you is full of imaginative ideas.

XXXI. Speak on the following:

1. Your arrival in a big city. 2. Any city you think interesting. 3. A new district of Moscow. 4. Explaining to a stranger how to get to the Central Post Office from: Pushkin Square, Petrovka Street, the Vorobyev Hills.

Laboratory work

I. a) Repeat the sentences after the tape. b) Make them interrogative and negative.

II. Spell and transcribe the given words and word combinations.

III. Use the sentences with the verb in the passive voice.

IV. a) Translate the sentences into English. b) Check your sentences with the key.

V. a) Use the sentences in indirect speech. Make all the necessary changes. b) Check your sentences with the key.

VI. Listen to the wrong statements. Correct them.

VII. a) Listen to the poem "Evening" by Percy D. Shelley. Mark the stresses and tunes. b) Practise the poem. c) Learn it by heart.

Lesson Eighteen

Study the following

Table No. 1

The complex object

Note 1. A continuous action is expressed by a present participle, e. g. I saw Pete coming towards me.

Note 2. After the verb make in the Passive Voice the infinitive of the verb following it is used with the particle to, e. g. 1 was made to get up early.

Grammar exercises

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