A. Tell if you agree or disagree with these quotations.

“When you look at a city, it’s like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.”

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”

Aristotle

B. How well do you know Kazan and its history? Do the quiz and check your knowledge.

1) In 1446 Kazan became the capital of ….

a) Khanate of Kazan

b) the Golden Horde

c) the Bolgar state

2) In 1774 Kazan was destroyed by ….

a) the troops of Yemelyan Pugachev

b) great fire

c) troops of Ivan the Terrible

3) Which building is not on the territory of the Kazan Kremlin?

a) the Kul-Sharif mosque

b) the Spasskaya Tower

c) Nurullah mosque

4) The Peter and Paul Cathedral was built to commemorate the visit of …. to Kazan.

a) Peter the Great

b) Catherine the Great

c) Alexander I

5) Kazan state emblem represents …

a) a snake

b) a horse

c) a panther

6) Match these famous people of Kazan and their field of work.

LANGUAGE SKILS: ASKING THE WAY

A. Match phrases 1)–8) with pictures a)-f), some of them can be used more than once:

1) Go straight ahead/ carry on. 5) Turn right. 2) Walk along the street. 6) Turn left at the crossroads. 3) Take the first (second) turning on the right. 7) Take a bus to… 4) Get off the bus at … 8) It’s next /across from/ opposite/beside.

 

Bus

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a) b) c) d) e)

Bus

f)