1. Answer the questions:
1. What does the word “Podil” mean?
2. Who were the inhabitants of Podil at the down of Kyiv’s history?
3. What square has become the market place since 1798?
4. What is wrong in the task to the exercise 5 on page 149?
5. How many years ago did Khreshchatyk become the main street of Kyiv?
6. Why was the street named Khreshchatyk?
7. How many people stroll along this street?
8. Why, to your mind, doesn’t traffic run in Khreshchatyk on Sundays?
9. How could people enter Kyiv in ancient times?
10. What famous historical monument can you see in the Independent square?
11. Who is depicted on the top of the monument to the Independence of Ukraine?
12. Why is it especially impressive thing to visit the Independence square on holidays?
2. Find the following words in the texts, translate them into English, learn them by
heart and make up six sentences with them.
Житель, торгова виставка, рід занять, торговець,
струмок, тротуар, прогулюватися, болотистий,
виділятися, величний, вражаючий, урочистий.
2. I didn't know that you had worked at Hermitage.
3. We didn't know where our friends went every day.
4. We found that she left home at 8 o'clock every morning
5. Sam said to me that he had been reading that book for the whole week
6. Mother thought the children were playing football in the yard.
7. The doctor asked me when I had caught cloud.
8. I was told he had returned from London
9. I knew that mother was sleeping
10. I supposed that he would send us a letter.
2. Peter told us not to touch those photographs because they were still wet and we might spoil them.
3. Fred asked the boys if their friend often came there. Fred said that he wanted to speak to him.
4. My friend asked me how I had managed to solve that difficult problem in such a short time.
5. The teacher told us that we would write a test-paper the following day.
6. Kate told Nick that she had seen a new film the day before. Nick asked her if she had liked it.
7. Prince John asked Locksley why he was shouting and what his name was.
8. The teacher asked who had read 'Ivanhoe' and whom it had been written by.
9. One of the pupils asked the teacher of literature what novels they would read the following year.
10. The Frenchman asked if the river Volga was in Russia.