Grammar 3. Revision: Past Simple
Read about the history of the Faculty of Law of the Saint Petersburg State University and put the verbs in brackets in the correct form:
The oldest law school in Russia is the faculty of Law at Saint Petersburg State University. Peter the Great … (to order) to establish a university to teach students in theology jurisprudence, medicine and philosophy in 1724. For this purpose Peter … (to invite) teachers from Germany. By the end of the 19th century, the faculty of Law … (to become) the biggest at the University. Such famous scholars as Friedrich Martens, Nikolai Tagantsev, Aleksandr Gradovsky, Konstantin Kavelin, Anatoly Koni … (to lecture) at the Faculty during the 19th and 20th centuries. Many professors … (to leave) the country after the revolution. The university … (not to have) a law faculty from 1930 to 1944. Three prime ministers of Russia - Boris Sturmer, Alexander Kerensky and Dmitry Medvedev, the leader of the Bolsheviks Vladimir Lenin and the current President Vladimir Putin … (to graduate) from the faculty
b) Write questions to the answers:
1. When did Peter the Great
1724.
2. Who did
Teachers from Germany
3. When did
By the end of the 19th century.
4. When did
In the 19th and 20th centuries.
5 Did
No, it didn't,
from 1930 to 1944?
6. Who
Three prime ministers of Russia and the President Vladimir Putin.
2)invited
3)became
4)lectured
5)left
6)did not have
7)graduated