How I Spent My Winter Vacation
Vocabulary List
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To come to visit
To come over
To visit a museum,
tourist site etc.
To take a train, taxi
(cab), bus, the (only with
the definite article)
metro
To fly to a city from a
city
To spend x amount of
time, e.g. “I spent three
days in Irkutsk.”
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To travel by train, by
plane, by bus, by car
To show around a city, a
site, a country
To take x amount of
time. e.g. “The trip took
three days.”
To stay in a hotel,
hostel, with a friend
To reserve a hotel room,
to book a hotel room
To pass through a city,
country, field etc.
More Vocabulary
Smoked fish, smoked
omul
 To get=to become
sick, ill
 To get, to come
down with the flu
(заболевать
гриппом)
 We all, you all, they
all (also all of us, all
of you, all of them)
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To sled down a hill,
to ride on a sled, to
go sledding
To slide on ice
To ski, to go skiing
to slip on ice (He
slipped on the ice. —
Он поскользнулся
на льду.)
To take pictures,
photos
Moscow
After New Year’s I flew from
Kurgan to Moscow.
In Moscow I met my friends
Ella and Rachel.
We spent three days in
Moscow where we stayed in a
hostel downtown.
Train!!!
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Then we traveled by
train from Moscow to
Irkutsk.
The trip from Moscow to
Irkutsk took (lasted)
three and a half (3.5)
days.
We passed through
many beautiful and
interesting cities.
Everywhere we looked
there was ice and snow
but it was wonderful to
see.
Irkutsk
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We spent two days in
Irkutsk.
We met a professor from
Irkutsk State Linguistic
University and his
student there.
Nastia showed us
around the city and was
very friendly and helpful.
There was a lot of ice
everywhere and we
slipped on it.
Baikal
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We took a bus to Lake
Baikal, where we spent
the day sliding on the
frozen lake, taking
pictures and eating in
the cafes around the
lake.
I bought a few smoked
omul and we also visited
the Baikal museum
where we saw Baikal
seals swimming in an
aquarium.
Train Again!!!
After staying in
Irkutsk for two days,
we traveled by train
to Vladivostok.
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three days and by
the end I was ready
to say goodbye to
the train!
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Vladivostok
Finally we arrived in
Vladivostok at the
edge of the Pacific
Ocean.
 We visited several
museums in the city
and because we had
become experienced
at walking on ice we
decided to walk on
the frozen ocean
there too.
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Nizhny Novgorod
Rachel flew home to
Oregon from
Vladivostok.
 Ella and I flew to
Nizhny Novgorod.
 We visited the
Kremlin, the Church
of the Nativity of
Our Lady (Церковь
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Собора Пресвятой
Богородицы) and
the
Gorky museum.
Kazan
Ella and I then
traveled by train
from Nizhny
Novgorod to
Kazan.
 In Kazan we met
other English
teachers and
walked around the
city together.
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Back to Moscow!!!
Then we all returned
to Moscow for a
conference.
 I got (became) sick
and spent most of
the time in bed in the
hotel, but it was nice
to see the other
teachers (and
Moscow) again.
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Now it’s your turn!
Please tell the class how you spent your
winter vacation.
 Did you travel anywhere?
 Did your relatives come to visit you?
 How did you celebrate New Year’s Eve?
Old New Year? The second Old New
Year?
 How would you like to celebrate New
Year’s if you were very rich?
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(Как вы бы отметили Новый год, если бы вы были богатым?)
Grammar Topic “would”
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would for unreal
situations (would
употребляется в
нереальных ситуациях
(случаях))
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The word would is used for
unreal or imagined situations
(Слово “would”
употребляется в
нереальных или
воображаемых случаях):
'I would love to visit New York.'
(Я бы хотела посетить
Нью Йорк.)
'She would like to be
professional footballer.‘
(Она бы хотела стать
профессиональном
футболистом.)
'We would go, but we are
too busy.‘
(Мы бы пошли, но мы
слишком заняты.)
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would as a past tense (would в качестве
вспомогательного глагола в сочетании с формой
инфинитива для образования форм будущего
времени в прошедшем)
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Would and wouldn't are the
past tense
of will and won't. (Would и
wouldn’t формы
прошедших времен will и
won’t.)
An example of this using
direct and reported speech
(Образцы с прямой и
косвенной речь.)
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Andrew: 'I will be late.' (Я
опоздаю.) (direct speech)
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'Andrew said that he would be
late.'(reported speech)
(Эндрю сказал что он
опоздает.)
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would in conditional sentences
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Would is used again for
unreal or hypothetical
situations in the 2nd and 3rd
conditionals (would
употребляется в главной
части условных
предложений второго и
третьего типа):
2nd Conditional: 'If I won
the lottery, I would travel the
world.‘ (Если бы я выиграла
лотерею,
я бы путешествовала по
всему миру.)
3rd Conditional: 'If I had
worked harder, I would have
passed the test.‘
(Если бы я больше работала, я
бы сдала экзамен.)
Other uses of “would”
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would not as 'to refuse‘
Wouldn't (would not) is used
to show that someone
refused to do something
(would (would not/ wouldn’t)
употребляется в
отрицательных
предложениях для
выражениях упорного
нежелания совершить
действие в прошлом):
He tried to persuade me but I
wouldn’t listen to him.
(Он старался убедить меня, но
я не хотел его слушать.)
I asked him several times to give
up smoking, but he wouldn’t.
(Я несколько раз просил его
бросить курить, но он не
хотел.)
would for past actions
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Would can be used to talk
about actions that repeated in
the past. It is used in the same
context as used to (would
употребляется для
выражения повторного
действия в прошлом в
значении бывало. В этом
случае приближается по
значению к used to):
'When I was young I would do
my homework every evening.‘
(Когда я была молодой, я
бывало делала домашнее
задание каждый вечер.)
He would sit for hours on the
shore and look at the sea.
(Он бывало сидел часами на
берегу и смотрел на море.)
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“would” for requests and polite
speech
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“would” is used in requests to
make the request more polite
(would употребляется для
выражения просьбы и
вежливости.)
Would you mind passing me
the salt? (Будьте добры
передать мне соль.) (Please
pass the salt.)
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“would” is also used instead
of “want” to make speech
more polite
Would you like to go to the
movies (cinema)? (Вы хотели
бы пойти в кино?)
Would you more cake? (Вы
хотели бы ещё торт?)
Exercises using “would”
I _____ come and see you if I _____ live
so far away.
 If I had enough money, I _____ buy that
car.
 You _____ know Russian better if you
practiced speaking more.
 I _____ like to go to Japan someday.
 ______ you like some more tea?
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Restate these sentences using “would”
(Переформулируйте эти предложения
употребляя “would”)
 I want to go to France this summer.
 I want some tea.
 Do you want to go with me?
 I want to buy some coffee.
 He wants more milk.
 I want to become a doctor after I
graduate.
 She wants to buy new tights.