My Home City
We live in Togliatti. The history of our home city began in 1737 when Tatishev founded a fortress on the bank of the river Volga and called it Stavropol – the town of St. Cross.
Time passed. The town has changed greatly. Now it is a big industrial, educational and cultural centre. In 1963 Stavropol-on-Volga was renamed Togliatti in the honour of Italian communist. Togliatti is situated in the picturesque place on the great Russian river Volga. It is surrounded with forests. There are Zhiguljovskie Hills on the other bank of the river. Hydro-electric power-station was built near the Hills and a big reservoir was formed. We call it Zhiguljovskoe Sea. Citizens of our city like to spend their summer holidays at the bank of that sea swimming and becoming sunburnt. There are many rest-homes, sanatoriums and tourists’ camps around the city.
Togliatti is a centre of automobile industry. There is a big car plant VAZ which produces well-known cars Lada. There are also many chemical factories and other enterprises in our city.
Togliatti is a city of young people. The average age of the population is about forty. That is why there are many secondary schools, colleges, institutes and a university there.
There are three districts in the city. The oldest is the Central district. There is the seat of the city government. In the centre of the district there is the Square of Freedom with the monument to the heroes of the Civil and the Great Patriotic Wars. Another monument stands on the bank of the river Volga. It is a big statue of Tatishev, the founder of the city.
Avtozavodsky district is rather new and modern. There is one of biggest churches in our country there. The streets are wide and straight in this district. The traffic is heavy. There is a railway station, a river port and air port Kurumoch not far from the city.
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- native – родной
- city – большой город
- home town – родной город
- to be situated – находиться, располагаться
- to go sightseeing – осматривать достопримечательности
- to see the sights – осматривать достопримечательности
- a place of interest – достопримечательность
- a monument – памятник
- a square – площадь
- architecture – архитектура
- embankment – набережная
- surrounded – окруженный
- wide – широкий
- straight – прямой
- famous – знаменитый
- industrial – промышленный
- educational – образовательный
- cultural – культурный
- church – церковь
- a district – район
- nearest – ближайший
- far – далеко
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Правило согласования времен.
Характерная особенность английского языка заключается в так называемом согласовании времен: время глагола придаточного предложения зависит от времени главного предложения. Таким образом, если глагол в главном предложении стоит в одном из прошедших времен, то глагол придаточного предложения тоже должен стоять в одном из прошедших времен. Пользуйтесь следующей таблицей:
| Время, требующееся по смыслу и ситуации (в прямой речи) | Время, фактически употребляемое в придаточном предложении (в косвенной речи) |
Present Simple 
| Past Simple |
Present Progressive
| Past Progressive |
| Present Perfect | Past Perfect |
Past Simple 
| Past Perfect |
Past Perfect 
| Past Perfect |
Future Simple 
| Future Simple- in- the- Past |
При переводе предложений в косвенную речь не забывайте заменять обстоятельства времени:
| Прямая речь (Direct speech) | Косвенная речь (Indirect speech) |
| today yesterday tomorrow …ago this these here last year last month last… next | that day the day before the next day …before that those there the year before the month before the … before the following |
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Exercise 1: Выберите правильную форму глагола.
1. Jill said the day (is, was) warm and sunny the day before.
2. He says the weather forecast for tomorrow (is, was) sunny, no rain.
3. They hoped that their team (won’t lose, wouldn’t lose) the game.
4. George said he (had already checked out, have already checked out) the books.
5. He says he (doesn’t know, didn’t know) what the weather (will be, would be) like in October.
6. Tom told me he (is going, was going) to join the basketball team.
7. He said the Browns (are staying, were staying) with their friends in Boston.
8. They said they (won’t be able, wouldn’t be able) to join us for a trip.
9. He told me that he (had already registered, has already registered) the luggage.
10. Mr. Black said it (is, was) the most interesting game he (has ever seen, had ever seen).
Exercise 2: Перепишите следующие предложения в прошедшем времени. Обратите внимание на зависимость времени придаточного дополнительно предложения от времени главного.
1. My uncle says he has just come back from the South.
2. He says he has spent a fortnight in the Crimea.
3. She says it did her a lot of good.
4. He says he feels better today.
5. They say they spent most of their time on the beach.
6. He says they did a lot of sightseeing.
7. He says he has a good camera.
8. She says she took many photographs while travelling in Caucasus.
9. He says he will come to see us next Sunday.
10. He says he will bring and show us photographs he took during his stay in the Crimea.
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