Choose the correct preposition. Match and read!
ПОЛУЧИТЬ ОТВЕТ Choose the correct preposition. Match and read!
You are going to read a newspaper article about a young professional footballer. For questions 1-10, choose from the people (A-D). Margaret Garelly goes to meet Duncan Williams, who plays for Chelsea Football Club A It's my first time driving to Chelsea's training ground and I turn off slightly too early at the London University playing fields. Had he accepted football's rejections in his early teenage years, it is exactly the sort of ground Duncan Williams would have found himself running around on at weekends. At his current age of 18, he would have been a bright first-year undergraduate mixing his academic studies with a bit of football, rugby and cricket, given his early talent in all these sports. However, Duncan undoubtedly took the right path. Instead of studying, he is sitting with his father Gavin in one of the interview rooms at Chelsea's training base reflecting on Saturday's match against Manchester City. Such has been his rise to fame that it is with some disbelief that you listen to him describing how his career was nearly all over before it began. B Gavin, himself a fine footballer - a member of the national team in his time - and now a professional coach, sent Duncan to three professional clubs as a 14 year-old, but all three turned him down. 'I worked with him a lot when he was around 12, and it was clear he has fantastic technique and skill. But then the other boys shot up in height and he didn't. But I was still upset and surprised that no team seemed to want him, that they couldn't see what he might develop into in time. When Chelsea accepted him as a junior, it was made clear to him that this was more of a last chance than a new beginning. They told him he had a lot of hard work to do and wasn't part of their plans. Fortunately, that summer he just grew and grew, and got much stronger as well.' C Duncan takes up the story: 'The first half of that season I played in the youth team. I got lucky - the first-team manager came to watch us play QPR, and though we lost 3-1, I had a really good game. I moved up to the first team after that performance.' Gavin points out that it can be beneficial to be smaller and weaker when you are developing - it forces you to learn how to keep the ball better, how to use 'quick feet' to get out of tight spaces. 'A couple of years ago, Duncan would run past an opponent as if he wasn't there but then the other guy would close in on him. I used to say to him, ''Look, if you can do that now, imagine what you'll be like when you're 17, 18 and you're big and quick and they won't be able to get near you.'' If you're a smaller player, you have to use your brain a lot more.' D Not every kid gets advice from an ex-England player over dinner, nor their own private training sessions. Now Duncan is following in Gavin's footsteps. He has joined a national scheme where young people like him give advice to ambitious young teenagers who are hoping to become professionals. He is an old head on young shoulders. Yet he's also like a young kid in his enthusiasm. And fame has clearly not gone to his head; it would be hard to meet a more likeable, humble young man. So will he get to play for the national team? 'One day I'd love to, but when that is, is for somebody else to decide.'' The way he is playing, that won't be long.
Choose the correct preposition. 10. __________ Monday we usually have five lessons.
Choose the right option. I get up early ____ the weekend.
Choose the right option. My birthday ___ winter.
Choose the right option. He meets his friends ___ Sundays.
Choose the right option. We give presents to our friends ___ Christmas.
Choose the right option. I have 6 lessons ___ Monday.
Choose the right option. My granny does not sleep well ___ night.
Choose the right option. I go to school ___ half past 7.
Choose the right option. He rides a bike ___ spring.
Choose the right option. Sam feeds his cat ___ the evening.
Choose the right option. My mum cooks lunch ___ the afternoon.
Look at the timetable, read the text and choose the correct answer.
Choose the right option.
Read about Harry. Then, choose the correct option. Hi! My name is Harry and I'm Australian. I'm twelve years old and I live in Melbourne. I study in Melbourne High School. I really like going to school because I'm interested in learning new things. My school starts at a quarter to eight. It's very early, so I always get up at seven o'clock. Lessons finish at one o'clock, so I never have lessons in the afternoon. On Mondays and Wednesdays, I have lunch in the school canteen because I have basketball practice, but on the other days I have lunch at home. I enjoy History and Geography, but my favourite subject is English, French is the most difficult subject for me, so my grades are really bad, but I like it. When I get home I usually play computer games. My mother is always telling me to do my homework! I only do my homework before dinner. It's great that I don't have homework every day. I have dinner at 8 o'clock and then I chat with my friends online. How old is Harry?
Read about Harry. Then, choose the correct option. Hi! My name is Harry and I'm Australian. I'm twelve years old and I live in Melbourne. I study in Melbourne High School. I really like going to school because I'm interested in learning new things. My school starts at a quarter to eight. It's very early, so I always get up at seven o'clock. Lessons finish at one o'clock, so I never have lessons in the afternoon. On Mondays and Wednesdays, I have lunch in the school canteen because I have basketball practice, but on the other days I have lunch at home. I enjoy History and Geography, but my favourite subject is English, French is the most difficult subject for me, so my grades are really bad, but I like it. When I get home I usually play computer games. My mother is always telling me to do my homework! I only do my homework before dinner. It's great that I don't have homework every day. I have dinner at 8 o'clock and then I chat with my friends online. What subject isn't Harry good at?
Read about Harry. Then, choose the correct option. Hi! My name is Harry and I'm Australian. I'm twelve years old and I live in Melbourne. I study in Melbourne High School. I really like going to school because I'm interested in learning new things. My school starts at a quarter to eight. It's very early, so I always get up at seven o'clock. Lessons finish at one o'clock, so I never have lessons in the afternoon. On Mondays and Wednesdays, I have lunch in the school canteen because I have basketball practice, but on the other days I have lunch at home. I enjoy History and Geography, but my favourite subject is English, French is the most difficult subject for me, so my grades are really bad, but I like it. When I get home I usually play computer games. My mother is always telling me to do my homework! I only do my homework before dinner. It's great that I don't have homework every day. I have dinner at 8 o'clock and then I chat with my friends online. When does Harry have lunch at home?
Read about Harry. Then, choose the correct option. Hi! My name is Harry and I'm Australian. I'm twelve years old and I live in Melbourne. I study in Melbourne High School. I really like going to school because I'm interested in learning new things. My school starts at a quarter to eight. It's very early, so I always get up at seven o'clock. Lessons finish at one o'clock, so I never have lessons in the afternoon. On Mondays and Wednesdays, I have lunch in the school canteen because I have basketball practice, but on the other days I have lunch at home. I enjoy History and Geography, but my favourite subject is English, French is the most difficult subject for me, so my grades are really bad, but I like it. When I get home I usually play computer games. My mother is always telling me to do my homework! I only do my homework before dinner. It's great that I don't have homework every day. I have dinner at 8 o'clock and then I chat with my friends online. When does Harry do his homework?
Read about Harry. Then, choose the correct option. Hi! My name is Harry and I'm Australian. I'm twelve years old and I live in Melbourne. I study in Melbourne High School. I really like going to school because I'm interested in learning new things. My school starts at a quarter to eight. It's very early, so I always get up at seven o'clock. Lessons finish at one o'clock, so I never have lessons in the afternoon. On Mondays and Wednesdays, I have lunch in the school canteen because I have basketball practice, but on the other days I have lunch at home. I enjoy History and Geography, but my favourite subject is English, French is the most difficult subject for me, so my grades are really bad, but I like it. When I get home I usually play computer games. My mother is always telling me to do my homework! I only do my homework before dinner. It's great that I don't have homework every day. I have dinner at 8 o'clock and then I chat with my friends online. What time does Harry's lessons finish?
Read the texts and choose the correct options.
Read Julia’s email and choose the correct options to fill in the gaps in the sentences below.
Read the text and mark the statements True, False or Not stated. ‘The 1900 House’ ‘The 1900 House’ was a reality television programme in Britain. It took people back a hundred years to the time of Queen Victoria, when there were no computers, mobile phones or the Internet. The idea of the show was to give people an experience of living in the past. A modern family, the Bowler family, spent three months living like people at the beginning of the 20th century. There were the parents (Paul and Joyce) and their four children (three daughters and a son). The cameras recorded them every day. The house didn’t have a telephone, a fridge, a TV set or even central heating. The Bowlers wore clothes from 1900 and ate the food that existed in England at that time. There wasn’t much to choose from. The main dishes on the table were meat and fish, and the day usually started with a cup of tea and porridge. The father of the family, Paul Bowler, still went to work but in an old-fashioned uniform. He couldn’t read newspapers or use a computer. The mother, Joyce, became a housewife and stayed home. She did all the cleaning, washing and cooking. The children still went to school, but they changed their clothes on the way to and from school so their classmates wouldn’t know anything about this unusual project. The Bowlers noticed that life at the beginning of the century was much slower. It was rather hard for them to get used to the new speed. For example, it took 28 minutes to boil water and make a cup of tea. And can you imagine cleaning the house without a vacuum cleaner or washing clothes without a washing machine? There wasn’t any toothpaste or modern shampoo. Without central heating nobody thought about a warm bath or a shower in the morning. Toothbrushes were made of pig and horse hair. Toothpaste was expensive so most people cleaned their teeth using salt or soda. The children thought it was horrible. 11-year-old Hilary said, “The most difficult thing was finding entertainment. We couldn’t go to the cinema or to a café. It was a new experience to be with the family for half a day or more. It was new and hard to be nice to each other all the time. But I really think we all became closer.” 17-year-old Kathryn remembered that she couldn’t wear any make-up. She had to wear a corset every day and had only three sets of clothes: one to wear every day, the second – to wear while cleaning, and the third was for special events, like celebrations. When the show was over the Bowlers were asked: what did you miss most from the modern world? The father said it was a hot shower. The mother had longed to have a quick cup of tea. The daughters said it was the music, the hot water, shampoo and “normal sounds like the washing machine” that they missed. For the son it was pizza and the computer. It’s interesting that the family was allowed to keep anything they wanted after the project. Joyce took her corset and each of the children took something from the house to remind them of their experience.
