Heidi: I study education.
Lucy: John knows what he wants to do. He wants to be a writer.
Heidi: Yeah. He knows what he wants to be, but I don’t know what I want to be. Not yet. One day I will decide, though. One day I will know. Maybe I will wake up one morning and I will know what I want to do; what I want to be.
Lucy: 25) ____________________________ you will.
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1. USE THE CORRECT TENSE-FORMS OF THE VERBS IN BRACKETS
Technique-type: form-building
She saw that he 1) (to be) anxious for her to make а good impression. She felt that she must 2) (to hide) the actress, and without effort, without deliberation, only because she felt it 3) (to please), she played the part of the simple, modest, ingenuous girl who 4) (live) а quiet country life before. She 5) (to walk) round the garden with the Colonel and 6) (to listen) intelligently while he 7) (to talk) of peas and asparagus; she 8) (to help) Mrs. Gosselyn with the flowers and 9) (to dust) the ornaments with which the drawing-room
10) (to fill). She 11) (to talk) to her of Michael. … She 12) (to see) that Mrs. Gosselyn 13) (to be) very proud of him, and with а flash of intuition saw that it 14) (to please) her if she let her 15) (to see), with the utmost delicacy, as though she would have liked 16) (to keep) it а secret but betrayed herself unwillingly, that she was head over ears in love with him.
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2. PUT IN ARTICLES WHERE NECESSARY
Technique-type: multiple choice
We’re in the kitchen, 1) a / the / – Francis (aged 5) and I (aged 40), making 2) a / the / – pie for 3) a / the / – supper. He loves cooking pastry and eating it. It takes much longer and I have to turn 4) a / the / – radio off. After battering the pastry round 5) a / the / – bit, and some useful carrot peeling, he’s off. Attached to his stool is the cord he tied on before going to school. He looks around for something to knot to the other end. Obviously, 6) a / the / – best option is Mummy’s leg. So I finish 7) a / the / – pie and put it in 8) a / the / – oven, negotiating that the stool stay in 9) a / the / – middle of 10) a / the / – kitchen floor so I can reach everything, and protesting when the knot gets too tight.
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4. PUT THE SENTENCES IN ORDER TO MAKE UP THE TEXT
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Technique-type: word-building
Television is one of the chief architects of 1)_____________________. Certain television 2) ______________________ can give away money with great charm on the 3) ____________
4)_______________. It is their habit – indeed, their second 5) ____________ – to give you а
refrigerator or а motor-scooter if you happen to pass near them. Should you chance to know what the capital of France is called, … if you are able to scratch your left ear with your right foot while lying on the floor blindfold and watched by ten million giggling 6)______________, then you are 7)__________________ certain to be sent to Majorca for а three week’s holiday.
(from “In Praise of Television” by G. Mikes)
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6. TRANSLATE THE RUSSIAN WORDS INTO ENGLISH
Technique-type:
In Italy I think that best results are 1) достигаются by girls, but it is just a question of “young age”. I think that girls in general have always been told to be 2) смелыми and 3) ответственными, and they just do what they are told. I think that male pupils are more allowed to be free and think, and behave just like they feel. I don’t think it is a question of 4) ума or
5) способности or 6) навыков, but just a matter of understanding what’s their best. I think only those boys and girls who understand that, who
7) ценят their studying and do not feel it is a thing “they have to do”, will feel comfortable in anything they do. So finally it 8) зависит on the single person... 9) Кроме того the company with whom the teenager spends time, talks and plays is the one which greatly influences the boy or the girl. I don’t think in general that single-sex classes can be useful or not useful. Thanks for the chance given to me to tell my experience. I send all the readers my best 10) привет! Ciao Susann from Italy.
(BBC. Learning English. News about Britain. Comments, 2003)
7.FILL IN THE GAPS IN THE TEXT CHOOSING THE BEST VARIANT GIVEN AFTER THE TEXT
Technique-type: cloze-test
Implementing Change
In all countries, entrenched ways of operating and vested interests will make change 1) ___________. Education is intensely political: it affects 2) ____________ majority of citizens, involves all levels of government, almost always 3) ______________ the single largest component of 4) _______________ spending in developing 5)____________, and involves public subsidies that are biased in 6) ________________ of the elite. Prevailing systems of education spending and management often protect the interests of 7) ______________ unions, university students, elites, and the central government 8) ______________ than 9) ________________ of parents, communities, and 10) ______________ poor. There are, however, strategies that can 11) ___________ change.
Financing and management reforms are best introduced 12) ______________ with the expansion of educational opportunities. Sometimes the reforms themselves make 13) ____________ expansion –
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for example, when prohibitions on the private sector are lifted. Increased cost sharing in public higher education is politically most feasible when it is linked 14) ________________ expansion of opportunities for higher education. Building a national consensus requires stakeholders in the education system to participate in a national consultation mechanism, such as those developed in Bolivia and the Dominican Republic, where reforms recommended by national commissions 15) ______________ of stakeholders and all political parties) persisted through changes of government. Increasing the involvement of parents and communities by making schools autonomous and accountable can offset the power of vested interests; it is also critical for increasing flexibility and improving instructional quality.
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8.SPOT ONE ERROR IN EACH SENTENCE AND WRITE DOWN THE CORRECT SENTENCE
Technique-type: error-correction
Clare (not her real name) was obvious a driven woman.
She was at her mid-forties age and had the figure of a marathon runner.
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One weekend she decided to visit her parents in a country.
As she was walking down the hall of her parents’s house she could see her mother’s silhouette at the end of the hallway.
As she emerged into the light her Mum turned around to see her gaunt and exhausting daughter.
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9.COMPLETE THE TEXT CHOOSING THE WORD FOR EACH GAP FROM THE BOX
Technique-type: gap-filling
right ok / yeah / oh my god! / what do you mean? / have a nice day / definitely / kind of / how about yourself? / see you later / hello there / well / wow / just a moment / how are you today / that is all right
Max: 1) __________________________, Brandon. How are you? Brandon: 2) ____________________________ there.
Max: What are you eating there? Brandon: I am eating this delicious apple.
Max: 3) ______________________________! Brandon: Sorry about this.
Max: 4) ______________________________.
Brandon: It is a very special apple. It is a …Greenpark Bay apple… Greenpark apple.
Max: Right. Ok. 5) ________________________________.? Brandon: I feel great. 6) _______________________________.
Max: I feel ok. I had a strange dream last night. I dreamed that Frank… that my boss Frank was my friend Peter…
Brandon: That is right. I know who you are talking about.
Max: And Peter was Frank and Peter’s sister, Stephanie was Peter... was Frank. It was 7) ______________________________ strange.
Brandon: 8) _____________________________. What are you talking about? A dream or reality?
Max: 9) _______________________, I had a dream where everybody was everybody else.
Brandon: 10) __________________ that happens to me all the time. I have so many absolutely strange dreams. But the thing is with the strange dreams…how do you feel? How does it make you feel?
Max: After your dream? Brandon: Yeah. After your dream.
Max: 11) ______________________________. Brandon: How does it make you feel?
Max: That is the important thing? Brandon: Well, for me, it is. Max: Right Ok.
Brandon: And for you if you stay in Greenpark Bay, it will become. Max: Calm?
Brandon: Become.
Max: It’ll become? Brandon: It’ll become. Yeah.
Max: Become? Become calm? Become calm.
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