4 ABOUT YOU Answer the questions. Then compare your answers with a partner. 1 Which animals do you like / dislike? Why? 2 In addition to the animals in the text, which animals are endangered in your country? Why? 3 What are people doing to save these animals? 4 Do people hunt animals in your country? Why? 5 Is pollution a problem where you live? Why?

1. When do students answer the teacher's  questions?
Whose questions do students answer during the lesson?
2. What words does Smirnov learn at home? (какое второе выделенное слово?)
3. When do you usually translate long texts from English into Russian?
What kind of texts do you usually translate from English into Russian at your lessons?
What do you usually translate from English into Russian at your lessons?
4. What does your daughter usually read in the evenings?
When does your daughter usually read books?
5. Whose wife does know French well?
What does your friends wife know well?
How does your friend's wife know French?
6. Who does often tell you about her work?
What does she often tell you about?
7. When do you go to the ministry?
Where do you go after breakfast?
8. Who does often speak to you about English lessons?
What does he often speak to you about?
9. Whose son do read French badly?
How does Mike's son read French?

St Petersburg is known for its musical traditions. There are wonderful opera houses like the Mariinsky Theatre. Its famous conductor Valery Gergiev organises the annual Easter Festeval of classical music. The Mariinsky is famous for the first nights of outstanding Russian operas like Life for the Tsar (or Ivan Susanin). the first Russion national opera.by Mikhail Glinka. It was straged in 1836.
The world-famous Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in the town of Votkinsk. His most famous works are the ballets Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty. His music is considered to be romantic and sentimental.
The Russion choral tradition is long. The first Russian folk choir was organised by Prince Yuri Golitsyn in the village of Novocherkutino (now Lipetsk Region) in 1856.
Many Russians like jazz. The famous Oleg Lundstrem big band was fouded in Shanghai,China, by Oleg Lundstrem and his brother Igor in the 1930s to Moscow. Their concerts have always been very popular and successful and they have often played to full houses.