Dialogue: Sally: Oh Sam. I`m tired of your sitting and drinking tea near the fire – place all time.
Sam: Sally, dear. What`s the matter?
I have a headache of you.
You need a rest.
Sally: Enough of me, I am going to visit any country.
Let me see (дивиться турист. агенство)
Oh, It`s great. I`ve found a tour to Ukraine, Kyiv for a week by plane.
I am going to visit Ukraine, Kyiv. I’d like to see some cathedrals.
Sam: Oh, darling. Don`t leave me alone.
I`m going with you too.
Listening is the next station.Listen to the text “ Main cities of Ukraine”.
Two times, than your task will be:
Fill in the gaps with the names of the main cities: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Zaporizhia, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk.
The next station is Kyiv.
What do you know about the history of Kyiv?
The history of Kyiv
Kyiv is one of oldest cities in Eastern Europe, its official history dating to the 5th century, although settlement on this location was present since much earlier. According to an ancient legend, Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, was founded by three brothers, Kyi, Schek and Khoryv, and their sister Lybid. Kyiv means the City of Kyi.
By late 9th century Kyiv became the chef-lieu of the emerging state of the Eastern Slavic tribes, and between the 10th and early 13th century, it reached its golden age as the capital of the first Ukrainian state known today as Kyiv Rus, which predated modern Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
In the middle of the 13th century Kyiv Rus was overrun by the Mongols, and later this century Kyiv became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1654 Kyiv was liberated from the commonwealth by Cossack Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, who then promptly signed the city over to become a protectorate of Russia. In 1775 it was completely annexed by the Russian Empire. The city remained under Russian rule, with brief, but uncertain, periods of independence between 1918 and 1920. During these two centuries, Kyiv experienced growing Russification and Russian immigration. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kyiv became the capital of independent Ukraine and it is now quickly learning the role of a large European capital.
