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Учебная медиатека ФГОУ СПО
«Ростовский-на-Дону
автодорожный колледж»
АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК
Электронное наглядное пособие в среде Power Point
по теме:
«Москва –
столица Российской Федерации»
Автор:
Ковтунова Людмила Алексеевна,
преподаватель английского языка
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Welcome to Moscow the capital of Russia.
Some useful hints for visiting Moscow.
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How to get to Moscow?
You can get to Moscow by plane.
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Moscow the capital of Russia is the terminus of ten railways and
thirteen highways and of waterways from five seas.
Most of the visitors arrive to Moscow by plane. There are 4 airports
in Moscow: Vnukovo, Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Bykovo.
Each year these airports handle nearly 100 million passengers. Now
there are services to major cities about 75 countries of Europe, Asia,
Africa and America. The latest navigation systems ensure safe flight
and landing in the most difficult weather conditions.
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How to get to Moscow?
You can get to Moscow by railway.
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There are 10 railways in Moscow. Every day 3700 local suburban and
long-distance trains carrying two million passengers arrive and leave its
railway stations.
The Trans-Siberian Railway connects Moscow with the port of
Nakhodka on the Pacific Ocean. It is 9436 km long and the journey from
Khabarovsk to Moscow on the “Rossia” express takes 150 hours, i.e.
more than six days. Russian railways are noted for their high standard of
equipment and excellent work of services. The carriages are comfortable
and provided with radio and air-conditioning. There are also comfortable4
restaurant car and buffet compartments on trains.
How to get to Moscow?
You can get to Moscow by car.
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People who enjoy car holidays can arrive to Moscow by car.
The Mozhaiskaya Motel with camping site and service station
is situated on the Moscow Circular Highway at the junction
with the west bound Minsk Highway.
Moscow Stretches 40km from north to south and 29km from
east to west . Its areas encircled by the Circular Highway (109
kilometers) which is its boundary, is 879 square kilometers. 5
Into your vocabulary:
to go by train – ехать на поезде;
to go by plane – лететь самолетом;
to go by car, bus – ехать на машине, автобусе
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We recommend you to begin your tour of Moscow with the visit
to Red Square.
Red Square is the heart of Moscow . Red Square stretches along
the eastern wall of the Kremlin. Its area is more than 70000
square metres. It is fist mentioned in 15-th century chronicles.
In the 15-th century it was a great market place. The square
received its present name in the 17-th century from the Russian
word “krasny”, meaning “fair or beautiful”.
The old Square has witnessed many historic events. Here
ceremonies were performed, victories, celebrated, funerals and 7
national celebrations held.
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In 1555 – 61 a unique creation of
Russian national architecture, St.
Basil’s Cathedral, was built on
the Red Square. It was created on
the order of Ivan IV (the Terrible)
to commemorate the annexation
of the Kazan and Astrakhan
Khanates to Russia. The names of
the builders were forgotten for
over three centuries and it was
only in 1896 that some old
manuscripts were discovered that
mentioned the Russian master
Posnik Yakovlev, nicknamed
Barma, by whose genius this
architectural masterpiece was
created.
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The State Academic Bolshoi
Theatre, the work of Pyotr Klodt,
was built over 150 years ago it
has seats for 2000 spectators.
Many glorious pages in the
history of Russian opera and
ballet have been written here. Its
performances of works by the
founders of Russian classical
music Mikhail Glinka, Pyotr
Tchaikovsky, have been of
immence importance in shaping
realistic principles of our vocal
and scenic art.
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The fist Russian university was
founded in Moscow in 1755. It was
named after M. Lomonosov.
Lomonosov University has had a galaxi
of famous teachers and alumni –
Stoletov, Sechenov, Chaplygin,
Timiryazev, Zelinsky, Vernadsky,
Zhukovsky, Vavilov, Tamm, Kapitsa,
Alferov, Ginsburg, Abrikosov and
others. The 32-storey main tower with
its spire crowned by a golden star set in
ears of wheat, is more than 380 meters
high. The building contains an
assembly hall seating 1500, a student
club, 19 lecture theatres, 140
auditorium, dozens of teaching and
research laboratories, a museum of the
Earth Sciences a large library, hostels
with 6000 rooms for students, a
swimming pool, sports facilities. This
year we celebrate the 250 anniversary
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of Moscow University.
Into your vocabulary:
to witness
to commemorate
annexation
masterpiece
galaxi
alumnus
– быть свидетелем;
– отмечать, праздновать;
– присоединение;
– шедевр;
– плеяда;
– бывший.
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The main street in
Moscow is Tverskaya street.
It radiates from the centre,
like many other streets.
It’s appearance was greatly
changed after its radical
reconstruction which began in 1937.
Dozens of the old houses
were demolished.
The street was widened from
19 metres to 56 metres.
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The State Tretyakov Gallery is an art museum of world wide
importance. The Gallery was founded by Pavel Tretyakov, who
began to collect paintings in the fifties of the 19-th century. It was
the time of formation of Russian democratic art, the time when a
new school of Russian painting was born. Many masterpieces of
Perov, Kramskoi, Repin, Savrasov, Polenov, Levitan, Shishkin,
Kuinji, Vasnetzov can be found in the Gallery. In 1892 Tretyakov
put into life his long-cherished plan, he presented the Gallery to
the city of Moscow.
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The State Pushkin Museum of Fine Art has one of the world’s largest
collections of the ancient, oriental, classical and Western European art.
The picture gallery has over 2000 works of various school of painting.
Among the masterpieces exhibited are pictures by Italian masters of the
Renaissance (Botticelli, Perugino, Veronese) and fine pictures by artists
of the German, English and Spanish school and the Dutch and Flemish
schools (Rembronat, Rubens, Van Dyck).
The Pushkin Museum periodically holds exhibitions of the art of
varions countries and of individual outstanding artists of past and
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present.
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Near the Triumphal Arch is the Monument to the Patriotic war
of 1812, the Panorama Museum “The Battle of Borodino”. It is
a large cylindrical building of glass and aluminium erected in
1962.
The building is more than 40 metres in diameter. Along its
walls are 68 cannons captured from Napoleon’s army during
the Battle of Borodino.
In front on a high pedestal is a bronze equestrian statue of
Mikhail Kutuzov. In the museum there is a remarkable
panoramic painting of the Battle of Borodino, 115 metres
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long, made by Russian artist Franz Rubo.
Into your vocabulary:
to radiate
long-cherished
Renaissance
cannon
equestrian statue
– расходиться из центра лучами;
– давняя мечта;
– эпоха Возрождения;
– пушка;
– конная статуя;
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Moscovites are very proud of
Arbat street. There are two of
them “Old Arbat” and “New
Arbat”. At №53 on Old Arbat
street, Pushkin lived in 1831.
New Arbat is the popular name
of Kalinin Prospect. Work on it
began in spring 1962 though it
had long before been envisaged
in the general plan for the
reconstruction of the city, since
Old Arbat was unable to cope
with the growing street of westbound traffic.
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The National Economic Exhibition covers an area of 216 hectares
in the North of Moscow. It was opened in 1959.
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The Exhibition gives a visitor a comprehensive picture of the present
level and standard of our industry, agriculture, building, transport,
science and culture. The Exhibition is a kind of school of advanced
experience, and is always seething with life. In all the pavilions there
are various temporary exhibits of an educational type about
advanced work. On the territory of Exhibition there is a huge park
with quiet ponds and blue lakes, garden and birch groves, cafes and
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restaurants and a shopping center.
The greatest sport Complex in Moscow is called LUZHNIKI.
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It occupies 187 hectares and was built amazingly quickly in
fifteen months. The big bowl in the centre is the large Sport
arena, seating 103000, for football matches and athletics
competitions. Under the grandstands are around 1000
premises – changing rooms, rooms for training, surgeries, a
hotel, two cinemas, a restaurant, cafes, and a unique Museum
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of Physical Culture and Sport.
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In 1967 a new Moscow “sight”
rose in Ostankino, the concrete
TV Tower, one of the world’s
tallest structures, 533 mertres high
and 50 metres in diameter at the
base. At the 337 metre level there
is an observation platform on
which visitors are taken by four
lifts. The platform is also the
foyer for the Seventh Heaven
Restaurant at the levels between
328 and 334 metres. The
restaurant’s three halls seat 288
quests. Their floors slowly rotate
one full revolution in 40 minutes,
so that the diner sees a panorama
of Moscow during the meal.
Ostankino Television Centre is
linked through Intervision and
Eurovision with all countries in
Europe and through
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Into your vocabulary:
advanced experience
to seethe
grandstand
premise
surgery
to rotate
revolution
diner
satellite
– передовой опыт;
– кипеть, бурлить;
– трибуна;
– помещение;
– кабинет врача;
– вращаться;
– круговое вращение;
– обедающий (человек);
– спутник;
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The first line of Moscow underground was opened in 1935
The Moscow metro is not only a comfortable, rapid and
economic means of travelling, but also one of the tourists
attractions. It is rightly considered to be the most beautiful in the 22
world
Test yourself !
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Question time:
- Can you answer these question?
- Have you ever been to Moscow?
- What is the heart of Moscow?
- What does “Krasny” mean?
- When was st. Basil’s Cathedral built?
- Who is the architect of the state academic Bolshoy theatre?
- Who is founder of the first Russian University?
- What is the main street in Moscow?
- When was Moscow underground opened?
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Add the sentences:
The main square in Moscow is…
1) The main street in Moscow is…
2) National celebrations are held on…
3) “Krasny” means…
4) Tverskaya is… metres wide.
5) Tverskaya radiates from…
6) The Red Square was first mentioned in…
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Agree or disagree
1. St. Basil’s Cathedral was built in Tverskaya street.
2. The Red Square was first mentioned in 15-th century chronicles.
3. The State Academic Bolshoi Theatre is the work of P. Klodt.
4. The first Russian University was founded in 1955.
5. The main street in Moscow is new Arbat.
6. P. Tretyakov presented his gallery to the city of Moscow.
7. The restaurant “Seventh heaven” is situated in Ostankino Tower.
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Список использованной литературы:
1) Скорикова Т.П. Москва и её окрестности:
Книга для чтения на английском языке. –
М.: Изд-во «Менеджер», 2000.
2) Достопримечательности Москвы: Учим
Английский язык. Google. - [Электронный
ресурс]. – http://Lengish.com/topics/topic-47
3) Московский Кремль. - [Электронный
ресурс]. – http://ru.wikipedia.org./
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