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Ex. 1. Прочтите Fact File: Omsk и последующую презентацию, дайте значения приведенных ниже слов, опираясь на языковую догадку и контекстуальное значение слов в тексте.

Approximately, distance, region, fortification, production, administrative centre, second, junction, river port, extraordinary, most densely populated city, food processing, district, unique image, base station, residence, oil refinery.

Ex. 2. Прочтите и запомните следующие слова и выражения.

ancient – древний, старинный

backward – отсталый

densely populated city – плотно населенный город

ditch – ров, канава, траншея

evaluate – оценить

extraordinary – чрезвычайный, необычный, экстраординарный

found – основывать, образовывать

frontier fortification – пограничная крепость, укрепление

junction – слияние (рек), соединение, узловой пункт

land – высадиться

mighty – могущественный, мощный, сильный, огромный

nomad – кочевник

protect – защищать

rapid – быстрый

restore – восстанавливать, реставрировать

by right – по праву, правильно

settler – поселенец, житель

summit – вершина; встреча на высшем уровне

surround – окружать

unique – уникальный, необычный, единственный

Ex. 3. Прочтите выражения с новыми словами и переведите их.

Ancient: ancient city, ancient manuscript, ancient castle, ancient settlement, ancient monument, collection of ancient books, ancient fortress, ancient nomads.

Backward: backward economy, backward country, backward territories, backward political decision, backward industries; backwardly developed nations.

Extraordinary: extraordinary fate, extraordinary situation, extraordinary person, extraordinary task, extraordinary rapid development, extraordinary interest.

Mighty: mighty force, mighty king, mighty state, mighty law of nature, mighty industrial centre, the mighty Mississippi river; it’s mighty good to see you.

Rapid: rapid development, rapid recovery, rapid-fire questions, rapid pace to power, rapid population growth; rapidly changing world of computer technology.

Evaluate: evaluate situation, by right evaluate benefits, evaluate consequences of the events, evaluate the position; evaluation of property, evaluation of real estate.

Found: found a fortress, found a city,found a company, found a fund, found a college; not founded on rational thought, lay the foundation, have no foundation.

Protect: protect the rights, protect against burglars, protect from violence, protect rare animals, protect reputation, protect skin from the sun; protected species.

Junction: junction of the road and street, at the junction of two rivers, at the junction of many ways, junction on the Trans-Siberian railway.

Summit: summit of the heads of the countries, summit of scientific achievement, the recent summit,reach the summit of Mount Everest; summit negotiation, summit meeting

Ex. 4. Прочтите предложения с новыми словами и постарайтесь повторить их по памяти.

1. The first wooden Omsk fortress was pentagon shaped with paling and surrounding ditch.

2. The fortress was surrounded by ditch and a rampart that had four gates.

3. The second fortress had for a long time been a base station for settlers and frontier fortification protecting the land from the nomads.

4. Ivan Buchgoltz had by right evaluated the strategic benefit of the future fortress at the junction of two rivers – the Irtysh and the Om’.

5. Omsk reached a summit in the period between 1860 and 1916.

6. Those years Omsk was finding the unique image that gives the city a look of an ancient Siberian capital up to now.

7. Wonderful and extraordinary are the fates of Siberian cities when small primitive settlements have changed into mighty industrial and cultural centres of the country.

8. Omsk is the second most densely populated city in Siberia with the population of approximately 1.3 mln.

Ex. 5. Заполните таблицу на словообразование (учитывая модели словообразования). В случае затруднений, обращайтесь к словарю.

Ex. 6. Подтвердите следующие выказывания согласно модели. Обратите внимание на сказуемое в страдательном залоге в прошедшем времени (Past Simple Passive).

(Passive Voice:to rename – to be renamed – was (were) renamed (Past Simple Passive).

Model: A: The fortress was renamed a town of Omsk.

B: That’s right. The fortress was renamed a town of Omsk.

1. Wide expanses of Siberia (to open) by Russians at the beginning of the 18^th century.

2. Omsk (to found) as a fortress on the left bank of the river Om’ in 1716.

3. A fortress (to build) by a group of Russian soldiers and Cossacks under the guidance of an officer Buchgoltz.

4. The first Omsk fortress (to construct) on the steep left bank of Om’.

5. In the second half of the 17^th century a new fortress on the right bank (to erect).

6. The Omsk fortress was (to situate) on the banks of the Irtysh and Om rivers.

7. The Omsk fortress (to surround) by ditch and a rampart that had four gates.

8. Dostoevsky (to exile) to Omsk and (to keep) in the Omsk fortress for 4 years.

9. Small primitive settlements (to change) into mighty industrial and cultural centres of the country.

10. A poet Robert Rozhdestvensky, an actor Abrikosov, the Kremlin medicians with the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute, the Moscow Vahtangov theatre (to evacuate) during the Great Patriotic War to Omsk.

Ex. 7. Составьте предложения, изменив глагол в действительном залоге на глагол в страдательном залоге.

Model: A: The tsarist government exiled Dostoevsky to Omsk.

B: Dostoevsky was exiled to Omsk by tsarist government.

1. Russians were starting up to open up wide expanses of Siberia.

2. The ditch and a rampart that had four gates surrounded the first Omsk fortress.

3. Omsk reached a summit in the period between 1860 and 1916.

4. The group of Russian soldiers and Cossacks founded a fortress on the left bank of the river Om’ in 1716.

5. The frontier fortification of the fortress protected the land from the nomads.

6. A lieutenant-colonel Ivan Buchgoltz had by right evaluated the strategic benefit of the future fortress at the junction of two rivers the Irtysh and the Om’.

7. Dostoevsky wrote some of his novels, including “Notes from the Dead House”, in the period of exile.

8. Admiral Kolchak proclaimed Omsk the capital of Russia from June 1918 to November 1919.

Ex. 8. Прочтите, переведите и перескажите текст об истории Омска.

Wonderful and extraordinary are the fates of Siberian cities. Small primitive settlements of the backward places of exile have changed into mighty industrial and cultural centres of the country.

Omsk and its history are examples of the extraordinary rapid development of Siberian cities when Russians were starting up to open up wide expanses of Siberia. The city was founded as a fortress on the left bank of the river Om’ in 1716 (during the reign of Peter the Great) when the group of Russian soldiers and Cossacks landed on the left bank of the river.

The founder of Omsk is considered to be lieutenant-colonel Ivan Buchgoltz. He had by right evaluated the strategic benefits of the future fortress at the junction of two rivers the Irtysh and the Om’. The first Omsk fortress was constructed on the steep left bank of Om’. It was pentagon shaped with paling and surrounding ditch. The first wooden fortress had for a long time been a base station for settlers and frontier fortification protecting the land from the nomads.

In the second half of the 17^th century a new fortress on the right bank was erected which soon became the administrative centre of the Siberian borderland and renamed the town of Omsk. The fortress was surrounded by ditch and a rampart that had four gates, Tobolskie Gate remained and Tarskie Gate was restored 1991.

Omsk owes its becoming the commercial centre of the region to the Great Siberian Way. Omsk reached a summit in the period between 1860 and 1916. Those were the years when Omsk was finding the unique image that gives the city a look of an ancient Siberian capital up to now. While being a residence of the Governor-General, Omsk had a right to hoist the State Empire Flag.

Ex. 9. Прочтите и переведите текст.

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