She is ______ to call you in an hour.
ПОЛУЧИТЬ ОТВЕТ Have a good time!
We_______ go to London in the summer.
If I were you, I______ do that!
Jane is interested ______ helping endangered animals.
The hotel beach was ______with people.
I don’t think anyone will ______me in this outfit.
I’m sure you ______ enjoy yourself in England.
I have _______ my train. What am I going to do now?
If they ______ hurry, they’ll miss the plane.
Do you know where ______ Volga River is?
Make sure they________ the regulations.
This is the woman ______ daughter is a singer.
Do you speak _______French language?
Did you like______ film?
The hotel beach was______with people.
If I were you, I______do that!
I don’t think anyone will_____me in this outfit.
The hotel beach was ______ with people.
Jane is interested ______ helping endangered animals.
Make sure they ________ the regulations.
We _______ go to London in the summer.
I don’t think anyone will ______ me in this outfit.
If they ______ hurry, they’ll miss the plane.
I’m sure you ______ enjoy yourself in England.
If I were you, I ______ do that!
This is the woman ______ daughter is a singer.
Have a good time!
She is ______ to call you in an hour.
I don’t think anyone will_____me in this outfit.
If I were you, I______do that!
The hotel beach was______with people.
Read the email and fill in the gaps with the correct words. There are three extra words you do not need to use.
Match the headings and the texts. There is one extra heading. A. The London Underground, or the Tube, is a great means of getting around the UK capital. It is popular with locals and visitors because it is quick, easy, convenient and safe. The Tube has 11 lines and 275 stations. The walking distance between two underground stops in central London is never more than 10 minutes, sometimes less. It’s never a problem to find one. Underground trains on all lines run every few minutes between 5.30 until 00:30, Monday to Saturday, and between 7.30–23.30 on Sundays. B. The London underground railway system was proposed by Charles Pearson in 1843. Twenty years later the first line was opened for traffic. In the early days, the trains were driven by steam locomotives which burnt coal and filled the tunnels with smoke. The tunnels of the first underground were made as narrow and low as possible in order to reduce the construction costs. The small size and the circular shape of its tunnels gave the underground the name The Tube. C. In 1931, Harry Beck, who did some engineering jobs for the Underground, designed an unusual graphic map of the Tube. He suggested a map that displayed all the lines and stations but ignored the distances. Beck’s map looked like an electrical diagram because of the lines that went horizontally, diagonally or at different angles. Each line had a different colour. The map clearly explained how to get to the station you needed and where to change lines. City transport systems all over the world, including New York, St Petersburg, and Sydney, have used Beck's idea to make maps of their own systems. D. There are 275 functioning stations across the Underground network, but at least 40 overground and underground stations are no longer used for travel. If you look through the window of the train, you may notice platforms at which trains never stop and no passengers get on or off. They are not marked on the Tube map. They are like phantoms which remind us of the past history. Some of them have really interesting and scary stories to tell. E. Aldwych, a closed station on the London Underground, is located in Central London. It is certainly the most 'busy' of the ghost stations of the Tube. It is used by film and television companies who find it an ideal place for shooting detective stories, thrillers and adventure films. Among the famous films that were shot at Aldwych station are Superman IV, Patriot Games, V for Vendetta, Sherlock and others. F. The original London underground trains had three different classes. In those days they cost three, four and six pence for a single journey. Today a single journey in Zone 1 costs £4.50 if you pay cash. However, there are a lot of opportunities to get a reduced price ticket. Just buy a day travel card or avoid travelling at rush hours. If you travel regularly by the Underground, a season ticket will be the best option. Most Londoners buy weekly, monthly or annual tickets. G. When you travel by the Underground bear in mind that it is considered impolite to stare at the other passengers. It’s rude and it may get you into trouble. Talking and laughing loudly is not encouraged either. It’s not a good idea to eat your hamburger or ice-cream on the train – you can spoil other passengers’ clothes. And it’s always a good gesture to give up your seat to an elderly passenger if necessary.
Read the text and fill in the gaps with the right phrases. There is ONE EXTRA phrase you don’t need to use.
Read the text and mark the statements True, False or Not stated. Hi guys! I’m Marty and I’ve made a short film about a treetop course I did at Larrumby Wildlife Park last weekend. It’s near where I live and you can imagine the views from up there – amazing! Anyway, the film’s called Scary! And I’m the director, the main cameraman and the leading actor. And I made it with my new video camera, which is awesome – it’s really good quality and you just fasten it to your head and off you go. By the way, I asked someone else to film me as well. So that’s me on the zip wire! As soon as I got there, the guide directed us to a waiting room and announced that the instructor was going to be late. So I had the opportunity to ask my group some questions. I asked one of the girls if she was scared. She said she was terrified, but her brother had insisted that she should do the course. I talked to him too, but I hadn’t remembered to turn the sound on, so you can’t hear his interview. Finally, the instructor, whose name was Phil, arrived and asked the group some questions. He asked me if I had done this before and I told him that I hadn’t. I don’t think anyone had, actually. Phil said we would enjoy it, and he told us to put on some special equipment and get ready. Then he gave us some important instructions for the course – like remembering to fasten the blue clips, called ‘karabiners’, for safety reasons. He really did stress that over and over again. I know being safe is VERY important, but as a film-maker I found it quite boring. I did film him saying all these things, but when I got home, I decided to cut that part out. So here we are! This is the Green course. Everyone has to do this course first to make sure that they are able to do the other courses, which are more challenging. Phil said that a young boy had found this a bit difficult last week. I thought I could get some great scenes for the film here and I did! Just look at this! It was really high up! But I think it looks scarier than it actually was! After the Green course we went straight onto the most challenging one – the Black course. I thought it was going to be easy to film, but you go down the Giant Flying Fox so fast you can’t see or hear anything. But I put some funky music on and well, I think it’s pretty cool. It was really scary though! Well, that’s my first short film. Like I said, it was all done on my new camera, which worked like a dream. So, if you enjoyed this short film, hit that Like button. Watch this channel for my next short film: Surfers’ Delight! Maybe one day I’ll be a famous film-maker!
Read the text and choose the correct answer. English is an international language spoken by an increasing number of people around the world. In many English-speaking countries, though, English isn’t the only language. In the UK, for example, people speak Welsh, Gaelic and a few other old languages. Because these languages aren’t international, people pay less attention to them. So, what does this mean for children who grow up speaking them as their mother tongue? I grew up in Wales. My family spoke English, but the Welsh language was everywhere. When you were driving around Wales, all the road signs were in English and Welsh. As a child, I hated reading everything twice! We had Welsh television programmes too. While everyone in England was watching fashionable American TV shows, we were learning about local farming in Welsh! At secondary school I was dreaming of going to live in Paris, when I realized that instead of Welsh lessons, I needed French lessons. No one spoke Welsh outside Wales. Now I feel differently. Welsh is a part of my identity and, besides, we have better Welsh TV now! In parts of Scotland, some children grow up in families where grandparents still speak Gaelic. Gaelic has even fewer speakers than Welsh, and few are confident that this part of their culture will survive. It’s difficult when English is everywhere else in the country, but teaching subjects in Gaelic in schools helps. However, often there aren’t enough Gaelic-speaking teachers. Unless families continue to speak the language at home too, these languages won’t survive. Between 1950 and 2010, 230 languages went extinct, nowadays, a third of the world’s languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers left. Every two weeks a language dies with its last speaker, 50 to 90 percent of them are predicted to disappear by the next century. Many old languages are disappearing in the UK. People on the Isle of Man spoke Manx for centuries until the last native speaker died in the twentieth century. The same thing happened to Cornish. There was a language spoken by smugglers who were bringing goods into the country illegally, or travellers and criminals. It allowed them to keep secrets from the police, but it too has disappeared. Languages, even if they are spoken by very few people, have a history and culture, and it’s a shame to see them go. When humanity loses a language, we also lose the potential for greater diversity in art, music, literature, and oral traditions. If we care about saving forests and animals, we should care about saving languages too.
Read the text and choose the best title. Did you know that TV in Russia is similar to TV in other European countries? We didn’t know what to expect when we read the programme guide. Then we saw Russian versions of lots of familiar shows like Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Russian TV also has a lot of soap operas, as in almost every other place in the world. Russian television has over twenty channels on the air, and these are both public and private. One of the most popular channels is Channel One, where you can see The Voice. This is one of Russia’s most popular reality shows. We saw lots of adverts for variety shows and comedy shows. These are very popular. Russians really like laughing, and they enjoy watching funny sketches and stand-up comedians. One of these kinds of programmes is the popular KVN. It is one of the best programmes to watch if you want to understand Russian humour. Even though we didn’t understand the language it was very funny to watch. There are also lots of American and European films on television. In fact, with so many different types of programmes we found it hard to choose!
Read the text and decide if the statements are true or false. Did you know that TV in Russia is similar to TV in other European countries? We didn’t know what to expect when we read the programme guide. Then we saw Russian versions of lots of familiar shows like Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Russian TV also has a lot of soap operas, as in almost every other place in the world. Russian television has over twenty channels on the air, and these are both public and private. One of the most popular channels is Channel One, where you can see The Voice. This is one of Russia’s most popular reality shows. We saw lots of adverts for variety shows and comedy shows. These are very popular. Russians really like laughing, and they enjoy watching funny sketches and stand-up comedians. One of these kinds of programmes is the popular KVN. It is one of the best programmes to watch if you want to understand Russian humour. Even though we didn’t understand the language it was very funny to watch. There are also lots of American and European films on television. In fact, with so many different types of programmes we found it hard to choose!
Read the text and choose the correct word from the list.
