4 Choose the correct words. 1 Can you do the washing-up before / as soon as you go out? I'm going to cook later. 2 We'll have to cancel the picnic if / unless the weather improves. 3 You can check your email until / after we finish cooking. 4 You can have some chocolate as long as/as soon as you don't eat too much. 5 Keep the biscuits in the oven a few more minutes until / before they look nice and brown. 6 The sauce will be nice as long as you add / will add a bit of salt. 7 I'll get lunch when the others arrive/will arrive. 8 You won't need to cook the fish for very long if it is/will be nice and fresh.

1. A lot of tourists come to St. Petersburg because it is a large and beautiful city that is known as the cultural capital of Russia.
2. Yes, it was. It was the capital of Russia in 1712-1918.
3. I would prefer to visit the Winter Palace, the Hermitage, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Neva with its famous bridges, Kazan and Saint Isaac's Cathedrals, Nevsky Prospect and much more.
4. The Winter Palace was the first Imperial Palace and now it's the most famous building in the city, situated in Palace square.
5. The Summer Garden is situated between Kutuzov embankment and Fontanka embankment.
6. We can see there the monument called The Bronze Horseman (devoted to Peter I) and a monument, devoted to I.A.Krylov.
Krylov wrote fables. They are: The Crow and the Fox, The Elephant and the Pug, The Donkey and the Nightingale. 
7. The Russian tsars lived in the Winter Palace, which is the Hermitage museum now
8. The city of St. Petersburg was founded by tsar Peter I. It was in 1703.
10. St.Petersburg had official names: Petrograd,  Leningrad and a lot of inofficial such as  Northern Capital, Northen Paradise The City on the Neva.

1. What colour is it? What colour are they? What colour is the house? What colour are the bags? What colour is the horse?

2. Is the cat black? What colour is the cat? The cat isn't black.

3. How old is her sister? How old is her brother? How old is his aunt? How old is her son?  How old are her friends?

4. Is Ann your sister? - Yes, she is. Has Ann got a sister? - No, she hasn't. Is the bear little? - No, it isn't. Do they like the hare? - No, they don't. Does Jerry work? - Yes, he does.

5. I have got a puppy. The puppy is red. Is the puppy red? What colour is the puppy? What colour are the puppies?