Билет 1 Аудирование

1. What books did Laura Reddington write trying to make a living? She tried romantic fiction.

2. What kind of story did she find one day? She found the story of a man who thought he’d found a new planet, then added a famous murder case in London and mixed two stories together to make a sort of a detective novel.

3. Why does Laura think about all the details before writing a book? When she worked out all the details she concentrates on the actual writing.

Текст (№1 can cheating be stopped?

1. Read the article and say in 2-3 sentences what it is about. This text is about one of the most important problems at school and university – about cheating. The text tells us about the use of Internet to cheat and the reasons of students’ cheating.

2. Is cheating becoming a problem in the USA and Britain? Read aloud the extract which says about it. (1 абзац) More and more students at school and university are using the internet to cheat* in their coursework. In Britain, about 25 % of students copy material from the internet when they write their homework. In the USA there is a similar problem. One report showed that about 54 % of students copy from the internet when they prepare for the lessons.

3. How do students cheat using the internet? Students copy material from the internet without indicating that they are using someone else’s work.

4. Why do students cheat? Cheating helps students to avoid the hard work of writing an original work.