Experts are predicting …

The last few years have been the worst period on record for environment disasters and experts are predicting far worse to come. Move to an area on the outskirts of a town near a tropical coast. Crowd together as more and more people arrive. 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, the member of 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 and Oceania. 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 and Central America. Drought has affected large areas of Sub-Saharan Africa for years and many other zones are becoming drier.

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

WRITING (14 minutes)

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

Actions speak louder than words

Card # 4

LISTENING (7 minutes)

Task 1. Listen to the text T. 4 ‘An interview with the pilot’ and complete the test (listening - 2 min., time for fulfilment -1 min., for checking - 1 min.).

#		true	false
1	Once he had the actor Brad Pitt as a passenger.
2	The passenger was carrying an enormous samurai sword.
3	His most frightening experience as a pilot was crossing the road outside the airport terminal.
4	The flight from Hong Kong to London lasted 11 hours.

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.).

Imagine you have a cold and come to the doctor. What symptoms do you have?

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

Travelling

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.).