Match the sounds and the words[ɔ:] Asia[i:] the Russian Federation[a:] the Baltic Sea[з:] an eagle[ʌ] the Arctic Ocean[æ] Europe[ə] a birch[ei] the Caspian Sea[juə] the Pacific Ocean

[ɔ:] the Baltic Sea[i:] an eagle[a:] the Arctic Ocean[з:] a birch[ʌ] the Russian Federation[æ] the Caspian Sea[ə] the Pacific Ocean[ei] Asia[juə] Europe

Ask the correct questions and let your classmates answer them:

• 1. What / of our country / the official name / is?

•What is the official name of our country?

• 2. Where / Russia / is situated?

•Where is Russia situated?

• 3. What mountains / a natural border / form / the continents / between?

•What mountains form a natural border between the continents?

• 4. What / wash / seas and oceans / Russia?

•What seas and oceans wash Russia?

• 5. What / of Russia / is / the capital?

•What is the capital of Russia?

• 6. What symbols / you know / do / of our country?

•What symbols of our country do you know?

Make up the words

• BELON → • VETODED → • KNAB → • EMYNE → • CHIBR → • TEWENEB →• VABRE → • SENTOH →

• NOBLE

• DEVOTED

• BANK

• ENEMY

• BIRCH

• BETWEEN

• BRAVE

• HONEST

Match the definitions with the words they describe.

• 1. A tree, one of the symbols of Russia

• 2. One who doesn’t lie or steal

• 3. One who isn’t a friend

• 4. The land along the side of a river

• 5. One who can face danger without being afraid

• A. a bank

• B. brave

• C. a birch

• D. honest

• E. an enemy

• 1. A tree, one of the symbols of Russia

• 2. One who doesn’t lie or steal

• 3. One who isn’t a friend

• 4. The land along the side of a river

• 5. One who can face danger without being afraid

• C. a birch

• D . honest

• E. an enemy

• A. a bank

• B. brave