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.


Any family is in charge of the welfare, comfort, health, success in work and good relations of every member in the family.
There are stereotypical responsibilities of the husband, the wife and the children. They say that the wife’s responsibilities are, basically, to do everything. The typical role of husband is that he goes out to work and earns money for the family. Maybe, at the weekend he cleans his car and does more technical things around the house.
Lots of people in Britain are really into DIY, that’s do-it-yourself, and they try to make furniture, put their own bathroom appliances, put tiles on the bathroom walls themselves, etc.
In many countries now it’s more accepted that a woman can have a family and a career, whereas before it was seen as something shocking, and men were outraged that their children would be left with strangers, and thought that it was the wife’s duty to bring them up.
All changed now and responsibility for all of the important aspects of life should be shared by both of the parents, especially bringing up the children.


Task 2. Study the advertisement.

You are considering hiring a cleaning service and now you’d like to get more information. In 1.5 minutes you are going to ask four direct questions to find out about the following:

  1. duration of cleaning
  2. number of cleaners
  3. price per a room
  4. range of services included
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.
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Task 4. Imagine that you are doing a school project “Household chores” 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 doing household chores;
  • mention the disadvantages (1-2) of doing household chores;
express your opinion on the subject of the project – which of the ways of doing household chores 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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