Vyborg City Tour Describing places in a town/city There is/are Sightseeings (text “Vyborg”, ex. 13, p. 31, “Up & Up” Student’s book).

Describing places Match the opposites: old expensive safe crowded quiet modern ancient dirty peaceful dangerous clean noisy cheap polluted

Use adjectives to describe the places

There is/are (есть, находится, существует) В городе есть известный исторический памятник There’s a famous historical monument in the city В Петербурге много старых зданий There are many old buildings in Saint Petersburg В Париже много романтических мест There are a lot of romantic places in Paris

140 km north of St.Petersburg Near the border with Finland

Vyborg has tons of history. There’s a 13th century castle here.

Vyborg an old European town

Vyborg has been controlled by Swedes, Russians, Finns, and Russians again during its history

The architecture of Vyborg is worth seeing…

There are plenty of historic monuments, but there is some cool 20th century architecture too.

The streets clime up and down lots of little hills, so the city seems small and mysterious. You never know…

I don’t feel like I’m in Russia I don’t feel like I’m in Russia. Vyborg reminds me more of Northern Europe.

Vyborg is a romantic place. The “white nights” here are unbelievable!