UNIT 6. In the city

6. Do the crossword

5. Watch the video

4. Do the test

3. Match the translations

2. Watch the introduction of the town

1. Learn the vocabulary

LEGENDS ABOUT MINSK

1) Answer the questions

What old towns do you remember? 

What old towns would you like to visit and why? 

Is Minsk an old city? 

Do you know why people call Minsk – Minsk? 

Do you know any legends about our capital?

 

1) Look at these words and pictures. Match them in pairs:

1) bogatyr
2) to exchange
3) at the crossing
4) to sell (sell-sold)
5) trade roads
6) windmill

 

2) Read the definitions and match them with the words from exercise 1: 

1. a very strong man/hero in fairytales:

2. a building that makes flour from grains:

3. to give or take one thing in return for another:

4. a road with traders:

5. a place where roads meet:

6. when you give money get something for that:

 

1) Fill in the words from the box. Find one sentence that explains the name of Minsk. 

Group A

Bread, strong, bridge, ago, live

The first legend says that many years 1)… there lived a famous bogatyr. His name was Menesk. He lived near the 2)… over the Svisloch River. The bogatyr was very 3)… . He built a windmill on the river Svisloch near the road. Menesk didn’t use flour to make 4)…, he made bread from stones. Brave (храбрый) and strong people came to Menesk and started to 5)… near the windmill. So, Minsk got its name after bogatyr – Menesk.

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2) Write down 3 questions to the underlined words in your texts. *

1) Read your legend about Minsk. Fill in the words from the box. Find one sentence that explains the name of Minsk. 

Group B

Modern, live, founded, century, people

Another legend says that Minsk was 1)… on Menka River. It was 16 km away from 2)… Minsk. In the 11th 3)… the people left the Menka and started to 4)… on the Nemiga River but they kept (сохранили) the old name – Mensk. Some 5)… think that the Nemiga River had another name (еще одно название) in the past. The Nemiga River was called the Meniga River and gave Minsk its name.

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3) Write down 3 questions to the underlined words in your texts. 

1) Read your legend about Minsk. Fill in the words from the box. Find one sentence that explains the name of Minsk. 

Group C

People, things, two, ago, money

There is also a version (версия) that many 1)… years Minsk was a market at the crossing of trade roads and stood on 2)… rivers: the Nemiga and the Svisloch. People sold and bought 3)… there. They exchanged things because there was no 4)… in those times. 5)… called that place Mensk after the word (из-за) “менять” – “exchange”. Later it became Minsk.

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3) Write down 3 questions to the underlined words in your texts.