Card №4

LISTENING (10 min.)

Task 1. Listen to the text [T.4].–2.5 min. and give T(True) and F(False) answers (Time for preparation-5 min., time for answering- 1 min.).

№		True	False
1	Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is in South America.
2	Tobago is extremely small country.
3	The most famous place in Trinidad is the Nylon Pool.
4	Tobago is very beautiful.
5	Tobago is known for tourism and its natural scenery.

Task 2. Retell the main idea of the listened text (Time for preparation-2 min., time for answering-2 min.).

SPEAKING(10 min.)

Task 1. Discuss on the given situation (Time for preparation- 3 min., time for answering- 1 min.).

Do you know anything about the philosophy of fengshui, e.g. where it’s from, what it isabout? What is Feng shui? What is Feng shui used for?

Task 2. Speak on the given topic “My favourite dream destination” (time for preparation- 4 min., time for answering- 2 min.).

READING (10 min.)

Task 1. Read the text and translate the 2nd paragraph of the text (Time for preparation-5 min., time for answering- 2 min.).

The last few years have been the worst period on record for environment disasters and experts are predicting far worse to come. Tim Redford reports. Here is how to become a disaster statistic. Move to a shantytown on an unstable hillside near a tropical coast. Crowd together as more and more people arrive. Wait for the world to get a little warmer. More evaporation means more rain, which means the slopes will get progressively more waterlogged. One day, the land will turn to mud and the neighbourhood will begin to go downhill. And if the slope is steep enough, the landslide will accelerate to more than 200 miles an hour. Peter Walker, of the international federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, has seen it all too often. “First, your house has been washed away. Second, the land that you farmed has disappeared. Third, the other bits of land you might have been able to farm are now useless.

In the last decade, floods, droughts, windstorms, earthquakes, avalanches, volcanic eruptions and forest fires have become increasingly common. There has been disastrous flooding in Asia, Africa, Central and South America andOceania. Even prosperous Europe has suffered and large areas of France, Britain and Germany have all been under water. Storms have been getting worse everywhere too, with a growing number of hurricanes hitting the US, the Caribbean and Central America. Drought has affected large areas of Sub-Saharan Africa for years andmany other zones are becoming drier. For example, the Yellow River, once notorious for flooding the Chinese landscape, failed to reach the sea at all on 226 days in 1997.

Task 2.Write a suitable heading to each paragraph (Time for preparation- 2 min., time for answering- 1 min.).

WRITING (10 min.)

Task 1. Write an essay on the given situation (80 words), (Time for preparation- 8 min., time for answering- 2 min.).

Describe the ideal house that you would like to live in. You should write:

• what your ideal house would look like

• whereitwouldbe

• and why you would like to live there.