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What do you know about Nikolai Gumilyov? Have you ever read his poetry? Did you enjoy it? B. Listen and say which of the following facts are true, false or not stated in the text. Текст аудирования: POET AND TRAVELLER Nikolai Gumiliov was born in 1886. When a child he was a great reader and he began writing poems very early. Most of all the boy liked reading about far-away countries and travelling. At the age of 12 he made his first journey when his family moved to Tiflis (now Tbilisi). Nikolai loved living in the south where the sun was so bright and the sky was so blue. In Tiflis he published his first poem in a real grown-up newspaper. The family returned to St Petersburg where Nikolai went to grammar school. The boy was not among the best students but the Head of the school, Innokenty Annensky, a poet himself, understood very early how talented the boy was. After finishing school Nikolai left home for Paris, where he became a student in the Sorbonne University. He continued to think about travelling. Most of all he wanted to see Africa. His father didn’t like the idea and the young man secretly put away some of the money his parents sent him and in 1907 went to Africa: first to Egypt and then to Sudan. Before going away he had written a lot of letters to his parents and asked his friends to send them to St Petersburg, to his parents as he didn’t want them to worry about him. Africa caught his imagination, he fell in love with it as soon as he saw it. He travelled about the continent more than once and helped to study the life and cultureof its peoples. But most importantly, the new impressions made him write wonderful poems. 1) In the poet’s early years one of his greatest pleasures was books. 2) Nikolai began to think about travelling after he visited Tiflis. 3) Tiflis was the place where Nikolai’s poem first came out in print. 4) Nikolai’s new school was one of the best in St Petersburg. 5) Innokenty Annensky, the school’s Head, was an author. 6) Nikolai’s father wanted to send his son to Africa. 7) The poet didn’t write to his parents from Africa. 8) The poet did some scientific work in Africa. 9) Gumilyov’s poems about his travels soon made him famous.

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