My exam nightmare.

1) Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets: past simple, past continuous or past perfect:

I woke up (wake up) on the morning of the maths exam with a horrible feeling in my stomach. I knew that I _______ (not study) enough the night before and that I was going to fail.

When left home it _______ (rain) and there was a lot of traffic. I ________ (arrive) five minutes late and the exam ________ (already / start). I sat down quickly and looked at the questions. I _______(not can) answer any of them! It was the most difficult exam the teacher _______(ever / give) us. I ______(sit) next to one of my friends called Sophie and I could see that she _______ (write) very quickly. She was great at maths. Suddenly I had an idea. I ______ (look) at the teacher, Mr.Everitt.

He _______(stand) by the window and he ________(not look) at us. I wrote a message on a piece of paper and ______ (throw) it to Sophie. It said ‘I need help’. Sophie _______(already / finish) the exam. She copied the answers on a piece of papered quickly passed it to me.

The following day Mr.Everitt ______ (call) us both to his room. We saw that he ________ (hold) my exam paper, and Sophie’s, too. He told us that we ______ (both/ fail) the exam. We _______ (write) exactly the same answers for every question, including several wrong answers.

2) Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use the past simple (e.g. I was going), past continuous (e.g. I was going), or past perfect (e.g. I had gone).

1. I was waiting (wait) to play tennis yesterday when my partner _________ (call) me to say that he ________ (not can) come because his car ________________ (break down).

2. Ireland _________ (beat) England yesterday. England ___________ (win) 1:0 in the first half but Ireland _________ (score) two goals in the second half.

3. We were late. When we ____________ (arrive) everyone ___________ (finish) their lunch and they _______ (sit) in the garden having coffee.

4. I __________ (run) to the station but the six o’clock train _____________ (already/leave). The station ______ (be) empty except for three people who __________ (wait) for the next train.

Exercise 1. Use your dictionary to find out the names of these sports. How do you pronounce them?

1 ______________________	4 __________________
2 _____________________	5 ______________________
3 ___________________________	________________________

Exercise 2. Discuss on the given situation: You won 2 lottery tickets for the trip to FIFA World Cup. Who will you invite to go with, your brother, your colleague or your close friend? And share your impressions about the trip.

Exercise 3. Look at the photos. Have you ever done any of these sports?

b) Read Part 1 of an article about five students who do the sports in the first picture and answer the questions: 1 What do the boys study? 2 What’s their house like? 3 How do they earn extra money? 4 How often do they do sport a day? 5 Who do you think is the fittest?

Part 1.

When you walk into number 4 Walpole Street, Chester, in the North of England, you have to be careful you don’t fall over the mountain bikes, sports bags and various pieces of sports equipment all over the hall. The house is occupied by five sports science students from University College, Chester, who eat, live and breathe sport. They work hard to keep fit. Karl, the canoeist, describes a typical day: “In the morning, we go for a run before breakfast, and then we have lectures at college. Then we go running again and or swimming, and then a quick lunch. In the afternoons we do coaching to earn some extra money, and evenings are spent in the gym or playing football”.

All five boys are obviously fit. But who is the fittest? We asked them to do a series of tests to find out the answer.

Exercise 4. Look at the questions and in pairs, guess the answers before you read Part 2. Choose from:

the footballer the tennis player the canoeist the runner the shot putter

1 Who had the least body fat? _________________

2 Who could keep running the longest time? ___________________

3 Who was the most flexible? _____________________

4 Who jumped the highest? _____________________

5 Who was the fastest sprinter? ___________________

Read Part 2 of the text. Check your answers in exercise 4.

Body fat. The testing started by measuring body fat. Not surprisingly, the one with the most was the shot putter, and the one with the least was the tennis player.

Endurance. The athletes had to run at a speed which was controlled by an audio signal from a cassette. After each minute, the signal got faster, and they had to try to keep going for as long as possible. The first to get tired was the shot putter who lasted 10 minutes followed by the canoeist (“you don’t have to run in a canoe!”), and the runner, not surprisingly, lasted the longest.

Flexibility. When they had recovered, they had to do some stretching. This gave the shot putter the chance to win some points, and he was the most flexible, followed by the runner.

Strength. The next test involved lifting weights to test the strength of their arms. Logically, the shot putter was the strongest. Then leg strength was measured using a jump test, and the runner jumped the highest, 1 cm more than the canoeist.

Speed. An electronic timing system was used to measure sprinting speed and the result, a surprise, was that the tennis player was the fastest, just ahead of the footballer, and the shot putter was last.

Abdominal muscles. To complete the fitness test, their abdominal muscles were tested by doing continuous sit-ups. The footballer only managed two minutes, and after five minutes the only one left was the tennis player who lasted the full eight minutes.

Exercise 5. Look at the photos of the Kazakh champions in London Olympic Games. Write their names in correct order:

Olga Rypakova Serik Sapiyev Iliya Iliyn Alexander Vinokurov Yuliya Galysheva Svetlana Podobedova

1. ____________	2. ____________	3. _____________
4. ________________	5. _______________	6. _______________

Exercise 6. Write an invitation letter to a conference, devoted to Kazakh sport.

Exercise 7. Listen to an interview with an ex-Champions League referee from Spain [1.6; p.9] and give T (true) or F (false) answers.

		True	False
1.	I remember some of the Real Madrid-Barcelona matches
2.	The atmosphere was incredible in the cinema
3.	During my career there have been many great players, like Johan Cruyff and Diego Maradona
4.	I was only 20 and I was refereeing a match in a town in Spain and the home team lost
5.	That was my worst moment, and it nearly made me stop being a doctor.

Exercise 8. Retell the listened text.

1. Choose the right variant. Combine the two sentences. Use the verb in bold in the past continuous or past perfect.

Sarah had a siesta from 3.00 to 5.00. Peter picked up the tickets at 4.00. Peter picked up the tickets when Sarah __________ s siesta.

a) was having

b) had

c) will have

d) not have

2. Choose the right variant. Combine the two sentences. Use the verb in bold in the past continuous or past perfect.

They watched TV from 7.00 until 9.00. I arrived at 7.30. When I arrived, they __________ TV.

a) watched

b) were watching

c) will watch

d) not watch

3. Choose the right variant. Combine the two sentences. Use the verb in bold in the past continuous or past perfect.

He left the office at 7.00. She phoned him at 8.00. When she phoned him, he __________ in the office.

a) had been

b) is

c) are

d) were

4. Choose the right variant. Complete with the past simple or past continuous.

The driver _______ control of his car because he ___________ on his mobile.

a) having lost / talking

b) lost / was talking

c) will lose / talk

d) has lost / is talking