СОЧPut the verbs in brackets into the past simple or past continuous.  
  1   I  (sleep)
when my brother  (call) me.
  2                        (you/see)
a film yesterday evening?
  3   My family and I  
(enjoy) the festival last week.
  4   I  (do) my homework
while Mum  (cook) dinner.
​

In Russia schooling begins at the (1) age of six or seven. In most schoolsparents do not (2) pay for their children. These state schools are (3) free .Secondary (4) education begins at the age of ten. Secondary school pupils dodifferent (5) subjects: Russian, maths, Russian literature, physics, art,music, modern languages — English, French or German. Classes are notvery long — about forty-five minutes. In most schools pupils have towear (6) uniforms. They are of different colours. Girls usually wear skirts,blouses and jackets, boys usually wear suits and shirts.Pupils go to school five or six days a week. If they have classes on Saturdays, they usually have five lessons every day, sometimes six. Classesstart at half past eight in the morning. There are ten or fifteen minute(7) breaks after every lesson and a longer lunch (8) break . Classes are overat two or three o’clock in the afternoon.The Russian school year usually has three or four (9) tems. School-children have holidays in all the seasons — in autumn, winter, springand summer. The summer holidays are the longest.

I would like to tell you about The Moscow Planetarium. I visited it this summer and was impressed greatly.
Ranking among the most modern planetariums in the world, reopened its doors in 2011 after a long reconstruction.
Today, the renovated Planetarium continues to amaze visitors, being a great source of fun and new information. The Big Star Hall
Russian: Bolshoy zvezdnyi zal or Большой звёздный зал
features Europe’s largest star projector dome with an area of 1,000 square metres, producing a stunning effect of total immersion into outer space.

Visitors of all ages will enjoy the Lunarium
, an interactive museum presenting the laws of physics and various natural phenomena in the form of games. Create artificial clouds and tornados, generate electricity, make electronic music, ride a space bike and find out how much you weigh on other planets, ‘protect’ the planet from asteroids, send a message to aliens, and much more. The exhibits – The Black Hole, The Hyperboloid Magic Wand, The Plasma Ball and Optical Illusions are enhanced with colourful plates with fascinating written information about each exhibit.