Talk to your partner and exchange information about your personal lives.

Student A

Find out about your partner’s life and ask questions about the following things:

· his/her hobbies;

· his/her favourite TV programme and TV star;

· his/her best friend from school;

· what he/she does at the weekend;

· what he/she is doing at the moment;

· what activities he/she finds stressful.

 

Student B

· Find out about your partner’s life and ask questions about the following things:

· his/her likes and dislikes;

· his/her favourite music and pop star;

· his/her brother/sister;

· what he/she usually does after school;

· where he/she goes on holiday and what he/she does there;

· what activities he/she finds relaxing.

Письмо

Напишіть ессе з теми "How to save our Earth?" або "I’m a Green Peace member". Кількість слів – 150.

 

 

Додаток Б

Завдання для проведення тестування учнів з другого критерію – вміння обробляти інформацію

Complete the text with the adjectives given in brackets in the correct form.

I have a lot of friends and three of them are even closer (close) to me than my brothers. Tom is a very good student, certainly (1) ____ (good) than all the other boys in my class. He also plays basketball very well because he is (2) ____ (tall) boy in our school team. Mark doesn't do any sports at all but I like him because he is (3) ________ (intelligent) person I know. He can tell you a lot about insects and other animals. He is not so good at numbers because for him maths is just (4) __________ (interesting) than zoology. George, my third friend, is (5)_______ (bad) pupil in our school. He fails all tests and exams and our teacher says he is (6) ________(lazy) student she has ever had. But I think George is (7)_______(clever) than my other classmates, he just doesn't have time to study. He helps his mother a lot with the housework and takes care of his two (8)________(young) sisters. He is also (9) ________ (kind) of all my friends. I think life is much (10) _________ (easy) if you have some good friends around.

Read the description of the lifestyle of the Amish people. Then match the paragraph titles (A-G) with the paragraphs (1-6). There is one extra title.

The Amish

1. The name 'Amish' comes from Jacob Amman, a seventeenth-century bishop in Switzerland. Although the Amish originated in Europe, they emigrated to the USA in search of religious freedom.

2. They live in small towns, also called settlements in nineteen states in the USA, southern Canada and Central America. No matter where they settled, they continued their traditional farm life and their religious customs.

3. Amish children are frequently educated at home or in traditional Amish one-room schools and they do not attend classes after the eighth grade. The Amish teach their young people how to be homemakers and farmers, carpenters and tradesmen from a very early age.

4. Some people think that the Amish are strange because they do not use petrol or electricity which pollute the environment. They are against cars, tractors, radio, television and telephones. They believe they should keep our planet clean.

5. Choosing a wife or husband is the key decision in an Amish person's life. It is interesting that instead of a diamond or gold ring, a man gives his bride china or a clock before they get married. At the wedding ceremony, the bride wears a blue dress which is the most popular color choice. Finally, the wedding usually takes place in November or December, on Tuesday or Thursday. It is a fascinating event.

6. They speak a dialect of German at home; they use 'standard' German at their church services; and they learn English at school. They speak English when they have to communicate with anyone who is not Amish.

 

A. Getting married

B. Languages

C. Reason to emigrate

D. Education and learning

E. Hopes for future

F. Ecology

G. Home towns

 

Read the text and decide if the statements are true (T) or false (F)

1. The American Gold Rush started in the second half of the nineteenth century.

2. The pieces of metal found in the river were yellow.

3. James W. Marshall didn't show the gold he found to his boss.

4. People travelled to California by horse, ship and on foot.

5. The huts in which people lived near the river were usually made of bricks.

6. The owners of hotels, bars and restaurants got really rich in California.

7. In 1897 gold was discovered in Canada.

8. Today people can look for gold in California near Sacramento.

The American Gold Rush

It all started early in 1848 in California. James W. Marshall was working by the riverside when he found some small pieces of yellow metal in the water. He showed them to his boss. It was gold. The two men tried to keep this discovery a secret but without success. Soon, the magic word 'gold' was repeated all around the world.

Everybody wanted to go to California to get rich. Thousands of people started to rush to the golden river by horse, by ship and even on foot. Night after night, a few more new towns appeared along the river. Some people brought tents to live in while others built wooden houses called huts. Looking for gold was hard work and many people were disappointed. Only the lucky ones found gold - sometimes up to $2,000 in one day.

It is not surprising that many small hotels, restaurants and bars opened in the new towns. Their owners made fortunes providing services to people who arrived in town in search of gold.

By the end of 1850, the California Gold Rush was over. However, about forty-seven years later gold was discovered again, this time in Canada. Once more, over a thousand people left their homes and families to look for a better future.

Today, at the original site of the California Gold Rush, near Sacramento, visitors can still try their luck with finding the yellow pieces of metal in the river. The old buildings have been redecorated and tourists can experience the life of the old days. Many of them are sure that they can find at least a small bit of gold.

Write down your own 5 questions and ask them to your classmates.

 

Read the letter from your China pen-friend and write him an answer.

Dear friend!

Your story about your family is really exciting! My mom said you are very lucky to have such wonderful brother! We also like to travel with my family, and today I want to tell you about our main sightseen – The Great Wall of China!

But I do not want you to be bored, so here is surprise for you) I made a quiz!
Enjoy!

The Great Wall of China is the only man-made construction that can be seen from ________. It is ________ kilometers long. It runs along China's northern border and has an unusual ________. It looks as if its architects did not have any specific plans. It looks like a snake or a long road. Nobody knows why its shape is like this but legend states that it was built to imitate __________ - a popular religious symbol in China.

The section of the Wall visited by most tourists is at Badaling Pass near ________. Here, the building material is grey granite blocks, 6 metres high. On both sides of its roof, there are low walls which protect you from falling off the Wall. In the middle, there is a road which is ___________ running side by side. Other sections of the Great Wall are built of various materials, often of poor quality, for example of wood or sand depending on whether the wall crossed deserts, plains or the country.

The people who were forced to build the Great Wall were often those who could not pay their taxes, __________. There were about one million slaves working on the wall. They lived in ________, in places called work camps. They worked without clothes during the summer and they wore only animal skins in the winter. They often died of disease and hunger. Those who died were often buried in its foundations, making the Wall the 'world's longest cemetery'.

There are still many of the original _____ left. They are about 12 metres high and the distance between two neighbouring towers is over 200 metres. The army usually lived in these towers. In the period of the Wall's ______ almost a million men stayed there.

Today the Great Wall is one of China's _______. Where else in the world can you see something built by man over twenty-two centuries ago?

My friend, do you have some questions about The Great wall of China? If yes – write me them, we will answer with great pleasure! We are very proud of it!

Please, do me a favor – write about the most interesting place you have ever visited! This summer me and my family will go to Ukraine. What can you advice to visit?

Have a good time there!

I look forward to hear from you!

Zhen Ji

Missing words

1. wide enough for five horses

2. space

3. Peking

4. 6,000

5. shape

6. 25,000 towers

7. tourist attractions

8. the movements of a dragon

9. poor conditions

10. glory

11. prisoners of war and criminals

 

Додаток В

Завдання для проведення тестування учнів з третього критерію – вміння зберігати інформацію

THE GREEN DOCTOR

By O. Henry

Rudolf Steiner, a young piano salesman, was a true adventurer. Few were the evenings when he did not go to look for the unexpected. It seemed to him that the most interesting things in life might lie just around the corner. He was always dreaming of adventures.

Once when he was walking along the street his attention was attracted by a Negro handing out a dentist's cards. The Negro slipped a card into Rudolf's hand. He turned it over and looked at it.

Nothing was written on one side of the card; on the other three words were written: "The Green Door". And then Rudolf saw, three steps in front of him, a man throw away the card the Negro had given him as he passed. Rudolf picked it up. The dentist's name and address were printed on it.

The adventurous piano salesman stopped at the corner and considered. Then he returned and joined the stream of people again. When he was passing the Negro the second time, he again got a card. Ten steps away he examined it. In the same handwriting that appeared on the first card "The Green door" was written upon it. Three or four cards were lying on the pavement. On all of them were the name and the address of the dentist. Whatever the written words on the cards might mean, the Negro had chosen him twice from the crowd.

Standing aside from the crowd, the young man looked at the building in which he thought his adventure must lie. It was a five-stores building. On the first floor there was a store.

The second up were apartments. After finishing his inspection Rudolf walked rapidly up the stairs into the house. The hallway there was badly lighted. Rudolf looked toward the nearer door and saw that it was green. He hesitated for a moment, then he went straight to the green door and knocked on it. The door slowly opened. A girl not yet twenty stood there. She was very pale and as it seemed to Rudolf was about to faint. Rudolf caught her and laid her on a sofa. He closed the door and took a quick glance round the room.

Neat, but great poverty was the story he read.

"Fainted, didn't I?" the girl asked weakly. "Well, no wonder. You try going without anything to eat for three days and see."

"Heavens!" cried Rudolf, jumping up. "Wait till I come back." He rushed out of the green door and in twenty minutes he was back with bread and butter, cold meat, cakes, pies, milk and hot tea.

"It is foolish to go without eating. You should not do it again," Rudolf said. "Supper is ready."

When the girl cheered up a little she told him her story. It was one of a thousand such as the city wears with indifference every day —a shop girl's story of low wages; of time lost through illness; and then of lost jobs, lost hope and unrealised dreams and —the knock of the young man upon the door.

Rudolf looked at the girl with sympathy. "To think of you going through all that," he exclaimed. "And you have no relatives or friends in the city?"

"None whatever."

"As a matter of fact, I am all alone in the world too," said Rudolf after a pause.

"I am glad of that," said the girl, and somehow it pleased the young man to hear that she approved of his having no relatives.

Then the girl sighed deeply. "'I'm awfully sleepy," she said.

Rudolf rose and took his hat.

"How did it happen that you knocked at my door?" she asked.

"One of our piano tuners lives in this house. I knocked at your door by mistake."

There was no reason why the girl should not believe him.

In the hallway he looked around and discovered to his great surprise that all the doors were green. In the street he met the same Negro. "Will you tell me why you gave me these cards and what they mean?" he asked.

Pointing down the street to the entrance to a theatre with a bright electric sign of its new play, "The Green Door", the Negro told Rudolf that the theatre agent had given him a dollar to hand out a few of his cards together with the dentist's.

"Still it was the hand of Fate that showed me the way to her," said Rudolf to himself.

 

Прочитайте текст двічі. Доберіть до виділених слів правильний переклад, виходячи з контексту. Випишіть до словничків незнайомі слова.

1. Встановіть правильно хронологію подій:

A. Rudolf got a card.

B. Girl did not eat for 3 days.

C. Rudolf knocked the green door.

D. He discovered all doors were green in that building.

E. The girl told salesman her sad story.

F. The negro has chosen Rudolf again.

G. Rudolf ran to the store and brought some food.

H. Salesman took his hat and went away.

2. Перекажіть текст, спираючись на встановлену хронологію подій.

3. Розсортируйте слова з поданої таблиці. У 1 колонці мають бути іменники, у 2 – дієслова (та запишіть їх у формі інфінітиву), у 3 – прикметники.

 

salesman	adventures	attracted
slipped	throw away	adventurous
examined	handwriting	pavement
rapidly	badly lighted	hesitate
knocked	pale	faint
glance	poverty	foolish
indifference	hand out	unrealised
approved	sighed	looked around

 

4. Поясніть значення слів, користуючись лише англійською.

5. Придумайте по 10 речень, використовуючи слова з таблиці та запишіть їх.