1. Answer the questions:
1. What does the word “Podil” mean?
2. Who were the inhabitants of Podil at the down of Kyiv’s history?
3. What square has become the market place since 1798?
4. What is wrong in the task to the exercise 5 on page 149?
5. How many years ago did Khreshchatyk become the main street of Kyiv?
6. Why was the street named Khreshchatyk?
7. How many people stroll along this street?
8. Why, to your mind, doesn’t traffic run in Khreshchatyk on Sundays?
9. How could people enter Kyiv in ancient times?
10. What famous historical monument can you see in the Independent square?
11. Who is depicted on the top of the monument to the Independence of Ukraine?
12. Why is it especially impressive thing to visit the Independence square on holidays?
2. Find the following words in the texts, translate them into English, learn them by
heart and make up six sentences with them.
Житель, торгова виставка, рід занять, торговець,
струмок, тротуар, прогулюватися, болотистий,
виділятися, величний, вражаючий, урочистий.
