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The 13th of February Classwork In the past

Read right! • [au]: town, down • [ᴐ:]: anymore, because • [ᴐ]: restaurant, was, what • [ou]: though • [u]: saloons • [ʌ]: nothing, some

Make opposites Clean, crowded, polluted, ugly, busy, beautiful, quiet, deserted

Fill in the correct words. • I like small towns. The air is _________ and fresh there. • The main street of the city is very _________________. There are lots of nice buildings and decorations. • Lots of European towns are very small, peaceful and ________. • There are several _____________ towns. People don’t live there anymore.

• Do you know any Russian or Soviet ghost towns? • Have you ever heard about Chernobyl?

Read the short text about Chernobyl. Mark with “+” what you know, “?” what is new for you and “!” what surprises you Chernobyl was a city in northern Ukraine, in the Kyiv Oblast near the border  with  Belarus.  The  government  evacuated  the  city  in  1986  due  to  the  Chernobyl  disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which is located 14.5 kilometers (9  miles)  north­northwest.  The  power  plant  was  named  after  the  city,  and  located  within Chernobyl Raion (district), but Power Plant workers lived in Pripyat, a city,  which was larger and closer to the power plant. Though  the  city  today  is  mostly  uninhabited,  a  small  number  of  inhabitants  live in houses marked with signs stating that the "Owner of this house lives here".  Before  the  government  evacuated  the  people,  there  lived  about  15,000  residents.