Country Study

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Краеведение 9 класс

 на 11.05.19

 Educational Diversity of Kuzbass

1.Study the basic stories to comment on the educational system of Kuzbass:

a)    The educational rate of Kuzbass in the Russian Federation

b)    The number and the status of educational institutions in Kuzbass

c)     The innovative methods of the regional educational system

d)    The range of specialists qualified in Kuzbass

Education in Siberia

There are 1,053 institutions of general education in Kemerovo Oblast attended by nearly 313, 000 children.  Currently, Kuzbass can offer children quite a wide variety of schools and curricula so that they can make their own choices. About 16% of schoolchildren study in specialized schools ('lyceum', 'gymnasia') and innovative schools and classes specializing in some particular disciplines.

     Kemerovo Oblast is one of the first regions in Russia that started introducing the health component into education. There are already sixty-seven health improvement centres for schoolchildren in Kuzbass. In 2005 Governor Aman Tuleyev has launched a regional targeted program 'Education and Health'.

     Many educational institutions in Kuzbass are developing and introducing innovative teaching methods and curricula. Perhaps, this is the reason why over 100, 000 schoolchildren in the Oblast have but excellent grades. Every year about 150 children finish school with honours and are awarded gold medals. Over 800 schoolchildren take part in annual regional competitions in various disciplines showing their first research skills. For a few years now gifted children have been receiving targeted assistance (scholarships and grants) under the program 'Kuzbass is Proud of You'.

      The educational system of Kemerovo Oblast is comprehensive and versatile. It covers children of all age groups and takes in account their individual needs. The system includes nearly 1000 pre-school institutions accommodating over eighty thousand children. There are also 166 centres of optional education in Kuzbass offering children various activities in such areas as technology, ecology and biology, tourism, sports and arts. The regional festival 'Young Stars of Kuzbass' has discovered the whole galaxy of gifted children. Thirty centres of children's art have been awarded 'The Model Children's Centre' title.

      The system of vocational education includes over 100 technical schools and colleges training specialists for the national economy, education and health, culture, construction and other sectors. Ten state educational institutions provide higher education. In addition to them, there are sixty-five branches of other Russian Universities and institutes in Kuzbass. In recent 3 years, Kuzbass universities have introduced over 40 new specialities.

     The core objectives of the educational policy in Kuzbass are the accessibility of high-quality education and a social support to the teaching staff and students.
The educational institutions of Kemerovo Oblast employ about 70,000 people. The teaching staff in Kuzbass is highly competent and qualified. Every fifth teacher is a teacher of the highest rank. Over 2,000 teachers working in colleges and universities have PhD degrees. 

на 20 .04.19

 Children’s and Youth Environmental Parliament, a Kemerovo NGO, joined the IDEA network in April 2008.

The organization was created on May 19, 1999, since then facilitating and participating in many projects and events. Its main goals and objectives are:

- assisting in identifying and addressing environmental problems in the region;

- involving children, youth and their parents in environmental decision-making;

- developing and coordinating the regional children’s and youth environmentalmovement;

- moral education with the emphasis on fundamental humanist values;

- environmental education; promoting environmental awareness and culture.

Currently 117 people have received training at IDEA computer courses and seminars, including 97 participants of 12 Microsoft Unlimited Potential courses.

Work time:

Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat. Sun. 12-20 12-20 12-20 12-20 12-20 12-18 holiday

30/11/18

The Autonomous Industrial Colony “Kuzbas ”

In summer in 1921 the initiative group of American workers headed by a Holland engineer and communist S. Rutgers and an American communist B. Heighwood offered the Soviet Government to found a colony of foreign workers and specialists in Kuzbass. S. Rutgers, T. Barker, B. Heighwood, G. Kalvert and B. Cornblit left for Kuzbass on June, 28 in 1921. S. Rutgers presented a detailed plan for creation of the colony. In this plan Kemerovo was mentioned as an ideal place for building the economy.

In November ,1921, the Soviet Government sighed the contract.

 According to the contract, the colony took control over the Kemerovo mines , and chemical plants. But the most important thing was the colony receiving autonomy status, i.e. it did not report to the local authorities, but directly to the Soviet Government.

In the early twenties of the last century, more than 650 foreign workers and engineers came to Kemerovo from every corner of the world to help Russia restore the notional economy destroyed during the Civil War. So the banks of the Tom’ river became the home for the Autonomous Industrial Colony “Kuzbas ”

            The natives of more than 20 countries come to work in the Autonomous Industrial Colony “Kuzbas ” from 1922 through 1926: Austraia,  Austria,Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Serbia, the USA, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Jamaica…

            Although the colony existed for only 5 years , The American Siberians managed to contribute substantially into an industrial expansion  of  Kemerovo as well as the whole region. Jointly with Russian workers and engineers they modernized several mines, began coke production, electrified the  city and surrounding villages, built several brickyards, and agricultural farms, apartment houses, schools, food  store, clubs and roads. Much of what they built is being  used by the townspeople till the present day.

             The colony was a massive economic and social experiment. The world did not witness anything of the kind before and, possibly, will never witness again.

Therefore, it is only appropriate to say that the history of the city of Kemerovo is quite unique. The Red Hill Museum Preserve in Kemerovo is a unique place that presents the memory about the colonists.

 The history of the Autonomous Industrial Colony “Kuzbas  is worth knowing about knowing means showing respect to the memory of those who lent helping hand during the time that was the hardest one for our country .

Now, the Kemerovo Region is one of the most economically developed Siberian territories, with about a third of the major manufacturing facilities in western Siberia. Key sectors include the fuel industry, energy industry, engineering and metalworking, ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, chemical and petrochemical industry, and food industry.

30.09.18

CHILDREN OF NATURE

        

The forefathers of the Shors were pagans and  shamen.The ancient belief in spirits, the worshiping of animals, the ancestors cult and witchcraft made them real children of nature. They were helpless against the forces of nature although clever and experienced in their own way. Their moon calendar was a great achievement using which they were able to make amazingly accurate weather forecasts.

         The Shors worshiped the hill from where the water ran and on which his yurta stood. Moreover the hill was considered as a living being and had its character, sometimes capricious, sometimes angry and revengeful.

         The worshiping was done by the kam-shamen, using several tambourines. This noisy and extremely emotional ritual not only captured imagination but it also called the gods, ensured their help, and cherished the beliefs of people in a happy future. Due to this ritual the Shors became aware of the fact that the soul was connected with a string to the god who created the soul.

         Everyday wisdom and experience of the forest people could be seen in everything. Their skills were then passed on to subsequent generations. The Shor hunters would never shoot a sleeping animal, it had to be woken. Making clay crockery the Shors would add wool to make it strong. Fishing nets were made of horse hair, which was never caught by the frost in winter. Hunting was available only to men. Women were strictly forbidden to hunt. This was a tabu: the one who gives birth must not kill. If a Shor died in winter, he would be wrapped into a birch bark and hung to a tree deep in the taiga. This was done not because of barbarism, but for the reason of “deep snows”. The winter would “step away” and allow the man to be buried.

         The local people were turned into Christianity at the same time as the Kuznetsk city was founded. It was done slowly, without haste. The Russian missionaries kept the old principle: “by care not brutality”. According to the tsar’ decree, in 1858 near the river Kondoma the so-called Altai mission (church) was established.  Turning into Christianity was beneficial to the Shors. Gradually families with several wives disappeared, “kalim” ransom was no longer demanded for the daughter to be married, and the girls were no longer sold to grown up husbands.

         The Christian missionaries considered the study of the folk customs to be very efficient in learning the secrets of the pagan aborigines, their religious reception of the world. They were the first who used the opportunity to record the folk customs. But their “kondoba people’s” stories were never published, never reached the contemporary time.

         The Shors didn’t have the written language, one of the reasons why the people’s oral inspirations were well developed, passing their roots deep into centuries. Among these were songs, legends, fairy tales, stories about warriors and their heroic deeds, sayings. The research works by V.V. Radlov, V.I. Verbitsky, N.P. Direnkova contributed greatly to the preservation of the Shor folklore.

1. Find the English equivalents and use them in the sentences from the      basic text.

1.     поражать воображение         

2.     осознавать факт

3.     передавать последующим поколениям

4.     быть доступным

5.     учреждать

6.     быть выгодным

7.     постепенно

8.     эффективный

9.     использовать возможность

10. записывать

11. современный

12. вносить вклад

1. Answer the questions:

1.     What were the forefathers of the Shormen?

2.     What made the Shors the real children of nature?

3.     Why was the moon calendar a great achievement of Shormen?

4.     Who was the worshiping done by?

5.     Why were women forbidden to hunt?

6.     How did the Shors bury their dead? Why?

7.     When were the Shors turned into Christianity?

8.     When was the Altai mission established?

9.     Why did the missionaries start to record  the Shor legends?

10. The “kondoba people’s” stories were never published, were they?

11. Who contributed greatly to the preservation of the Shor folklore?

Pages Of History; Linking Past And Present

The Shores

Read the text and 1. fill in the articles where necessary; 2. Fill in the verbs in proper forms:

 Scientists have found indubitable evidence that in the Early Middle Ages no single archaeological culture existed on the contemporary territory of Kemerovo Oblast. It was part of a historical area that, in its origin, is closely connected with the population of today's Tomsk and Novosibirsk Oblasts. However, the fate of the Kuzbass Turks is intertwined with the fate of the Ugro-Samodian people living in the middle reaches of the Ob and Irtysh rivers, in South Ural and along the Kama river.

1. Fill in the articles where necessary:

1.One of … biggest indigenous ethnic communities in … Kuzbass is … Shors. 

2. They speak … Turkic language and live in … south of … Kuzbass, in… area that at … beginning of … 20th century was called … Gornaya Shoria ('Mountain Shoria'). 3.Various groups of Shors' ancestors, in their time, were called after … place where they lived (the Black Tatars, the Mras - living along the Mras-Su river, the Kondoms - along … Kondoma river, or the Uppertom - along the Upper Tom river) or after their kin (Obins, Shors, Kalars and Kargins).

The fist national eco-museum in the south of Siberia, 'Sgol', is established in a taiga village of Ust-Anzas. It is a base for the Shor Centre of Ethnic and Ecological Studies.

There is a Museum of Ethnography and Nature of Gornaya Shoria in Tashtagol City holding unique expositions regarding the traditional culture of Shors and Old Russians.

According to the 2002 Census, there are 11 500 Shors in Kemerovo Oblast, of which over 40 % live in Tashtagol City and around.

The second largest Turkic-speaking community after the Shors is the Teleuts living in Belovo and Novokuznetsk areas. Like the Shors, the Teleuts are considered  northern people though they have always inhabited the Southern Siberian steppes and the Altai foothills. Until recently, the Teleuts were officially considered an ethnographic group of Southern Altais, but then were recognized as an independent ethnic group.

The Teleut ethnic history goes back as far as many ages ago. The Teleuts descend partially from the local Turks who lived near the Tom river in Kuznetsk Basin and partially from the medieval  cattle-breeders 'Tele'.

One can learn about the Teleut way of life and culture in an eco-museum 'Cholkoy' in the village of Bekovo in Belovo Raion.

According to the 2002 Census, there are 2500 Teleuts in Kemerovo Oblast, two thirds of which are concentrated in Belovo City and around.

There is still a small number of the Kalmaks living in some villages of Yurga and Yashkino rural areas. They descend from a small group of the Teleuts. Close conjugal or religious ties between the Kalmaks and the Kazan and the Siberian Tatars led to the formation of an ethno-territorial group of the Iskitim Tatar-Kalmaks. The Tatars, in their turn, both Siberian and Kazan Tatars, live in Prokopievsk, Kemerovo, Novokuznetsk, Anzhero-Sudzhensk, Yurga and other cities in Kuzbass.

Under the agreement between Kemerovo Oblast Administration and the Government of Tatarstan Republic on the economic, scientific, social and cultural co-operation, many schools and libraries in the areas with high concentration of Tatars have received books and textbooks in the Tatar language. Quite traditional in Kuzbass are celebrations of Tatar national holidays and different folk events.

According to the 2002 Census, there are 51 000 Tatars and only 21 Siberian Tatars residing in Kemerovo Oblast.

1.     Fill in the verbs in proper forms:

1.Kemerovo Oblast …(to be) currently implementing a programme 'The Priority Measures of Supporting Indigenous Peoples of Kuzbass'. 2. Kemerovo Oblast Administration … (organize) a comprehensive expedition around Kuzbass and … (provide) funding for practical studies into the problems of indigenous ethnic groups in Kuzbass. 3. Eight schools in Kuzbass… (teach) the Shor language. 4. An increasing number of indigenous people… (enter) technical colleges and universities. 5. Today, over 10% of Shors and Teleuts … (have) college and university diplomas.

The indigenous peoples make a lot of effort to preserve their customs, traditions, culture and language. Some of their representatives are famous all over Kuzbass and Russia: the founder of Shor literature F. Chispiyakov, the author of the Teleut Dictionary L. Ryumina, the members of the Russian Writers Union L. Chulzhanova, V. Boriskin and S. Totysh, the Shor poets S. Torbokov and N. Belchegeshev, the professor, specialist in Shor folklore and founder of the Shor Language Department A. I. Chudoyakov.

Learn the new words:

The Shores – шорцы

The Teleuts – телеуты

Indubitable evidence – неоспоримое свидетельство

Interwine – сплетаться

Indigenous – туземный, местный

Ancestor – предок

Kin – родственники, семья, родные и близкие

Ethnography – этнография

Regard – расценивать, считать

Descend – происходить

Conjugal – супружеский, брачный

Task 3 Agree (T) or disagree (F):

1.     One of the biggest indigenous ethnic communities in Kuzbass is the Turks.

2.     The Shores live in the North of Kuzbass.

3.     The Shors’ ancestors were called after the place where they lived.

4.     The second largest community after the Shors is the Teleuts.

5.     The Teleuts have always inhabited the North Siberian steppes.

6.     The Kalmaks descend from a small group of the Shors.

7.     The indigenous people try to preserve their customs, traditions, culture and language.

Some of these people are famous only in Kuzbass

04.04.18

Museums in Kemerovo

There are more than 1,500 historical and cultural monuments in Kemerovo Region, 27 of which are of federal significance (14 archeological, 6 historical, 5 architectural, and 2 artistic monuments). The most unusual of these is the Tomsk Trivia (Tomskaya pisanitsa) monument in the village of Pisanaya, Yashkinsky District, which is considered an especially valuable site of the Russian Federation.

The most important monuments of  Kuzbass include the 18th- and 19th-century historical and architectural museum at Kuznetsk Fortress in Novokuznetsk, a group of  monuments and historic sites on the former Siberian Highway (Moscow-Irkutsk), and the Shestakovsky historical and cultural complex of archeological monuments and paleontological sites in Chebulinsky District.

Not only has Kemerovo got many theatres, it is also rich in museums, which can meet all the interests.

         The most well known are:

Kemerovo Museum of Fine Arts;

Kemerovo Museum of Regional Studies;

Museum “Krasnaya Gorka”;

Museum “Tomskaya Pisanitsa”.

The Museum of Fine Arts is the largest art center in Kemerovo region. Every year they have up to 50 exhibitions.

The Museum of Regional Studies (Kemerovo Regional (Oblast) Museum of Regional History and Folklife) was founded in 1920. It gives its visitors full understanding of the nature and history of Kemerovo region. There are over 80,000 displays in ethnography, social antropology, mineralogy, archaeology ect.

The Krasnaya Gorka museum is the museum of the history of Kemerovo. It was founded in 1992.

The Tomskaya Pisanitsa museum is situated 50km from Kemerovo and occupies 152km2 of wood. It was founded in 1988. It has several displays, the most famous of which are “The Russian Siberian Village”, “Time and calendar”, “Epos and mythology” and “Tomskaya Pisanitsa”. Children can visit its Zoo with bears, wolves, foxes, elks ect. It is really worth seeing.

Kemerovo State University Museum “Archeology, Ethnography and Ecology of Siberia”.

The Museums of Kemerovo Oblast

    There is a number of unique museums in Kemerovo Oblast. Among them are

the Regional Museum of Local Study; the Museum of “Archaeology, Ethnography and Ecology of Siberia” at Kemerovo State University; the Regional Arts Museum. 

“OGNI KUZBASSA”

“Ogni Kuzbassa” is a regional literary magazine. The very first issue was published in Kemerovo in 1949. One of the first issues included a novel by Alexander Voloshin called "Earth Kuznetsk", which was awarded a State Prize. It 1)… included some of Michael Nebogatov’s  poems. The Almanac used to come out once or twice a year, depending on the amount of available material.

2)… , a lot of Siberian writers and poets used to be editors of the magazine: A. Voloshin, V. Mazayev, V. Bayanov, G. Urov.  3)… the editor’s chair is occupied by S. Donbay , one of the most famous poets in Kuzbass . Sergey Donbay is a member of the Writers' Union of Russia. A lot of famous writers used to be executive secretaries of the magazine: O. Pavlovsky, V.Makhalov, V.Kuropatov, V. Matveev, V. Zubarev, S. Donbay, A. Katkov and others. 4)… a large contribution to the organization of the magazine, each of them  has always provided “Ogni Kuzbassa” with their remarkable works.

5)… it’s an official "big" literary magazine, issued six times a year. The pages are given not only to famous and experienced, but also to young amateur writers: there’s a special section called "The Literary Studio." There’s also a special column for young writers called "Svetlitsa" (The front room). The magazine also explores it’s motherland  (a column called "Sanctuary Siberia"), it’s remarkable people ("Faces"). 6)… , the sections "Prose" and "Poetry" reflect the current state of literature in Kuzbass. Also there are sections called "Bibliotvorchestvo" and "Criticism and literary criticism" devoted to the analysis of classical and modern literature. A regular column "Literary Life" follows the outside of the literary process. 7)… , the magazine has become a remarkable and valuable part of Siberian cultural life.

I.Complete the text with the words from the box below.

                                 A.   all in all

                                 B.   nowadays

                                 C.   moreover

                                 D.   over the years

                                 E.    aside from

                                 F.    also

                                 G.   now

II. Mark the following statements: true (T), false (F) or not stated (N).

1.     “Ogni Kuzbassa” is a regional fashion magazine.

2.     In the beginning, the Almanac used to come out once or twice a year.

3.     A lot of famous writers used to be executive secretaries of the magazine.

4.     Now it’s a small “underground” magazine.

5.     The magazine cooperates with the Kemerovo State university.

6.     “Ogni Kuzbassa” is very popular among students.

7.     There’s a special column for young writers in the magazine.

8.     The magazine explores the life of the region.

9.     “Ogni Kuzbassa” is quite expensive.

10.                        The magazine is a huge part of Siberian cultural life.

III. Read the text again and match the headings  to the paragraphs. One heading is extra.

A.   Pages of history

B.   Awards

C.   The creators

D.   Modern times

1	2	3

IV. Read the sentences below and insert the words given in the correct form. 

“Ogni Kuzbassa” is a …………magazine. The Almanac used to come out ……….. or ……………………….. a year. A lot of …………………………..  writers used to be executive secretaries of the magazine. Many of them also provided “Ogni Kuzbassa” with their ……… works. The pages are given not only to famous and ………… writers. The magazine has become a ……part of Siberian cultural life.

region one  two fame remark experience value

                                     BORIS SHTOKOLOV
Boris Shtokolov (Russian: Борис Тимофеевич Штоколов) (March 19, 1930 – January 6, 2005) was a famous Soviet and Russian singer, one of the greatest basses of the 20th century.

Boris Shtokolov was born in the city of Kuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast (USSR). In 1949 he entered the Ural State Conservatory in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) but wanted to became a military pilot. Georgy Zhukov having heard his singing said: "There are many guys like you in aviation, but in opera singing you are unique". In 1950-1951 he was singing at the Sverdlovsk Philarmonic Society before he became a soloist at the Sverdlovsk Opera and Ballet Theater. In 1959 he was invited to the Mariinsky Theatre in Leningrad where he gained world fame as a leading soloist from 1959 to 1989. At the Mariinsky Theater he sang a great number of roles, such as Ruslan, Don Basilio, Boris Godunov, Ivan Susanin, the title role in Anton Rubinstein's The Demon, Prince Gremin, Mefistofele, and many others.

Boris Shtokolov also was a prominent theorist of opera singing and respiration techniques. In 1995 he published the book “Burn, burn, my star: How to sing”.

Honours

People's Artist of the USSR (1966)

State Prize of the USSR (1981)

Order of Lenin

Order of the October Revolution

Order of the Red Banner of Labour (twice)

Order of the Patriotic War (II degree)

Honorary member of the Slavic A

17.01.18

THE LAND OF TALENTED PEOPLE

Task 1: Read the text and say why Kuzbass can be called “the land of talented people”.

          In January 1943 there were seven theatres and four museums in Kemerovo Oblast. On average there were two to three clubs, one library and less than one film projector per ten thousand people. Today the region has a network of over 2500 culture and entertainment facilities, over 800 clubs, 773 libraries, forty cinema theatres, forty-two museums, a philharmonic society, two circuses, three exhibition halls and seven theatres. Creative unions of writers, painters, actors, composers, architects and journalists have been established in the region to provide support to culture workers.

         Our artistic groups are famous both in Russia and abroad. They are Governor's Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir of Kuzbass, dance group “Siberian Kaleidoscope” and Kemerovo Oblast Choir “Utro” (morning), as well as Novokuznetsk Chamber Choir and Kuzbass Musical theatre.

    Kuzbass can be called the land of many talented people whose input in the treasury of domestic and world culture is enormous. They are masters of poetry and fiction Vasily Fyodorov, Vladimir Chevelikhin, Alexander Voloshin; famous cinema and theatre actors Vladimir Samoilov, Georgy Burkov; singer Boris Shtokolov; composer Georgy Movsesyan and many others. People never cease creating. Over 130,000 people in Kuzbass attend music, dance, and folklore groups. Many crafts and arts studios unite masters in birch bark and ceramics, amateur artists, wood carvers and embroideresses.

    Every year over 50 competitions, contests and festivals of regional, national and international levels are held in the region. The most famous are “Theatrical Kuzbass”, “Arts of Kuzbass”, “Jazz at the Old Fortress”, All-Kuzbass competition of folklore collectors and performers “Music Box” and All-Russia Festival of Children's Song “Radostj” (Joy).

    We have established one of the best national and Siberia-wide staff training system, which is multilevel and includes 140 various institutions, such as music and arts schools and five secondary vocational schools. The most talented and gifted children are supported by the regional fund “Young Talents of Kuzbass”.

    In the Kemerovo Oblast there are over 1500 monuments, which are the part of our heritage. The most unique and important monument of ancient rock painting called Tomskaya pysanitsa (Tomskaya painted rocks) is ranked among most important heritage places in the Russian Federation. Kuzbass is always ready generously to share its cultural potential and intellectual wealth with other people of the country and from abroad.

Task 2: Match the words in bold and their equivalents.

1. network                                       a) known widely

2. support                                        b) contribution

3. famous                                         c) very great

4. input                                            d) connected system

5. enormous                                     e) something valuable that can be passed to

6. heritage                                            further generations

                                                         f) help and encouragement

Task 3: Answer the questions on the text.

1. Can Kuzbass be called a highly-civilized region? Why?

2. What establishments are there in our region to support culture workers?

3. What are the artistic groups well-known all over the world?

4. What musical and theatrical contests and festivals are held in the region? Have you ever taken part in any of them?

5. In what way are the most talented children supported in the region?

6. What national park is the region’s heritage?

Task 4: Look through the text and find the English equivalents to the following word combinations.

1)    в среднем

2)    кинопроектор

3)    развлекательные сооружения

4)    творческие союзы

5)    работники культуры

6)    художественные коллективы

7)    береста

8)    самодеятельные художники

9)    собиратели фольклора

10)                      наскальная живопись

11)                      интеллектуальное богатство

Task 5: Read the statements, agree or disagree and find the proof in the text.

a)     In January 1943 there were ten theatres and seven museums in Kemerovo Oblast.

b)    There are no creative groups of people united by profession in Kuzbass.

c)     Kemerovo region’s artistic groups are internationally recognized.

d)    Our region’s contribution to the cultural development of Russia is really large.

e)     Annually, over 30 various contests are held in Kemerovo region.

f)      The most gifted youngsters are supported by the regional authorities.

g)     The Kemerovo Oblast has got one of the highly ranked heritage places in Russia. 

10.01.18

THE CULTURAL LIFE OF KUZBASS

Прочитайте текст о культурной жизни Кузбасса. Установите соответствие между заголовками A-F и пронумерованными абзацами текста 1-5. Используйте каждую букву только один раз. В задании есть один лишний заголовок.

 1. The main goal of the regional cultural policy is to make cultural wealth and benefits accessible for all the social and community groups. In Kuzbass there are five artistic unions uniting professional artists, actors, composers and writers. There are also artistic Houses, by profession, that serve as a meeting ground for creative intelligentsia, namely Actor's House, Artist's House and Writers' House in Kemerovo as well as House of Artistic Unions in Novokuznetsk.

 2. In Kuzbass there  has been  established one of the best national and Siberia-wide staff training system, which is multilevel and includes 140 various institutions.

 - music and arts schools, five educational institutions of secondary vocational education;

 - federal higher vocational institutions, like Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts; establishment of additional vocational education and the Governor's Cultural Center "Young Talents of Kuzbass".

 Children schools of arts provide a good basis for further development of artistically talented people.

  3. All over the Oblast there are cultural clubs with more than 4,000 amateur artistic groups, interest groups, all kinds of societies and Fashion Theater involving more than 67,000 children.

 The attention paid to the talented children creates the basis for further effective development of highly qualified art professionals.

 4. Our artistic groups are famous both in Russia and abroad. The Governor's Symphony Orchestra of Kuzbass performed successfully in Germany, France, Belgium and China. The Chamber Choir of Kuzbass has become the winner in the International Festival of Academic Choruses in Finland and was awarded the silver medal in the contest in Italy. The Chamber Choir from Novokuznetsk was awarded the Golden Diploma at the International Chorus Contest named after Mendelssohn - Bartholdy in Germany.

 Every year over 60 exhibitions are held in the region showing art of Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk artists.

 Kuzbass drama groups show their theatrical experiments at various international and regional festivals held in Russia.

 Drama theatres of the region contribute to aesthetic and moral education of children.

 Theatrical Kuzbass Festival has become a tradition as well.

 5. The traditional International Jazz Festival "Jazz at the Old Fortress" held in Novokuznetsk has become a significant event in the sphere of musical and performing arts. Jazz Club "Helicon" summed up the results of twenty festivals and issued "Super-album" consisting of seven CDs with the records of the best contemporary jazz.

A. An important festival

B. United by profession

C. The centre of cultural life

D. Internationally recognized

E. An excellent foundation

F. Gifted generation

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 Speak about cultural life in Kuzbass using  this information:

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DOSTOYEVSKY AND SIBERIA.

Most observers have agreed that the years Dostoyevsky spent in Siberian imprisonment were beneficial to his development as a man, writer and thinker, transforming him into a serious and confident artist. What Dostoyevsky gained in prison - a remarkable tragic vision - he later injected into the novels he started writing soon after returning to civilization: ''Crime and Punishment,'' ''The Possessed,'' ''The Idiot'' and ''The Brothers Karamazov.''

One of the most famous places that still keep the spirit of the legendary writer is the F. M. Dostoevsky Literary-Memorial Museum in Novokuznetsk.

 1)…. Dostoevsky spent little more than twenty days in Kuznetsk, a small provincial town in the province of Tomsk, located 530 kilometers from Semipalatinsk. On February 6, 1857, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky and Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva were married in the Odigitrievsk Church. Their two-year love affair, complete with drama and suffering, culminated in marriage. Dostoevsky left Kuznetsk in a new position - in one day he had become a husband and a father. By marrying Maria, Dostoevsky had also taken on the responsibility of her six-year-old son Pavel (from her first marriage to Alexander Isaev). 2)…. since he had left his parents' home, Dostoevsky had a family. It seemed to him that now he would never be lonely. 3) … the Siberian cities where Dostoevsky had spent time, Kuznetsk was the only one marked by joy and a sense of true freedom. Here Dostoevsky had decided his own fate.

Dostoevsky wrote nothing about Kuznetsk. The small, unremarkable city left no concrete imprint on his memory: it was significant and attractive for the writer only because his beloved lived there. 4) …all his hopes for their future life together were connected with Kuznetsk itself.

5) … , on May 18, 1980, the F. M. Dostoevsky Literary-Memorial Museum opened in Novokuznetsk (as Kuznetsk has come to be called). Located at 40 Dostoevsky St., the residence where from 1855-57 Maria Isaeva had rented lodgings from the tailor M. D. Dmitriev, the museum was originally an affiliate of the Museum of Regional Studies. On March 1, 1991, it received the status of an independent cultural institution, as well as an additional building across from the historical site. The Kuznetsk events of Dostoevsky's life form the basis for the literary exhibit here. Its designers devised a tri-part presentation of the writer's life, his creative process, and his philosophy. The Museum's exhibit, by breaking away from mundane notions of time, shows the writer's "Kuznetsk collision" in its timeless, eternal significance.

I.                  Complete the text with the words from the box below.

	A.   Thus B.   For the first time    C.   As a result D.   In all  E.    Out of all

II.               Mark the following statements: true (T), false (F) or not stated (N).

1.     The years Dostoyevsky spent in Siberian imprisonments were beneficial to his development as a father.

2.     Dostoyevsky used his new tragic vision in his later work.

3.     Dostoevsky spent little more than two weeks in Kuznetsk.

4.     On February 6, 1857, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky and Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva were married in Saint Petersburg.

5.     By marrying Maria, Dostoevsky had also taken on the responsibility of her ten year-old son.

6.     Dostoevsky had decided his own fate in Kuznetsk.

7.     All his hopes for their future life together were not connected with Kuznetsk itself.

III.           Read the text again and match the headings  to the paragraphs. One heading is extra.

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A.   Dostoyevsky’s death

B.   The Museum

C.   What did it mean?

D.   New edge of the talent

E.    Short time, long story

F.    The Museum's exhibitions

IV.    Read the sentences below and insert the words given in the correct form. 

Dostoyevsky’s gift was ……………. Kuznetsk was the only place where the writer gained …………………………… Kuznetsk was an  ………………………        city. ……………………………, the writer’s life became better. The Museum in Novokuznetsk is an independent …………………institution. The Museum has different …………………

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DOSTOYEVSKY

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer and essayist. He began writing in his 20s, and his first novel, Poor Folk, was published in 1846 when he was 25; his major works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). 1) … , his output consists of eleven novels, three novellas, seventeen short novels and numerous other works. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature.

Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoyevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends, and through books by Russian and foreign authors. His mother died in 1837, when he was 15, and around the same time he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute. 2) … graduating, he worked as an engineer and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, translating books to earn extra money. In the mid-1840s he wrote his first novel, Poor Folk, which gained him entry into St. Petersburg's literary circles.

In 1849 he was arrested for his involvement with the Petrashevsky Circle, a secret society of liberal utopians that also functioned as a literary discussion group. He and other members were condemned to death, but at the last moment, a note from Tsar Nicholas I was delivered to the scene of the firing squad, commuting the sentence to four years' hard labour in Siberia. His seizures, which may have started in 1839, increased in frequency there, and he was diagnosed with epilepsy. 3) …., he was forced to serve as a soldier, before being discharged on grounds of ill health.

4)… , Dostoyevsky worked as a journalist, publishing and editing several magazines of his own and, later, A Writer's Diary, a collection of his writings. He began to travel around Western Europe and developed a gambling addiction, which led to financial hardship. For a time, he had to beg for money, but he eventually became one of the most widely read and highly regarded Russian writers. His books have been translated into more than 170 languages and have sold around 15 million copies. 5)…. , Dostoyevsky influenced a multitude of writers, from Anton Chekhov and James Joyce to Ernest Hemingway and Jean-Paul Sartre.

I. Complete the text with the words from the box below.

  A.   on his release

                     B.   all in all

                     C.   in the following years

                     D.   after

                     E.    in addition

II. Mark the following statements: true (T), false (F) or not stated (N).

1.     Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian poet.

2.     Dostoyevsky was the fifth child in the family.

3.     In the mid-1840s he wrote his first novel, crime and punishment.

4.     Many literary critics rate him as the best Russian writer of all times.

5.     In 1849 he was arrested for a murder.

6.     His books have been translated into more than 170 languages.

7.     Dostoyevsky had three sons.

8.     Dostoyevsky influenced a lot of writers.

9.     His favorite place in the world was Ukraine.

10.                        The writer suffered from epilepsy.

III. Read the text again and match the headings  to the paragraphs. One heading is extra.

A.   Early years

B.   Family life

C.   International success

D.   Crime and punishment

E.    General information

LIBRARIES
1.     WHAT IS A LIBRARY?

TASK I. READ THE TEXT ABOUT LIBRARIES AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS AFTER IT:

THE WORD LIBRARY COMES FROM THE LATIN WORD ‘LIBER’, MEANING ‘BOOK’. THIS IS A PLACE WHERE INFORMATION IN PRINTED (BOOK, MANUSCRIPTS, PERIODICALS AND MUSICAL SCORES) AND IN OTHER FORMS IS COLLECTED. LIBRARIES CAN BE FOUND IN MANY PLACES. THERE ARE LIBRARIES IN SMALL TOWNS AND LARGE CITIES AND THERE ARE LIBRARIES AT SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES. PEOPLE GO TO THE LIBRARY TO READ, LOOK, LISTEN, SEARCH, INQUIRE, RELAX, DISCUSS, LEARN AND THINK.

THE LARGEST AND THE BEST KNOWN LIBRARIES IN THE WORLD ARE: THE BRITISH NATIONAL LIBRARY IN LONDON, THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS IN WASHINGTON AND THE RUSSIAN STATE LIBRARY. THE BRITISH LIBRARY IS THE LARGEST STATE LIBRARY IN BRITAIN AND IS ONE OF THE FINEST LIBRARIES IN THE WORLD. IT IS A RAPIDLY GROWING MODERN RESEARCH LIBRARY WITH ALL ITS CURRENT PUBLICATIONS. PEOPLE WHO WANT TO READ FOR HIGHER DEGREES AND WHOARE ENGAGED IN RESEARCH IN THEIR SPARE TIME VISIT THIS LIBRARY. ANOTHER LIBRARY WHICH IS KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IS THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS IN WASHINGTON D.C. IT WAS ESTABLISHED AS A REFERENCE LIBRARY IN 1600 AND GRADUALLY WOULD COME A WORLD FAMOUS INSTITUTION THAT NOW OCCUPIES THREE HUGE BUILDINGS. 

A GREAT NUMBER OF ITEMS OF BOOKS, NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, MANUSCRIPTS, FILMS, MAPS AND WORKS OF DRAMA, MUSIC, ART AND IMPORTANT AND EXCITING DOCUMENTS ARE KEPT IN LIBRARY’S ARCHIVES. THERE ARE MATERIALS ON PRACTICALLY EVERY SUBJECT.

         OF COURSE THERE IS A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS. THE TITLES AND AUTHORS OF ALL THE BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY CAN BE FOUND IN A CARD CATALOGUE OR A COMPUTER LISTING. EACH CARD IN CATALOGUE GIVES VERY HELPFUL INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOK. MOST LIBRARIES HAVE A PROFESSIONAL STAFF WHOSE FIRST DUTY IS TO HELP YOU.

LIBRARIANS ALSO SELECT BOOKS AND OTHER MATERIALS, ORGANIZE MATERIALS SO THAT YOU CAN EASILY USE THEM, ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT FACTS, PEOPLE, EVENTS, OR ADVISE YOU HOW TO FIND THE INFORMATION YOU NEED. THE LIBRARY TODAY IS A CENTER FOR ALL KINDS OF COMMUNICATION: PRINTED, PICTURED, RECORDED AND EVEN ELECTRONICALLY STORED.

THE NATIONAL LIBRARIES OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES KEEP IN TOUCH AND EXCHANGE BOOKS AND INFORMATION.

1. WHAT IS A LIBRARY?

2. WHAT ARE THE LARGEST LIBRARIES IN THE WORLD?

3. WHAT CAN YOU FIND IN LIBRARY ARCHIVES?

4. WHAT WORK DO LIBRARIANS DO?

5. IN WHAT WAY ARE LIBRARIES ALL OVER THE WORLD CONNECTED?

Task 2. Find some information about one of the world’s largest libraries and describe it.

КРАЕВЕДЕНИЕ 8КЛАСС

KEMEROVO THE CITY OF MANY FACES

KEMEROVO

A BIT OF HISTORY

         KEMEROVO IS AN OLD CITY. IN 1703 THE VILLAGE OF SHCHEGLOVO (1)… FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE FIRST SETTLERS WERE PEASANTS WHO ESCAPED TO SIBERIA FROM THEIR LANDLORDS. IN 1721 MIKHAILO VOLKOV DISCOVERED “THE BURNT MOUNTAIN” IN THE AREA. AFTER THAT (2)… BEGAN.

         THE BUSINESS PROSPERED, THE POPULATION GREW. IN 1867 THERE WERE 7 VILLAGES IN THE AREA, THE BIGGEST OF THEM WERE KEMEROVO AND SHCHEGLOVO. AFTER THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION IN 1918 THESE VILLAGES (3)… INTO A TOWN OF SHCHEGLOVSK. IT BECAME AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL CENTER OF SIBERIA. IN 1932 IT WAS RENAMED KEMEROVO, BECAUSE THE WORD KEMEROVO MEANS “COAL” IN (4)…, SO IT DESCRIBES THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE AREA. IN 1943, (5)… KEMEROVO REGION, KEMEROVO BECAME ITS ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER.

          READ THE TEXT AND FILL IN THE MISSING PHRASES:

1.     ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE

2.     THE EXPLOITATION OF COALFIELD

3.     WITH THE FORMATION OF

4.     WERE TRANSFORMED

5.     WAS MENTIONED IN CHRONICLES

2. KEMEROVO NOWADAYS

1.KEMEROVO IS THE CAPITAL OF KUZBASS, ITS MOST IMPORTANT RESIDENTIAL, INDUSTRIAL, CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER. KEMEROVO IS A YOUNG CITY. IT WAS FOUNDED ABOUT 100 YEARS AGO ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER TOM.  THE LITTLE VILLAGE SHEGLOVKA BY NAME HAS CHANGED BEYOND RECOGNITION. TODAY KEMEROVO IS A BEAUTIFUL, MODERN CITY WITH A POPULATION OF NEARLY A MILLION RESIDENTS. YOU CAN SEE MANY OLD AND MODERN BUILDINGS, WIDE AND STRAIGHT STREETS, BIG AND SMALL SQUARES, GREEN PARKS.

2. KEMEROVO IS ONE OF THE LARGEST INDUSTRIAL CENTERS OF SIBERIA. KEMEROVO IS FAMOUS FOR ITS COAL MINES, CHEMICAL AND MACHINE-BUILDING PLANTS, FACTORIES. THE LEADING BRANCH OF INDUSTRY IS CHEMICAL. PRODUCTS OF KEMEROVO PLANTS ARE EXPORTED TO MORE THAN 30 COUNTRIES.

3. KEMEROVO IS ALSO A TOWN OF STUDENTS. THERE ARE 7 HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN IT: THE STATE UNIVERSITY, THE POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, THE MEDICAL ACADEMY, THE ACADEMY OF ART AND CULTURE, THE TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF FOOD INDUSTRY, THE HIGHER MILITARY SCHOOL FOR, THE UNIVERSITY OF COMMERCE AND TRADE.

4. BESIDES, KEMEROVO IS A CULTURAL CENTER OF THE REGION. FOUR THEATRES, A CIRCUS, PHILARMONIC SOCIETY AND TWO MUSEUMS WORK IN THE CITY. THE KEMEROVITES AND VISITORS CAN GO TO THE DRAMA OR MUSICAL COMEDY THEATRE, THE CONCERT HALL, THE PUPPET SHOW, THE CIRCUS, THE THEATRE FOR THE YOUNG, AS WELL AS ITS MUSEUMS, PICTURE GALLERIES, CINEMAS.

THE KEMEROVITES ARE PROUD OF THEIR NATIVE CITY AND MAKE IT MORE AND MORE BEAUTIFUL FROM YEAR TO YEAR.

5.THEY SAY, EAST OR WEST, HOME IS BEST. NEARLY EVERY PERSON TAKES NATIVE CITY DEAR TO THE HEART. MY CITY IS REALLY REMARKABLE NOWADAYS.  TODAY IT IS A MODERN SIBERIAN CENTER WITH WIDE STREETS AND PROSPECTS. IN THE CENTER  THERE ARE THREE BEAUTIFUL SQUARES: SOVIET SQUARE, TEATRALNAYA SQUARE AND VOLKOV SQUARE. THERE ARE MANY PARKS AND GARDENS IN THE CITY. ONE OF THE FAVOURITE RECREATIONAL AREAS IS THE CITY PARK NEAR THE BEAUTIFUL TOM EMBANKMENT.

SUMMING IT UP, I CAN HONESTLY SAY THAT I’M PROUD OF MY NATIVE TOWN KEMEROVO AND I THINK IT’S THE BEST PLACE TO LIVE IN. KEMEROVO IS A MODERN CITY WITH SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE. DON’T MISS THE CHANCE TO VISIT IT!

TASK 1 MATCH THE PARAGRAPH AND THE TITLE (ONE TITLE IS EXTRA):

A) A MODERN SIBERIAN CENTER.

B) A PLACE OF NATURAL WONDERS.

C) A TOWN OF STUDENTS.

D) A YOUNG CITY.

E) AN INDUSTRIAL CENTER.

F) A CULTURAL CENTER.

TASK 2 FINISH UP THE SENTENCES:

1.     KEMEROVO IS … .

2.     IT WAS FOUNDED … .

3.     TODAY KEMEROVO IS … .

4.     KEMEROVO IS FAMOUS FOR … .

5.     KEMEROVO IS ALSO … .

6.     BESIDES IT IS … .

7.     PEOPLE CAN GO TO … .

8.     IN THE CENTER THERE ARE … .

9.     I’M PROUD OF ….

TASK 3 ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:

1.     HOW MANY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ARE THERE IN KEMEROVO?

2.     WHAT IS KEMEROVO FAMOUS FOR?

3.     WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THIS TOWN MANY YEARS AGO?

4.     WHO WAS THE FOUNDER OF COAL IN THIS REGION?

5.     HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVE IN KEMEROVO?

6.     WHAT THEATRES IN KEMEROVO DO YOU KNOW?

7.     HOW DO KEMEROVITES AND THE  VISITORS OF KEMEROVO ENTERTAIN THEMSELVES?

8.     WHAT IS THE FAVOURITE RECREATIONAL AREA IN THE CITY?

TASK 4 SUM UP THE INFORMATION FROM THE TEXT AND GET READY TO SPEAK ABOUT KEMEROVO (USE TASK 1 AS A PLAN).

TASK  5 READ ANN’S LETTER ABOUT HER NATIVE CITY. COMPARE HER NATIVE CITY WITH THE PLACE WHERE YOU LIVE, ANSWER HER QUESTIONS, WRITE 100-120 WORDS. DON’T FORGET THE RULES OF LETTER WRITING.

DEAR LISA,

…. I’D LIKE TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE CITY WHERE I LIVE. I WAS BORN IN NOVOKUZNETSK AND I LOVE IT VERY MUCH. IT IS A BIG CITY IN SOUTHWEST SIBERIA. IT STANDS ON THE RIVER TOM. IT IS A LONG AND WIDE RIVER, WHICH FLOWS THROUGH MANY TOWNS AND CITIES OF OUR REGION. I LIVE IN THE CENTER OF THE CITY. THIS PART OF THE CITY IS MODERN AND VERY BEAUTIFUL. THERE IS THE CIRCUS AND THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS THERE. I LIKE WALKING ALONG THE STREETS OF THE CITY WITH MY FRIENDS OR PARENTS.

            PEOPLE CALL NOVOKUZNETSK “A GARDEN CITY”. MY NATIVE CITY IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE AND IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME. WHAT IS YOUR NATIVE CITY LIKE? WHERE CAN YOU ENTERTAIN YOURSELF? WHERE DO YOU LIKE TO GO IN YOUR FREE TIME?

            LOVE,

            ANN

7.05.16

THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS OF KUZBASS

1.BRAIN STORM:

1.     DO YOU LIKE THE AIR YOU BREATHE, THE WATER YOU DRINK?

2.     HAVE YOU EVER SEEN  DEAD FISH ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVERS?

3.     WHAT COLOUR IS SNOW IN YOUR PLACE?(DEEP IN WINTER)

2.PRACTICE WORD-BUILDING:

NOUN	VERB	ING-FORM (ADJECTIVE)	PARTICIPLE 2
POLLUTION	POLLUTE	POLLUTING	POLLUTED
SAFETY	SAVE	SAFE	SAVED
BREATH	BREATHE	….	…
….	SMOKE	SMOKY	….
CHEMISTRY	….	….	….
INDUSTRY
	APPEAR/DIAPPEAR
CARE
HARM
SUFFER
REGION
DESTRUCTION		DESTRUCTIVE
ECOLOGY
THREAT	THREATEN

3.MAKE THE STORY COMPLETE (WITH THE RIGHT GRAMMAR FORMS):

    YOU EVER (SEE) THE PEOPLE ON A PICNIC? YOU EVER (GO) ON A PICNIC YOURSELF? NICE EXPERIENCE, ISN’T IT? AND WHAT ABOUT THE NATURE? THE PRETTY FLOWERS (THROW), THE GRASS (BURN), THE  LITTER (LEAVE) ALL OVER THE PLACE. AND THERE IS NOBODY TO BLAME BECAUSE THE COMPANY (LEAVE HOME). BUT DON’T YOU KNOW THAT DAISIES, FOR EXAMPLE,  (NOT LIVE) AT HOME, SO THEY (FADE) AS SOON AS YOU BRING THEM IN. THE WATER FROM THE CLEAR SPRING (BE FRESH) ONLY IN THE WILD NATURE. AND THE MOUSE WHICH YOU (CATCH) IN THE FIELD CAN’T LIVE IN A HUMAN HOUSE.

   IF PEOPLE (THINK) ABOUT THESE THINGS, THEY (NEVER DAMAGE) THE LAND THEY LIVE ON. AND THE RED BOOK OF RARE PLANTS AND FLOWERS (NOT ENLARGE) IN THE NUMBER OF EXTINCT SPECIES.

4.STUDY THE BASIC STORY.

        ONE OF THE MOST BURNING PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE IS THE ECOLOGICAL SITUATION ON THE PLANET OF EARTH. IN FACT, CITIES AND TOWNS, INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES AND ENTERPRISES COVER THE WORLD LIKE A HUGE NET, ABSORBING THE AIR AND POLLUTING THE ATMOSPHERE AT GREAT EXTENDS.  THE SMOKY INDUSTRIAL MONSTERS HAVE BECOME THE THREAT TO THE WATER WE DRINK, THE AIR WE BREATHE, THE LAND WE GROW GRAIN AND VEGETABLES ON. KUZBASS IS AN IMPORTANT INTEGRAL PART OF RUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM, ITS COAL IS OFTEN CALLED “THE BLACK GOLD” OF RUSSIA. THE MINING INDUSTRY GETS ALONG WITH AUTOMOBILE AND TEXTILE BRANCHES, CHEMISTRY AND FERRO-METALLURGY. IT’S NOT FOR NOTHING THAT THE POPULATION OF THE REGION REALIZES HOW DANGEROUS IT IS TO DEVELOP INDUSTRIES WITHOUT CARING THE ENVIRONMENTAL SITUATION. STATISTICS PROVES THAT EVERY YEAR WORLD INDUSTRY POLLUTES THE ATMOSPHERE WITH ABOUT 1000 MILLION TONS OF DUST AND OTHER HARMFUL SUBSTANCES. MANY CITIES SUFFER FROM SMOG. VAST FORESTS ARE CUT AND BURN IN FIRE. THEIR DISAPPEARANCE UPSETS THE OXYGEN BALANCE. AS A RESULT SOME RARE SPECIES OF ANIMALS, BIRDS, FISH AND PLANTS DISAPPEAR FOREVER, A NUMBER OF RIVERS AND LAKES DRY UP. THE POLLUTION OF AIR AND THE WORLD'S OCEAN, DESTRUCTION OF THE OZONE LAYER IS THE RESULT OF MAN'S CARELESS INTERACTION WITH NATURE, A SIGN OF THE ECOLOGICAL CRISES.

       AS FAR AS KUZBASS CONCERNED THE WASTES ARE ALSO ALARMING: MORE THAN 1,5 MLN. INDUSTRIAL DUSTS POLLUTE THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE LAND WE LIVE IN. IT IS EQUAL TO 60 PER CENT OF THE SAME INDUSTRIAL WASTES OF THE JOINT TERRITORY OF NOVOSIBIRSK, TOMSK AND THE ALTAI REGIONS.

          IF YOU HAPPEN TO VISIT NOVOKUZNETSK SOME DAY WE WILL FIND IT HARD TO BREATHE, BECAUSE THE AIR IS HEAVY WITH THE INDUSTRIAL WASTES OF THE GREAT METALLURGY PLANTS THE CITY IS FAMOUS FOR.

     THE COAL MINING TERRITORIES ADD TO THE POLLUTION OF THE AIR AND WATER, EVEN THE SNOW IN WINTER LOOKS DIRTY AND POISONED.

     THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY OF KUZBASS IS NO LESS DANGEROUS FOR HUMAN HEALTH, THE UNBURNED WASTES MAKES BREATHING DIFFICULT AND SMOKY.

    ONE SHOULDN’T FORGET THE TRANSPORT IN THE REGION, WHICH IS QUITE NUMEROUS. THE ROADS ARE HEAVY DAY AND NIGHT, THE POLLUTION INCREASES AND THE WHOLE WILD LIFE IS THE VICTIM.

5. ENLARGE THE STATEMENTS WITH FACTS AND ARGUMENTS:

1.     ONE OF THE MOST BURNING PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE IS THE ECOLOGICAL SITUATION ON THE PLANET OF EARTH.

2.     STATISTICS CLAIMS THAT EVERY YEAR WORLD INDUSTRY POLLUTES THE ATMOSPHERE.

3.     KUZBASS IS AN IMPORTANT INTEGRAL PART OF RUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM.

4.     AS FAR AS KUZBASS CONCERNED THE DATES ARE ALSO ALARMING.

5.     THE MAIN THREAT TO NATURE COMES FROM THE HUMAN ACTIVITY.

6.     STILL, MUCH CAN BE DONE TO SAVE THE PLANET FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHY.

9.04.16

THE GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS CAUSED BY THE RAPID TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS.

STUDY THE BASIC STORY ON ECOLOGY “ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS” AND GET PREPARED TO DISCUSS THE MAIN ITEMS:

WHAT IS THE ROOT OF HUMAN DISHARMONY WITH NATURE?

WHAT IS  THE EVIDENCE OF HUMAN INTERFERENCE INTO  NATURE?

WHAT MEASURES CAN HELP HUMANITY TO SAVE THE PLANET FROM ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHY?

   

             SINCE ANCIENT TIMES NATURE HAS SERVED MAN, BEING THE SOURCE OF HIS LIFE. FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS PEOPLE LIVED IN HARMONY WITH ENVIRONMENT AND IT SEEMED TO THEM THAT NATURAL RICHES WERE UNLIMITED. BUT WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION MAN'S INTERFERENCE IN NATURE BEGAN TO INCREASE.

     LARGE CITIES WITH THOUSANDS OF SMOKY INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES APPEAR ALL OVER THE WORLD TODAY. THE BY-PRODUCTS OF THEIR ACTIVITY POLLUTE THE AIR WE BREATHE, THE WATER WE DRINK, THE LAND WE GROW GRAIN AND VEGETABLES ON.

     EVERY YEAR WORLD INDUSTRY POLLUTES THE ATMOSPHERE WITH ABOUT 1000 MILLION TONS OF DUST AND OTHER HARMFUL SUBSTANCES. MANY CITIES SUFFER FROM SMOG. VAST FORESTS ARE CUT AND BURN IN FIRE. THEIR DISAPPEARANCE UPSETS THE OXYGEN BALANCE. AS A RESULT SOME RARE SPECIES OF ANIMALS, BIRDS, FISH AND PLANTS DISAPPEAR FOREVER, A NUMBER OF RIVERS AND LAKES DRY UP.

   

 THE POLLUTION OF AIR AND THE WORLD'S OCEAN, DESTRUCTION OF THE OZONE LAYER IS THE RESULT OF MAN'S CARELESS INTERACTION WITH NATURE, A SIGN OF THE ECOLOGICAL CRISES.

    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IS OF A UNIVERSAL CONCERN. THAT IS WHY SERIOUS MEASURES TO CREATE A SYSTEM OF ECOLOGICAL SECURITY SHOULD  BE TAKEN. SOME PROGRESS HAS BEEN ALREADY MADE IN THIS DIRECTION. AS MANY AS 159 COUNTRIES - MEMBERS OF THE UNO - HAVE SET UP ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCIES. NUMEROUS CONFERENCES HAVE BEEN HELD BY THESE AGENCIES TO DISCUSSPROBLEMS FACING ECOLOGICALLY POOR REGIONS INCLUDING THE ARAL SEA, THE SOUTH URALS, KUZBASS, DONBASS, SEMIPALATINSK AND CHERNOBYL. AN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE HAS BEEN SET UP ON LAKE BAIKAL. THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION GREENPEACE IS ALSO DOING MUCH TO PRESERVE THE ENVIRONMENT.

     BUT THESE ARE ONLY THE INITIAL STEPS AND THEY MUST BE CARRIED ONWARD TO PROTECT NATURE, TO SAVE LIFE ON THE PLANET NOT ONLY FOR THE SAKE OF THE PRESENT BUT ALSO FOR THE FUTURE GENERATIONS.

 STUDY THE ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY:

ANCIENT — ДРЕВНИЙ 
HARMONY — ГАРМОНИЯ 
ENVIRONMENT — ОКРУЖАЮЩАЯ СРЕДА
 RICHES — БОГАТСТВА 
UNLIMITED — НЕОГРАНИЧЕННЫЙ
 TO INTERFERE — ВМЕШИВАТЬСЯ
 TO INCREASE — УВЕЛИЧИВАТЬСЯ, ВОЗРАСТАТЬ 
SMOKY — ДЫМНЫЙ 
ENTERPRISES — ПРЕДПРИЯТИЯ
 BY-PRODUCT — ПОБОЧНЫЙ ПРОДУКТ
 ACTIVITY — ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТЬ
 TO POLLUTE — ЗАГРЯЗНЯТЬ 
SUBSTANCES — ВЕЩЕСТВА 
OXУGEN — КИСЛОРОД
 RARE — РЕДКИЙ
 DESTRUCTION — РАЗРУШЕНИЕ
 OZONE — ОЗОН LAYER — СЛОЙ 
INTERACTION — ВЗАИМОДЕЙСТВИЕ
 HORRIBLE — УЖАСНЫЙ
 DISASTER — КАТАСТРОФА
 TO BEFALL — ПАСТЬ (НА ЧТО-ТО)

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:

1. HOW DID PEOPLE LIVE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS?

2. WHAT CITIES APPEAR ALL OVER THE WORLD TODAY?

3. WHAT POLLUTES THE AIR WE BREATHE?

4. WHAT IS THE RESULT OF THE POLLUTION THE ATMOSPHERE?

5. WHY IS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OF A UNIVERSAL CONCERN?

6. WHAT ARE THE INITIAL STEPS IN THIS DIRECTION?

RENDER INTO ENGLISH, USING THE BASIC STORY:

С ДРЕВНИХ ВРЕМЕН ПРИРОДА СЛУЖИТ ЧЕЛОВЕКУ, ЯВЛЯЯСЬ ИСТОЧНИКОМ ЕГО ЖИЗНИ. ТЫСЯЧИ ЛЕТ ЛЮДИ ЖИЛИ В ГАРМОНИИ С ОКРУЖАЮЩЕЙ СРЕДОЙ. И ИМ КАЗАЛОСЬ, ЧТО ПРИРОДНЫЕ БОГАТСТВА НЕИСЧЕРПАЕМЫ.

 ПОБОЧНЫЕ ПРОДУКТЫ ИХ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ЗАГРЯЗНЯЮТ ВОЗДУХ, КОТОРЫМ МЫ ДЫШИМ, ВОДУ, КОТОРУЮ МЫ ПЬЕМ, ЗЕМЛЮ, НА КОТОРОЙ МЫ ВЫРАЩИВАЕМ ПШЕНИЦУ И ОВОЩИ.

В РЕЗУЛЬТАТЕ НЕКОТОРЫЕ РЕДКИЕ ВИДЫ ЖИВОТНЫХ, ПТИЦ, РЫБ И РАСТЕНИЙ НАВСЕГДА ИСЧЕЗАЮТ. ВЫСЫХАЮТ МНОГИЕ РЕКИ И ОЗЕРА.

ЗАЩИТА ОКРУЖАЮЩЕЙ СРЕДЫ — ВСЕОБЩАЯ ЗАБОТА.

НАДО ДВИГАТЬСЯ ВПЕРЕД, ЗАЩИЩАЯ ПРИРОДУ, СОХРАНЯЯ ЖИЗНЬ НА ПЛАНЕТЕ, НЕ ТОЛЬКО РАДИ НАСТОЯЩЕГО, НО И ДЛЯ БУДУЩИХ ПОКОЛЕНИЙ.

5.03.16

GOING DEEPER UNDERGROUND IN KUZBASS

MINERAL RESOURCES

1.COAL IS THE MAIN MINERAL RESOURCE OF KUZBASS. KUZBASS COMPRISES THE TERRITORY OF THE KUZNETSK BLACK COAL BASIN AND THE WESTERN PART OF THE KANSK-ACHINSK BROWN COAL BASIN.

2. KUZBASS IS ONE OF THE LARGEST COAL BASINS IN RUSSIA AND THE MAIN SUPPLIER OF  RAW MATERIAL TO THE RUSSIAN INDUSTRIES.

TODAY, THE RESERVES OF COKING COALS IN KUZBASS ACCOUNT FOR 73% OF THE TOTAL RESERVES  COAL IN THE DEVELOPED COAL BASINS OF RUSSIA KUZBASS COALS ARE OF UNIQUE QUALITY.

3. KEMEROVO OBLAST IS ALSO RICH IN OTHER FUEL RESOURCES, SUCH AS PEAT , SOME OIL AND NATURAL GAS.

THE SOUTHERN PART OF GORNAYA SHORIA HAS ENORMOUS IRON ORE DEPOSITS. MOST OF THEM ARE LOCATED ON THE BANKS OF THE KONDOMA RIVER.

THERE ARE SOME IRON ORE DEPOSITS CLOSER TO NOVOKUZNETSK, IN THE TELBESS AREA, AS WELL AS IN THE CENTRE AND IN THE NORTH OF KUZBASS.

4. THE SALAIR MOUNTAIN-RIDGE IS A STOREHOUSE OF COMPLEX ORE CONTAINING ZINC, LEAD, SILVER AND GOLD.

5. IN ADDITION TO THE MINERAL RESOURCES MENTIONED ABOVE, OUR REGION IS RICH IN SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES, SUCH AS AMETHYST, JASPER, AGATE, CORNELIAN AND OTHER STONES USED IN JEWELRY MANUFACTURE.

THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF KUZBASS ARE UNIQUE IN TERMS OF THEIR VARIETY, QUANTITY, AND QUALITY. IN THIS RESPECT, THE REGION CAN ONLY BE COMPARED TO THE URALS.

LEARN THE NEW WORDS:

COAL BASIN – УГОЛЬНЫЙ БАССЕЙН

COKING COAL – КОКСУЮЩИЙСЯ УГОЛЬ

IRON ORE DEPOSITS – ЗАПАСЫ ЖЕЛЕЗНОЙ РУДЫ

MOUNTAIN-RIDGE – ГОРНАЯ ГРЯДА

LEAD – СВИНЕЦ

LIMESTONE – ИЗВЕСТНЯК

JASPER – ЯШМА

CORNELIAN – СЕРДОЛИК

JEWELRY – ДРАГОЦЕННОСТИ

 TO BE ONE OF THE LARGEST COAL BASINS IN RUSSIA

 TO BE THE MAIN MINERAL RESOURCE

 TO BE OF UNIQUE QUALITY

 TO BE THE MAIN SUPPLIER OF PROCESS RAW MATERIAL TO THE RUSSIAN INDUSTRIES.

 TO BE RICH IN FUEL RESOURCES( SEMI- PRECIOUS STONES) 

 TO HAVE ENORMOUS DEPOSITS OF

 
 ЗАДАНИЕ НА 06.02.16


POPULAR SPORTS AND GAMES IN KUZBASS,
OUR FAMOUS SPORTSPEOPLE

The Kuzbass people are going in for 59 different sports. 15 local teams take part in the national championships: for example, ‘Metallurg’ (Novokuznetsk, ice hockey), ‘Energia’ (Kemerovo), the Russian hockey team ‘Kuzbass’ (Kemerovo) and the women’s rugby team ‘Burevestnik’ (Novokuznetsk). Every year the Region holds about 500 championships of Kuzbass and over 40 national and regional tournaments. Among them there are championships of Russia and Siberia for weight-lifting, sports dancing, and national competitions in power lifting, snowboarding and all-around athletic competitions. Over 80 of our athletes are members of national teams. About 50 have already won different world and European championships since year 2000. Among the Olympics champions of past years are the weightlifters Rudolf Lukfeldel, Aleksey Vakhonin, Alexander Voronin, the gymnasts Maria Filatova, Valentin Mogilny, Elena Grudneva, the athlete Vyacheslav Ivanenko. Our Elena Prokhorova won a silver medal in athletic all-round competitions at Sidney Olympics and then a gold medal at the world championship.

There are a lot of children’s sports schools and clubs in Kuzbass which are visited by about 50000 children. There are dozens of stadiums, swimming pools, skiing and downhill skiing tracks, athletics and gymnastics centers and other sports sites.

172 sportsmen won medals during the national championships and 57 – the world and European ones.

Maxim Devyatovsky took the 6th place in gymnastics at XXVIII Athens Olympics.

Dmitry Kirillov won the silver medal in free wrestling in the World Championship.

Alexander Matveev became the champion in climbing in 2004.

Julie Mitrenko was a winner in boxing in the World Championship.

Yevgeny Rybakov was the best in the junior league in cross-country running, took part in the national and European competitions.

Vasilisa Kravchuk, the former pupil of LG 21, won 2 silver medals in submarine swimming during the World Championship in Chine as a junior.

Artyom Lugma and Konstantin Ostapenko became the champions in football for the World Cup in the category of disabled players.

Konstantin Pavlov, Galina Karpova, Tatiana Eltsova took part in the weightlifting competitions and won victories.

Task 1. Name widespread sports and games in our region.

Task 2. Ask 5 questions on the text for your classmates to answer.

Task 3. What do we call an athlete who:

plays basketball, volleyball, tennis, hockey, cricket, rugby;

swims, runs, jumps, climbs, dives, skis, skates, rows, fishes?

Task 4. Say what sports and games our Kuzbass famous athletes go in for.

Task 5. Find out who of Kuzbass athletes participated in Olympic Games in Sochi 2014. What were the results?

16.01.16 ЗАДАНИЕ НА 23.01.16

THE WAYS TO BE HEALTHY IN OUR CLIMATE

1. COMPLETE THE TEXT WITH THE CORRECT FORM OF THE WORD*

    

WE LIVE IN KUZBASS (THE KUZNETSK COAL BASIN), ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT  …1….  COAL-MINING CENTRES OF OUR COUNTRY.  KEMEROVO REGION IS SITUATED IN THE SOUTHEAST OF WESTERN SIBERIA. THE CLIMATE HERE IS …2… AND THE TEMPERATURE CHANGES FAST DURING A SEASON, A MONTH AND EVEN A DAY. IN WINTER THE WEATHER IS OFTEN COLD AND FROSTY, SUMMER DAYS CAN BE RATHER HOT.	INDUSTRY CONTINENT
KUZBASS HAS GOT SOME …3… PROBLEMS WHICH ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHANGES OF OUR CLIMATE. (THE WORD “ECOLOGY” CAME FROM THE GREEK WHICH MEANS “HOME”). MORE THAN 500 KG OF INDUSTRIAL WASTE FALL ON A SINGULAR PERSON. FROM 2% TO 7% OF CITY TERRITORIES ARE OCCUPIED WITH WASTE PILES.	ECOLOGY
THOUGH OUR REGION IS ONE OF THE …4… IN WESTERN SIBERIA, THE FORESTS ARE BECOMING SMALLER AND SMALLER EVERY YEAR. BUT IN RECENT YEARS OUR	GREEN
LOCAL …5… HAS DONE MUCH TO MAKE THE ECOLOGICAL SITUATION BETTER.	GOVERNOR
SOME …6…  PLANTS AND FACTORIES ARE CLOSED, SOME OTHER ONES HAVE PUT SPECIAL EQUIPMENT TO MAKE THE AIR CLEAN. THE GROWN-UPS DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO PROTECT NATURE, TO SAVE OUR PLANET FOR THE FUTURE GENERATION,	DANGER
TO LIVE A …7…  LIFE. FOR EXAMPLE, OUR GOVERNOR AMAN TULEEV PLANTS	HEALTH
TREES EVERY YEAR AND OTHER PEOPLE FOLLOW  THIS WAY.
WHEN IT IS BITTER COLD OUTSIDE, PUPILS DON’T HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOLS AS THEY CAN CATCH A COLD AND FALL ILL. ALL OUR PUPILS OUGHT TO SKI AT PT LESSONS. A LOT OF CHILDREN GO TO THE…8… RINKS WITH THEIR FAMILIES OR TEACHERS.	SKATE
IN SUMMER CHILDREN SPEND THEIR TIME AT SCHOOL OR COUNTRY CAMPS, HEALTH IMPROVEMENT CENTRES TO HAVE A GOOD REST AND TO BE STRONG AND HEALTHY AFTER A HARD SCHOOL YEAR.  ALL THE PUPILS ARE ADVISED TO GO IN FOR SOME KINDS OF SPORT IN ANY WEATHER AND SEASON. …9…  ARE TAUGHT NOT TO DRINK WATER FROM THE RIVERS, LAKES AND OTHER WATER BODIES BECAUSE IT CAN	CHILD
BE DIRTY AND DANGEROUS FOR THEM. DOCTORS PRESCRIBE US TO CHOOSE ONLY
RIGHT AND HEALTHY FOOD, TO EAT …10… VEGETABLES AND FRUIT WHICH ARE	MANY
GROWN IN OUR REGION. IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THE FRESH AIR IS NECESSARY FOR
OUR LIFE AND WE SHOULD SPEND MUCH TIME WALKING, HIKING IN THE MOUNTAINS, FIELDS, FORESTS, ALONG THE RIVERS, … 11… THE PLACE WHERE WE LIVE.	EXPLORE

2. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:

1. WHERE DO WE LIVE?                                          

 2. WHERE IS KEMEROVO REGION SITUATED?

 3. WHAT IS THE CLIMATE HERE?                                           

 4. HOW DOES THE TEMPERATURE CHANGE?

 5. WHAT HAS THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DONE FOR THE BETTER?

 6. WHY DON’T PUPILS HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL WHEN THE WEATHER IS RATHER COLD?

7. WHAT SHOULD CHILDREN DO IN ANY SEASON AND WEATHER TO BE HEALTHY AND STRONG?

CHILDREN’S HEALTH  AT SCHOOLS

     THERE ARE 1053 SCHOOLS IN KEMEROVO REGION, ABOUT 313000 CHILDREN GO TO SCHOOL. KUZBASS  CAN OFFER PUPILS DIFFERENT SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMMES, SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE THEIR OWN CHOICES. ABOUT 16% OF SCHOOLCHILDREN STUDY IN ADVANCED SCHOOLS (LYCEUM, GYMNASIA).                                 

    KEMEROVO REGION IS ONE OF THE FIRST REGIONS IN RUSSIA THAT INCLUDED THE HEALTH COMPONENT INTO EDUCATION. THERE ARE 67 HEALTH IMPROVEMENT CENTRES IN KUZBASS.

    EVERY DAY PUPILS DO EXERCISES BEFORE AND DURING CLASSES AT SCHOOL. TWICE A SCHOOL YEAR THEY HAVE A DAY OF HEALTH. CHILDREN MAY TAKE PART IN SPORTS COMPETITIONS OR GO HIKING DURING THIS DAY.

    OUR PUPILS ARE OFTEN EXAMINED BY SCHOOL DOCTORS AND DENTISTS AND TRY TO FOLLOW THEIR ADVICE. BY THE WAY, THEIR FOOD AT THE CANTEEN IS ALSO CONTROLLED.

   BUT NOT ONLY PARENTS AND DOCTORS TAKE CARE OF CHILDREN’S HEALTH AT SCHOOLS, TEACHERS ALSO  WORRY  ABOUT IT. THEY OFTEN TELL THEIR PUPILS TO SIT STRAIGHT AS IT IS IMPORTANT FOR THEIR BACKS, NECKS AND HEADS; NOT TO BEND HEADS CLOSELY TO THE TEXTBOOKS OR EXERCISE BOOKS AS IT DOES THEIR EYES SOME HARM. IF SOME PUPILS HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THEIR EYESIGHT, THE TEACHERS DO THEIR BEST TO LET THEM THE FIRST SEATS NEARER THE BLACKBOARD. OF COURSE, THE CLASSROOMS ARE AIRED DURING THE BREAKS AND THE CHILDREN BREATHE FRESH AIR EVERY DAY. 

3. IF YOU WANT TO KEEP FIT YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THE RULES. FILL IN THE RIGHT WORDS.

1.     GET UP … AND GO TO BED …                                     

2.       TAKE REGULAR …                                                          

3.     TAKE A COOL/COLD …                                                    

4.     EAT …FOOD.                                                                 

5.     NEVER …                                                                    

6.     CLEAN YOUR …EVERY MORNING AND EVENING.                

7.     WASH YOUR …HANDS BEFORE EATING.                            

8.     TOO LITTLE … MAKES YOU THIN.                                      

9.     TOO … FOOD MAKES YOU FAT.                                         

10.                   THE WRONG FOOD MAKES YOU …                                    

11.                   TOO MANY … ARE BAD FOR YOUR TEETH        

4. SPEAK ABOUT THE WAY YOU CAN BE HEALTHY IN OUR CLIMATE           

The World of Plants

Task 1

Learn the new words:

Terrain – местность, рельеф                             an ash berry – ягода рябины

A pine – cосна                                                    сurrants - смородина

A fir – ель                                                           hips – ягоды шиповника

A cedar – кедр                                                    a bilberry – ягода черники

A spruce – ель                                                    a raspberry – ягода малины

A larch – лиственница                                      an agaric mushroom -

An aspens  - осина                                             пластинчатый гриб

A willow – ива                                                   funguses – грибы

A lime – липа

A ginseng – женьшень

Task 2        Fill in the proper forms of the words:

Kemerovo Oblast (to stretch) a long way from north to south and varies in climate, soil and terrain. Its flora, therefore, (to range) from the mountain tundra to the feather-grass steppe.
Over half of the area (to be covered) with pine forests where such trees as firs, cedars, pines, spruces and larches mostly prevail.
The most common among the deciduous species (to be) aspens, birches, willows and limes.
The total volume of trees in our region (to be) about 1.5 billion cubic metres, their average age being 70 years.

About three quarters of the forests in Kuzbass are concentrated in the Kuznetsk Alatau Mountains and Gornaya Shoria that have the following vegetation zones: the pine and larch forests, the black and cedar-fir taiga, and the alpine and subalpine meadows where such plants as the cyclamen, the dragonhead and others grow.

 Overall, Kuzbass abounds in different herbs and grasses, whereas trees and bushes are not so various - there are only about 50 species of them here.
Among hundreds of grasses growing in Kuzbass are some rare species included in the Red Book of Russia. Among numerous herbs the most valuable are levzeya and the rose-root or the golden root. Their medicinal properties are similar to the famous 'root of life', ginseng.
       There are a lot of berry bushes in Kuzbass. Every year they yield about 45,000 tons of currants, ash berries, hips and bilberries, red bilberries and raspberries.
     Kuzbass is also rich in mushrooms. People preserve milk agaric mushrooms, honey funguses and others.

 In contrast to other regions of Siberia, Kemerovo Oblast makes a lot of effort to protect its nature. It has many preserves and national parks, including the Kuznetsk Alatau, the national park of Shoria, the Lime Island, and numerous special nature reserves.

 The scientists in Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk in co-operation with their colleagues from the Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences have produced a register of Kuzbass plants including about 1,500 species.
The rare and endangered species of plants and mushrooms are in the Red Book of  Kemerovo Oblast.

Task 3              Agree (T) or disagree (F) :

1. There are 450 species of vertebrates in Kemerovo region.
2. A large number of species have been brought to the region.
3. Permanent inhabitants are leopards.
4. Wolves, polecats, ground squirrels live in the forests.
5. Different kinds of fish are found in Kemerovo region.
6. The nature of Kemerovo region is unique.
7. The most common trees are aspens, birches, willows and limes.
8. One quarter of the forests in Kuzbass are situated in Kuznetsk Alatau and Gornaya Shoria.
9. Only about fifty species of herbs and grasses grow in Kuzbass.
10. People in Kemerovo region try to protect its nature.

Task 4               Fill in the table:

Trees
Herbs
Berries
Mushrooms
National parks

Task 5 Describe and speak about flora and fauna of Kuzbass.

ЗАДАНИЕ НА 5.12.15

NATURAL WONDERS OF KUZBASS»

Learn the new words:

Peculiarity – особенность                     a polecat – лесной хорек

Vertebrates – позвоночные                   a grouse - куропатка

a mink – норка                                       a woodpecker - дятел

a musk-rat – мускусная крыса              an oriole - иволга

a boar – вепрь                                         a jay - сойка

rodents – грызуны                                  a magpie - сорока

a roe (deer) – косуля                               a crossbill - клёст

a lynx – рысь                                           a partridge - куропатка

a glutton – росомаха                               a quail - перепел

an ermine – горностай                            a crane - журавль

a weasel – ласка                                      a kestrel - пустельга

a mole – крот                                           a pest - вредитель

a shrew – землеройка                              a sable - соболь

a marmot – сурок                                     an otter - выдра

The World of Animals

            The variety of natural landscapes in Kuzbass determines the peculiarities of its fauna. There are 450 species of vertebrates in Kemerovo Oblast, including 68 species of mammals, over 300 species of birds, 6 species of reptiles, 5 species of amphibians and 42 species of fish. Most of them have inhabited this area since the earliest times.

Task 1 Fill in the missing words:

Recently, however, a large … (1) of species have been brought to the region and acclimatised here, for example, mink, musk-rats and brown hares. Such … (2) as the grey rat, hedgehog and wild boar migrate and settle by themselves. Sometimes, from the neighbouring areas … (3) the snow leopard, different rodents and birds.

The largest among the permanent inhabitants are bears and elks. They … (4) mainly in taiga. You … (5) meet Siberian reindeer, Asian marals and musk-deer in the mountains. The roes, however, prefers  forests and forest-steppes. 

Lynxes and gluttons, though inhabiting almost everywhere, are quite rare predators: there are only about a few hundreds of them left. Smaller predators such as foxes, ermines, weasels and Siberian weasels, on the contrary, are more numerous, as well as other aboriginal rodents and herbivorous animals, such as squirrel, chipmunk, shrew and mole.

The steppes and forest-steppes are inhabited by wolves, polecats, ground squirrels, hamsters, marmots and other animals. Song-birds prefer deciduous forests to the taiga inhabited mostly by game birds such as hazel grouse, wood grouse and black grouse. The forests are protected by woodpeckers, orioles, jays, magpies and crossbills. The birch groves and forest-steppes are inhabited by partridges and quails. Geese, ducks and cranes build their nests on the banks of ponds. Such birds of prey as kestrels and owls  are of great help in combating agricultural pests.

The eagle owl, the largest species of owls, is very rare and needs protection, as well as the sable, otters, reindeer, bat and about eighty other species of animals. The Red Book of Kuzbass was created for their systematisation and protection.

Until recently, the enormous water resources in our region were famous for various fish found there. Even now, in the clear mountain or taiga rivers, one can find  about 30 other species of fish. However, the industrial development and hydraulic engineering in the region are polluting the Tom river and have a negative effect on the water fauna in Kuzbass.

The world of invertebrates and insects inhabiting the territory of Kemerovo Region includes thousands of species that still need studying. Moreover, every year it is enriched by some species that are new for the region's fauna or unknown to science at all. And this is what makes the nature of Kemerovo Region so unique.

задание на 21.11.15

KUZBASS IS A FINE PLACE AND WORTH PRESERVING

I. Study the vocabulary. Guess what item is going to be discussed.

Enterprise – промышленное предприятие

Soot – сажа

Amphibian – зоол. земноводные

Sedge – бот. осока

LIME-TREE  - ЛИПА

Bull-head – подкаменщик (рыба)

Grayling – хариус (рыба)

Loach – голец (рыба)

Falcon – сокол

II. Skim through the text and decide either your supposition was wrong or right.

“A man has the only way to give a life and a thousand ways to take it away”, said A. Dumas, the senior.

People did a lot to destroy or damage the wild life by changing the ecological situation in Kuzbass as well as on the whole planet.

Every year different mining, chemical and metallurgical, agricultural and other enterprises exhaust 1.5 million tons of gases, fume and soot and release dirt into the atmosphere. The environment is polluted with 140-160 harmful substances. Most of them are poisonous. Annually, every citizen breathes half a ton of polluted air with industrial waste. Approaching Kemerovo, the Tom water is three times pumped out and three times poured back into the river by the enterprises.

No wonder that the number of plants, fish, Amphibians and birds has been reduced. 12 species of plants and several species of birds have been put into the Red Book of the Russian Federation.

The Red Book of the Kemerovo Region includes more than 100 species of plants, such as sedge, the Siberian lime-tree, all species of violets, Krylov’s forget-me-not, the yellow iris, water-lily, primrose.

The Siberian frog, triton and others are also met in the Red Book of the region. Disappeared from our rivers are salmon, bull-head, grayling and loach. The golden eagle and falcons are rather rare to see.

Who is to be blamed? Each of us must protect nature and think of the future generations. We should take urgent measures instead of proposing them to avoid an ecological catastrophe on the Earth. If we are considered civilized people, let us do the work ourselves. “Better late than never.”

III.Speak about the ecological situation in Kuzbass.

1. There are a lot of … …… enterprises in Kuzbass.

2. They release …. … into the atmosphere.

3. They …. the environment with harmful substances.

4. The  number of …. is reduced.

5 ….. have been put into the Red Book of the Russian Federation.

 Look through the text once again and decide either it is possible or impossible to return to life some species of flora and fauna that Kuzbass is/was rich in.

Задание  на 24.10.15.

The Beauty of Kemerovo

As a cultural city, Kemerovo can boast of its theatres, the Drama Theatre, the Musical Comedy, the Muppet Theatre for kids and adults, not to forget the Circus. Its country-study museum and the museum of fine arts welcome the Kemerovites and city visitors daily. There is a peculiar museum under the sky- Tomskaya Pisanitsa, which keeps the drawings of pre-historic people, carved on the rocks of the Tom river. The oldest date back to the fourth millennium BC, so unique they are.

The modern city consists of 5 districts. Many-storied constructions and curious installations add to the city beauty. The supermarkets, sporting centres, clubs and cafes attract and present a pleasant pastime to every citizen.

The city looks rather attractive in any season and any weather, when the trees are snow-capped on frosty winter days or on a hot summer day when flower beds are flourishing and the cool fountains “play” crystal water.

It’s fun to have a walk in city parks and squares and to watch curiously-shaped flower beds or small boats floating on the water in the Tom, just in the very city center. Or you can feed wild ducks which inhabit the both banks of the small Iskitimka river.

To boast of – хвастаться (чем-то)

Pre-historic – доисторический

To carve – вырезать, высекать (из камня), гравировать

To be snow-capped

A flower bed – клумба

To flourish – цвести 

Curiously-shaped – причудливой формы

The very city center – в самом центре города

You have to be able to speak about:

MY NATIVE CITY

1. What is the name of the city?

2. Where is it situated?

3. What do you know about its history?

4. What is it famous for?

5. What can you see in the city?

6. What is your favourite place? Why?

MY REGION

1. Where is Kemerovo region situated?

2. Our region is very beautiful, isn't it? What rivers, mountains, etc. can you see in our regon?

3. What is our climate like?

4. What natural resoursces is our region rich in?

5. What famous people live or lived in our region?

Домашнее задание на 17.10 .15

Kemerovo

1.Kemerovo is the capital of Kuzbass, its most important residential, industrial, cultural and educational centre. Kemerovo is a young city. It was founded a little more than 80 years ago, on the banks of the river Tom.  The little village Sheglovka by name has changed beyond recognition. Today Kemerovo is a beautiful, modern city with a population of nearly a million residents. You can see many old and modern buildings, wide and straight streets, big and small squares, green parks.

2.Kemerovo is famous for its coal mines, chemical and machine-building plants, factories.

3.Kemerovo is also a town of students. There are 7 higher educational institutions in it: the State University, the Polytechnical University, the Medical Academy, the Academy of Art and Culture, the Technological Institute of Food Industry, the Higher Military School for, the University of Commerce and Trade.

4.Besides, Kemerovo is a cultural center. The Kemerovites and visitors can go to the Drama of Musical Comedy Theatre, the Concert Hall, the Puppet Show, the Circus, the Theatre for the Young, as well as its museums, picture  gallery, cinemas.

The Kemerovites are proud of their native city and make it more and more beautiful from year to year.

5.They say, East or West, home is best. Nearly every person takes native city dear to the heart. My city is really remarkable nowadays.  Today it is a modern Siberian center with wide streets and prospects. The central , Vesennyaya  Street is a splendid sight in spring, with blossoming lilac bushes and the square in memory of Volkov, the founder of coal in this region, with parks and alleys.

Summing it up, I can honestly say that I’m proud of my native town Kemerovo and I think it’s the best place to live in. 

Task 1 Match the paragraph and the title (one title is extra):

a)     A modern Siberian center.

b)    A place of natural wonders.

c)     A town of students.

d)    A young city.

e)     An industrial center.

f)      A cultural center.

Task 2 Finish up the sentences:

1.     Kemerovo is … .

2.     It was founded … .

3.     Today Kemerovo is … .

4.     Kemerovo is famous for … .

5.     Kemerovo is also … .

6.     Besides it is … .

7.     People can go to … .

8.     I’m proud of ….

Task 3 Answer the questions:

1.   1.  How many educational institutions are there in Kemerovo?

2.   2.  What is Kemerovo famous for?

3.   3.  What was the name of this town many years ago?

4.   4.  Who was the founder of coal in this region?

5.   5  How many people live in Kemerovo?

6.   6.What theatres in Kemerovo do you know?

7.  7.How Kemerovites and visitors of Kemerovo entertain themselves?

8.    8. Why is Vesennyaya street called the most beautiful in the centre of the town?

Task 4 Sum up the information from the text and get ready to speak about Kemerovo

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