Card # 24

LISTENING (7 minutes)

Task 1. Listen to the text T. 24 ‘Overflow of the river Vltava’ and complete the test (listening - 2 min., time for fulfilment -1 min., for checking - 1 min.).

#		true	false
1	His office wasn’t at risk, but his flat was.
2	He took his wife and child to her parent’s house.
3	He went back to the flat because he was excited by the situation.
4	Martin went to a place near his flat to watch the water level rising.

Task 2. Retell the listened text (time for preparation – 2 min., for answering - 1 min.).

SPEAKING (10 minutes)

Task 1. Discuss the given situation (time for preparation - 2 min., for answering- 2 min.).

Nowadays most of under ages are involved in crime, vandalism and pick pocketing. What do you think about the reasons? What kind of social problems lead to such issues? What is the role of the parents in preventing them?

Task 2. Speak on the given topic (time for preparation - 5 min., for answering - 1 min.).

Credit cards or cash?

READING (9 minutes)

Task 1. Read the text (silent reading - 1 min., aloud - 2 min.).

Make a plan to the text (time for preparation - 1 min., for answering - 1 min.).

Before crossing

Abai Kunanbaev was the great poet and thinker of the Kazakh nation, the founder of the Kazakh literary language. His poetry, translations of works of Russian and West European authors, and philosophical reflections (words of edification) in their spirit, form and content marked a new stage in the history of Kazakh literature. Abai's name was included by the UNESCO Council in the list of outstanding people whose anniversary was celebrated by the world community in 1995.

He passed a sleepless night. It was only at dawn that Abai lay down, but feeling wide awake he soon returned to his desk, which was heaped with open books. Volumes in old Uzbek, a language he could freely read, jostled with others in Persian and Arabic, more difficult, and still others in Russian even harder.

These polyglot friends had not got together on his table fortuitously. Life itself demanded of him the knowledge secreted in these folios. For several days Abai had been poring over them by day and night like an obsessed scholar or a devout recluse. Glancing up from the pages from time to time, he would look about, momentarily awaking to reality.

20. Task 2. Translate the 1^st paragraph of the text (time for preparation - 3 min., for answering - 1 min.).

22. Writing (14 minutes)

23. Task 1. Write an essay to the given topic (time for preparation - 13 min., for checking - 1 min.) - 80 words.

Famous architectural building