Which of them are tall and which of them are high?
Example: Mountains are high.
The sky, towers, walls, basketball players, columns, shelves, horses, grandfather clock.
Listen, CD(13), and match the texts 1, 2 and 3 with the pictures.
Read the word combinations.
A. Read the text and give names to its two parts.
Red Square in the centre of Moscow is 695 metres long and 130 metres wide. It is one of the largest and most beautiful squares in Moscow. First the square had the name of Torg, or market place. Then after a big fire in 1493 people began to call it Pozhar. They called it Troitskaya Square too. In the 17th century when people spoke about it, they said “krasnaya”, or beautiful, great. This was how the square got its modern name.
Everybody in Russia knows the famous buildings and monuments situated in Red Square: St Basil’s [ˈbeɪzɪlz] Cathedral, the History Museum, Spasskaya Tower with the large Kremlin Clock and some others. Tourists from different Russian towns and cities and from abroad come to Red Square to look at its historical buildings and monuments and to listen to the Kremlin Clock. A lot of young people come here on New Year’s Eve. On the 9th of May, the Victory Day, a big parade [pəˈreɪd] takes place in Red Square.
B. Answer the questions.
1) Where is Red Square situated?
2) What was its first name?
3) Why did people call the square “Pozhar”?
4) When did the square get its modern name?
5) What can people see in Red Square?
6) What can they hear?
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