Страноведческая игра "Around Russia"

What is

the largest country

in the world?

What

do you know

about it?

PRESS AND GUESS

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• This is the national Ural dish with a funny name. It is similar to dumpling and varenyky but made from minced meat and has got a broth inside that’s why it is called «posikunchiki»

• The border of Russia and China in this place between these twin-towns is only 700 metres.

Read the text and fill in the gaps transforming capitalized words.

Guess about the place.

This is the farthest North-West of Russia where there is no internet, mobile phone services, TV, etc.

Even time ________ by days of mileage or breaks between meals.

The nature is the most ______.

The weather is _________ here – 30-35 degrees above zero in summer and 55-60 degrees below zero in winter. It’s often ______ and ______.

measure

beauty

If you ____ Russian and want to visit this place, you should have a special tourist voucher but if you are a ________ you need a visa for 60 days.

change

mist/ cloud

be

foreign

Match the words and guess the name of city

Cathedral

Peter

the Winter

the Great

Fortress

Museum

St. Isaac’s

Peter and Paul

Russian

Palace

• Order the words to make sentences and guess about the city

• border /is /the /on /Asia/ biggest/ This /city the /of /and /Europe.
• bicycle/ invented /in/ Here /the /was/ first /1801.
• found / This/ 100 /city /nations /was /an /iron /melted/ but/ now/ over /as /live/ there /factory.

• Match the parts of sentences to guess about the city

That Kremlin is still unknown.

Salvador Dali’s wife was a heritage of UNESCO.

This city is born there.

The origin of the located on the river Volga.

name of this city is

• In 2004 a village Kukuboy became a homeland of this character of Russian fairy tales. She is a friend of man who can die from something hidden in egg.

• Prototype of this toy is a bald headed wise man Furukuma that was brought in Moscow from Japan in 1890. Its authors are a turner Vasiliy Zvezdochkin and an artist Sergey Malutin.

Fill in the map. What is it?

• The north-west of the permafrost kingdom where diamond are mined has an original name «Улюю Черкечех». How is it called nowadays?

• This bridge of E.K. Knoppe made by project of Russian engineer L.D. Proskuryakov awarded the gold medal as the greatest achievement of technical idea in Paris in 1900. Now you can see it on a 10-rouble bank-note and in this city.