1)Is it an informal email, a magazine review or an essay? 2).How many paragraphs are in it?
3).What are they?
4).Find and rewrite sentences in Present Perfect.
5).Find and rewrite sentences in Past Simple.
London is England’s regal capital, where everyone speaks like the Queen. Whenever I tell people that I grew up in London I am usually greeted with fascination and excitement. Many people who live abroad, and especially those who have never visited London, image it of a very dazzling and trendy city where everyone is always drinking tea. I hope to show you a Londoner’s perspective of what London is really like.
For a nation of tea-lovers, you’d be surprised to know that we actually consume more coffee than we do tea! There are more than 2,000 chain cafés in London. Isn’t that crazy?! Despite this, we are of course very loyal to our traditional teatime drink, with many teahouses rivalling coffee shops. It’s important to note however that drinking tea is not as glamorous as you may think. Tea is a very quick and easy drink to make and is usually made within five minutes. I actually only learnt how to make the ‘perfect cup of tea’ when I started teaching English in Sicily. It just goes to show that even the tea-lovers aren’t always the experts!
London is definitely a melting pot of culture. Did you know that there are over 300 languages spoken in London? There are many different communities which all contribute to the London culture: Chinatown in central London, a very large South Asian community in Southall and an equally big Caribbean community in Notting Hill. As a result of this language soup, most Londoners do not actually speak like the Queen, but you can still tell a fellow Londoner when you hear one!
Public transport is not as terrible as we say it is. Although we are always complaining about public transport, it’s actually very efficient. A good service on the Central line means a tube (underground train) every 5 minutes, and yet you will still see most Londoners on a Monday morning getting upset when they miss a tube. What can I say? Londoners just love to complain!
London is a very diverse and exciting city to live in and it is definitely, for me, a very unique city. The culture is always changing, and although we Londoners complain about the cost of living, bad weather and poor public transport, deep down in our hearts, London is our distinctive home.
to distrust - не доверять
dishonest - нечестный
discomfort - дискомфорт, неудобство
disinterested - незаинтересованный
disharmony - дисгармония
to displace - вытеснять
nonfiction - документальный
nonpayment - неуплата
nonsmoker - некурящий
noneuropean - не европейский
nonmetal - неметалл
nonpolitical - не политический
to undo - отменять
unafraid - бесстрашный
unchangeable - неизменный
unclean - нечистый
uncomfortable - неудобный
uncooked - неприготовленный, сырой
unhappy - несчастливый
unimportant - неважный
uninteresting - безынтересный
unloved - нелюбимый
unlucky - невезучий
unmarried - незамужний, неженатый
unpleasant - неприятный
unreal - ненастоящий, нереальный
to unpack - распаковывать
immoral - аморальный
imperfect - несовершенный
irresponsible - безответственный
irregular - нерегулярный
St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg is the second largest city in Russia and one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
St. Petersburg was the capital of Russia from 1712 to 1918.
It is located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea.
1) Saint Petersburg was founded by Tsar Peter the Great as a fortress and the ‘Window on Europe’ in 1703.
In 1914 the name of the city was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd, in 1924 to Leningrad, and in 1991, back to Saint Petersburg.
Today many people call the second Russian capital Peter for short.
Saint Petersburg is a major European cultural center, and also an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea.
3) The climate.
As the city is situated on the banks of the Neva River near the Baltic Sea, strong winds blow from the sea.
There are a lot of cold and rainy days in St Petersburg.
As a rule there is not a lot of sunshine and the weather is often unpleasant in autumns and winters.
4) St Petersburg is a charming city famous for its beauty.
The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg Winter Palace and Dvortsovaya Square and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Winter Palace and Dvortsovaya Square are home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world.
The main street in St Petersburg is Nevsky Prospect.
Peter and Paul Fortress and Cathedral Peter and Paul Fortress is a symbol of St. Petersburg. It is the building the history of St. Petersburg began with.
The main symbols of St Petersburg are also St. Isaac’s Cathedral, which has room for 12000 people at once; the Bronze Horseman, one of the monuments to Peter the Great, Kazan Cathedral and some others.
Museums: the Winter Palace, the Kunstkamera, the Russian Museum which is the first state museum of Russian fine arts in the country. It holds one of the largest collections of Russian art in the world. It was founded in 1895 in St. Petersburg by Emperor Nicholas II.
St Petersburg is famous for its White Nights and drawbridges. The city is sometimes called Russian Venice for it stands on forty-two islands and there are 342 bridges across rivers and canals. There are a lot of beautiful parks and gardens in and round the city. One of them is the Summer garden. It was founded in 1704 by order of Peter the Great, who was personally involved in planning it, and is laid out according to strict geometrical principles. The Summer Garden is home to marble statues acquired from Europe especially for Russia's new capital, and also to rare flowers and plants, as well as fountains.
St Petersburg is a major industrial, cultural and scientific centre. There are over 80 museums, more than 20 theatres, a lot of exhibitions, clubs, universities, colleges, schools and parks.
More than 5 million people live in St Petersburg (2019 г.). Everybody is happy to visit this cultural capital of Russia to see its numerous landmarks.