Билет № 11

Listen to the letter to parents and answer the questions below.

1​ Why did the parents send his son to Britain?

2​ What strange habits does the family have?

3​ How does the boy describe English people?

Script

Dear Mum and Dad,

It was a great idea to send me over to Britain to learn English this summer! We do have English lessons in the day, and I have to talk to the family I stay with here.

Do you know most English people only talk about the weather? Sometimes we have rain, sometimes windy days, sometimes fog but I haven't seen any snow yet. After all it is summer.

The family I live with are very nice. But they have some strange habits. They drink tea all the day: at breakfast, in the afternoon and at bedtime. And they eat butter with salt in it!

If I go out in the evening, I often eat fish and chips. The food is wrapped in a newspaper.

They have a son. He works as a clerk in a big office. Every morning he gets up at six, does his physical exercises and has his morning meal. Then he leaves the house and walks to the station.

Here on the coast we travel by bus. The buses are always late. I was knocked down by an old lady the other day because I didn't stand in the queue she hit me over the head with her handbag.

English people seem very quiet and reserved, usually. If we make a noise on the bus they look embarrassed so I was very surprised to see how violent they become about queues. Also, if you ask them directions, they suddenly become very chatty.

Your loving son.

Билет № 12

Listen to the tale about the lion and the goat and answer the questions below.

1​ Why was the goat left behind the other goats?

2​ Whom did she meet in the cave?

3​ Why did the lion go out of the cave?

Script

Once upon a time there was an old goat. One day, when it was getting dark, she was returning home with many other goats. As she was old and weak she got tired and was left behind. It became quite dark, and as she could not find her way back, she decided to enter a cave that she saw near by. What was her surprise when she went in and found a lion sitting there. She was terribly frightened and stood still for a moment, and then she thought of what she could do.

"If I try to run" she thought, "the lion will soon catch me, but if I pretend not to be afraid of him I may save my life."

She walked boldly up to the lion as if she were not afraid of him at all. The lion looked at her, looked and looked. He did not know what to think of this goat’s boldness He knew goats had never dare to come near him. At last he thought she could not be a goat but must be some other strange animal which he had not seen before.

"Who are you, old one?" he asked her.

"I am the Queen of the Goats," she answered. "I came to devour a hundred of tigers, twenty-five elephants and ten lions. I have already eaten the hundred of tigers and twenty-five elephants and now I am looking for ten lions. "

The lion was very much surprised to hear this, and believed that the goat had really come to devour him. So he went out of the cave, saying that he was going to wash his face at the river and ran away.