Say what you can about Moscow and St Petersburg. Speak about:
• where the city stands;
• its monuments;
• its theatres, museums and picture galleries;
• its streets, squares, parks and gardens;
• its places of interest
Write Dictation 1, CD (21).
Here are two stories about two famous Russian people. What are the stories?
a) His life was not easy and he was a fairly unhappy man, but his music is very warm and beautiful. He travelled abroad but loved to live at home, in his country.
b) Leo Tolstoy, born in 1828, wrote two of the world’s greatest books “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”.
c) When he was 82, he left home, but soon became ill and died in a small railway station hotel. A lot of people came to say goodbye to their favourite writer.
d) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was one of the most famous Russian composers. He was born in Votkinsk in 1840 and became a student in St Petersburg.
e) His family was rich and had some land. He thought a lot about the people who lived and worked on that land. He also wrote about it in his books.
f) His most popular works are the ballet “Swan Lake”, his first Piano Concerto, the ballet “Sleeping Beauty”, and his Symphony №6. He lived to be 53.
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