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.
Language is the normal way humans communicate. Only humans use language, though other animals communicate through other means. Language may be done by speech or by writing or by moving the hands to make signs. Humans also use language for thinking. The capacity to learn and use language is inherited. Normally, all humans are born with this capability. Which language is learned by a child depends on which language is spoken by the child's community. The capacity is inherited, but the particular language is learned. Children have a special period, from about 18 months to about four years, which is critical for learning the language. If this is seriously disrupted, then their language skills will be damaged. Older people learn differently, so they seldom learn a second language as well as they learn their native language. There are more than 7,000 languages in the world, but just 23 languages account for more than half the world's population. UNESCO says that 2,500 languages are at risk of becoming extinct.
Task 2. Study the advertisement.
You are considering learning Spanish in a language school and you’d like to get more information. In 1.5 minutes you are to ask four direct questions to find out the following:
1. location
2. evening classes
3. monthly fee
4. discounts for students
You have 20 seconds to ask each questions.
1. location
2. evening classes
3. monthly fee
4. discounts for students
You have 20 seconds to ask each questions.
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 English. We’d like to know our guest’s point of view on this issue. Please answer five questions. So, let’s get started.Interviewer: How do you use English in your daily life?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: Do your relatives know English well?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: Should public schools put more emphasis on the English language? Why?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: How does English help people in different countries?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: In your opinion, will another language take over the English’s role of an international language?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: Thank you very much for your interview.
Task 4. Imagine that you are doing a school project “Exam preparation” 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 types of preparing for exams;
- mention the disadvantages (1–2) of the two types of preparing for exams;
- express your opinion on the subject of the project – which way of preparing for exams 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 types of preparing for exams;
- mention the disadvantages (1–2) of the two types of preparing for exams;
- express your opinion on the subject of the project – which way of preparing for exams 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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