many people want to visit Russia. Russia is the largest country in the

alia, Europe, and Africa) 3.The capital of which country is Ottawa? (Canada, New Zealand, India) 4.What is the name Ocean bordered by North and South America? (Pacific, Indian, Atlantic) 5.What is the longest river in the world? (Volga, Nile, Amazon) 6.What is the largest lake in the world? (Michigan, the Caspian Sea, Ontario) 7.What is the deepest lake in the world? (USA, Australia, Russia)

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1.Какая гора самая высокая в мире?

2.Какой континент самый маленький в мире?

3.Сталица какой страны является оттава?

4.Как называется океан который граничит с Северной и Южной Америкой?

5.Какая река самая длинная в мире?

6.Какое озеро самое большое в мире?

7.Какое озеро самое глубокое в мире?

zones in USA. So when it's twelve o'clock in New York it's onle eight o'clock in Alaska.The third Longest river in the world is in the USA.It's the Mississippi River. The USA is the richest country in the world.It produces more food,iron,cars,aeroplanes,books,films,music and TV programmes than any other country in the world. The USA has a population of about 260 million people.Most of them life in cities.The largest city in the USA is New York.About 8 million people live there.The second largest city is Los Angeles in California and the third largest is Chicago.

1)What is the official name of our country?
2)How many republics are there in the Republic of the Russian Federation?
3)Who was the first Russian President?
4)What is the highest law of the Russian Federation?
5)Who is the Russian President at the moment? Who is its Prime Minister?
6)When did Russia stop being a monarchy and become a republic?
7)What is its capital? What can you say about it? 8)Can you name some other major cities of Russia? 9)Russia is the largest country in the world, isn't it? 10) Where are the Altai and the Caucasus mountains situated? What other Russian mountain chains do you know?
11) Where are the rivers Lena and Ob situated? What other Russian rivers do you know? 12) What are the names of the seas around our coasts? 13) What do you know about Lake Baikal?

population of Russia?

2. What kind of country is Russia?

RUSSIA

1. Russia is one of the largest countries in the world. It occupies an area 17 million square kilometers. Russia is washed by three oceans and twelve seas and borders on fourteen countries.

2. The population of the country is about 150 million people. Russia is a republic with President as Head of State. It is one of the in the world.

3. The climate of the country varies greatly. The coldest regions are in the North and the climate here is arctic. The climate of the part is continental and in the South it is subtropical.

4. If you look at the map of Russia you will see the highest mountains in the Caucasus and the Altai, the Urals, separating Europe from Asia, many and large lakes. The longest rivers are the Volga in Europe and the in Asia. Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world and it has the

on earth.

5. Russia is a highly developed industrial country. Russia is very rich in natural resources such as oil, coal, gas, gold, diamonds and others. It has the largest oil and gas resources, concentrated in Siberia and Far East. It cars, machinery, chemicals, textile and many other items.

6. In 1957 our country successfully launched the world's first satellite, manned spaceship "Vostok" piloted by Yuri Gagarin, the citizen of Russia, was launched on April 12, 1961. It opened a new era in the history of mankind.

2. Переведите в письменной форме абзацы 1, 2, 5, 6.

3. Найдите герундий и переведите предложения на русский язык:

1. Flying from Moscow to Magadan takes eight hours.

2. I am proud of being a citizen of Russia.

3.I enjoyed travelling through Russia last summer.