Russia is my Homeland

1.

Russia is my Homeland
Презентация к учебнику 10 класса
«Happy English. ru»,
K. Kaufman M. Kaufman

2.

Russia is one of the largest countries in the world. The vast territory of
Russia lies in the eastern part of Europe and the northern part of Asia.
Russia is washed by twelve seas and three oceans. The oceans are: the
Arctic, the Atlantic, the Pacific. The seas are: the White Sea, the Barents
Sea, the Okhotsk Sea, the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea and others. Russia
borders on many countries, such as Mongolia and China in the south-east,
Finland and Norway in the north-west,
andlakes
so on.are Ladoga and Baikal. Baikal
The largest
is the deepest lake in the world and its water is
purest
earth.
The land of Russia varies verythe
much
fromon
forests
to deserts, from high
mountains to deep valleys. The main mountain chains are the Urals, the
Caucasus and the Altai. There are a lot of great rivers and deep lakes on its
territory. The longest rivers are the Volga in Europe and the Ob, the Yenisei and
the Lena in Asia.

3.

The Russian Federation is rich in natural and
mineral resources. It has deposits of oil, gas, coal,
The gold
current
of Russia is more
iron,
andpopulation
many others.
people.
The European
Muchthan
was 150
donemillion
by people
to reach
the present state of
part
of the country
densely peopled,
human
development.
It isisnecessary
to say that great
and most
live inof
cities
contribution
to population
the development
the and
world science and
towns
and their
outskirts.
culture,
literature,
music
and painting was made by the
Russian people. The names of Russian scientists and
writers, poets, composers and painters are world-famousPushkin, Lermontov, Chehov, Levitan. This chain can be
endless. It is almost impossible to name a branch of
science in the development of which the Russian scientists
haven't played the greatest role.

4.

Russia’s parliament, which is called the Federal Assembly,
consists of
450-member
lowerare
house
knownby
asthe
the State
Members
ofathe
State Duma
elected
Duma and a 178-member upper house called the
people
to four-year terms. Members of the
Federation Council.
Federation
are local
government
officials.
The State Council
Duma makes
the country’s
laws. The
Duma’s
These
members
include
governors
and
proposed
legislation
mustregional
be approved
by the Federation
Council
bylegislatures.
the President before
becoming
law.
leaders
of and
local
They are
not elected
However,
the State
Duma
override
a veto bywhen
the
directly
to the
council
butcan
gain
membership
Federation Council and send legislation directly to the
they
attain the local office.
President.
All The
Russian
citizens
18 years
of age
and older may
Federation
Council
approves
government
vote
in the country’s
elections.
appointments
and such
presidential actions as the
of martial
law
and
the use of armed forces
Thedeclaration
head of the
state is
the
President.
outside of Russia.

5.

The oldest and busiest sections of Moscow lie near the
Kremlin, a huge walled fortress at the city’s historic
centre. Just north and east of the Kremlin is the main
The
capitalcommercial,
of the Russian
is Moscow.
It
business,
andFederation
administrative
district.
is Encircling
one of the largest
cities
the
world. More
than
this area
andin
the
Kremlin
are Moscow’s
main
8.75
millionstreets
peopleand
livemany
in Moscow.
Moscow
is the
shopping
cultural
buildings.
Most of
cultural,
communications,
industrial,
the city’s
new residential government,
and industrial
districts lie in
scientific,
and transportation
centre of Russia. It
the outermost
rings.
lies in western Russia, in the European part of the
country. The Moscow River, for which the city was
named, flows through the city.

6.

I live in Mordovia. Mordovia Republic is located in the middle of
European part of the Russian Federation between the rivers Oka
and Sura. The relief of the region is comparatively simple being
high-hilled in the south-eastern part and flat and low mostly in the
valley of the Moksha River and its tributary streams in the west
and north-west.
isisnothing
better
and the mostdistricts.
expensive
in are 7
TheThere
republic
divided into
22 administrative
There
thewithin
world
Native
Land.
It Saransk,
gives us Ruzaevka,
wings for
towns
itslike
territory,
among
them
Kovylkino
under
republican
subordination
and Ardatov,
Insar,
flight, are
lights
every
our step.
It is impossible
to
Krasnoslobodsk,
Temnikov
under
subordination.
choose Native
Land. are
It can
bedistrict
only loved
or
Mordovia
is among
densely populated
well
assimilated
treated
indifferently
to. Everyand
man
has
his own regions
of Russia with the moderate climate of middle area. Important
Motherland. It`s the place, where a man was
railway and automobile ways cross the territory of the republic,
May
be this place
theyborn.
connect
the European
part is
of usual
Russiaand
with uninteresting
the Urals, the north
withfor
theother
Volga people,
region. but for you it is the dearest place
in the world. There is no place like home.