STUDENT
CARD 3
Тask 1
Give a talk
about foreign languages.
Remember to
say:
· why it is useful to study foreign
languages at school;
· how many languages you would like to
speak; what they would be;
· what you do to improve your English.
You have to
talk for 1.5–
2 minutes.
The examiner will listen until you have finished. Then he/she will
ask you some questions.
STUDENT
CARD
Task 2 (2–
3 minutes)
You play
the part of a student in an international language school. You’ve got two
tickets to a concert tomorrow. You have nobody to go with. You meet your
classmate Nicolette/Nick on campus.
· Invite your classmate to the concert.
· Answer your classmate’s questions about
your favourite musicians and music styles.
· Answer the questions about places of
interest in your country.
· Accept the invitation to visit your
classmate and her/his family. Mention that you are free after 6pm.
You begin
the conversation. The examiner will play the part of your classmate.
Remember to
· mention all four aspects of the task
· take an active part in the conversation
and be polite
Прочитайте тексты и
установите соответствие между текстами А–
G и заголовками 1–8.
Запишите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании есть один лишний заголовок.
1.
Street
performers
2.
Eating
together
3.
Important
for the whole country
4.
Lifting
weights
5.
Cooking
competition
6.
Cheese Rolling
7.
In memory
of the past events
8.
A cookery
sprint
A.
A woolsack
race is one of the British local festivals that could be called strange. It
started in Tetbury, a wool town, in the 17th century when young men wanted to
demonstrate their physical strength. Since then, every spring men and women
compete in teams to carry heavy woolsacks up and down the hill. The race events
are complemented by a funfair and musical entertainments.
B.
Midsummer
is the time for the Cheese Rolling Ceremony in many places. Competitors gather
at the top of a hill. The Master of the Ceremonies lets a heavy head of cheese
roll down the hill. Brave runners race down to be the first to catch it.
Unfortunately, the event was cancelled in 2010 due to safety issues.
C.
Another
cheese ceremony is popular in the village of Randwick. On the first Sunday in
May people roll three cheeses from right to left around the church. After
rolling, the villagers cut up and share one of the cheeses. They believe that
eating cheese brings health to their families.
D.
The village
of Marshfield, England, is famous for its Paperboys procession. People dressed
in paper costumes go through the streets. They start from the market place and
perform the town’s unique character play along the road. By noon they have done
more than six performances for several hundred people.
E.
Every
January Up Helly Aa is celebrated in Scotland. People dressed in Viking
costumes and helmets go through the streets of Lerwick. They hold flaming
torches, sticks with special material on the top which burns in order to give
light. The strongest participants carry a full size model of a Viking ship to
an open field. There the people throw lit torches into the ship and burn it.
F.
Melbourne
Cup Day is held in Australia, in November. Although Cup Day is a public holiday
only in the city of Melbourne, the rest of the country refuses to be left out
of the event. People gather around televisions and computers, whether at work,
at home, or wherever they are, just to watch this world famous horse race. This
event is often called ‘the race that stops the nation’.
G.
In a
village in Eastern England, an unusual race takes place every year. Three
groups take part in the race –
adults, children (under 11s) and teenagers. Each participant receives a frying
pan with a pancake and has to race from one end of a field to the other,
throwing the pancake into the air and catching it in the frying pan without
dropping it. The winner is the first to cross the line.
Прочитайте текст.
Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений A7 A14 соответствуют содержанию текста (1 True), какие не соответствуют
(2 False) и о чём в тексте не
сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни
отрицательного ответа (3 Not stated).
Lewis Carroll
Lewis
Carroll was the pen-name of Charles Dodgson, an English writer and author of
two of the best loved children's books in English Literature 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and
'Through the Looking Glass'. The characters and phrases from these books have
entered and become part of the English culture so if someone calls you 'Mad as
a Hatter', you know whom to thank.
Charles
Dodgson was talented in many ways. Apart from being a creative writer, he was
also a Mathematics Don (professor) at Oxford and a well-known logician. He was
interested in photography and music. He sang very well, played chess and
enjoyed creating and solving puzzles.
Charles
Dodgson was born on 27 January 1832 and spent the first eleven years of his
life at Warrington, Cheshire where his father was the priest. His family was
large; his parents had 11 children, 4 boys and 7 girls.
Charles was
educated first by home-schooling, then at two boarding schools, and finally at
Christ Church College, Oxford. Later in life, he remembered his boarding school
experience without any warm feelings. Still, he was an excellent student and
studied very well in all his subjects.
In 1854
Charles Dodgson got a 1st class degree in Mathematics and one year later he
became a lecturer in Mathematics at Christ Church College. It was then that he
started his literary career and took his pen-name, Lewis Carroll. While his
creative books and poetry were published under his pen-name, he also wrote
books on Mathematics under his own name.
When a new
Headmaster arrived at Christ Church College, he brought with him his family.
Dodgson became the family’s close friend. The Headmaster’s little daughters,
the youngest of which was called Alice, enjoyed his company very much. Charles
often entertained the girls by telling them stories about imaginary worlds with
fantastic creatures.
The story
about the adventures of little Alice became popular all over the world. ‘Alice
in Wonderland’ is primarily a children’s story, but adults have enjoyed the
novel for over a century together with children.
Many
elements of ‘Alice’ were not completely new. Talking animals, for instance, or
the story idea in which a child or children are carried away from reality into
a fantasy world. However, it was Carroll who established a new motif that would
be used again and again in children’s literature: Peter Pan, The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz, the Narnia books, and the Harry Potter books. That is the
possibility for the main characters to travel back and forth between the real
world and wonderland.
Though his
characters travelled a lot between one world and another, Charles Dodgson
himself didn’t like being away from home. The only occasion on which (as far as
it is known) he went abroad was a trip to Russia in 1867.
He died of
pneumonia on 14 January 1898 at his sisters' home. He was 2 weeks away from
turning 66.
А7 Charles
Dodgson was a brother of the famous English writer Lewis Carroll.
1) True
2) False
3) Not
stated
А8 Charles
Dodgson had different hobbies.
1) Truе 2) Falsе 3) Not stated
А9 Charles
Dodgson was the oldest child in the family.
1) Truе 2) Falsе
3) Not stated
А10 Charles
Dodgson enjoyed his years in the boarding schools very much.
1) Truе 2) False
3) Not stated
А11 Charles
Dodgson was a good mathematician.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
А12 Charles
Dodgson invented fantastic stories for his friend’s daughters.
1) True 2) False 3) Not
stated
А13 Charles
Dodgson’s children enjoyed reading his books about Alice.
1) True 2) Falsе 3) Not stated
А14 Charles
Dodgson travelled a lot around the world.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
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