Инструкции по изготовлению праздничного фонарика перепутаны. Расположите их в правильном порядке. (The instructions for this Hallowe’en lantern are mixed up. Put them in the correct order)

 

1. Cut two eyes, a nose and a mouth on one side of the hollowed pumpkin.
2. Cut the top and the bottom off the pumpkin. Keep the bottom piece for later.

 

 

3. Lower the ‘head’ over the candle, and light the candle. 4. Stand a candle in the piece cut off the bottom of the pumpkin. 5. Scoop the pulp from inside the pumpkin with a spoon.

 

New Year’s Eve: all over Britain on 31 December there are New Year celebrations. Most people see in the New Year with friends and relations. At midnight on New Year’s Eve, everybody joins hands and sings Auld Lang Syne, a poem by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. In Scotland and the North of England, people go first footing. They call at friends’ houses, trying to be the first person through the door after midnight. To symbolize good luck, the visitor carries a piece of coal and a glass of water.

New Year’s Day: on New Year’s Day (1 January) people make New Year’s resolutions. They decide to do something to improve their lives. For example, people decide to give up smoking or go to the gym once a week.

Речевое задание (Speaking Task):

Describe how you usually celebrate New Year. Describe what you wear, what you eat, who you meet and what you do.

 

Saint Valentine’s Day: Saint Valentine’s Day is 14 February. People send a Valentine’s card to someone they love, fancy, admire or secretly like. Usually you don’t sign your name. The person who receives the card has to guess who sent it.

 

Roses are red Violets are blue Sugar is sweet And so are you

 

A Valentine A traditional verse inside

a Valentine’s card.

 

 

Creative people

 

J.K. Rowling

Read about J.K. Rowling’s life. Put these events in order. (Прочитайте текст. Расположите события из жизни писательницы в нужном порядке).

 

a) She finished her first Harry Potter book.

b) She got married and had a daughter.

c) She studied French at university.

d) She became very famous.

e) She moved to Scotland.

f) She started writing her first Harry Potter book.

g) She wrote her first story, Rabbit.

h) She worked in Portugal as an English teacher.

i) She was unemployed.

 

The Writer and the Wizard

J.K. Rowling was born in England in 1965. She loved reading, and wrote her first story, ‘Rabbit’, when she was only six years old. She studied French at university, then worked as a secretary in London. She had the idea for Harry Potter when she was on a train. ‘Harry just walked into my head’, she said later. She started writing the first Harry Potter book the next day.

In 1992 she went to live in Portugal for three years. She wrote Harry Potter in the morning, and worked as an English teacher in the afternoon and evening. She got married to a Portuguese TV journalist and had a daughter called Jessica.

Then she returned to Britain and lived in Edinburgh, in Scotland. She was unemployed at that time, and wrote in cafés because they were warmer than her small flat. After five years she finished the first book, ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’. The book sold millions of copies all over the world, and Joanne Kathleen Rowling became very famous. She is now very rich, but she still writes her books in cafés.

 

J. Cousteau

1. Read the text about Jacques Cousteau and match its five paragraphs with these headings. (Прочитайте текст и соотнесите его 5 абзацев с данными заголовками).

a his film-making and writing _____

b his different types of work and interests ______

c his great invention ___

d his death ___

e his environmental work ___

 

The old man of the sea

1 Underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau died yesterday in Paris at the age of 87. His environmental organization, The Cousteau Society, said: 'Jacques Cousteau returned yesterday to the world of silence'. The World of Silence is the title of his great film about life under the sea. □

2 The French film-maker was also famous for his television programmes, The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau — films about his adventures on his ship, the Calypso. □

He was also famous for exploring, filming and writing books about sea plants and animals.

3 Cousteau fought all through his life for the environment. In 1995, for example, he was strongly against France's nuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean. □

4 He was also an inventor. In 1943 he invented the aqualung with another Frenchman, Emile Gagnan. □

5 He had many interests. He was an explorer and adventurer, a writer and film-maker, an inventor and businessman. He spoke French, English and German fluently, understood Spanish and read Russian. □ He was a hero of modern France. He took us into worlds we never knew or thought about before.

 

2. Read the text again and find these facts about Cousteau. (Прочитайте текст ещё раз и ответьте на следующие вопросы).

 

1 How old was he when he died?

2 What was the name of his environmental organization?

3 What was the date of his famous invention?

4 What languages did he speak fluently?

5 What languages did he only understand or read?

 

3. Find the best place to add these new pieces of information to the text. Write the number of the sentence next to the right place in the text. (Найдите в тексте наиболее подходящее место, куда можно добавить следующие предложения с дополнительной информацией. Поставьте номер предложения в нужное место текста).

Example (in paragraph 2)

… films about his adventures on his ship, the Calypso. □ 1

 

1 The ship sank in an accident in 1996.

2 He won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for this film in 1956.

3 He was also a good piano-player, a poet and a painter in his free time.

4 This invention gave divers a way to stay under water and move around freely for long periods of time, with their own oxygen on their backs.

 

Environment

Natural science: animals in danger!

1. Read the text.

Redwood School is in a village near the ancient city of York. The school curriculum includes lessons about natural science. The lessons are on Friday mornings. The students have got some interesting books and videos about the environment.

The school has got a video about animals and wildlife. It is called Animals in danger. The video teaches the students about rare animals, for example, pandas, elephants, and tigers. A student in year eight has also got a video. Her video is a television programme about the world’s oceans. It shows that dolphins and whales and other animals in the sea are in danger.

The students do projects in their natural science lessons. They make posters about the environment and they write articles for the school magazine. The articles about animals and the environment are very popular.

1. Answer the questions.

1 Where is Redwood School?

2 When are the natural science lessons?

3 What is the name of the video about animals and wildlife?

4 Who has got a video about the world’s oceans?

5 What animals are in danger?

6 What do the students write in their natural science lessons?

 

(What type of question is presented here? How is question 4 different from all the others? Какой тип вопроса используется в задании? Как вопрос 4 отличается от остальных?)

 

3. Imagine posters with the following slogans (Изобразите макеты плакатов со следующими лозунгами):

Save the elephant! Protect the panda! Don’t forget the rainforests! Don’t destroy the oceans!