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Read the text and put the sentences into the correct group. Lisa: Let's look in our lunch boxes. Martin: That's a good idea. Lisa: Have you got a sandwich? Martin: Yes, I have. I've got a cheese sandwich. Lisa: Have you got chicken? Martin: No, I haven't. But I've got some salad. And I've got an apple. And you? Lisa: I've got a fish sandwich. I haven't got any salad or an apple. But I've got a biscuit and some orange juice.

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Choose the right variant. I was pleased to know that the dogs we had found ... a full recovery at the animal shelter.

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Imagine you're preparing a project on Greenwich. Read the information. Put the sentences into the correct groups. A meridian is an imaginary line of latitude drawn along the surface of the earth from the North Pole to the South Pole. Geographers today measure these lines from what they call the Prime Meridian. It is the line of longitude that goes through the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Greenwich, England. For a long time Greenwich was “a sea gate” of London. Nowadays Greenwich is London borough in the south-east of the British capital on the right bank of the Thames. The Greenwich Observatory clock set the time for all the other clocks in the world. And the Greenwich Mean Time is the official starting point for each new day, year and millennium. The countries on the western side of the International Date Line have the time zone which is 10–12 hours ahead of Greenwich. And the countries on the eastern side have the time zone which is 10–12 hours behind Greenwich. So when travelling across the line, one's watch has to be adjusted 20–24 hours, depending on the time zones. For example, New Zealand is twelve hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time while Hawaii is ten hours behind Greenwich Mean Time. When travelling from New Zealand to Hawaii the clocks must be switched 22 hours backwards, about one day.

Read the text and choose the right variant. My city is not very big. Its name is Yaroslavl. It is a very old place. Yaroslavl is situated not far from Moscow on the Volga River with a lot of bridges across it. My town is famous for its theatre. It is the first Russian theatre. The theatre is in the city centre, not far from the Kremlin. The streets are not very wide, but they are green. There are shops, banks, cinemas, restaurants in my city. We have got a railway station too. It is not very far from my house. There is a museum in Yaroslavl and a picture gallery too. There are a lot of things to see and to do in my city. There are many forests around it. I know many cities are more important than Yaroslavl. But not for me. I can say, “East or west, home is best.” I think my city is very beautiful and I’m proud of it.

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Read the text and put the sentences into the correct category. October comes and Halloween quickly approaches. This holiday is an old Celtic tradition. It is the time when people gather the harvest. Legends say that the worlds of the living and the dead come close during this time. The spirits of the dead, fairies, witches and goblins have a celebration at night. The children spend time preparing for Halloween. They take pumpkins and carve jack-o-lanterns out of them. They listen to the stories of the mischievous goblin that sneaks into homes and puts salt in the sugar bowls, opens all the windows and hides everyone’s clothes. The children learn that people use the jack-o-lanterns to scare off the mischievous goblins; they place them at the doorsteps and in the windows! On the day of the festival, classrooms in England are magically transformed and there are a lot of jack-o-lanterns. The children are surprised to find a witch at school. The witch tells them stories. The children come in simple home-made costumes. They welcome adventure, mystery, beauty, magic and mischief.

Read the text and put the sentences into the correct category. The Weather Forecast We get wet through when we are caught in a rainstorm without a coat. Sometimes we put on a sweater and then find that the weather has become hot. We do not always know what weather to expect. On TV and radio there are daily weather forecasts. Sometimes, the forecast is not quite right as the weather is not an easy thing to forecast. All day and night, weathermen collect information from ships, planes, weather stations, and space stations. With the help of this information, they can understand what the weather will be like during the next few days. Although no two days will have exactly the same weather. Some types of weather people can forecast. When a barometer shows high pressure, the weather will be calm. In winter it will be cold and frosty. In summer it usually means misty mornings and hot sunny days. When the barometer shows low pressure, look out for rain and strong winds. As a result of the weathermen’s work, we learn about the weather.

Read the text and put the sentences into the correct category. Climate Climate is the weather a certain place has over a long period of time. Climate has a very important influence on plants, animals and humans and is different in different parts of the world. Russia is the largest country of the world. It lies on a huge territory from the coast of the Pacific Ocean to the centre of Europe and its climate in the north, south, east and west is different. In the west, for example, the climate is usually mild and wet. At the same time the coldest place on the planet is in the north of Siberia, while in the south of Russia there is a lot of sunshine and the heat in summer can be really terrible. Summer and winter temperatures are very different in Moscow, Omsk or Krasnoyarsk, in Volgograd or Rostov. In the Arctic the winter temperatures are very low. The taiga zone has long hard winters and short summers. Between the Black and Caspian Seas it is very hot in summer.

Read the text and put the sentences into the correct category. This Fragile Planet When the Americans decided to clean up the Statue of Liberty in 1986, the first thing they had to do was to make a hole in her nose and take away the acid rain that had collected inside. The polluted air of New York had mixed with the rain and damaged the Statue badly. And you certainly know that most of the pollution in big cities comes from cars and buses. More and more often people are told not to spend too much time in direct sunlight, because ultraviolet radiation from the sun can cause skin cancer. Normally the ozone layer in the atmosphere protects us from such radiation, but if there are holes in the ozone layer ultraviolet radiation can get to the earth. Many scientists think that these holes are the result of air pollution. Nuclear power stations can go wrong and cause nuclear pollution. This happened in Windscale in Britain, in Three Mile Island in the USA and Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union. Nuclear pollution cannot be seen but its effects can be terrible. To make the air clean again we need good filters at nuclear power stations, at factories and plants and also in cars and buses. Both clean air and clean water are necessary for our health. If people want to survive they must solve these problems quickly. Man is beginning to understand that his environment is not just his own town or country, but the whole earth. That’s why people all over the world think and speak so much about ecology.

Read the text and put the sentences into the correct category. The Highland Games Many Highland games take place all over Scotland every year. The most famous meeting is in Braemar, a small village in the Scottish Highlands. The games are always on the first Saturday in September. Many athletes travel to Scotland each year to take part in the games. They compete in events like the hammer throw, shot put and the hill run. There are also music and dancing competitions. Marching bands perform for the crowds. They wear traditional clothing and play. The most popular event of the day is the 'tug of war'. Two teams hold onto a rope and try to pull the other team over the line. 'Tossing the caber' is also popular. The athletes have to run holding a heavy tree trunk, the caber, upright. Then, they stop and throw it towards the sky. Tickets always sell out months before the games start. It's a great day out for all the family.

Read the text and put the sentences into the correct category. Moscow Zoo is one of the largest and oldest zoos in Russia. It appeared in Moscow in 1864 and had 286 animals then. There are more than 6,000 different animals in its rich collection now: elephants and giraffes, polar bears and brown bears, squirrels and foxes, deer and wolves, lions and tigers. At first the zoo’s buildings were wooden. Now animals live in stone buildings when it is cold outdoors. Moscow Zoo is situated in the centre of the city. When you get there, you are in the animal world. There are two large territories in the zoo with a high bridge between them. In the zoo ponds you can see beautiful water birds. The zoo keepers, workers who look after the animals, feed them, keep them healthy, clean their cages. They know a lot about birds and animals and often answer the visitors’ questions. Moscow Zoo is open in all seasons. Children and their parents enjoy going there. Now there are plans to move Moscow Zoo to a new larger territory.

Read the text and put the sentences into the correct category. Our Close Relatives Apes are the closest relatives of humans. For a long time people thought that monkeys and apes belonged to the same species of animals, but scientifically speaking it is not so. Monkeys are smaller than apes, they have long tails which they often use as an extra “hand”. They easily use both their hands and feet if they want to take something. Monkeys and apes are primates. They live in the tropics, especially in rainforests. Apes and monkeys are common in tropical Africa and Asia. Monkeys also live in South America. Probably the most interesting of all are great apes. This group includes the chimpanzee, gorilla and orangutan. Apes are the only primates that are humanlike. They look like us, are tailless and have the same diseases as people. All apes sleep at night. Some of them make platforms in the trees, others make nests on the ground. Apes mostly eat plants and sometimes kill small animals, like insects, for food. Chimpanzees and gorillas spend more time on the ground than in the trees and walk on all fours. Apes have just one young, or, from time to time, twins. They travel in family groups of 30 or 40. Apes live 30 years or more. They carry their babies in one arm like human mothers or place them on their backs. Chimps are very curious and often friendly and peaceful. Gorillas become aggressive only when they defend their territory. Apes are very clever animals, second only to humans. They can understand the vocabulary of up to several hundred words and symbols. Chimps often use branches, stones and boxes on which they stand to get their food. Some scientists even believe that apes can count.

Read the text and choose the right variants in the sentences below. Some dolphins live in rivers and some live in the sea. The Yangtze River runs across China from west to east. Baiji dolphins have been living in the waters of the Yangtze River for centuries. They have eyes on top of their heads, but nowadays they cannot see very well because there is nothing to see in the dirty water. The river itself has changed a lot. Now it is full of ships, noise and pollution. The dolphins didn’t change their behaviour after the river became dirty, but their life now is much more dangerous. Dolphins can usually hear very well, they make their own dolphin noises and in this way they talk to other dolphins. Nowadays there is a lot of other noise in the river, especially the loud noise from big ships. Baiji dolphins often can’t understand these noises and kill themselves swimming to the ships. The Chinese understand that Baiji dolphins are in danger. They began building a home for them in the river. In India and Bangladesh dolphins are also in danger. The meat of sea dolphins is an important food for people in many countries and humans kill hundreds of thousands of them every year.

Read the text and put the sentences into the correct category. What is "American" food? The answer is that it is part Italian, part British, part German, part Mexican, part Chinese… When people from other countries came to live in the US, they brought different cooking traditions. Some of them opened restaurants. Today Americans enjoy food from all over the world. Over the years some foreign dishes changed a little. Doughnuts were originally from Holland. In 1847 a young American boy told his mother that her doughnuts were never cooked in the middle. He cut out the centre and his mother cooked them — and they were very tasty! Maybe the US is most famous for "fast foods". The first fast food restaurants served hamburgers, but now they serve other kinds of food too. Inside there is often a "salad bar", where you can help yourself to as much salad as you want. Americans eat a lot, and when they go to a restaurant, they don’t expect to be hungry afterwards. Most restaurants will put a lot of food on your plate — sometimes it can be too much. But if you can’t finish it all, don’t worry: they will give you a "doggy bag" and you can take it home. Most Americans now have a light breakfast instead of the traditional eggs, bacon, toast, orange juice and coffee. But at weekends there is more time, and a large late breakfast or early lunch is often eaten with family or friends.

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Read the texts and put the sentences into the correct category. Fairbanks Ice Festival, Alaska If you can cope with freezing temperatures and are looking to see some incredible artwork, head for the Fairbanks Ice Festival in Alaska. Every year, the world's largest ice art competition - the World Ice Art Championships - takes place there. It's a chance to see more than 100 international sculptors create incredible statues of ice before your very eyes. I really enjoyed watching the sculptures take shape. In many ice art competitions, artists work on commercially manufactured blocks of ice. In Alaska, the ice blocks used are taken directly from local ponds. The festival is a month-long event (during February and March) and it is well worth going to. You'll never forget the incredible icy creations you see. Quebec Winter Carnival, Canada If you're looking for a family-friendly festival then you needn't look farther than Quebec's annual Winter Carnival. From snow rafting, horse-drawn sleigh rides and outdoor banquets to snow competitions, dancing and magical night parades - there's a huge variety of events. The streets of Quebec City are decorated for this 10-day event and special events are put on in the city's restaurants. The mood is so friendly and the locals are the perfect hosts. My favourite festival experience was sitting in a hot tub out in the open, among snow-covered pine trees, under a starry night sky! Quebec's Winter Carnival claims to be the biggest winter festival in the world. I don't know if that's the case, but it surely must be one of the best.

Read the text. Put the sentences into the correct group. Floods happen when there is more water in a river or lake than that body of water can handle. This extra water then spills out onto the land, causing a disaster. The damaging effects of a flood can be great. Floodwaters destroy everything in their path: buildings, bridges, roadways etc. Entire crops can be ruined and people and animals can die from drowning. Even after the floodwaters retreat, the problems can continue. Water can be dangerous to drink, people can get sick from diseases, and there can be food shortages. Economic difficulties can be felt for years. Those who stay have to spend a lot of money to rebuild their houses. Fortunately, countries that suffer from floods have found ways to control destructive floodwaters by building huge mechanical barriers to protect them. Nothing, however, is a guarantee. In 2005, this system failed in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit. The storm caused more than 50 breaks in levees and resulted in 80% of New Orleans being flooded. In some areas, the ground lay beneath 4.5 metres of water. Those not evacuated had to swim for their lives or remain trapped on their rooftops.

You’re looking for information to complete a school project about places to go in London. Read the text and put the sentences into the correct group. The Moscow Zoo The Moscow zoo is over 150 years old. It is in the centre of Moscow. More than 6,000 animals call the zoo home. Every day giraffes and elephants, monkeys and seals make children and their parents happy. There are also crocodiles and even a museum in the zoo. You can also see popular animals from fairy tales such as wolves, goats and even little piglets!

Read the text. Put each sentence into the correct group. Travelling. Means of Transport Of course, travelling by plane is the fastest and the most comfortable way of travelling to other cities and countries, but at the same time it is the most expensive too. When you go by plane, you must arrive at the airport one or two hours before the flight and try not to miss the plane. On the plane you sit in a comfortable armchair and can watch a film, have a meal, listen to music, play a game, see the sky or sleep. But if you are afraid of going by plane, it is not for you. Travelling by train is slower than by plane, but when you are on the train you can look through the window and see the nature of the country. Modern trains have very comfortable seats. If your trip is short, you can sit at the small square table and have tea, coffee, or lunch. If your journey is long, you can even sleep upstairs or downstairs. When you want to go by train, you must buy a single or a return ticket at the booking office at the railway station or buy it online. Then you take your luggage and go to the railway station, where you find the platform in the timetable. From the platform, you get on the train and your journey begins. If your train is a thorough train, you don’t have to change trains and your trip will be easy. Travelling by ship is rather expensive and not very popular in our country, but it is very popular abroad. On large ships and small river boats, passengers can visit foreign countries and different places of interest in their country, too. It is very nice to be on board the ship and to see the water, to feel a fresh sea wind which is blowing in the face and to hear the cries of the seabirds. Travelling by car is very comfortable too. You don’t have to book tickets. You can take much luggage and put it in the back of the car. Furthermore, you can stop where and when you want and spend there as much time as you like. Travelling on foot is very fascinating for young people because they are very active and strong and can walk for many hours a day with their backpacks. You can go and see beautiful nature, animals and birds, swim in the lake or in the river, make a fire and cook food, put a tent and sleep outdoors. You don’t have to buy tickets, and you can be sure that you won’t miss a bus, a train, or a plane. For those people who are old or lazy, travelling on foot isn’t comfortable. There are many means of transport, and you can travel alone, with your friends, family and relatives. Travelling is always interesting and helps you to learn plenty of new things, meet new people, make new friends and see new places of interest.

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Read the text. Put each sentence into the correct group. Sports in Great Britain It is interesting how many of today’s sports games originated in Britain – football, rugby, tennis, boxing, rowing, and horse racing among them. Of course, horse racing was popular with the Greeks and Arabs long before the British began to put them into practice; and people had been playing football in one form or another for thousands of years all over the world. But it was the British who created special rules for these sports and sports games. Football is a good example. In the Middle Ages, people in Europe, Japan, and Asia all played some forms of the game. A sort of football was also very popular in England, especially as a contest between villages. But at that time there were very few rules. When the students of English schools started to play football, rules then became necessary. They were changed several times and by the middle of the 19th century football had become very much the game that we know and like today. By the way, the first serious football rules were written at Cambridge University. A similar story can be told about some other sports. Why did this happen in Britain before other countries? There are some possible explanations: after the Norman invasion of 1066, Britain was quite a peaceful country. As a result, people had time to develop sports. Later, after Britain’s industrial revolution, English factories were based on highly organized work and strict time keeping. The same discipline was applied to sport. So uniforms, referees, and punishments were introduced to football and other games. British authorities thought that team games were good training for future military and industrial careers. Every country has its own list of favourite sports. What is the British list? There are lots of games apart from football. Schoolgirls, for example, play a game which seems a lot like basketball. It is called netball. Netball is different from basketball in many details: for example, the ball is lighter, the court is bigger and netball has seven players in each team (not five). There is something very strange about netball — it is never played by boys. There is no biological reason for this, it is simply a tradition. It is popular throughout the English-speaking world, and the Australians and New Zealanders usually win the competitions. But the most famous and popular British sport is cricket. Cricket is an important part of English summer life. You can watch it all day on TV or even listen to it on the radio. News programmes keep you up-to-date with the score. Men, when they meet, always exchange a few words about the state of the game. One of cricket’s distinguishing features is that the games are very long. In an ordinary game at a boys’ school, it takes up to a whole afternoon. But the big international games are up to five days long.

Read the text and put each sentence into the correct group. Nature’s joke? - the strange and wonderful Platypus The platypus is a strange little creature found only in Australia. When Ihe first platypus was sent to Europe in the 19th century, the scientists who examined it just could not believe their eyes. They believed the platypus was a joke, because of its extremely strange appearance. They thought some fun-loving Australian had put the feet and nose of a duck onto the body of a rat, just to play a trick on them! But platypuses are real, and there is no other creature like them on Earth. Platypuses have a nose Iike a duck, webbed feet Iike a duck, soft brown fur on their body and a long, flat tail Iike a beaver. As if that weren't strange enough, even though they are mammals (which means they feed their babies milk), platypuses don't give birth to Iive babies but instead lay eggs just like birds! No wonder scientists couldn't decide for a very Iong time if platypuses were birds, reptiles or mammals. But the platypus has even more wonderful characteristics. Platypuses find their food in rivers by using electric fields. And, if they are in danger, male platypuses have sharp hooks on their feet that produce poison strong enough to kill a dog. It's no surprise then, that this special, shy little animal is one of Australia's most famous creatures. A picture of the platypus appears on the Australian 20 cent coin. Australians are very proud of their unique platypus.

Read the text and put each sentence into the correct group. Mobile phones When Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it was a revolution in communication. For the first time, people could talk to each other over great distances almost as clearly as if they were in the same room. Nowadays, though, we increasingly use Bell’s invention for emails, faxes, and the internet rather than talking. Over the last two decades, a new means of spoken communication have emerged: the mobile phone. The modern mobile phone is a more complex version of the two-way radio. Traditional two-way radio was a very limited means of communication. In the 1940s, researchers decided to use a number of radio masts to pick up signals from two-way radios. When a caller moved too far away from one mast, the next mast would pick up the signal. Scientists called each mast’s reception area a separate “cell”; this is why, in many countries, mobile phones are called “cell phones”. The first real mobile telephone call was made in 1973 by Dr Martin Cooper, the scientist who invented the modern mobile handset. He tested his invention by calling a rival scientist to announce his success. Within a decade, mobile phones became available to the public. The streets of modern cities were full of young professionals who carried the expensive handsets as status symbols. But in the mid-90s, something happened. Cheaper handsets and cheaper calling rates meant that, almost overnight, it seemed that everyone had a mobile phone. And the giant plastic bricks of the 80s had been replaced with smooth little objects that fitted nicely into pockets and bags. Meeting times became approximate, subject to change at any moment under the new order of communication: the Short Message Service (SMS) or text message. Going to be late? Send a text message! It takes much less effort than arriving on time, and it’s much less awkward than explaining your lateness face-to-face. It’s the perfect communication method for the busy modern lifestyle. Like email before it, the text message has altered the way we write in English, bringing more abbreviations and a more lax approach to language construction. Traditional rules of grammar and spelling are much less important when you’re sitting on the bus, hurriedly typing “Will В 15 min late — C U @ the bar. Sorry!:-)”. Mobile phones are now a vital part of daily life for people. Over the last few years mobiles have become more and more advanced, with built-in cameras, global positioning devices and internet access. The “third generation” of mobile phones are powerful microcomputers with broadband internet access, which allow us to watch TV, download internet files at high speed and send instant video clips to friends. Alexander Graham Bell would be amazed if he could see how far the science of telephony has progressed in less than 150 years. If he were around today, he might say: “That’s gr8! But I’m v busy right now. Will call U 2nite”.