6. Read the definitions. Choose the best definition for the following word: shop assistant is…
A The place where you can have your hair cut. B A person who buys things in a shop
C British money that equals one hundred pence. D A person whose job is to sell things.
2) Robin went to the trip back in time to London of the future.
3) Stone of Destiny was lost for Scotland, because it had been in London at Westminster Abbey.
4) Robin couldn’t come back in time.
5) The door of Robin’s time was closed.
6) Robin's father could not eat and drink.
7) He was waiting for his son at the window.
8) Mother Robin died when he was two years old, and he lived with his father and grandmother.
9) Robin was very fond of his country.
10) He believed that the stone of destiny could help.
11) Life in Scotland was hard.
12) Robin came back without the stone of destiny.
The Mariinsky Palace was built by emperor Nikolay I for his daughter Maria as a gift to her wedding with the duke Maksimilian Lejhtenbergsky. Maksimilian was Eugenie dе Bogarne's son who was Napoleon's stepson. Wedding was on 5th December in 1838.
The place for this palace was chosen opposite the Isaakievsky cathedral, on the bank of the Ekaterina channel. Before there was Tchernyshev's house there. The emperor wanted to build a palace which would differ from others. This palace should become the standard of comfort of that time. The builders used modern technical decisions and applied the modern building materials.