1.26 Listen again and complete the sentences.
1 _ is from Australia,
2 is mad about basketball.
3 Lucy is better than at basketball.
4 _ is into tennis.
5 Darwin is in the __ of Australia.
6 It's __than Sydney.
7 There are a lot of new in Darwin.
8 Jon hasn't got any of Darwin.
Tver is a city ~200 km away from Moscow.
Тверь – город примерно в 200 км от Москвы.
In the past Tver competed with Moscow for being the Russian capital.
В Тверь соперничала с Москвой за право быть столицей России.
In XX century the city bore the name Kalinin for almost 60 years!
В ХХ веке город носил имя Калинин почти 60 лет!
Tver is situated on banks of the Volga River, the Tmaka River and the Tvertsa River.
Тверь расположена на берегах рек Волга, Тьмака и Тверца.
It has got many embankments (named after Afanasy Nikitin, Stepan Razin, prince Mikhail of Tver, etc.), fountains and bridges (even a pretty small stone one), and a beach is right within the city!
Здесь много набережных (названных в честь Афанасия Никитина, Степана Разина, князя Михаила Ярославича и пр.), фонтанов и мостов (даже один крохотный каменный мостик), а пляж прямо среди города!
Visit the monument to Submariners, go scuba diving and dine in a ship-café ‘Nikitin the Merchant’!
Посетите памятник подводникам, поплавайте с аквалангом и пообедайте в кафе «Купец Никитин» в виде корабля!
He was born into a family of cattle breeder. It comes from the subgenus Aydabol of the Suyindyk clan of the Argyn tribe of the Middle Zhuz. His mother died when he was one year old. He graduated from the madrasah (1908-1910).
At the end of 1912, Toraigyrov came to Troitsk, enrolled in the spiritual Muslim school Rasulia: he studied science, mastered the Russian language - read Lermontov, Pushkin, Krylov. In July 1913 he left his studies because of illness and went to teach children in the village. Since 1913 he worked as a secretary in the editorial office of the first Kazakh magazine "Haykap", in the same place his first essays were published. The works of Toraigyrov were published by separate books already in Soviet times.
At this time the poet says the words that have become known:
Having entered the path of seeking the truth, I will not give up, I will endure all the trials, overcome fatigue, I will go through delusions. But I will stay true to the plan
After the February Revolution of 1917, trying to be closer to the people, he comes to Semipalatinsk. He embraces a joyful feeling, as well as all intellectuals of the Kazakh society of that time.
"I want to be the sun that would scatter the darkness over the head of my people"
With the advent of Soviet power, the dawn of freedom came, and each nation was able to heal independently and create its own state. Sultanmakhmut became chairman of the Shidertinsky Revolutionary Committee, but at the same time he contacted the Alash-Ordinites, published articles in their newspaper Sary-Arka. Warmly capturing the ideas of the leaders of "Alash", he admired them in his poems.
He died at the age of 26 from tuberculosis.