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Вот ваше домашнее задание на двадцать седьмое января четверг:
Speaking
Textbook
- ex. 37 p. 27
- ex. 40a p. 28 Fill in the table with the things you like
Workbook
- exe. 64-65 p. 83
Multimedia
- exe. 4, 6, 7
Listening Comprehension
FSiLearn
Lesson 6
Extensive Listening: Family Video 1 (watch from 0:39 to 1:56) on the page or on YouTube
Reading
Stage 2 Part 2
- review vocabulary for stories on pp. 11 and 13 by rereading the articles and working with Cram
- preview vocabulary for stories on p. 15 ("Вселенная Интернета) and p. 17 (Ночь музеев)
[look at the first word, then go to the body of the article and scan it for this word; once found - highlight/underline/put an asterisk* next to it. Repeat with the rest of the words.
vocab for the story on p. 15 about the Internet is on p.16 and for story on p. 17 about museums is on p. 18
Remember: we are not reading the stories, we are just searching for the words from the vocabulary list on pp. 16 and 18]
Дмитрий Шостакович
Краткая биография
- born 25 September 1906 and died 9 August 1975
- a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist
- regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century and one of its most popular composers.
- combined a variety of different musical techniques into his works
- his music is characterized by sharp contrasts, elements of the grotesque, and ambivalent tonality
- he was also heavily influenced by the neoclassical style pioneered by Igor Stravinsky
- orchestral works include 15 symphonies and six concerti
- Other works include three operas, three ballets, several song cycles, and a substantial quantity of music for theatre and film
Here is one of the examples of his music for film - from The First Echelon -"Waltz No. 2"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgMaykdYrF0
His best known piece is a Leningrad Symphony (Symphony #7) dedicated to the city and its' people and their bravery and steadfastness during the Siege of Leningrad.
His best known piece is a Leningrad Symphony (Symphony #7) dedicated to the city and its' people and their bravery and steadfastness during the Siege of Leningrad.
Илья Репин - Ilya Repin
- born 5 August 1844 and died 29 September 1930
- a Russian realist painter
- was one of the most renowned Russian artists of the 19th century
- his position in the world of art was comparable to that of Leo Tolstoy in literature
- born in Chuguyev, in Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire (now Chuhuiv in Ukraine, Kharkiv Region) into a family of Russian "military settlers"
- his father, a retired soldier, sold horses
- began painting icons at age sixteen
- failed at his first attempt to enter the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg, but went to the city anyway, audited courses, and won his first prizes in 1869 and 1871
- in October 1876 began to show his work at the exhibitions of the leading new Russian artistic movement, The Wanderers (Передвижники)
- in 1872, after a tour along the Volga River, he presented his drawings at the Academy of Art in St. Petersburg
- The Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich awarded him a commission for a large scale painting, The Barge Haulers of the Volga, which launched his career
- spent two years in Paris and Normandy, seeing the first Impressionist expositions and learning the techniques of painting in the open air
- quit his teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1905, following the violent repression of street demonstrations by the Czarist government
- welcomed the February Revolution in 1917
- was appalled by the violence and warfare that followed in the October Soviet Revolution
- Finland broke away from Russia in 1917, and Repin was unable to travel to St. Petersburg, even for an exhibition of his own works in 1925
- The government of Joseph Stalin insisted that Repin give up his Finnish residence and citizenship, and return to the city, but he refused
- died on 29, September, 1930, at the age of 86
- buried at the Penates
- his home is now a museum and a UNESCO World Heritage site
His major works include Barge Haulers on the Volga (1873)
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885)
and Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1880–1891)
Here is a link to the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, where his works are displayed:
Царское село - Tsarskoye Selo ("Tsar's Village")
- was the town containing a former residence of the Russian imperial family and visiting nobility
- located 15 miles south from the center of Saint Petersburg
- forms part of the town of Pushkin
- on the list the World Heritage Sites
- The town bore the name Tsarskoe Selo until 1918, Detskoe Selo (Russian: Детское Село, lit. 'Children's Village') between in the years 1918–1937, then Pushkin (Russian: Пушкин) from 1937 onwards
Летний сад - The Summer Garden
- is a historic public garden that occupies an eponymous island between the Neva, Fontanka, Moika, and the Swan Canal in downtown Saint Petersburg, Russia
- shares its name with the adjacent Summer Palace of Peter the Great
- the idea for the creation of the park dates back to early 18 century when Russia took these lands from Sweden in the Great Northern War
- features original and copied sculptures of classical mythology characters, a former royal palace and a monument to the fable author Ivan Krylov, the garden is now a branch of the Saint Petersburg-based national art treasury Russian Museum
Эрмитаж - The State Hermitage Museum
- a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia
- the largest art museum in the world by gallery space
- was founded in 1764 by Empress Catherine the Great
- has been open to the public since 1852
- its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three (3) million items
- the collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors
- apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya, and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building are also part of the museum
- has several exhibition centers abroad
- The Hermitage is a federal state property
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