TEST for the Second Semester (Listening. Reading. Use of English)

Watch the video about great women of science who have changed the world foreverand do the tasks

https://youtu.be/gg_cDmCOBm8

Choose the name of the scientist who made the discovery or achievement.

Discovered protactinium _______________

Watch the video about great women of science who have changed the world foreverand do the tasks

https://youtu.be/gg_cDmCOBm8

Choose the name of the scientist who made the discovery or achievement.

Discovered polonium and radium ________________

According to the video choose the name of the scientist who made the discovery or achievement.

Discovered that chimpanzees could make and use tools _________________

According to the video choose the name of the scientist who made the discovery or achievement.

Won the Nobel Prize in Medicine _______________

According to the video choose the name of the scientist who made the discovery or achievement.

Discovered the double-helix structure of DNA _________________

According to the video choose the name of the scientist who made the discovery or achievement.

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics ________________

According to the video are the sentences true or false?

Lisa Meitner worked alone.

According to the video are the sentences true or false?

Some people were worried about Lisa Meitner’s findings.

According to the video are the sentences true or false?

Barbara McClintock’s achievement was recognised immediately.

According to the video are the sentences true or false?

Rosalind Franklin showed her important findings to Watson and Crick.

According to the video are the sentences true or false?

Rosalind Franklin was recognised for her contribution to science during her lifetime.

According to the video are the sentences true or false?

Jane Goodall’s findings showed that chimpanzee and human behaviour is often similar. 

Read the text about English tradition and do the tasks.

Bonfire Night

Bonfire Night, also called Guy Fawkes Night, is celebrated on 5 November, and the night skies all over the UK are filled with colour. It’s a tradition that started with a historic event. ‘Remember, remember the fifth of November’ is the first line of an old British poem. For over 400 years, on 5 November, people in Britain have had bonfires and fireworks to remember this event.

In 1605, some English Catholics were angry because King James I was treating them badly. James I was a Protestant, and many Catholics wanted a Catholic country. In November of that year, a group of Catholic men made a plan to blow up the government buildings in London, the Houses of Parliament. An enormous explosion was planned for 5 November, when the king was going to open Parliament. The men put 36 barrels of gunpowder below the Houses of Parliament and waited for the king to arrive. The group decided that one of them, named Guy Fawkes, should light the gunpowder and cause the explosion. Their plan didn’t succeed. The police found the gunpowder before it exploded and they caught all the men involved in the plot. The men were tortured and killed. To celebrate his survival, King James ordered the people of England to have a bonfire on the night of 5 November.

These days, Bonfire Night is a fun tradition with a festive atmosphere, and people don’t connect it to religion or politics. All over Britain there are firework displays and bonfires, with models of Guy Fawkes, which are burned on the fire. The guy is made of old clothes, and the clothes are filled with newspaper. The fireworks are a reminder of the gunpowder that Guy Fawkes hid in the Houses of Parliament. Some people have a small bonfire in their garden, while in main towns and cities there are big bonfires and firework displays.

In Britain only adults can buy fireworks but in the past they were sold to children too. During the days before Bonfire Night, children used to take their home-made Guys onto the streets and ask for ‘a penny for the Guy’ to collect money to buy fireworks. Now you have to be over 18 to buy fireworks, and safety on Bonfire Night is an important issue.

Fireworks in the night sky are beautiful to watch. But fireworks are dangerous and they can hurt people and damage things, so you should always be careful around them. Never light fireworks inside or near other people or buildings, and never hold lit fireworks in your hands. Also, keep your pets inside because they can be scared by the loud bangs.

It’s normally quite cold in November in Britain, so on Bonfire Night people wear hats, scarves and gloves to spend the evening outside. Traditional Bonfire Night food includes hot dogs, burgers and hot baked potatoes. The potatoes are cooked on the bonfire and filled with butter and cheese. There are also toffee apples, which are apples on a stick, covered in sweet toffee, and in the north of England there is a special type of cake called parkin. Toasting marshmallows on the bonfire is also popular.

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Bonfire Night has been celebrated for more than 400 years.

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Guy Fawkes and his group wanted to have a Protestant country.

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They decided to blow up the Houses of Parliament on 5 November because the king was going to be there on that day.

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Their plan worked.

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King James ordered people to have a bonfire in celebration of his life.

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Today, people burn models of King James on the bonfire.

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People sometimes cook food on the bonfire.

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Nowadays children take their home-made Guys onto the streets and ask for "a penny for the Guy" to collect money to buy fireworks.

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People ____________ Bonfire Night on the evening of 5 November

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Guy Fawkes and his group tried to ______________ the Houses of Parliament.

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People also ______________ bonfires and burn models of Guy Fawkes on them.

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It’s best to _____________ pets inside on Bonfire Night.

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1. The capital of Scotland is Cardiff.

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The patron saint of England is called St. George.

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Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own languages.

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Scotland is a country to the _________ of England.

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A kilt is a kind of _________.

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It is the science that studies the relations of plants, animals and people to each other and to their environment.

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It is the process of making our environment dirty and unhealthy for living.

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Throwing plastic bottles in the special bin is ____________.

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Environmental protection is ________________.

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If people ____________animals, some species ______________ very soon.  

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If you __________ the rubbish, you_________ the environment.

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Water pollution ___________ only worse if we____________ using plastic bags.