II. Use of language

Read the text complete the gaps with the words from the box.

*Unsafe * worried *preventable * risk * raise * early

The World Health Organization (WHO) is (1) _______that 1.1 billion teenagers and people in their twenties and (2) _________ thirties are damaging their hearing by listening to loud music. It says nearly half the young people in middle- and high-income countries risk hearing loss because of the “(3) _______ use “ of personal music players, including smartphones. Loud music in nightclubs, bars and at sporting events also increases the (4) ______ . The WHO recommends a safe limit of listening to music for just one hour a day. The WHO director for injury prevention, Dr, Etienne Krug, told the BBC that: “ What we’re trying to do is (5) ______ awareness of an issue that is not talked about enough”. He said hearing is easily (6) _____.

III. Writing

Imagine that you are learning English at the language course in Great Britain and are living in a host family. Write a short letter (not less than 50 words) home. Tell your parents about:

• your accommodations

• your host family members and their interests

• your leisure time activities

Examination Card #12

1. Reading

Read the text below and decide if the statements 1-6 are true or false. Mark (T) if it is true, (F) if it is false.

ANDRIAN MCKINTY

Adrian McKinty is an Irish novelist. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1968 and grew up in Victoria Council Estate, Carrick Fergus, County Antrim. He read law at the University of Warwick and politics and philosophy at the University of Oxford. He moved to the United States in the early 1990s, living first in Harlem, New York and from 2001 onwards Denver, Colorado where he taught high school English and began writing fiction. He currently lives in Melbourne with his wife and two children.

McKinty was written sixteen books ten of which from two trilogies and a quartet. He is primarily known as a writer of genre fiction: crime and mystery novels and young adult fiction. McKinty writes in a stylized prose manner with echoes of James Elroy, and Elmore Leonard. Publishers Weekly has called him ‘one of his generation’s leading talents’ and Patrick Anderson of the Washington Post has praised McKinty as a leading light in the new wave of Irish crime novelists whose most celebrated members are Ken Bruen, Declan Hughes and John Connolly. McKinty has been criticized for the explicit use of violence in his novels; however John O’Connor reviewing McKinty ‘Fifty Grand’ in The Guardian has called him a ‘master of modern noir, up there with the likes of Dennis Lehane’.

[http://en. wikipedia.org]

1. Adrian McKinty is an English author

2. Adrian started writing at school.

3. Now Adrian lives and works in the USA.

4. McKinty writes in the unique manner.

5. McKinty’s novels are known for described cruelty.

6. McKinty has written dozens of books.

II. Use of language.

Read the text and choose A, B or C to complete each gap 1-7.

PICKING A MOVIE TO WATCH

(1) ___ yourself starting up the likes of favourite websites and then staring at the different options for twenty minutes before (2)_____ a choice on what you want (3) ____ ? It’s not only a waste of time, also makes the already time-consuming act of watching a movie more drawn out. While you’ll never be able to completely remove the burden of choice, you do have some option to makes things (4) ___ a little quicker.

(5) ___ of what type of movie and TV offering you fancy – (6) ____ it’s streaming, on demand cable, tormenting, or physical copies – being overwhelmed with choices is a particularly modern problem. Picking out a movie these days often feels (7) ___ wandering into a Blockbuster area 1995 at the end of a busy Friday night when all your top choices have already been checked out. [http://agoodmovietwatch.com]

	A	B	C
1	Did you ever find	Have you ever found	Had you ever found
2	making	doing	to do
3	To watch	watch	watching
4	Moving	move	to move
5	Despite	In spite	Regardless
6	whether	weather	if
7	if	so	like