Task 2. Read the text again and choose T (true), F (false) or DS (doesn't say). (write only
answers)
4. Teenagers these days use many means of transport to get around.
5. Using buses and trains is expensive.
6. It's a new craze to skateboard in competitions, очень

 6. Could you open the door, please? I see girl knocking. 7. Let's make a speech at the reception. 8.The advice you gave me helped a lot. 9. I like to be in the centre of everything. 10. At night I had a terrible headache after I had drunk a lot of wine in the evening. 11.Look cut! There is a dangerous bend in the road. 12. Mrs. Patsy is the last person I'd like to meet. 13. Tom's planning to take a boat to go fishing on Sunday. 14. Could you phone later, please? Kate's having a bath. 15. The
rent is 150 dollars for month. 16. We often go to the theatre and to the cinema, but very rarely to the circus. 17. When their father came home, they had dinner and then watched TV. They went to bed at 11 p.m. 18.What a pity they haven't seen this performance! 19. She can't find a telegram which she received this morning. 20. Are you going to the country for weekend? 21. She usually goes shopping on Thursdays, but last Thursday she didn't do shopping. She had to go to the dentist's. 22. What's a lovely song!
What's a beautiful music! 23. Could you tell me the time, please? - It's a quarter past six. 24. Do you usually go by the train or in the car there?

1. Российская Федерация - Россия (по конституции) The Russian Federation - Russia is the official name of our homeland
2. There are 21 republics in Russian Federation (Adygea, Altai, Bashkortostan, Buryatia, DAgestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Karelia, Komi, Mari El, Mordovia, Sakha (Yakutia), North Ossetia-Alania, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Tuva (Tyva), Khakassia, Chechnya, Chuvashia)
3. Boris Yeltsin was the first Russian President
4. constitution is the highest law of Russia
5. Dmitry Medvedev is the Russian President at the moment. The Prime Minister is Vladimir Putin
6. Russia stopped being a monarchy and became a republic in 1917
7. Moscow is the capital of Russia. It's the biggest city of Russia.
8. St-Petersburg, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk
9. Yes, it is
10.The Altai Mountains are a mountain range in central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together. The Caucasus are situated in the south-west of Russia.
11. The Lena is situated in the northeastern Siberia. The Ob is situated in western Siberia. There are many rivers in Russia. Their nemes are the Volga, the Kama, the Terek, etc
12. The country is washed by the Pacific and Artic oceans and by the Baltic, the Black and the Azov seas
13. Lake Baikal is the world's deepest, purest, most ancient and most capacious freshwater lake. Lake Baikal alone contains over one fifth of the world's fresh surface water
14. There were many impotant events in russian history: Mongol invasion, the rise of Moscow, reforms of Peter the Great, etc.
15. Yuri Dolgoruky is famous for foundation of Moscow. Alexander Nevsky and Dmitry Donskoi are famous rulers. Yuri Gagarin is the first cosmonaut in the world
16. The official symbols of Russia are Double-headed eagle, coat of arms of Russia, FLag of Russia. Other symbols of Russia are beryoza, bear, balalaika, vodka
17. Russian flag is a tricolour of three equal horizontal fields, white on the top, blue in the middle and red on the bottom. The flag was first used as an ensign for merchant and war ships and only became official in 1896.
The three colours purportedly came from the coat of arms of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which depict Saint George wearing white (silver) armor, riding a white horse, wearing a blue cape and holding a blue shield, on a red field. According to another version, these three colours were associated with the robes of the Virgin Mary, the holy protectress of Russia.
Yet another interpretation of the three colours is that the order that they are placed in reflected the Russian social system under the monarchy: white represents God, blue the Tsar and red the peasants. Another very common interpretation is the association of colours with the main parts of the Russian Empire: white thus represents Belarus ("White Russia"), blue Ukraine (or Malorossia, "Little Russia"), and red "Great Russia".
A different interpretation associates white with the bright future (where the colour itself is associated with brightness, while its placement at the top - with future); blue with clouded present, and red with bloody past.