2 Уровень

Задание 1. Ответьте на вопросы

1. Do you read newspapers every day?

2. How many papers does your family subscribe to?

3. What news do these newspapers specialize in?

4. What national daily (weekly) papers do you know?

5. Do you read any local newspapers?

6. Do you prefer to read articles on political, cultural or social issues?

7. Do you follow sports news in newspapers?

8. Some newspapers run gossip columns. Do you read them?

9. Do you read any newspapers in English?

10. Do you read any magazines?

11. What popular newspapers do you know?

12. In some countries, newspapers are owned by government or political parties. What about our country?

13. What’s the difference between daily newspapers and weekly?

14. Are the Russian one of the biggest reading nations in the world?

15. Do newspapers in Russia support any political party?

Задание 2. Ответьте на вопросы по тексту «Introduction to the WWW and the Internet»

1. What is Internet used for?

2. Why so many activities such as e-mail and business transactions are possible through the Internet?

3. What is World Wide Web?

4. What is a Web browser?

5. What does user need to have an access to the WWW?

6. What are hyperlinks?

7. What resources are available on the WWW?

8. What are the basic recreational applications of WWW?

Задание 3. Опираясь на текст «Introduction to the WWW and the Internet», скажите, какие из приведенных ниже утверждений верны / неверны?

1. There are still not so many users of the Internet.

2. There is information on all sorts of topics on the Internet, including education and weather forecast.

3. People can communicate through e-mail and chat programs only.

4. Internet is a ten of thousands of networks which exchange the information in the same basic way.

5. You can access information available on the World Wide Web through the Web browser.

6. You need a computer (hardware) and a special program (software) to be a WWW user.

7. You move from site to site by clicking on a portion of text only.

8. Every time the user wants to move somewhere on the web he/she needs to step by step enter links and addresses.

9. Films and pictures are not available on the Internet.

10. Radio and TV-broadcasting is a future of Internet. It's not available yet.

Задание 4. Поставьте предлагаемые слова в предложения

Internet: How It Affects Us

wide opportunities violence similar choice addiction absence need already almost

The most negative effect of the Internet might be people's (1) _____ to it. People often feel a strange and powerful (2) _____ to spend time on the network.

Addiction to a computer screen is (3) _____ to drug or alcohol addiction: people (4) _____ never believe they are addicted. One more disadvantage of the Internet is the (5) _____ of information control. Children receive (6) _____ access to pornography sites and sites with (7) _____ and promoting hate.

From that, how much we know about the Internet depends on the (8) _____ we make and how effectively we use the (9) _____ of the Internet in our time.

Задание 5. Прочитайте и решите, какая телепрограмма больше подходит для Била, а какая для Дениса

Bill wants to relax by watching a film. He enjoys stories about travelling through time and likes to imagine what life will be like for humans in future centuries.

Denise likes travelling and meeting different people. She has a lot of fun watching programmes about people's experiences as they go on train journeys across the world.

A. New World

This is a TV film which begins a new science-fiction series. It has wonderful special effects and the actors are excellent. Together they travel to the twenty-third century. The action takes place in underground cities where the climate is controlled by computers and some of the inhabitants are plan­ning a terrible crime.

B. There and Back Again

Paul Theroux's story of his journey from London to Japan and back makes great material for this programme. Watch the progress of his journey on the railways of Europe and Asia, and meet the inhabitants of East and West. His description of the life in different places shows a surprising mixture of events end personalities.

Задание 6. Заполните бланк данными о себе

1. Hi! My name is _____________________________

2. I am in the group and I am years old.

3. My favourite subject in college is _______________.

4. I have brothers and sisters.

5. Do you have any pets? I have __________________.

6. One time my family went to _____. I like the ______.

7. _____________ is my favourite TV show.

8. My hobbies are ______________________________.

9. Would you like to be my pen pal? My address is: ____.

10. When you write to me, I would like to know these things about you: _______.

Задание 7. Посмотрите на письмо, заполните пропуски в нем

Layout of informal letter

		№ house, street
		Town/city, post code
		Country
		Date
Salutation (Dear...)
Reference to the most recent contact you have had with the other person ...
Subject 1
Subject 2
Reference to the next contact with the person
Name