based on Unit 1, Listening+ ex. 2
Listen and choose the appropriate answers
Nevsky Prospect. Nevsky Prospect is the main street in the city of St Petersburg. Peter the Great planned this street as the beginning of the road to Novgorod and Moscow. Now Nevsky Prospect runs from the building of Admiralty for four and a half kilometres. Many people think it's the most beautiful street of the city and are proud of it.
If you walk along Nevsky Prospect, you can see a lot of wonderful places which are situated in it or not far from it. There are squares and bridges, theatres and museums, palaces, monuments and cathedrals. The Russian Museum, Kazan Cathedral and the Anichkov Bridge are some of them. Everybody who comes to St Petersburg would like to see these places. The Russian Museum has the world's largest collection of Russian paintings. Kazan Cathedral is one of the most important churches in St Petersburg. Its building began in 1801 and after ten years, in 1811, the people of the city could see that beautiful cathedral with its graceful columns.
The Anichkov Bridge is one of the most wonderful bridges in St Petersburg. It is 54 metres long and 37 metres wide. It is situated where Nevsky Prospect and the Fontanka River meet. The bridge you can see now is the third bridge in this place. The first bridge was wooden. It appeared in 1715. The Anichkov Bridge is famous for its four horse sculptures.
- How long is Nevsky Prospect?
[3,5 km|4 km|4,5 km|5 km] - What is the Russian Museum famous for?
[its architecture|its history|its collection of pictures|its collection of Russian paintings] - How long did it take to build Kazan Cathedral?
[seven years|eight years|nine years|ten years] - How many times did they rebuild the bridge in the place where the Anichkov Bridge is situated now?
[once|two times|three times|four times]