Текст № 51 для прослушивания и материал для собеседования к экзамену по английскому языку

Вопросы к тексту 51

Listen to the three people saying what makes a good story and answer the questions below.

1.   What makes a good story for the first speaker?

2.   What makes a good story for the second speaker?

3.   What makes a good story for the third speaker?

 

Script:

Speaker 1: What makes a good story? Well, whether it's a story in a book, a story in a film or a story a friend tells you, I think a good story is one that touches you personally. It makes you laugh or gives you something to think about.

Speaker 2: Yes, I think the characters in a story are really important. Just think of Harry in Harry Potter] But that's not the most important thing for me. The character needs to get into some kind of trouble and have a real problem to solve, like in a detective story or a love story. The problem might even be part of his or her character. He or she has to solve this problem, and solving the problem is the story.

Speaker 3: For me, a good story isn't just lots of actions and characters put together. A good story needs to make a point and show us things about life that make us think. The person who tells the story must have a point of view and communicate that to us. A good story must also have a direction and a purpose. It must hang together, so all the pieces fit into each other — like the bones in a body. They all join up and belong together and make a shape.

 

 

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Текст № 52 для прослушивания и материал для собеседования к экзамену по английскому языку

Вопросы к тексту 52

Listen to the interview and answer the questions below.

1. Who did Tina go to the skating-rink with?

2. What happened to her there?

3. How was she saved?

Script:

Tina: When I was eleven years old, I had an accident. I get scared even now when I think about it. I went ice-skating near my house. It was the first time that I'd gone ice skating, so I was nervous and I wasn't sure how to skate.

I went with a friend who was very good at it, and she spent some time teaching me, but I didn't make much progress. I think she got fed up with me, so she left and I went off skating by myself. As soon as she left, I fell over, then again and again. In the end I got bored, so I took off my skates and just walked around on the ice in my shoes.

 

Suddenly, I stepped on something that wasn't hard. What was it? It was a weak place in the ice! When I stepped on it, the ice broke and I fell in — I sank under the ice. I struggled and struggled but couldn't get out. I was getting very frightened. Then, fortunately, a man came to help me. He grabbed my arms and pulled me up out of the water onto the ice. So I'm still alive today, but even now, whenever I think about that time, I feel uncomfortable. And I don't want to go skating again.

 

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Текст № 53 для прослушивания и материал для собеседования к экзамену по английскому языку

Вопросы к тексту 53

Listen to the two stories and answer the questions below.

1. How did two Lauras get acquainted?

2. How did Emily meet her husband?

3. What makes the stories very strange?

 

Script:

a fortune-teller гадалка

 

Story 1: Laura Buxton, a 10-year-old girl, was celebrating her birthday, when she had an idea. She decided to let go a golden and white balloon filled with special gas. She also attached a note with her address and name on it. In the note she asked the person who found the balloon to write back. Ten days later a letter arrived at her home. It was a reply from another Laura Buxton, who had found the balloon in her garden 200 km away. Both Lauras were 10 years old and both had 5-month-old puppies, a parrot and a rabbit. Soon they met.

Story 2: A fortune-teller* had once told Emily that she would meet her husband when she was 24. She was now nearly 25 and hadn't met the love of her life yet. One day she wrote a text message into her mobile phone, "Do you want to talk?" She then invented a number and sent the message. She didn't know that the number belonged to her future husband. Peter was at work many kilometers away when he got the message. He phoned Emily, they chatted for an hour. They found that they had lots in common. They got married six months later.

 

 

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Текст № 54 для прослушивания и материал для собеседования к экзамену по английскому языку

Вопросы к тексту 54

Listen to the interview and answer the questions below.

1. What holiday did Ann want to have?

2. What problems did she have to face?

3. What decision did she make in the end?

Script:

Ann: Last year I went on a walking tour along the coast of the Baltic Sea. I was fed up with the idea of lying on the beach; what I wanted was an active holiday. The first day was pretty good. I walked for about 7 hours. And in the evening I got to the place where I planned to spend the night, it turned out that there was not a single bed free. I had to sleep out on the beach. The second day started with heavy rain, so my things got very wet. On the third day I began to have problems with my shoes. My feet hurt so much that I had to take a bus to nearest town to buy some other shoes. When I was there I accidentally met an old friend. She invited me to her holiday home, but I refused,

Next day, though, there wasn't only a problem with my shoes (I mean the new ones), but also another worry: there was no way to go! The road along the shore was blocked for some reason. That time I decided to call my friend. She said happily, "Great! We'll be lying on the beach, sunbathing and doing nothing!" Well, I must say I quite liked the idea.

 

 

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