Сборник рассказов на английском языке для чтения и обсуждения
Шрифт:
The weather is good in summer, but not very hot. In July it is about 20°C. In winter, it is cold and often below zero.
There is an airport 4 kilometres from the city centre, and there are good buses from the airport to the city.
Practice:
Are these sentences about Tallinn True or False? Correct the false ones. Try not to look at the text.
1. Tallinn is the capital of Estonia. – True
2. The centre of the city is new.
3. There are a lot of cars in the old part of the city.
4. The caf'es and restaurants in Tallinn are expensive.
5. There are seven beaches.
6. The winters are cold, but the summers are not.
7. There is an airport in the city centre.
Story Five
Paris
Paris is the capital of France. It’s a big city. The population is over two million. There are a lot of good French restaurants. The coffee is very good there! The River Seine is in Paris. There is a famous tower called the Eiffel Tower. A big street called ‘Champs-'Elys'ees’ is near the Eiffel Tower.
There are some beautiful clothes shops in the city. Some are expensive and some are cheap. There are a lot of art galleries and a famous one called Le Louvre. Paris is a beautiful city.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is a city in Scotland in the UK. It is often cold and wet in winter. Edinburgh is a very old city with a population of approximately half a million. There is a big castle on a hill in the city. There is a big street called ‘The Royal Mile’. There are some beautiful old houses in Edinburgh.
The city is famous for the Edinburgh festival every year in August. There are lots of theatre performances at the festival.
The Highlands of Scotland are north of Edinburgh.
Practice
A. Choose the correct answer.
B. Complete the table with the information about Paris and Edinburgh.
Story Six
Great lakes of the world
The oldest lake in the world
Lake Baikal is 25-30 million years old – the oldest lake in the world. It holds 20 percent of the planet’s surface freshwater. It is 650km long and nearly 2km deep.
Lake Baikal is in eastern Siberia where the winters are very cold. Temperatures average minus 20 degrees. The lake freezes for five months or more of the year. The ice is 1.2m thick, and trucks drive across the lake when it freezes.
The lake has more than 1 200 species of animals and 1 000 species of plants. It is home to the world’s only freshwater seal, the nerpa. There are approximately 50 000 nerpa in the lake. Nerpas can dive down 300m to catch fish!
Giant lakes
The world’s largest lake is the Caspian Sea in south-west Asia. It is 370 000 sq km. It is salt water and not freshwater. The world’s largest freshwater lake is Lake Superior, one of the Great Lakes of North America. These lakes are the biggest mass of freshwater in the world.
Stories about lakes
Scotland’s Loch Ness is famous for its ‘monster’, and is only 230m deep. But Lake Nicaragua in Central America is home to the dangerous bull shark, which is more than 3m long. The sharks swim up and down the San Juan River into the Caribbean Sea.
Practice
A. Read the text and complete the information in the table.
B. Answer the questions.
1. How old is Lake Baikal?
2. How long is Lake Baikal?
3. What happens to Lake Baikal in the winter?
4. What is the name of the seal that lives in Lake Baikal?
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