II. For speaking you should get 20%. Time limit 10 min.

1. Taking part in discussion, debates on the given topics--8% (4min).

Task: Speak on the given theme

1. «Food and drinks»

2. «Travelling»

3. « Music and and literature»

4. «Educational system of Kazakhstan» (Great Britain, the USA,)

5. «Customs and traditions of Kazakhstan» (Great Britain , the USA,)

6. «Famous Kazakh people»

7. «British and American celebrities»

8. «Sport»

9. «Family and personality»

10. «My ideal house»

2. Answer the following questions -- 7% (3min) (0.2 for right answer).

1. Have you ever tried English food? What did you think of it?

2. Are vegetarians healthier than people who eat a lot of meat?

3. What do you like and dislike about travel?

4. Which journey do you think is the most comfortable? Why?

5.  What kind of music do you like? Why?

6. Is it possible to live without books for you?

7. Is secondary education compulsory in Kazakhstan?

8. Do you agree Almaty is the educational centre of our country?

9. What mannars do Kazakh people differ from other nationalities?

10. What are the traditional dishes of Kazakh people?

3. Discussion on the given topic - 5% , (3min).

1. Smoking is a major problem among youth in Kazakhstan.

2. There should be a complete ban on the advertising of dangerous product like cigarettes and alcohol.

3. Women worry more about their diet than men’

4. Young people become Computer addicts and they won’t give up Computer for anything in the world.

5. Programs about violence make people more sensitive.

6. Men always think that their mothers are the best cooks

7. The main source of news for millions of people is television.

8. People’s eating habits are changing a lot

9. Vegetarians are healthier than people who eat a lot of meat

10. Compare living in an apartment to living in a house. Which would you prefer to live in?Why?

READING

Bank of texts for lreading practice

1. Reading the text and translate it. Kazakh cuisine

Traditional Kazakh cuisine revolves around mutton and horse meat as well as various milk products. For hundreds of years, Kazakhs were herders who raised fat-tailed sheep, Bactrian camels, and horses, relying on these animals for transportation, clothing, and food. The cooking techniques and major ingredients have been strongly influenced by the nation’s nomadic way of life. For example, most cooking techniques are aimed at long-term preservation of food. There is large practice of salting and drying meat so that it will last, and there is a preference for sour milk, as it is easier to save in a nomadic lifestyle.

Meat in various forms has always been the primary ingredient of Kazakh cuisine, and traditional Kazakh cooking is based on boiling. Horse and mutton are the most popular forms of meat and are most often served in large uncut pieces, which have been boiled. Kazakhs cared especially for horses which they intended to slaughter-keeping them separate from other animals and feeding them so much that they often became so fat they had difficulty moving.

A platter of horse meat served traditionally as an appetizer.

Common and traditional dishes Besbarmak, a dish consisting of boiled horse or mutton meat, is the most popular Kazakh dish. It is also called “five fingers” because of the way it is eaten. The chunks of boiled meat are cut and served by the host in order of the guests’ importance. Besbarmak is usually eaten with a boiled pasta sheet and a meat both called shorpa, and is traditionally served in Kazakh bowls called kese. Other popular meat dishes are kazy (which is a horsemeat sausage that only the wealthy could afford), shuzhuk (horsemeat sausages), kuyrdak (also spelled kuirdak, a dish made from roasted horse, sheep, or cowoffal, such as heart, liver, kidneys, and other organs, diced and served with onions and peppers), and various horse delicacies, such as zhal (smoked lard from horse's neck) and zhaya (salted and smoked meat from horse's hip and hind leg). Manti, a very popular Kazakh dish, is a spiced mixture of ground lamb (or beef) spiced with black pepper, enclosed in a dough wrapper. Manti are cooked in a multi-level steamer and served topped with butter, sour cream, or onion sauce. The introduction of flour to Kazakh cuisine brought about dishes such as baursak, shelpek.Baursak is made by frying dough balls, and shelpek is a flat cake made in a similar fashion. Irimzhik is a cottage cheese processed in the spring, made from boiled, unskimmed milk and added sour cream. Suzbe and katyk are strained and thickened sour milk. Koryktyk is a herdsman’s food, which is thickened milk made out on the steppe.

Manti in a steam cooker

Shubat (fermented camel’s milk) and Kumys (fermented mare’s milk) are seen as good for one’s health and is imbibed often.