Use the letters to make up the words. Use them in the sentences below.

Module 7. Now and then

A. In the Past

 

Use the letters to make up the words. Use them in the sentences below.

• buafetuli – ______________
• edretsed – ______________
• uqite – _____________
• elacn – _____________
• ylgu – _____________

 

• I like small towns. The air is _________ and fresh there.
• The main street of the city is very _________________. There are lots of nice buildings and decorations.
• There are ten hot ______ buildings in the world – buildings that are not beautiful.
• Lots of European towns are very small, peaceful and ________.
• There are several _____________ towns. People don’t live there anymore.

 

 

Look at the pictures of Moscow taken in 1980 and in 2007. Do you recognize the place? What are the differences? Describe it in pairs: Student A speaks about Soviet Moscow and Student B speaks about modern Moscow.

 

 

It may be interesting to find differences in modern and old places. Use the Internet to do it.

 

Do you know any Russian or Soviet ghost towns? Have you ever heard about Chernobyl? Look at the picture and say, what comes to your mind first? What do you think happened? Who is the monument to?

 

4. Read the short text about Chernobyl. Mark with “+” what you know, “?” what is new for you and “!” what surprises you.

Chernobyl was a city in northern Ukraine, in the Kyiv Oblast near the border with Belarus. The government evacuated the city in 1986 due to the Chernobyl disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which is located 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) north-northwest. The power plant was named after the city, and located within Chernobyl Raion (district), but Power Plant workers lived in Pripyat, a city, which was larger and closer to the power plant.

Though the city today is mostly uninhabited, a small number of inhabitants live in houses marked with signs stating that the "Owner of this house lives here".

Before the government evacuated the people, there lived about 15,000 residents.

Share your notes about the text.

Ask several questions to your deskmate to check the understanding of the text. What questions would you like to ask to learn more about that disaster? Write them down. Use the internet to find the answers. Tell your classmates about your findings.

 

Rewrite the sentences in the past. Add adverbs of time.

• I play tennis on Mondays.
• My friends go to the library in the afternoon.
• Once a month my parents and I go to a classical music concert.
• I watch cartoons every evening.
• Kate wants to go to Mineral Park.

 

Give short answers to the questions.

• Did people live in Mineral Park? - ________________
• Was there a school in the town? - _______________
• Did people work in the mines? - _____________
• Did people like to spend their free time at work? - ______________
• Were people unhappy there? - ______________
• Did the government evacuate the city (Chernobyl) after explosion? - _____________

 

B. Halloween Spirit

 

Language puzzle. Find 8 words, copy them out and translate. Make up 3 sentences with them.

 

m	w	o	r	r	i	e	d	s
t	i	r	e	d	e	r	u	t
e	v	s	c	a	r	e	d	r
x	y	e	e	w	s	x	o	e
c	c	b	o	r	e	d	a	s
i	o	p	h	j	a	f	x	s
t	b	n	j	k	l	b	e	e
e	b	v	u	t	r	o	l	d
d	p	u	z	z	l	e	d	e

• ____________________-______________________
• ____________________-______________________
• ____________________-______________________
• ____________________-______________________
• ____________________-______________________
• ____________________-______________________
• ____________________-______________________
• ____________________-______________________

 

Fill in the empty squares with the missing verb forms and translation. Work in pairs. Student 1 names the present form of the verb and Student 2 names the past simple form and translation. Then Student 2 says the present form of a verb, and so on. You have 5 minutes to play the game. The student, who makes no mistakes and answers quickly, wins.

 

Present	Past	Russian
Be
	Had
		Решать
	Saw
Say
	Got
		Слышать
Fall
	Thought
Teach
		Встречать
	Built
Buy
	Caught
		Делать

 

Play “Snowball”: use one of the verbs below to make up a story that happened last summer. One student says a sentence. Every next student repeats the previous sentence then says the sentence of their own. Make it fun and logical.

Go, see, find, buy, eat, get sick, call, visit, get better, talk, laugh.

 

C. Famous firsts

 

Keys

Module 7. Now and then

A. In the Past

 

1.

• beautiful

• deserted
• quiet
• clean
• ugly

 

• I like small towns. The air is clean and fresh there.
• The main street of the city is very beautiful. There are lots of nice buildings and decorations.
• There are ten hot ugly buildings in the world – buildings that are not beautiful.
• Lots of European towns are very small, peaceful and quiet.
• There are several deserted towns. People don’t live there anymore.

 

2. It is Manezhnaya Square – in the heart of Moscow. It has changed greatly. There was a road on the place where there’s a huge underground mall nowadays. The Hotel Moskva is renovated now; it is a new building of the hotel. There are beautiful pedestrian lanes and lanterns which make the place very romantic and a favourite place for young people to meet and hangout.

 

 

3.

The monument is to people who tried to save others and died themselves and to those who suffered from the explosion.

 

6.

• I play ed tennis on Mondays.
• My friends went to the library yesterday in the afternoon.
• Last month my parents and I went to a classical music concert.
• I watch ed cartoons last evening.
• Kate want ed to go to Mineral Park when she was a child.

 

7.

• Did people live in Mineral Park? – Yes, they did.
• Was there a school in the town? – Yes, there was.
• Did people work in the mines? – Yes, they did.
• Did people like to spend their free time at work? – No, they didn’t.
• Were people unhappy there? – No, they weren’t.
• Did the government evacuate the city (Chernobyl) after explosion? – Yes, it did.

 

9.

• The movie started at 17.15 and finished at 19.00.
• When my mom was a child, she wanted to be a teacher.
• It rained yesterday, but today it is sunny.
• I will never forget my summer trip to London, I really enjoyed it.
• The accident happened two days ago.

 

B. Halloween Spirit

 

m	w	o	r	r	i	e	d	s
t	i	r	e	d				t
e		s	c	a	r	e	d	r
x			e					e
c		b	o	r	e	d		s
i					a			s
t						b		e
e							l	d
d	p	u	z	z	l	e	d	e

 

• worried-озабоченный, взволнованный
• tired-уставший
• scared-испуганный
• bored-скучающий
• puzzled-озадаченный
• stressed-напряженный
• excited-взволнованный, возбужденный
• miserable-несчастный

 

2.

 

Кошелек или жизнь	Trick or treat
Было очень поздно, и мы очень устали	It was very late and we were tired
Дом казался пустым	The house looked empty
Нам было страшно	We were scared
Огромное существо	A huge creature
Непослушный	Naughty
Стучать	Knock at

 

 

3.

Present	Past	Russian
Be	Was/ were	Быть
Have	Had	Иметь
Decide	Decided	Решать
See	Saw	Видеть
Say	Said	Говорить
Get	Got	Получать
Hear	Heard	Слышать
Fall	Fell	Падать
Think	Thought	Думать
Teach	Taught	Учить, обучать
Meet	Met	Встречать
Build	Built	Строить
Buy	Bought	Покупать
Catch	Caught	Ловить
Do	Did	Делать

 

6.

• Kate didn’t go to Los Angeles, she went to Chicago.
• We didn’t meet our teacher, we met our school principal.
• She didn’t leave last Sunday, she left last Tuesday.
• He didn’t write a composition, he wrote an email.
• The concert didn’t begin at 7.00, it began at 7.30.
• They didn’t buy a computer, they bought a new TV set.

 

 

C. Famous firsts

 

1.

 

• Mickey Mouse
• Walt Elias Disney was born on December 5^th 1901.
• No, he didn’t. He sold his first sketches at the age of 7.
• His brother lived in California.
• In their uncle’s garage.
• Mickey appeared in 1928 in the first sound cartoon Steamboat Willie.
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi
• He died in 1966.

 

 

2.

Буря небо мглою кроет

Вихри снежные крутя

То как зверь она завоет

То заплачет как дитя

То по кровле обветшалой

Вдруг соломой зашумит

То как путник запоздалый

К нам в окошко постучит.

 

3.

Student A:

• Where was Pushkin born?
• Who taught him?
• Where did he spend many hours reading books?
• When did he write his first poem?
• What did his work cause?
• What is the title of the play published years after he wrote it for political reasons?
• What was the name of his wife?
• When did he die?

 

Student B:

• When was Pushkin born?
• What did his nurse teach him?
• What did he love to do?
• When did he publish his first poem?
• Who did he have problems with?
• Why was his play Boris Godunov published years after he wrote it?
• When did he get married?
• What happened to him when he was 37?

 

Module 7. Now and then

A. In the Past

 

Use the letters to make up the words. Use them in the sentences below.

• buafetuli – ______________
• edretsed – ______________
• uqite – _____________
• elacn – _____________
• ylgu – _____________

 

• I like small towns. The air is _________ and fresh there.
• The main street of the city is very _________________. There are lots of nice buildings and decorations.
• There are ten hot ______ buildings in the world – buildings that are not beautiful.
• Lots of European towns are very small, peaceful and ________.
• There are several _____________ towns. People don’t live there anymore.

 

 

Look at the pictures of Moscow taken in 1980 and in 2007. Do you recognize the place? What are the differences? Describe it in pairs: Student A speaks about Soviet Moscow and Student B speaks about modern Moscow.