A personal letter an official letter

I was responsible for … This job would offer me …

Do you think you could … I succeeded in …

Best wishes. You have a part-time job, don’t you?

How are you? Love, …

I am writing to apply for ….

I have two year’s experience working with children.

I can’t wait to hear from you. I have so much to tell you.

I hope to hear from you in the near future.

I would be happy to come to an interview ….

Задание №2

Why do people believe in miracles? Write an essay expressing your point of view.

You should write 280 – 300 words.

Задание №3

A magazine has announced a competition for the most interesting article about the art of giving. The heading of the article you propose to the magazine is “To give or not to give? – That is a question!” You have to start with the words: “Giving is more rewarding than getting” and you need to explain why people give their money, time and effort to others without getting anything in return. Finish your article with the words: “The joy of giving gives the greatest satisfaction and cannot be compared with any other feeling”.

You have to write about 150 words.

Задание №4

Every month the magazine "TEENS" receives many letters from students asking for some advice about the problems they face in everyday life. Read the following letters addressed to the column "HELP!" and write a message (between 40 and 60 words) giving some advice to one of the teenagers.

Letter 1

Dear Help,

My best friend is good at everything! She's smart. I'm really jealous. She always gets A + 's and special awards, which makes me feel dumb. Whenever I find something I'm good at, she does it five billion times better. I'm afraid my jealousy may destroy our friendship, I start hating her academic and other achievements. How can I get rid of my jealousy?

Abbie

Letter 2

Dear Help,

I know a girl who is always teased. I laugh with everybody else, though I know she is a very nice girl. ButI feel so bad! This girl has been teased all her life, and she laughs with people too, even though she must feel bad down in her heart. What should I do to help her?

Mark

Task 2

(40 minutes)

Write a short (about 200 words) essay on how the life around you has changed while you were at school.

Аудирование

Listen to the part of a conversation with Matt Adams, a member of the Blast Theory – one of the most adventurous artists’ groups using interactive media - and do items 1-10 completing the statements with not more than two words. You will hear the recording twice.

Listening Comprehension (текст для аудирования)

Task One. Items 1-10 are based on Text 1. Listen to the part of a conversation with Matt Adams, a member of the Blast Theory – one of the most adventurous artists’ groups using interactive media complete the statements with no more than two words. You will hear the recording twice.

Q Good morning Matt.

A Good morning Jed.

Q How are you?

A Very good thanks.

Q Matt, could you explain to me what the blast theory group is and where it got started?

A Yeah, we are a group of three artists and we’ve been working together for about fifteen years and we make work interactive in one way or another, sometimes with technology, sometimes without.

Q Can you just describe for me your first work in that area of interactivity?

A Yeah, we started making work together in the early 1990’s and we were very influenced by club culture and we were in the UK at the time, which was very active. We were excited to try to find a way of incorporating what was happening in club culture with some of our interests in theatre and in making art. We looked for ways in which the audience might interact with a performance. So we made from one of our shows where the audience would walk around the space and we would perform among the audience, we collaborated with DJ’s and bands. Initially, the interaction was just asking the audience to participate in one bit of the performance and then gradually we progressed to using some sorts of aspects of technology, so we put pressure pads on the floor of the performance space so that the audience could step on a pad and trigger a bit of audio or a bit of video as part of the show.

Q Compare for me the first piece of work you did with the most recent piece of work you did.

A Well we have certainly changed quite a lot over the years. I’m not a technological person but we have become very interested in the way technology is changing the ways we communicate with one another. In the last sort of five years we’ve worked lots with mobile phones, mobile devices and we now collaborate with the University of Nottingham, they have a mixed reality lab at the University of Nottingham. We work together to develop games, often for mobile phones or for hand held computers. It is a lot more technologically sophisticated than it was and the other sort of real big differences is that we started to make work either in nightclubs or theatres but always in a performance base. Our work is really now out on the street or on the internet, so people are really sort of coming to engage with our work in a whole lot of settings.

Q These are some fairly high-end ideas in terms of our relationship with other people which is basically a screen. What have been the key developments that you’ve recognised over the time?

A I think the biggest thing is that fifteen years ago people talked about virtual reality as the kind of thing that you put the head set on and you go inside a virtual world and you’re completely immersed into this fantastical place. You need high-end equipment to do it, they’re a very specialised thing. Gradually, as we have had the rise of the internet we’ve found that you can go into a virtual world quite easily via an internet. The rise of online games massively multiplayer online games, is really sort of given a whole explosion to the idea that you can go into a virtual world via the screen, world of war craft or second life are these big games with many millions of players. But what is really now starting to happen with mobile phones that are connected to the internet you are now carrying a kind of connection to the internet in your pocket and so the virtual world is starting to spill out into everyday life.

Задания для аудирования:

1. The Blast Theory group is about __________________________ years old.

2. The group was first located in ____________________________.

3. In the beginning the group was influenced by__________________________.

4. In their first shows the group performed____________________the audience.

5. The first technological gadgets the group used were the _________________.

6. In the last five years the group has worked with _______________ devices.

7. The Nottingham University laboratory they work with is called ______________ laboratory.

8. For Matt the biggest development over the last fifteen years has become the accessibility of the ______________________.

9. Matt pays special attention to the development of the online ______________.

10. According to Matt, people now can carry a kind of connection to the internet in their ______________________.

Task 2

Listen to the story and decide which of the statements (11-20) are true according to the text (A), which are false (B) and on which the information in the text is not stated (C). You will hear the story twice.

(текст для аудирования)

Danger! Bird bath! by Andy Baxter

We all know that chainsaws are very dangerous - in Britain 1,207 people had to visit hospitals after accidents with chainsaws in 1999. However, in the same year, 16,662 people – more than twelve times as many - were injured by their sofa!

In June 2001, the New Scientist reported that “its favourite government report” had been published by Britain's Department of Trade and Industry. This was the annual Home and Leisure Accident Surveillance System report for 1999. The report looks at what people said had made them go to accident departments in certain British hospitals. It then uses these figures to estimate causes of accidents over the whole country.

Some of the most harmless things prove to be extremely dangerous:

Clothes: the Times (07 June 2001) reported that there were 5,945 trouser accidents (compared with only 5,137 the previous year). Socks and tights caused 10,773 accidents. Most of these accidents were people falling over because they were getting dressed too fast, and many other people fell over clothes left on the floor (you see, your mother was right when she told you to tidy up your bedroom!)

Meanwhile, the garden also took its revenge. Tree trunks caused 1,810 accidents, and bird baths went on the rampage, attacking 311 people - up from 117 victims in 1998. But the biggest danger was your wellington boots: 5,615 accidents.

In films, people always hide from danger in the bathroom, but that’s a dangerous option in real life. Toilet-roll holders alone accounted for 329 victims, while 787 people had to confront their sponge or loofah, and there were 73 talcum powder victims. But beware the clothes basket, which claimed 3,421 victims nationwide.

But it was in the kitchen that most people got injured. Tea cosies – woollen covers for tea pots to keep the tea hot – caused 37 injuries, compared with 20 the previous year; while placemat accidents were up from 157 to 165. Vegetables caused 13,132 incidents, while 91 accidents were caused by bread bins.

The deadly nature of these common household objects becomes clearer when you compare it with items people normally think are dangerous. Only 329 injuries were caused by meat cleavers, and only 439 caused by rat or mouse poison.

How can we explain all these horrors hiding in our homes? Perhaps the figures are explained by the fact that most of the injured people were children under five. And we all know that young children on wobbly legs will go to places and insert their fingers in places that even Lara Croft would have thought twice about risking…

Задания для аудирования к тексту №2:

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