1.Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a famous Russian playwright and physician.
3.Anton Chekhov was born on January 29th, 1860 in Taganrog, which is a port-city in south of Russia.
5.His mother was an excellent story-teller and a kind-hearted woman.
7.He also sang at his father’s choir at the Greek Orthodox monastery
9.Chekhov stayed in Taganrog to sell the family possessions and to finish his education.
11.After three years he joined his family in Moscow and (enter) a medical school there.
13.Before long, Chekhov discovered that he suffered from tuberculosis.
15.During one of such trips he met Leo Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky there..
17. Chekhov died on July 15th 1904.
1. You are on a train. Ask someone you don't know to close the window
- Do you mind of opening the window?
- No, I don't.
- Could you help me because I don't know how to do it.
- Sorry, I'm afraid. I can't.
- But why? Why not?
- Because of my fingerache. I've broken it.
- Oh, awful! It's a pity.
- You have to ask someone else.
- Of course, I have. It's terribly hot. What can we do?
- Let's try to look for somebody who will be able really to help...
3. You see your middle-aged neighbour in the street. Ask him/her to post a letter for you
- How do you do, Nina Vasilievna?
- I'm fine, thanks. What about you?
- Thanrs, fine.
- What can I do for you?
- Would you post a letter for me, I have no time, I have to go to meet my little sister after her classes.
- With a pleasure. Whom have you written a letter?
- To my elder brother.
- Isn't he at home?
- Oh, no. He has left to Moscow to enter the university.
- Well, give me your letter. I must go.
- Thank you very much.
- Never mind.