Travelling across Russia

Welcome to English Wednesday!

The tonight host: Artem Klepicov
(You can call me ‘Tim’ – it’s my casual name for foreigners and English nights)

2018 – bachelor degree in linguistics.
2020 - master degree in linguistics.

Travelling across Russia.

Tonight’s topics:
We rarely disscus travelling across Russia.
Russians are more interested in domestic tourism because of pandemic.

Let’s do some warm up activities
1. Split into groups.
2. Please, keep some distance between members of the group

Please, discuss the questions:
Do you like travelling?
What are your favourite places to travel to?
Do you like to travel across Russia?

Let’s watch the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V47PzGpmwXo&list=PLqWdYjn21PdH_SfBbtj7YBrpbTP-0BMa6&index=64&ab_channel=baldandbankrupt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31TPCwAcWLw&list=PLqWdYjn21PdH_SfBbtj7YBrpbTP-0BMa6&index=62&ab_channel=baldandbankrupt

Please, discuss the questions:
What are the main tourist attractions in Russia?
What would be the most interesting travelling experience for foreign tourists in Russia?

Read the texts in your group

Please, discuss the questions:
Do you like these tourist attractions?
Would you like to visit the tourist attractions from the texts?
Choose two tourist attractions that you would like to go to as a group.
Vote for the best option.

Choose TWO destinations from the list and present it to other groups.

Weird monuments

The Invisible Man

The first monument to the Invisible Man, the character in the eponymous H. G. Wells novel, appeared in Yekaterinburg in 1999. Artists Evgeniy Kasimov and Alexander Shaburov, members of the Blue Nosesgroup, described it as “a monument to the tragedy of loneliness and misunderstanding… in a world where people only communicate on the Web.”

Football fan

This monument to a football fan uses a stadium as a pedestal. Really! Located in Tomsk (1,780 miles from Moscow) the figure sits on a bronze seat. The football fan is totally immersed in the game, his shoelaces untied, cigarette almost falling out of his mouth. The sculpture was modeled after a 1950s photo of a fan found in the local football club archive.

Four-wheeled Lenin

The world’s one and only mobile monument to Vladimir Lenin is kept between the railroad tracks near Komsomolskaya Square, where Moscow’s three main train stations are located. Created by railroad workers in 1925, the monument was meant to be used for massive Communist meetings in towns and villages that didn’t yet have a monument to the Revolution’s leader. Lenin can be turned 360 degrees on his pedestal.

This monument has been standing in Moscow’s Kurkino district since 2006, and it’s super strange in its own right.

Snails in Love

Let’s play the game
Create a new tourist attraction in Tula Oblast/ improve the existing one.
Describe all the best benefits of visiting this place, location, tour price.
Present it to the groups.