БИЛЕТ № 1
CHRISTOPHERCOLUMBUS.
In the 15th century people knew only three continents: Europe, Asia and Africa. They knew nothing about such big continents as America. A man who discovered America was born in 1451 in Italy. His name was Christopher Columbus. He became a sailor at his early age. Knowing that the earth was round, he decided to reach India sailing to the west. He tried to arrange an expedition, but didn’t have any money, and nobody wanted to help him. At last the king of Spain gave him enough money for the expedition. He set sail in 1492. The voyage was very dangerous and difficult. On the 12th of October his ship reached the land. Columbus was sure that he had discovered a new way to India.
Answer the questions:
1. Who discovered America?
2. Who was rich and arranged the expedition?
3. How was the voyage?
4. When did he set the sail?
5. Who gave the money for expedition?
БИЛЕТ № 2
WHAT IS ECOLOGY?
No living thing can live and grow in isolation. All organism, plants and animals need energy to develop and all species of living things influence each other. Ecology is a science. It studies how plants, animals and human being living together. It is a science about our environment. People have always studied living things in their natural environment. They have always studied the air, the water and the soil. The scientist collects information about the number of living things in different areas, size and behavior. Ecologist also study what happens to different species, how they change. Ecology is one of the most important sciences in the 21 st century. It teaches us how to survive in the modern world.
Answer the questions:
1. Why do people so often speak about ecology these days?
2. What makes ecology an important science?
3. When did people first start speaking about ecology?
4. The information of what sciences does ecology use?
5. What are some of the problems that ecologists are working on now?
БИЛЕТ № 3
SHALL WE GO TO MCDONALDS?
McDonald’s food has always been popular, especially with young people and children. They have always liked their Big Mac and drinks. You can find fast food restaurants in all countries of the world. People come in and quickly have their lunches and dinners. They say that they like such food because it doesn’t have them long to have meal, the food is really tasty and you don’t pay much money for it. But is this food really healthy? The scientists talk a lot about eating problems. This food is low in vitamins. Eating such food regularly is risky and can be really dangerous.
Answer the questions:
1. What food was popular in the past and is popular now?
2 Where you can find fast food restaurants?
3. Is McDonald’s food healthy or dangerous?
4. Why do people like McDonalds’s food?
5. Eating such food regularly is risky and can be really dangerous, isn’t it?
БИЛЕТ № 4
THE UNITED KINGDOM
The UK is situated on the British Isles. It has 4 parts: England, Scotland, Wales and the Northern Ireland. England, Scotland, Wales are called Great Britain and are situated on the island called Great Britain, too. The climate of Great Britain is mild. England and Ireland consist mainly of plains. Scotland and Wales have mountains. There are many rivers in Great Britain. The main river is the Thames. The longest river is the Severn. The capital of the UK is London but there are many beautiful towns and villages.
Answer the questions:
1. Where is the UK?
2. What is the capital of the UK?
3. What is the capital of England?
4. How many countries are there in the UK?
5. What are the countries?
БИЛЕТ № 5
HOW ENGLISH DEVELOPED
In the 16th century the people who lived in Europe didn’t know English. Only those who lived on the British Isles spoke English. In those years Latin, French, German were popular on the continent. Today English is more important than any other language has ever been.
It has become the language of the planet. It has borrowed a lot of words from French and Latin, from Greek, Spanish, Italian and even Russian. Now English is the language of science, business and sport. People use English as the first language or mother-tongue in the English-speaking countries. It has become the second language in such countries like India, Nigeria and Singapore.
Answer the questions:
1. What language is more important than any other language?
2. Where people use English as the second language?
3. How people use English now?
4. Who speak English in the 16 th century?
5. What languages were popular on the continent in the 16 th century?
БИЛЕТ № 6
THE AMERICAN SCHOOL YEAR
The American school year isn’t very long. There are two terms and at the end of each term students get their marks and report cards from their teachers.
Americans students have rather many vacations in the school year. They have two weeks for spring vacations, two weeks for Christmas vacations and three months for summer vacations. American schoolchildren have four years of high school.
People usually say that American school life is not very hard.
Answer the questions:
1. How many terms have the American school year?
2. What are American students get in the end of each term?
3. Do people say that American school is not very hard, don’t they?
4. Do they have two weeks or three weeks for spring vacations?
5. How long are American schoolchildren stay in high school?
БИЛЕТ № 7
THE USA
The USA is divided into 50 states and the District of Columbia. Some states are famous for their noisy cities. Others are famous for their trees and mountains. Some states have kilometers and kilometers of farmland. The largest state is Alaska. You can see big bears there. Michigan is situated in the valley of the Great Lakes. New Jersey, on the Atlantic coast, is famous for its gardens, and Minnesota, for its wonderful wheat fields. Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president, began his political activity in Illinois and this state is called the Land of Lincoln. California is situated on the west coast and is famous for Hollywood and films. Montana is full of sheep and cows. It's also the land of cowboys, Indians and rodeo.
Answer the questions:
1. How many states are in the USA?
2. What is the largest state in USA?
3. What New Jersey, on the Atlantic coast, is famous for?
4. Where is California situated?
5. Who is the sixteenth president of the United States?
БИЛЕТ № 8
HOW TO USE DICTIONARIES
All kinds of information are waiting for you in dictionaries. You can find out what the word mean, how to spell them, how to pronounce them and where they come from.
The most popular kinds of dictionaries are monolingual and bilingual. It is very important for every English learner to be able to use monolingual English languages. After the word many dictionaries tell you how to pronounce it. They also tell you to what part of speech the word belong. For example, n (noun), adj. (adjective). There are some dictionaries which give the information about word’s meaning. So, dictionaries are very useful for their readers.
Answer the questions:
1. What kind of information you can find in dictionaries?
2. What are the most important kinds of dictionaries?
3. What is the most important for every English learner?
4. How do you know that one of the words is a noun and the other is an adjective?
5. Why are dictionaries so useful?
БИЛЕТ № 9
WASHINGTON D. C.
Washington D. C is the capital of the United States. Washington D. C. is situated on the Potomac River, on a piece of land called the District of Columbia, which is why people call the US capital Washington, D. C. It is not the biggest city in the United States, but it is the most important.
The capital was named after the first president George Washington and was founded in 1790.
The buildings are not very tall; the streets are straight, green and beautiful. There are the White House and the Capitol. The Capitol is really great. This is where the United State Congress meets and makes laws.
Answer the questions:
1. What is the capital of the USA?
2. Who was the first President of the USA?
3. Is White House situated there?
4. How are the buildings and streets in the Washington D. C.?
5. What is the Capitol?
БИЛЕТ № 10
THEY ARE SO MUCH LIKE US
Many people think that penguins live in the places where it is very cold. But we can find them not only along the Antarctic continent and islands. They also live in Peru, Brazil, Southwest Africa, and New Zealand and in the south of Australia. The penguin is famous because it can stand up straight and walk. They look like people wearing black coats and white shirts. Ages ago, the penguins were about 2 meters tall and could fly. But today their wings are short and useless for flying. How did it happen? Many scientists say that it happened because penguins had very few enemies. They stopped using their wings. Penguin also developed a thick coat of fat to protect them from icy cold.
Answer the questions:
1. Where penguins live?
2. If they live near the North or the South Pole?
3. In what penguins are different from other birds?
4. What they look like?
5. How it happened that they can’t fly?
БИЛЕТ № 11
ANIMALS AND PLANTS
As scientist say, an animal is any living thing (including people) that is not a plant. Nobody knows how many different species of wild plants and animals there are on our planet. People discover hundreds of new kinds every year. The animals and plants get their food differently.
When people first learned to cultivate plants and domesticate animals, our civilization began. Plants are able to use sunlight to grow. They “breath in” carbon dioxide gas and “ breath out” life-giving oxygen. They support life on the planet.
Answer the questions:
1. What do living things include?
2. Can we say that we know all the plants and animals that live on our planet?
3. In what way are plants and animals different?
4. Why can’t we live without animals?
5. Why is oxygen that plants “breathe out” so important for people?
БИЛЕТ № 12
INSECTS
Insects live all over the world. We know more than 850 000 different kinds of insects.
Bees and ants are social insects. They live in a big groups or colonies. The bees can be green, blue and ultraviolet which people cannot see. By the way a bee must visit about 4000 flowers to make a tablespoon of honey. Workers bees are very busy insects. People say as busy as a bee about someone who has a lot of work to do.
Answer the questions:
1. If insect are animals?
2. How many kinds of insects people know?
3. What is special about bees and ants?
4. What colors bees can see?
5. How bees are useful for people?
