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.
The Walt Disney World Resort, also called Disney World, is an entertainment complex near Orlando, Florida. It opened on the 1st of October 1971. There are 4 theme parks in Walt Disney World. Each of them has numerous rides, restaurants and entertainment activities. You can meet Disney characters there and have fun viewing different parades. The resort was inspired by the dreams of Walt Disney and his creation of Disneyland in California. Its original theme park, Magic Kingdom, is designed similarly to Disneyland. Disney World also has 2 water parks, 23 hotels, a campground, and a shopping area with souvenir shops, restaurants, and sports activities. Walt Disney created Disney World to have a vacation resort that was much different from Disneyland's one-day visit. Disney World covers an area of 50 square miles. The theme parks come with lots of different and fun rides and you can go swimming at the water parks. Sometimes, Disney characters walk around the parks to enjoy the younger ones. The rides are related to the books and films that Disney created.
Task 2. Study the advertisement.
You are considering visiting a new open-air cinema 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. if admission is free
3. films for teenagers
4. car parking nearby
You have 20 seconds to ask each questions.
1. location
2. if admission is free
3. films for teenagers
4. car parking nearby
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 entertainment. 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 forms of entertainment are popular in Russia?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: What are your favourite forms of entertainment?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: What public places do you visit most often to entertain yourself?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: How much money a month do you spend on entertainment? Is it enough for you?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: Do you agree that entertainment is an important part of our lives? Why?
Student: _________________________
Interviewer: Thank you very much for your interview.
Task 4. Imagine that you are doing a school project “Family time” 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 spending time with a family;
- mention the disadvantages (1–2) of the two ways of spending time with a family;
- express your opinion on the subject of the project – which of ways of spending time with a family presented in the pictures you preferred as a child 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 spending time with a family;
- mention the disadvantages (1–2) of the two ways of spending time with a family;
- express your opinion on the subject of the project – which of ways of spending time with a family presented in the pictures you preferred as a child 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.
Board games
Hiking
