Listen to the texts 14 and match them with the descriptions of the travellers.0:02
A D famous travellers 1.0:09
Jonathan Swift wrote the book about Gulliver's travels.0:16
In Swift's book, Gulliver was a sailor and a traveller.0:21
He made several voyages.0:25
He visited the land where very small people lived.0:28
He also visited the country where big people lived.0:31
They were very, very tall.0:35
One day he arrived in the land where people were horses, servants.0:38
The first sea traveller of our country was Vitus Bering.0:46
He was born abroad in 1680.0:50
Bering was much interested in traveling.0:54
Russian Emperor Peter the Great invited him to live and work in Russia.0:57
Bering traveled on Russian ships and made many discoveries in the seas of the North.1:02
Nikolai Mikhailovich Przewalski was born in 1839 near the city of Smolensk.1:12
This famous Russian traveler made several journeys to Central Asia.1:21
He was also a great naturalist, interested in birds, animals and plants.1:25
A type of wild horses has got his name.1:32
David Livingstone was born in 1813 and died in 1873.1:37
He spent his young years in Scotland.1:43
Livingstone's family was rather poor and the boy didn't have any teachers.1:47
But easily learnt Greek, Latin and mathematics and became a student of Glasgow University.1:51
Livingstone was one of the greatest travellers who spent a lot of time in Africa.1:58
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