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SOLT Russian listening — Module 4 Lesson 5, track 30

SOLT listening workbook · Module 4 Lesson 5, track 30

Task

Challenge: Listen to an authentic segment of a lecture for the military students.

A. Listen once to the recording for general information.
B. Answer the following multiple choice questions; choose the correct response.
According to the recording:

a. Russia presently twice as large as North America as far as area is concerned.
b. The area of the Russian Federation equals 1.8 of that of the United States.
c. Russia is eight times larger than the largest country in Europe with respect to area.
d. The area of the Russian Federation amounts to 2.4 times that of China.

C. Read the list of the oceans and seas that Russia borders. Then listen again and
put a check mark next to those mentioned in the lecture.

The Arctic Ocean
The Indian Ocean
The Pacific Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean
The Adriatic Sea
The White Sea
The Chukotka Sea
The Aegean Sea
The Sea of Japan
The North Sea
The Baltic Sea
The Karski Sea
The Barents Sea
The Bering's Sea
The Sea of Okhotsk
The Sea of Laptevs
The East Siberian Sea
The Baltic Sea
The Black Sea
The Azov Sea
The Caspian Sea

Transcript

Россия самая большая страна в мире по занимаемой площади.
Russia is the largest country in the world in terms of area.
Это в 1,8 больше территории Соединенных Штатов Америки.
This is 1.8 times the territory of the United States of America.
Россия занимает восточную часть Европы и северную часть Азии.
Russia occupies the eastern part of Europe and the northern part of Asia.
Граничит на северо-западе с Норвегией и Финляндией.
It borders in the northwest with Norway and Finland.
На западе с Польшей, на юго-востоке с Китаем, Монголией и Кореей.
In the west with Poland, in the southeast with China, Mongolia and Korea.
На севере омывается морями Северного Ледовитого океана.
In the north it is washed by the seas of the Arctic Ocean.
Баренцево, Белое, Карское, Лаптевых, Восточно-Сибирское, Чукотское.
Barents, Beloe, Kara, Laptev, East Siberian, Chukotka.
На востоке Тихого океана, Берингово, Охотское, Японское.
In the east of the Pacific Ocean, Bering, Okhotsk, Japanese.
На западе и юго-западе Атлантического океана, Балтийское, Черное и Азовское, а также Каспийским морем.
In the west and southwest of the Atlantic Ocean, the Baltic, Black and Azov, as well as the Caspian Sea.