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.
A smile is a face made by flexing the muscles near both ends of the mouth. The smile can also be made through the eyes when the cheek raises and forms a wrinkle around the eyes. Smiles usually express happiness. A smile can be natural or fake. However, smiling can be different with animals. When smiling, the teeth show, but sometimes animals do this when they are threatening. When chimpanzees show their teeth, it can also be a sign of fear. In the 1990s people started using the internet and emails as a regular way of communicating. So that they could show happiness or fun in an easy way, people started making little smiling faces using some of the symbols on the keyboard. Such a smiling face is normally called a smiley, smiley face, or happy face. Smileys show emotion when people are not able to see it in real life. The first smileys were made as yellow buttons, but now the most common smileys are made using computer keyboard symbols.
Task 2. Study the advertisement.
You are considering becoming a volunteer in a local nursing home and 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:
1. location
2. age restrictions
3. if working in the morning is possible
4. responsibilities
You have 20 seconds to ask each questions.
1. location
2. age restrictions
3. if working in the morning is possible
4. responsibilities
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 daily routines. We’d like to know our guest’s point of view on this issue. Please answer five questions. So, let’s get started.
Interviewer: Are you an organised person? Why do you think so?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: Is there something you often put off doing?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: How difficult is it for you to plan your time?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: What household chores are you responsible for? How often do you do them?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: What can you tell our listeners about your weekend routines?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: Thank you very much for your interview.
Task 4. Imagine that you are doing a school project “Housecleaning routine” 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 ways of having a clean home;
- mention the disadvantages (1–2) of the two ways of having a clean home;
- express your opinion on the subject of the project – which of the way to keep your home clean 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 ways of having a clean home;
- mention the disadvantages (1–2) of the two ways of having a clean home;
- express your opinion on the subject of the project – which of the way to keep your home clean 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.
clean it ourselves
cleaning campaign
