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WRITING
I. Present Simple. Choose the correct variant.
1.A) I not usually have lunch at home.
2. A) My friend don't goes to the cinema a lot.
3. A) Do his father drive a car very fast?
4. A) Do the shops close at 8 o'clock in the evening?
5. A) You often play basketball?
6. A) How you often play basketball?
II. Means of travelling. Fill in.
A) by B)on C) in D) out of E) off
8. Two men with guns got... the car and went into the shop.
III. Identify errors in the underlined parts of the sentences. There is only one error in each sentence. Find it.
I. He thinks she is beautiful but I don't agree with her.
A B C
2.I advice, you check all your exam answers before you hand your paper in.
A B C
3. I'd like knowing where you are.
A B C
4. The light didn't work because anyone had taken the bulb.
A B C
5. The tourist have asked a passer-by how far the post office was.
AB C
6. A small boy often stands outside the bicycle shop and gaze at the wonderful machines in the window.
A B C
A B C
9. What will you be doing this time last year?
A B C
10. He said them that he was going to give up smoking.
A B C
I1. Ice cream was known five hundreds years ago.
A B C
12. Men have no most time to understand anything.
A B C
IV. Complete the sentences.
5. Let me give you _____.
a) an advice c) some advice
b) the advices d) Some advices
6. I don’t like it here. Let’s go somewhere _____.
a) else c)more
b) again d) once
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SEMESTER II
SPEAKING
I. Choose only positive features of the character:
Arrogant, chatter-box, ambitious, witty, sharp-minded, ill-mannered, promiscuous, sophisticated, unrestrained, partial, dignified, sulky, patient, just, deceived, sincere, respectable, gentle
II. Describe:
III. Complete the conversation
IV Give a personal identification (character sketch) about his or her appearance, age, likes, dislikes, temperament, disposition.
10 КЛАС
SEMESTER II
MARK TWAIN'S FIRST MONEY
Somebody once asked Mark Twain whether he could remember the first money he ever earned.
"I remember quite well", the famous writer answered. "It happened at school. Schoolboys in those days had very little respect for their teachers and even less for their desks. The boys used pens and pencils and even knives to draw stars and faces, or to write their names on their desks. At last, the school principal said; 'The next time anybody does such thing, he will have to pay five dollars, or he will receive a beating in front of the whole school'.
Soon after that, I had to go to my father and ask him to give me five dollars. I was honest enough to explain that I could agree to receive a beating instead, but he said: 'No, I can't allow you to connect our name with such things. So I'll pay the five dollars. But you must suffer for what you have done. I'll give you the beating here, at home'.
So he beat me, and then gave me the five dollars to take to school. But I decided that the beating didn't hurt so much, and another beating at school wouldn't be worse. So I told them to give trie a beating in front of the whole school, and I kept the five dollars. And that was the first money I ever earned".
I. Put "+" next to the true sentences and "—" next to the false ones.
1. What did the boys use their pens, pencils and knives for?
A) to make smth for their friends
B) to play different games
C) to draw or to write on the desks
2. Why did the school principal invent such a strict punishment for student.
A) to make pupils to learn well
B) to stop writing and drawing on the desks
C) to make pupils to do their home task well
3. Why did the boy’s father decide to pay five dollars?
A) he couldn’t allow his son to be beaten in front of the whole school
B) he didn’t want his son to suffer
C) he wanted his son to buy some pens
4. How much money did they have to pay?
A) some dollars
B) five pounds
C) five dollars
5. How did the boy earn the money for the first time?
A) he let him beat
B) he sold food
C) he worked in an office
6. What did he do with the money that father gave him?
A) he spent them
B) he kept them for himself
C) he gave them to his father
III. Give the antonyms to the words
pay
honest
instead
agree
suffer
allow
IV. Ask 6 questions to the text
10 КЛАС
SEMESTER II
READING COMPREHENSION TEST
A CONVERSATION WITH MY FATHER GRACE PALEY
My father is eighty-six years old and in bed. His heart, that bloody motor, is equally old and will not certain jobs any more. It still floods his head with brainy light. But won’t let his legs carry the weight of his body around the house. Despite my metaphors, this muscle failure is not due to his old heart, he says, but to a potassium shortage. Sitting on one pillow, leaning on three, he offers last minute advice and makes a request.
“I would like to write a simple story just once more,” he says,” the kind de Maupassant wrote, or Chekhov, the kind you used to write. Just recognizable people and then write down what happened to them next
I say, “Yes, why not? That’s possible.” I want to please him, though I don’t remember writing that way. I would like to try to tell such story, if he means the kind that begins: “There was a woman…” followed by plot, absolute line between two points which I’ve always despised. Not for literary reasons, but because it takes all hope away. Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
Finally I thought of a story that had been happening for a couple of years right across the street. I wrote it down, then read it aloud. “Pa,” I said, “how about this? Do you mean something like this?”
Once in my time there was a woman and she had a son. They lived nicely, in a small apartment in Manhattan. This boy at about fifteen became a junkie, which is not unusual in our neighborhood.
In order to maintain her close friendship with him, she became a junkie too. She said it was part of the youth culture, with which she felt very much at home. After a while, for a number of reasons, the boy gave it all up and left the city and his mother in disgust. Hopeless and alone, she grieved. We all visited her.
READING COMPREHENSION TEST
I. Put "+" next to the true sentences and "-" next to the false ones.
1. My father is an energetic 68-year-old man.
2. He wants his daughter to write a complex epic novel.
3. He likes simple stories with recognizable people.
4. I will write him a simple story.
5. The woman’s boy was 10 years old.
6. Her son left her wealthy and well cared for.
II. Circle the correct letter
1. My father spends his time in …
a) bed; b) church; c) the cafes; d) pain and sufferings
2. His heart is weak but has not reduced the follow of blood …
a) to his legs; b) to his strong arms and shoulders; c) to his head; d) to his liver
3. He thinks I write simple stories like …
a) Shultz and Dilbert; b) Bulgakov and Shevchenko; c) Chekhov or de Maupassant; d) Chekhov and Marquis de Sade
4. I was … to write a simple story for my father.
a) unwilling; b) eager; c) saddened; d) unable
5. The woman and her son lived in …
a) Sumy; b) Poland; c) Manhattan; d) Washington D. C.
6. The boy became a junkie, which was … where we lived.
a) common; b) uncommon; c) looked down upon; d) held in high esteem
III. Fill in the blanks
Once in my time there was a woman and she had a son. They lived 1_____, in a small apartment in Manhattan. This boy at about fifteen became a 2_____, which is not 3_____ in our neighborhood.
In order to 4_____ her close friendship with him, she became a junkie too. She said it was part of the 5_____culture, with which she felt very much at home. After a while, for a number of reasons, the boy gave it all up and left the city and his mother in 6_____. Hopeless and alone, she grieved. We all visited her.
1.nicely 2.unusual 3. youth
4. disgust 5. junkie 6. maintain
IV. Make up 5 questions of different types.