Task 1. Vocabulary (10 points) Match the words with their translation.

### Task 1. Vocabulary 1. poet — c. поэт 2. scientist — a. ученый 3. writer — b. писатель 4. famous — d. знаменитый 5. born — e. родился 6. died — f. умер 7. created — g. создал 8. discovered — h. открыл 9. book — i. книга 10. poem — j. стихотворение ### Task 2. Fill in the gaps 1. Alexander Pushkin was a great Russian **poet**. 2. Mendeleev was a **scientist** who created the Periodic Table. 3. Leo Tolstoy was **born** in 1828. 4. Yuri Gagarin (saw) the Earth from space. (Note: The word 'saw' is missing from the provided list, but 'discovered' or 'travelled' might be intended depending on the textbook variant). 5. Pushkin wrote many **poems** and fairy tales. 6. Dmitri Mendeleev **invented** the Periodic Table of Elements. 7. Anna Akhmatova was a **famous** Russian poet. 8. Lomonosov was a great Russian **writer**. 9. Many people knew Tolstoy because he wrote many **books**. 10. Pushkin **died** in 1837. ### Task 3. Reading 1. False (He was born in a small village in the north of Russia). 2. True 3. True 4. True 5. False (He is called the "father of Russian science"). ### Task 4. Grammar: Past Simple 1. Pushkin **wrote** many poems. 2. Lomonosov **was born** in 1711. 3. Tolstoy **lived** in Yasnaya Polyana. 4. Mendeleev **created** the Periodic Table. 5. Gagarin **flew** to space in 1961. 6. Akhmatova **wrote** poems (Note: The text implies this, though historically less common). 7. When **was** Pushkin born? 8. Lomonosov **lived** in Germany. 9. Tolstoy **wrote** "War and Peace". 10. Mendeleev **was** a great scientist. ### Task 5. Grammar: Questions 1. When was Pushkin born? 2. What did Lomonosov discover? 3. Where did Tolstoy live? 4. When did Gagarin fly to space? 5. What did Mendeleev create? 6. What did Anna Akhmatova write? 7. Where was Lomonosov born? 8. What did Tolstoy write? 9. When did Pushkin die? 10. Who was a scientist? ### Task 6. Writing (Example: Yuri Gagarin) Yuri Gagarin was a famous Russian cosmonaut. He was born in 1934 in a small village. He became a pilot and later a cosmonaut. In 1961, he flew into space. He was the first person to orbit the Earth. He is a very important person for science. I like him because he was brave and opened the space age for humanity.