Жизнь и творчества русских писателей

I. Part. (Listening)

1Write down the missing information

I’m dreaming of living in a _____________ on a green hillside within a 10-minutes of a broad ____________ ____________ beach or of a nearby ____________. I’d like to have a __________ _____ ___________. I’d like to grow a variety of __________ and _________________. I can move to any _____________. It’s a _____________ country with various ___________, landscapes and ______________.

2Write which information is True (T) and which is False (F)

Tom knows where he’d like to live. ________

He’d like to have a big farm in a prairie. __________

He said that for growing variety fruits and vegetables need a lot of rains. _______

He dreams to have a lot of horses. ________

He considers that his country is very small, and it has little possibilities for your life. ______

He thinks that he can move to any place. ___________

II Part. (Reading)

Write down words in the missing places.

It’s a world’s largest _________ and its smallest continent. The continent is south of the ________. Much of the land is a ______. Great deserts ______ nearly 2,000,000 square kilometers. Most of the continent is ______ most of the year. Its population is very _______ for such a ______ country. Many people live far away from towns in the _______. Severe _____, ______ and cyclones happen very often on the continent. The people ________ from limited fresh water.

1-island, 2-huge, 3-useless desert, 4-cover, 5-Equator, 6-small, 7-floods, 8-outback, 9-droughts, 10-suffer, 11-sunny

Part

1 Write which situation is informal (Inf), formal (F), neutral (N)

You ask your British friend about the weather forecast for tomorrow. ________
You are at the geography lesson. You ask the teacher about British seas. _________
You ask an American teenager during a TV bridge “Across the Ocean” about teenagers’ favourite places for summer holidays. _________

2 Match the words and the description with its meaning

1 patience


a) a willingness to do what someone tells you to do even if it is unpleasant

2 toughness


b) the ability to move quickly and easily from place to place



3 self-reliance


c) the ability to see or describe a future event in advance as a result of knowledge, experience, reason, etc.

4 self-confidence


d) a feeling that you can do things successfully, that people like you, that you are attractive, etc.

5 predictability



e) great care

6 submission


f) the ability to wait for smth calmly for a long time

7 mobility


g) the ability to live through difficult conditions

8 cautiousness


h) the ability to use one’s own power of action and judgement without depending on others

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3 Which country the following information is related to. Write USA, UK, Australia, Russia

Much of the country is a useless desert. ________________
It’s a fourth largest nation in the world. ___________
Many people live in the outback there. __________
It’s situated in two continents. ____________
There are eleven time zones in this country. _____________
Half of the population spend time gardening. _____________
The people of this country started the fashion for seaside holidays. __________
It’s an island state. ________________