- •Государственное учреждение
- •212000, Г. Могилев, пр. Мира, 43
- •I. Read/listen to some people describing their friends. Describe yourself, your family and your friends.
- •II. The quiz: What kind of person are you?
- •III. Look at the information in the table. Use it to complete the text with the positive or negative form of to like and to go.
- •I. Speak about your hobbies, ambitions and plans for future after reading these little stories:
- •II. Read how a radio interviewer is discussing developments in on-line music with Max who works in the music industry and Sam, a student. Answer the questions below:
- •II. Danny’s day.
- •III. Read what Luke says about a typical day in his life.
- •II. Isabel’s weekend.
- •III. John’s and Lola’s weekends.
- •Complete the sentences with John or Lola:
- •IV. A Busy Saturday.
- •1. Read/listen to four people talking about where they live and answer the questions below.
- •II. Read/listen to Serena’s description of her country house:
- •IV. Student’s Accommodation
- •V. Key vocabulary to help you speak about your home:
- •The cuisine in Belarus
- •II. Read/listen the story and correct the sentences given below:
- •III. Listen to how Marisa is ordering pizza:
- •IV. Read/listen to ordering food in a fast food restaurant and answer the question below:
- •Sam: Can I pay by credit card?
- •V. Laurence writes about diet in a magazine. Read the letters and Laurence answer to one of them. Which letter does it answer? Dear Laurence,
- •I. Read/listen to the dialogue between a buyer and a shop assistant:
- •I. Read/listen to the dialogue between a travel agent and a customer:
- •II. Read the text giving the things important for air travelers:
- •IV. Steve speaks about things that may be useful for those travelling in the usa:
- •II. Read/listen to the Dialogues. Learn underlined useful phrases. You can use them to discuss what businesses can do to protect the environment:
- •Energy. – We’ve managed to reduce our energy consumption in our factory by
- •II. Answer these questions about learning English in your country:
- •III. Jackie Snow is talking about her Student’s life in London:
- •II. My University.
- •III. Engineering Specialties of the Belarusian-Russian University.
- •V. Read/listen to the interview and answers the questions given below:
- •IV. Read/listen to part 2 of the interview:
- •V. Read/listen to part 3 of the interview:
- •VI. A) Answer these questions about yourself with complete sentences,
- •VII. Using your answers to the previous questions complete the gaps:
- •VIII. Ask the same questions (Task yi) to your partner and discuss your University course and your future Engineering career with him.
- •1. Read/listen to Ian Bronec, a Mechanical Engineer, speaking about his job.
- •II. Listen to Leon Peters, a Construction Worker, speaking about his job, and answer the questions below:
- •III. Listen to Phillipe Rugeri, a Mechatronics Engineer, speaking about his job, and answer the questions below:
- •V Read what Diana Mayo, an it Support Technician, writes about her job. Read her story and try to retell it briefly:
- •I. Listen to an interview for the Stage Technician job.
- •II. Read the advice: how to get that job!
- •III. Sam has a job interview with a large engineering company. Give him advice using should or shouldn’t and the notes below:
- •V. Imagine that you are being interviewed. Here are the questions the interviewer may ask. Try to answer them.
- •1.Study the cv. It is based on the European cv format. Write your own cv.
- •II. Read the talk about writing cVs. Say briefly, what makes a bad cv.
- •I. Read/listen to the Dialogues. Learn underlined useful phrases. You can use them to describe any other company:
- •I. Read the numbers and quantities with the speaker:
- •II. Write down the numbers and quantities in figures:
IV. Steve speaks about things that may be useful for those travelling in the usa:
We don't have a lot of rules in the United States really. I mean we don't have to do military service and we don't have to have identity cards. You can drive when you're 16 and you can even buy a gun when you're 21! But some things aren't so easy. You have to be 21 to go into a bar or a nightclub, and smoking is difficult - you can't smoke in offices, shops or restaurants. And of course we have to pay when we see a doctor or go to hospital.
V. Useful vocabulary: go by car/bus/train/plane/taxi/bicycle get on/off a bus/train/plane/taxi/bicycle
get into/out of car/taxi
catch, take or miss a bus/train/plane/taxi
beach or sightseeing holidays, camping or skiing holidays
rent a car, use local transport, go abroad, stay in hotels
go self-catering, sunbathe on the beach, pack/unpack
SPORTS AND GAMES.
Sport has played an important part in our lives for many centuries. For some people it is as necessary and natural as eating and sleeping. For others it is just entertainment on TV. Some people do amateur sports and some are professionals.
Sport at an amateur level should be for enjoyment and fitness. Fitness comes not only from exercises done but from the way you live all the time. Good eating and sleeping habits, also plenty of fresh air are important parts of the way to keep fit.
Professional sport is an exciting sphere of hard work and competition. But professional sport seems less to do with enjoyment and more to do with making money. Sport is not just for participants, it is for spectators too. Millions of people all over the world spend hours watching sports events on TV, or at stadium. People enjoy being “fans” or supporters of one team or one particular sport personality.
The government policy in Belarus is to make sports accessible to all. The country has excellent sporting facilities in schools and higher education facilities. Belarusian sports facilities for the general public include: stadiums (243), swimming pools (250), gymnasiums (about 5,000), athletics centers (46), ice rinks (20), sports grounds. Many sports are played in Belarus. Amongst the most popular are: track and field athletics, football, gymnastics, skiing, hockey, tennis, fencing, wrestling, volleyball, handball, swimming, chess and checkers. The Raubichi Centre in Belarus is considered to be one of the best biathlon centers in the world. It has a ski track, freestyle slopes, ski jumps, shooting grounds with mechanical targets, indoor sports centre with gymnasiums, artificial pitches and swimming pools.
Belarus has already produced 280 world and European champions in different sporting disciplines. In the Beijing 2008 games, Belarus won 19 medals, including 4 gold and 5 silver. The team was most successful in athletics, canoeing and weightlifting, and finished 16th in the medals table overall. Belarus also fields a strong Paralympics team. At the 2008 Beijing Paralympics Belarus won a total of 13 medals including 5 golds.
As for me, I like sports, though I am not active at it now. When I was at school I did sports more. I liked swimming and I went to the swimming pool regularly. But now I hardly do sports regularly, though I understand that it makes people strong, healthy and optimistic.
THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PEOPLE.
The Earth is the only planet in the solar system where there is life. For centuries man had lived in harmony with nature until industrialization brought human society into conflict with the natural environment. Today, the conflict between man and nature has acquired a dramatic character. With the development of civilization man’s interference in nature has increased. Every year the world industry pollutes the atmosphere with millions of tons of dust and other harmful substances. The seas and rivers are poisoned with industrial waste, chemical and sewage discharge. People who live in big cities are badly affected by harmful discharge from plants and city transport. The increased noise level is as bad for human health as lack of fresh air and clean water.
Among the most urgent problems are the depletion of the ozone layer, acid rains and global warming that lead to unfavorable changes in the world climate. Another serious problem is disappearance of forests. Some of them die from acid rains, others are cut down. Rain forests disappear at an alarming rate. If man continues to cut down rain forests, more than one million species of plants and animals will become extinct by the year 2030.
Water is often looked upon as a dumping place where sewage and industrial wastes can be washed away and hopefully disappear. As a result some rivers and lakes are so badly polluted that their water is unfit for bathing.
There are a lot of places on our planet that need immediate help. Our country is no exception. The nuclear accident at Chernobyl power plant has seriously aggravated the ecological situation in Belarus. The Chernobyl disaster in neighboring Ukraine in 1986 was the world’s worst nuclear accident. More than 60% of the fallout from the plant affected Belarusian territory.
Today people are aware that our life depends on the state of the environment. Pollution kills everything that is alive. So nature protection should become everybody’s concern.