. Write a letter to a friend. Carefully divide it into paragraphs and think
of a topical sentence for each paragraph. Then read the letter out in class and let your
classmates guess:
1) the reason for writing this letter;
2) how many paragraphs it has;
3) what is the topical sentence in each paragraph.

1. Lucy describes Moscow as terrific city.
2. At first they are going to see the Kremlin, Red Square, St Basil's Church, Lenin's Tomb, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and The State History Museum. 
3. Because he thinks it's too tiring to go on a day trip down the Moskva River.
4. She knows that the Moscow Zoo is the largest zoo in Russia. And it has a great collection of animals and exotic species.
5.She needs to have a whole day in GUM department store, where you can find everything from clothes to caviar. She can't wait to go shopping.
6. Darren will get a Matryoshka from Lucy.
7. Yes, she does. Because Moscow is a big city, where can do many things.
She likes Russian cuisine. She thinks it is delicious, she also likes Russian pies and  chocolates, cause they are just great.

1.  The universities, which were founded between 1850 and 1930, including London University, are known as redbrick universities. They were called so because that was the favourable building material of the time.
2.  the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Imperial College of Science and Technology, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, the School of Oriental and African Studies, the School of Architecture.
3.  Whereas colleges within a university teach all subjects, and schools – a group of subjects, these institutes specialize more narrowly, and are often more occupied with research than teaching undergraduates.
4.  Most of the redbrick universities founded in the nineteenth century are scattered throughout the country and are to be found in Birmingham, Bristol, Exeter, Hull, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham, Sheffield, Southampton and some others.
5. The redbrick universities organize their academic work in a va-riety of ways. Subjects are taught in individual departments which are in turn grouped into faculties covering the main subject grouping, like arts, science, engineering, social science.
6.  The “new universities” were all founded after the Second World War. They are Keele Uni-versity (in Staffordshire), the universities of East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Lancaster, Sussex, Warwick, York.