Презентация к викторине по английскому языку "Города мира"

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  Cities of the
  world
  

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  GREAT BRITAIN
  Like London this city has West End and East End. The West End is famous for its cafes, prestigious hotels, clubs and restaurants. East End used to be an industrial centre.
  

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  GREAT BRITAIN
  The famous character of J. Verne’s book Captain Grant set off from this Scottish city on his ship “Britania”
  

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  GREAT BRITAIN
  Situated on the banks of the river Clyde, this is the largest city in Scotland and one of the largest in the UK.
  

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  Glasgow
  

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  GREAT BRITAIN
  This city has the oldest and second largest metro system in the world, dating from 1863
  

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  GREAT BRITAIN
  An unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper continued his murders on the streets of this city.
  

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  GREAT BRITAIN
  Famous landmarks of this city are :
  The Tower , Tower Bridge, London Eye, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Squire, the British Museum.
  

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  London
  

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  GREAT BRITAIN
  Each summer in August this city hosts a world-famous festival established in 1947.
  

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  GREAT BRITAIN
  It is the birthplace of famous British writers:
  Walter Scott and R. L. Stevenson
  

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  GREAT BRITAIN
  It has been recognised as the capital of Scotland
  since the 15th century
  

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  Edinburgh
  

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  GREAT BRITAIN
  It is the city on the river Thames in central southern England
  

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  GREAT BRITAIN
  It is known as “the city of dreaming spires”, referring to its harmonious architecture.
  

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  GREAT BRITAIN
  The oldest European university was founded in this city in 1117.
  

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  Oxford
  

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  GREAT BRITAIN
  The city is located on the banks of the river Mercy and is the second major port in Great Britain after London.
  

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  GREAT BRITAIN
  The city is home of two football teams. One of them is Everton, the other has the same name as the city.
  

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  GREAT BRITAIN
  The city is the birthplace of the world-famous music band “The Beatles.”
  

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  Liverpool
  

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  The USA
  The city was founded in 1781 by the Spanish governor Felipe De Neve.
  

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  The USA
  The city is the world leader in the creation of TV productions, video games and recorded music.
  

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  The USA
  The most famous district of the city is Hollywood.
  

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  Los Angeles
  

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  The USA
  During the Gold Rush in 1849 it was the largest city on the west coast of the USA
  

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  The USA
  Three forth of the city were destroyed by the 1906 earthquake.
  

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  The USA
  The most famous landmark of the city is the Golden Gate Bridge.
  

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  San Francisco
  

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  The USA
  This city was founded in 1791. It is not part of any US state.
  

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  The USA
  Six of the ten buildings included in the list of American’s Favourite Architecture are in this City.
  

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  The USA
  The city is named after the first president of the USA.
  

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  Washington
  

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  The USA
  It traces its roots to 1624 when it was a trading port of Dutch colonists named New Amsterdam.
  

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  The USA
  It consists of five boroughs- Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island.
  

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  The USA
  It is the most popular city in the USA, often described as the financial, commercial and cultural capital of the world.
  

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  New York
  

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  The USA
  This is the third most populous city after New York City and Los Angeles which is situated on the shores of the Lake Michigan.
  

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  The USA
  The name is taken from French and is translated as "wild onion" or "wild garlic“.
  

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  The USA
  Since 1970s Broadway has shown a musical about the crime and corruption that existed in this city in 1920s.
  

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  Chicago
  

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  Russia
  The factory of cold weapons was built in
  this town in 1815. The first workers were from the German city Zolinger.
  First Russian steel cannons were made there too.
  

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  Russia
  The town was given the nickname “Ivan the Wing” after the famous artist Ivan Bushuev who decorated cold weapons with engravings of flying winged horses.
  
  

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  Russia
  Now this town in the Ural region is known as the town of artistic engraving on weapons such as knives and swords. This sword made of Damask steel was registered as the longest in the Guinness Book of Records .
  

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  Zlatoust
  

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  Russia
  From 1589-1925 this city was called Tsaritsyn. It is situated on the western bank of the river Volga and is 80 kilometres long.
  

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  Russia
  The city became famous for its resistance against the German Army in the Second World War.
  

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  Russia
  The famous memorial complex on the Mamayev Kurgan was constructed in this city after 1946.
  

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  Volgograd
  

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  Russia
  This is the forth largest city in Russia. It was founded in 1723 on the River Iset.
  

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  Russia
  Collections of the Hermitage Museum were evacuated from Leningrad to this city in July 1941 and remained in it until October 1945.
  

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  Russia
  Early in the morning of July 17, 1918 Tsar Nikolai, his wife and their children Olga, Tanyana, Maria, Anastasia and Tsarevich Alexei were murdered by the Bolsheviks at the Ipatyev House in this city.
  

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  Yekaterinburg
  

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  Russia
  For a brief period during the Russian Civil War in 1918-1920 this city was used as the capital of “White Russia”
  

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  Russia
  F.M. Dostoyevsky served his sentences in Ostrog in this city from 1850-1854. He described his impressions in his novel “The Notes from the Dead House”.
  The State University of this city was named after
  F.M. Dostoyevsky.
  
  

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  Russia
  The city is situated on the banks of the river Irtysh.
  The development of this city started with the construction of Trans- Siberian Railway in the 1980-s
  

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  Omsk
  

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  Russia
  This city is a large port on the bank of the river Volga.
  Its name means “boiler”
  

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  Russia
  Founded more than 1000 years ago as a border fortress, this city was captured twice.
  Firstly by Khan Ulu Makhamed in 1438.
  And in 1552 by the troops of Ivan the Terrible.
  
  

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  Russia
  In 2013 this city hosted the XXYII Summer World Student Games.
  In 2018 it was one of the cities that hosted the World Football Cup.
  

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  Kazan
  

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Викторина "Города мира". Класс делится на 2-3 команды. Команде дается по 3 подсказки (clues), чтобы угадать город. Если команда угадывает с 1й подсказки, она получает 3 балла, если со 2й - 2 балла, если с 3-й - 1 балл. Можно задавать вопросы командам по очереди, или предложить отвечать на вопросы письменно, тогда команды могут давать ответы одновременно.