in team race

a head coach

to run the individual race

at the Olympics

to get a golden medal in a relay

to connect tradition with social realities

the symbol of the continuity of spiritual history

to be translated into

to work at pre-school

Exercise 11. What kind of heading do you think shall fit text II?

a) Outstanding People of Khanty- Mansiysk during the Soviet Period.

    b) A Critic, a Sportsman and a Writer.

    c) Legendary People.

Answer the following questions.

1. What was organized and headed by V.Bugrov?

2. What are his rewards?

3. Where did Y.Kashkarov begin his career and what team did he play for?

4. What was his place at the Olympics in Calgary?

5. What was the main job of Konkova A.M.?

6. What are her most famous books?

Exercise 12. Match the words with their definitions.

1. festival a) a track and field discipline where runners take turns in carrying a baton from start to finish;

2. biathlon               b) a contest between people, animals, vehicles, where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective;

3. relay  c) pertaining to a feast or a feast day ;

4. coach  d) a publication issued regularly, but less frequently than daily;

5. race   e)  a winter sport combining cross-country skiing and rifle shooting ;

6. periodical    f) a trainer or instructor;

7. pre-school g) a single step in the succession of natural descent, a rank or degree in genealogy;

8. generation h) relating to early childhood, especially to those years before attendance at primary school.

Exercise 13.Do you know any other outstanding people of Ugra? Study the following resources and make matches.

http://surwiki.admsurgut.ru/wiki/index.php/Знаменитые_люди_Югры

https://admhmao.ru/ob-okruge/pochetnye-grazhdane/

1.Victor Vasilyev         a) a state counselor of RF of the 3d class and a writer;

2.Yeremey Aipin               b) the champion of summer Paralympic games (2008-2012), a European champion of 2005, athlete, volleyball player, record holder in discus throw and shot put;

3.Alexey Ashpatov            c) an engineer-geologist, who headed the first geological expedition in Ugra in1935;

4.Alexey Volkov               d) a President of Lukoil, who has state rewards for the development of oil and gas industry in Ugra;

5.Larisa Zolotukhina         e) Hero of Socialist Labor, doctor of technical Sciences, academician of the Academy of transport of the Russian Federation. Organizer of construction of roads and airfields in Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan. He led the creation of an airfield network in Western Siberia, providing landing sites for helicopters Fedorovsky, Samotlor, Variogansk, Tarasov and many other oil fields.

6.Alexandr Kasparov        f) Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Chairman of the Surgut public organization "Frontline Friends", the author of the book "Award Sheet". This personality has made a significant contribution to the development of the veteran movement of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra and military-patriotic education of the younger generation. This person is one of the initiators of the creation in 1970 of the Surgut city public organization of veterans (pensioners) of war, labor, the Armed Forces and Law enforcement Bodies and a Museum of Military Glory.

Exercise 14.Have a look at the following logical series with words taken from the vocabulary. Say which words do not fit.

An Honorary citizen of Khanty-Mansiysk, a townsman, a burgher, a townswoman, an alien;

a competition, a contest, a game, an appointment, a match;

a program, a project, a schedule, a presentation, an instruction;

to reach, to win, to conquer, to defeat, to overcome;

a training, an instruction, an education, a civilization, a tuition;

public, social, state, common, community;

a summary, a supervision, an observation, a remark;

significant, vital, fundamental, additional, important;

a paper, a contribution, a matter, an article.