Pages from summer

Sent: Tuesday, the 21st of October
From: Tom Brown
Title: New friends

Dear friends,
My name is Tom. I live in London. Barbara Grey, my English teacher, told me a lot about Russian students. She said that you are very helpful, bright and creative.
I want to find good friends in Russia and to know more about your country.
Could you tell me about some famous Russian persons? How did you spend your summer holidays? And what is dacha?
I hope to hear from you in the near future.
Best wishes,

Tom

A.Pushkin
We are proud of our great poets…

Put the verbs in
the Past Simple.






On the 19th of October 1811 the State Lyceum …( to be) opened in Tsarskoe Selo, not
far from St.Petersburg. Pushkin …(to come) in Tsarskoe Selo from Moscow and … (to enter- поступить) the Lyceum when he …(to be) 11 years old.
There he …(to write) his first poems. On this picture (painted by I.Repin) we see Pushkin reading his poems at his state exam. It …(take place) on the 8th of January 1815.

Tsarskoe Selo

Turkish Sultan
Portrait of L.Tolstoy
Taking the Snow Town

some.

… of Russian people spend … time at their dachas.

They pay …attention to the trees and flowers in their gardens and grow ... different plants, vegetables and fruit there.

But … people don’t like to work… at the dachas, they prefer to have a rest and spend … weekends outdoors.

A lot of Russian people spend much time at their dachas. They pay much attention to the trees and flowers in their gardens and grow many/a lot of different plants, vegetables and fruit there.
But some people don’t like to work much at the dachas, they prefer to have a rest and spend many/a lot of weekends outdoors.

Where did Martin spend his summer
holidays?