A tourist information leaflet

Write a section of a tourist information leaflet for a building or monument in your city or a city you know.
Write 100 -120 words.

Think and Plan:

Where is it located?
When was it built?
What style is it?
What was there before?
Is there anything interesting to see inside/outside the building?
What is the history of the building?

Prepositions and adverbs of place

Prepositions and adverbs of place tell us where something happens.

Adverbs such as around, down, on, and inside usually come after a verb.

We walked around the building.

We walked down to the valley.

Prepositions are usually followed by a noun.

There was a big mural around the wall. There was an old clock inside the tower.

KEY PHRASES

Describing a building or monument

… is one of … buildings/monuments
Look right/left/up/down.
The … was built/installed in …
It is located in …
… is well worth a visit.

Checklist

When you finish your tourist information leaflet, check if you have…

passive forms;
key phrases;
checked your spelling and grammar.
- adverbs and prepositions of place.

Tatas Hryhorovych Shevchenko was born in village of Moryntsi in the family of serfs. He lost his mother at the age of nine. When Taras wos eleven his father died. So the boy was orphaned and grew up in poverty and misery. At the age of 14 he become a servant in the house of his owner P. Engelhardt. He apprenticed him to the painter Shyriayev for 4 yers. At this time he met the Russian poet Brylov. Brylov painted the portrait of the poet Zhukovskiy and sold it for 2500 roubles. the money used to by Shevchenko's freedom.

Alexander Pushkin was born in Moscow . He grew up with an older sister and younger brother Olga Levushka . Mother, Nadezhda Osipovna Hannibal , had the grand daughter Negro of Peter I, later Russian general Hannibal. Father, Sergei L. , poor landowner knew literature, was acquainted with many Russian writers and wrote himself a bit ... In the Pushkin family all interested in literature , poetry, even the children tried to write poems ." Pushkin lived cheerfully and openly , and the whole house was in charge of old Hannibal , very smart , efficient and sensible woman - later recalled one friend Pushkin .- Senior her grandson , Alexander , was a big goof and savage Kinky boy of nine or ten years old , with a dark face, I will not say to priglyadnym but with very lively eyes , from which sparks and fell ... "Maria A. Hannibal loved smart precocious grandson. The boy was also fondly attached to her grandmother , she learned to read and write Russian , and when he grew up , the eagerly listened to her stories about the Russian past , of Peter I, about his great-grandfather Hannibal .Care Pushkin went nurse Arina - serf . She knew a lot of Russian folk songs, tales and was wonderful storyteller .Pushkin loved since childhood folk tales , songs, proverbs : all his life he collected, recorded , studied them .Already renowned poet , he had lived for two years in his father's estate Pskov - village of St. Michael . Long winter evenings he spent with his old nanny Arina Rodionovna and as a child , listening to tales with passion and jokes ." What a darling these tales ! Each has a poem "- Pushkin wrote to his brother. "What a luxury, what is the point , what's the point in each of our saying ! As for the gold ! "- So said Pushkin writer Vladimir Ivanovich Dal , a great connoisseur of folk poetry .Life of the native people , nurse's tales , stories grandmother - all deeply sunk into the memory and soul of the great Russian poet and became a source of their own creativity.