Complete The Sentences:
1. These houses 20 years ago. Before that there was a cinema here but the building (damage) in a fire and had to ( knock down).
2. This bridge (build) in 1925. It (use) by hundreds of people every day. At the moment the bridge (paint).
3. This street (call) Wilton street. It used to (call) James street but the name (change) a few years ago.
4. This is a Bicycle factory. Bicycles (make).
We aren't playing a computer game now.
Are we playing a computer game now?
2 I am lisnening to music now.
I am not listening to music now.
Am I listening to music now?
3 Peter is playing the guitar at the moment.
Peter isn't playing the guitar at the moment.
Is Peter playing the guitar at the moment?
4 My cat is drinking milk now.
My cat isn't drinking milk now.
Is my cat drinking milk now?
5 It is raining now.
It is not raining now.
Is it raining now?
Baumana Street has existed since the 15th century. It ran from the Khan's Palace at the edge of the city. In ancient times the Nogayskaya Road was there. At the end of the 16th century, the street was named Prolomnaya and later is was renamed Bolshaya Prolomnaya. It was named for the two breaches of the Kremlin wall, which were made as the result of the explosions of the tower Nur-Ali and Lower Nogaysky gates during the siege of the Kremlin by the troops ofIvan the Terrible in 1552.
Later the street was named Bogoyavlenskaya (Epiphany) after the church, which was built in 1731-1756.
Famous Russian singer Fyodor Shalyapin was baptised in Bogoyavlenskaya Church. Nowadays there is a statue of Shalyapin on Baumana Street, near the church. It is the only such statue in the world.
In 1930, the street was named Baumana Street in honour of the famous localrevolutionary hero Nikolay Bauman. He was born in 1873 and graduated from the Kazan Veterinary Institute.