SPEAKING

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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.


Why are rainbows curved? When you look at a rainbow, you’re not seeing a flat two-dimensional image on the dome of sky. You’re seeing light along a three-dimensional cone, with your eyes at the tip. The circle of a rainbow – or arc, assuming the bottom part of the circle is hidden by your horizon – appears as a flat, two-dimensional section of that cone. Rainbows don’t exist! They are nowhere in space. You cannot touch them or drive around them. They are a collection of rays from glinting raindrops that happen to reach our eyes. Raindrops glint rainbow rays at an angle of 42 degrees from the point directly opposite the sun. All the drops glinting the rainbow are on the surface of a cone with its point at your eye. They can be near and far. Other drops not on the cone also glint sunlight into rainbow colours but their rays do not reach our eyes. We only see those on the cone. When you look down the cone you see a circle. So rainbows are circles


Task 2. Study the advertisement.


Individual language classes with native speakers


You are considering taking some lessons 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. price for one lesson
  3. duration of the lesson
  4. languages available

You have 20 seconds to ask each question
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.
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Task 4. Imagine that you are doing a school project “Doing homework” 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 doing homework;
  • mention the disadvantages (1-2) of the two ways of doing homework;
  • express your opinion on the subject of the project – which of the ways of doing homework presented in the pictures you would 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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