SPEAKING
УСТНАЯ ЧАСТЬ
Task 1. Imagine that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some interesting material for the presentation and you want to read this text to your friend. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, then be ready to read it out aloud. You will not have more than 1.5 minutes to read it.
St Bernards have never carried brandy barrels. The dog’s mission is entirely different – apart from anything else giving brandy to someone with hypothermia is a disastrous mistake – but tourists have always loved the idea, so they still pose wearing them. Before they were trained as mountain rescue dogs, they were used by the monks at the hospice to carry food, as their large size and docile temperament made them good pack animals.
The brandy barrel was the idea of a young English, who was much favoured by Queen Victoria. He was a renowned painter of landscapes and animals, best known for his painting The Monarch of the Glen and for sculpting the lions around the base of Nelson’s Column. Originally, St Bernards were known as Barry hounds, who rescued forty people but was unfortunately killed by the forty-first, who mistook him for a wolf.
Task 2. Study the advertisement.
You are considering taking dance lessons in a new dance school now you’d like to get more information. In 1.5 minutes you are to ask four direct questions to find out about the following:
- course for beginners
- duration of one lesson
- cost of the course
- special clothes
Task 3. You are going to give an interview. You have to answer five questions. Give full answers to the questions (2-3 sentences). Remember that you have 40 seconds to answer each question.
Tapescript for Task 3
Interviewer: Hello everybody! It’s Teenagers Round the World Channel. Our guest today is a teenager from Russia and we are going to discuss professions. We’d like to know our guest’s point of view on this issue. Please answer five questions. So, let’s get started.
Interviewer: What region of Russia do you live in? What professions are popular there?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: What profession did your parents want you to take up?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: When did you decide on your future field of work?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: Will you need a higher education to work in that field?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: Where do your friends want to work at?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: Thank you very much for your interview.
Interviewer: Hello everybody! It’s Teenagers Round the World Channel. Our guest today is a teenager from Russia and we are going to discuss professions. We’d like to know our guest’s point of view on this issue. Please answer five questions. So, let’s get started.
Interviewer: What region of Russia do you live in? What professions are popular there?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: What profession did your parents want you to take up?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: When did you decide on your future field of work?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: Will you need a higher education to work in that field?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: Where do your friends want to work at?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: Thank you very much for your interview.
Task 4. Imagine that you are doing a school project “Jobs” together with your friend. You have found some photos to illustrate it but for technical reasons you cannot send them now. Leave a voice message to your friend explaining your choice of the photos and sharing some ideas about the project. In 2.5 minutes be ready to:
- explain the choice of the illustrations for the project by briefly describing them and noting the differences;
- mention the advantages (1–2) of the two jobs;
- mention the disadvantages (1–2) of the two jobs;
- express your opinion on the subject of the project – which of the jobs presented in the pictures you prefer and why.
You will speak for not more than 3 minutes (2-3 sentences for each item of the plan, 12–15 sentences total). You have to talk continuously.
- explain the choice of the illustrations for the project by briefly describing them and noting the differences;
- mention the advantages (1–2) of the two jobs;
- mention the disadvantages (1–2) of the two jobs;
- express your opinion on the subject of the project – which of the jobs presented in the pictures you prefer and why.
You will speak for not more than 3 minutes (2-3 sentences for each item of the plan, 12–15 sentences total). You have to talk continuously.
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