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A City of Heroes
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St Petersburg
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Peter the Great
1672 AD 1725 AD
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A City of Heroes

• 1 The founding of St Petersburg
• 2 The destroy of St Petersburg
• 3 The restoration of St Petersburg
• 4 St Petersburg today
• Organization time order

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Language Points
of the Text
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Where there is , there is

• Where there is a river, there is a city.
• ?????,???????
• ???????
• Where there is a will, there is a way.
• Where there is him, there is trouble.

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look like

• The palaces were large and beautiful, and they
  often looked like something out of a fairy tale.
• look like ????
• You look like a child.
• It looks like (that)
• It looks like that she is heart-broken.
• sound/feel/be like
• It sounds like that her speech is not well
  prepared.

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It is adj. to do sth.

• It is difficult to do sth. ???
• It is difficulty to save the palaces and
  buildings without destroying their old beauty.
• It is adj. to do sth.
• It is easy to do a good deed, but it is difficult
  to be a good man.
• It is dangerous to play with fire.

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include

• Old paintings, including a portrait of Peter the
  Great, have been carefully recreated.
• Your name is included in this list.
• Our class, including me, went to the Summer
  Palace yesterday.
• Our class went to the Summer Palace yesterday, me
  included.

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adj. phrase,

• Strong, proud and united, the people of St
  Petersburg are the modern heroes of Russia.
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• Good-looking and hard-working, she is liked by
  her classmates.
• Tired and sleepy, I could not stay up any more.