Card 1. Prepare an individual talk on the topic Our countryside', The following questions will help you to organize your talk: 1) Do you know your hometown/village well? 2) Where is it situated? 3) What does it look like? 4) Do tourists like to visit your town/village? 5) Is your hometown a good place to live in? Why / Why not?
2. Yes, it was. It was the capital of Russia in 1712-1918.
3. I would prefer to visit the Winter Palace, the Hermitage, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Neva with its famous bridges, Kazan and Saint Isaac's Cathedrals, Nevsky Prospect and much more.
4. The Winter Palace was the first Imperial Palace and now it's the most famous building in the city, situated in Palace square.
5. The Summer Garden is situated between Kutuzov embankment and Fontanka embankment.
6. We can see there the monument called The Bronze Horseman (devoted to Peter I) and a monument, devoted to I.A.Krylov.
Krylov wrote fables. They are: The Crow and the Fox, The Elephant and the Pug, The Donkey and the Nightingale.
7. The Russian tsars lived in the Winter Palace, which is the Hermitage museum now
8. The city of St. Petersburg was founded by tsar Peter I. It was in 1703.
10. St.Petersburg had official names: Petrograd, Leningrad and a lot of inofficial such as Northern Capital, Northen Paradise The City on the Neva.