Билет 3 Аудирование (Скрипт 16, страница 88)

1. What are the three main ingredients of the great British breakfast? The bacon, eggs and fried potatoes.

2. What is a new trend of fashion in London’s top restaurants? Now in London, there’re lots more people having business meetings in top restaurants and it’s getting very fashionable to have breakfast.

3. What are the key ingredients of a breakfast in a London café? The key ingredients are the smells and the sounds.

Текст (№ 5 friendship in the modern world, страница 11)

1. Read the article and say in 2-3 sentences what it is about. This text is about friendship. It is hard to find true friendship. Aristotle said that there are three different categories of friends.

2. Read aloud the extract which says about the changes in the modern society. (1 абзац) People often say that our modern way of life, with its individualism and fast speed, has made the world a lonely place. So many of us live and work surrounded by people, but it is hard to find true friendship. The faces we see each day are like pictures in a gallery; the talk that we hear is just sound. Perhaps this is why the websites like 'Facebook', 'Contacts' are so popular these days. They allow people to communicate and even become close without meeting up. It seems that many people's idea of friendship has changed nowadays. But what is friendship?

3. What do people think about people who have no friends? People think about people who have no friends that they are strange and we pity them.

4. What does Aristotle say about the three types of friendship? The first type is when people are friends because of some advantage that the friendship gives us. Such Friendship has a practical value. The second type is based on the idea of pleasure. Friends enjoy doing things together and they have a lot of interests in common. The third type the friendship is so close that it seems that one soul hard work of writing work.

Билет 2 Аудирование (Скрипт 10, страница 84-85)

1. What is the speaker talking about? She is talking about her first day at school.

2. When did the speaker feel relieved? She was relieved to have a friend Emily, who was the student of another class.

3. Why did the speaker start crying? She couldn’t swim so she became very upset and started to cry.

Текст (№1 books in never-ending motion, страница 7)

1. Read the article and say in 2-3 sentences what it is about. The text is about one of the most progressive movements in the world of reading – book-crossing. Nowadays young people do not want to read. And this movement is the best way to encourage them to read and to make reading a fashionable hobby.

2. The author says what makes librarians unhappy. Find this extract and read it aloud. (1 абзац) Librarians are saddened by the fact that young people tend only to borrow reference books rather than reading fiction for pleasure. Perhaps it's unfashionable to read these days. However, a new trend is developing, with literary lovers leaving their books in public places, to be picked up and 'borrowed' by others.

3. Who was the first to introduce book-crossing in our country? It was the Belarusian National Technical University. The director of its scientific library, Alexey Skalaban, passed an internship in Sweden and at the airport he saw a huge glass case of books, which he learnt were available for anyone to read. It was a great idea to keep such cases in Belarus.

4. Why is book-crossing becoming more and more popular in Belarus? Book-crossing is an easy way to encourage young people to read. That's why it is gaining popularity.