Lead-in
1. Look at the pictures, read the text and write the boys’ names.
Peter Grant and Roman Savchenko are friends. Roman lives in Ukraine. Peter
comes from the UK and now he is on holiday in Ukraine. The boys spend a lot of
time together. Peter is interested in the history of Ukraine and Ukrainian traditions.
Roman likes reading historical books and visiting museums, so he has a lot to tell
Peter about Ukraine and his native town. It’s great to be friends!
1 ........................................
Key: 1 Peter Grant
2 ..............................................
2 Roman Savchenko
2. Roman is writing an article about his native town. He has some pictures.
Which picture shows:
1
a clay hut with a thatched roof
7
a well
2
a windmill
8
a cart
3
a watermill
9
a block of flats
4
a horse mill
10
a factory
5
a fair square
11
a supermarket
6
a meadow and hills
12
a stadium
Key:
1
a clay hut with a thatched roof C
7
a well
E
2
a windmill
A
8
a cart
K
3
a watermill
B
9
a block of flats
H
4
a horse mill
G
10
a factory
D
5
a fair square
J
11
a supermarket
L
6
a meadow and hills
I
12
a stadium
F
A
B
D
G
C
E
H
F
I
J
K
L
Reading
3. Read Roman’s article about his native town for the school magazine and
explain the words in bold.
Obukhiv
This week on our Now & Then page, we are looking at Obukhiv, a beautiful
town in the north of Ukraine. It has changed a lot since the end of the nineteenth
century and in fact it is a very different place today.
Obukhiv was a small town in 1897. It had about 9,000 inhabitants. There
were 56 windmills, 3 watermills and 5 horse-mills. There was a large fair square in
the centre of the town with more than 70 small shops. There were 2 schools, but
there weren’t any kindergartens. The people had small clay huts with thatched
roofs. There were a lot of fires back then. The people did not have electricity or
running water. They had wells near their huts. The inhabitants of Obukhiv could
get around on foot. They also had horses and carts for getting around in those
days.
Nowadays, Obukhiv is quite a nice big town. It has about 33,000 inhabitants.
There are 8 big factories, 3 supermarkets, 3 markets, a lot of shops, restaurants and
cafes. There are 5 schools, 1 high school 5 kindergartens and a big stadium. Today,
the people have got nice modern houses or flats. They have also got electricity and
running water. They have got comfortable cars. The inhabitants of Obukhiv can get
around by buses, minibuses or taxi.
Although Obukhiv has changed, it still looks very beautiful among green
hills, woods and meadows. Its inhabitants should work hard to keep it just like this.
4 Read the text again and answer the questions below.
1 Where is Obukhiv?
2 What was there in Obukhiv at the end of the nineteenth century?
3 What did the people have back then?
4 How could the inhabitants get around in those days?
5 What can you find in Obukhiv today that wasn’t there in 1897?
6 What should the inhabitants of Obukhiv do to keep their town beautiful?
5. a) Make notes under the following headings:
THEN
what there was/wasn’t
NOW
what there is
what the people had/ didn’t have
what the people have got
what the people could do
what the people can do
b) Now, look at your notes and talk about what Obukhiv was like at the
end of the nineteenth century and what it is like now.
Language development
6. Choose words from the list to fill in the gaps, then use them to make
sentences.
place, school, around, beautiful, modern, century, clay, green, running, roofs
1 a ............................... town
6 a different ……………….
2 ……………………... huts
7 a high ……………………
3 ……………………… houses
8 thatched …………………
4 ……………………… water
9 get ……………………….
5 ……………………… hills
10 the nineteenth ……………
7. Fill in the missing prepositions from the list.
at, on, back, in, near, in
1 …… our Now & Then page
4 we are looking ….. Obukhiv
2 …… the north of Ukraine
5 …… then
3 ……. their huts
6 …… those days
Grammar: Prepositions of Place
8. a) Look at the diagram, then complete the sentences with the prepositions
from the list below.
in front of, opposite, next to, between, on
BUS STOP
1. The post office is _______________ the bank and the cinema.
2. The shopping center is ______________ the car park.
3. The library is ______________ the hotel.
4. The school is _____________ the corner of Queen’s Avenue and Prince’s Road.
5. The bus stop is ________________ the football pitch.
Answer Key:
1 between 2 next to 3 opposite 4 on 5 in front of
b) A memory game. Look at the picture for three minutes, then answer the
questions.
Where is: the camping site? the bank? the market? the church? the baker’s?
the theatre? the bus station? the police station? the petrol station?
the bookshop? the museum? the chemist’s? the newsagent’s? the grocer’s?
the butcher’s?
How many car parks are there?
What are the names of the streets?
c) Scrambled Words Game.
Test your vocabulary. Rearrange the letters to make words.
1. cohols
.......................
3. nakb ........................
2. sumeum .......................
4. hateret .....................
Key: 1 school, 2 museum, 3 bank, 4 theatre
Communication: Giving Directions
9. a) Look at the town map in Ex. 1. You are at the camping site. Read the
dialogue and fill in the words from the list below.
right, next to, can, turning
A: Excuse me, .................. you tell me the way to the bookshop?
B: Yes, of course. Go straight down King’s Way, then take the first .....................
on
your .................... . Go down Queen’s Avenue. The bookshop is
............................
the hotel.
A: Thank you very much.
b) Use the prompts to make up similar dialogues.
1. You are at the bus station and you want to go to the bank.
2. You are at the bank and you want to go to the police station.
3. You are at the petrol station and you want to go to the baker’s.
4. You are at the camping site and you want to go to the shopping centre.
Project
10. Imagine you are an architect/a town planner. Make up a map of the town
of your dream. Write the names of the streets, choose the houses/places where
a school, a cinema, a supermarket, a car park etc. are situated. Choose a
house to live in. Give the directions of getting to your house from different
places in the town.
.................... Street
.................. Street
...................... Street
.................. Street
RAILWAY
STATION
.............................. Street
PARK
.................................. Road
.................... Street
..................... Street
Grammar: Was/Were (past simple of the verb “to be”)
Affirmative
Negative
I/he/she/it was
I/he/she/it wasn’t
you/we/they were
you/we/they weren’t
Interrogative
Short answers
Was I /he/she/it ... ?
Yes, I/he/she/it was.
No, I/he/she/it wasn’t.
Were you/we/they ... ?
Yes, you/we/they were.
No, you/we/they weren’t.
We use ..................................... with I, he, she and it.
We use ..................................... with we, you and they.
11. a) Fill in was, were, or wasn’t.
Nina:
1) .................... you at home last night?
Roman: No, I 2) ..................... . I 3) ................ at the stadium.
Nina:
Who 4) .................. you with?
Roman: I 5) ................ with Peter.
Nina:
How 6) ....................... the match?
Roman: Well, it 7) ..................... very interesting. It 8) ................ boring.
Where 9) .................. you?
Nina:
I 10) ................. in the park.
Roman: 11) .................... you with Tamara?
Nina:
No, I 12) ..................... . She 13) .................... at home.
Key:
1 Were 2 wasn’t 3 was 4 were 5 was 6 was 7 wasn’t 8 was 9 were 10
was
11 Were 12 wasn’t 13 was
b) Use the prompts below and your own ideas to make up similar dialogues.
at a café – Lida – the food – not very nice – horrible – at the cinema – your sister –
at the library
Grammar: Had (past simple of “have”)
Affirmative
I/you/he, etc had
Negative
I/you/he, etc didn’t have
Interrogative
Did I/you/he, etc have?
Short answers
Yes, I/you/he, etc did.
No, I/you/he, etc didn’t.
12. Roman and Peter are going to visit the theme park “Kyivska Rus” to see
how a Slavic city of the thirteenth century looked like. Look at the pictures
and tick (V) what people had in their cities back then and put a cross (X)
next to what they didn’t have.
blocks of flats ......
wooden houses ......
horses ......
traffic lights ......
satellite antennas ......
watchtowers ......
cars ......
gates ......
metal-plastic windows ......
13. Fill in the gaps with had or didn’t have.
1 People in Kyivska Rus ....................... blocks of flats to live in.
2 They ...................... wooden houses to live in.
3 In the thirteenth century people ....................... cars to get around.
4 They ..................... horses to get around.
5 People ...................... traffic lights to help them cross the streets.
6 They .................. gates to come into big cities.
7 They .................. satellite antennas on the roofs.
8 People in those days .................... watchtowers to see the area around the city.
9 They ....................... metal-plastic windows.
Key:
2, 4, 6, 8 – had
1, 3, 5, 7, 9 – didn’t have
Writing (a then and now article)
14. You are asked to write an article about your native village/town/city.
Find out the necessary information, use the plan below and Ex. 3 as a
Plan
Introduction
Para 1: State the name of the place.
Main body
Para 2: Write what life was like then:
a) what there was/were, there wasn’t/weren’t;
b) what people had/didn’t have;
c) what people could/couldn’t do.
Para 3: Write about what life is like now:
a) what there is/are;
b) what people have got;
c) what people can do.
Conclusion
Para 4: Say how nice the place is nowadays.
model.