Post-reading task

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ironed? - ......................... A) At the laundry. B) At the bank. C) At the shop. D) At the post-office. E) At school. *** 2. Choose the best answer: A police officer…. car was parked at the next corner stopped and arrested them. A) whose B) who C) when D) where E) which *** 3. Complete the sentence: Andy said that no other car could go ... his. A) as fast as B) as fast like C) as fast that D) so fast like E) so fast than *** 4. Choose the appropriate variant of indirect speech: Jane said: “Did you see that film last month?” A) Jane interested if I had seen that film the previous month B) Jane ordered if I had seen that film last month C) Jane asked that I had seen that film last month D) Jane asked if I saw that film last month E) Jane interested if I seen that film last month *** 5. Choose the appropriate word(s): Sara and Kelly were getting treatment in the ... hospital. Their cases were.... A) same/similar B) similar/same C) best/same D) bad/same E) bad/best *** 6. Choose the best answer: If you ……… to him, you ……… a lot. A) listen/will learn B) will listen/will learn C) listen/learn D) will listen/learn E) listened/ will learn *** 7. Find the appropriate modal verb: It is raining. You … take your anorak. A) should B) couldn’t C) shouldn’t D) mustn’t E) are must *** 8. Find the right variant: Sergei Bezrukov … as a talented actor by all. A) is recognized B) is recognize C) recognize D) was recognize E) were recognize *** 9. Find the appropriate modal verb: I have got toothache. I … go to the dentist. A) must B) mustn’t C) can have been D) should have done E) should be *** 10. Complete the sentence: He … the newspaper at the time you rang. A) was reading B) read C) was read D) were reading E) readed *** 11. Choose the appropriate variant of indirect speech: John said to Tom: “Do you want to go to the cinema?” A) John asked Tom if he wanted to go to the cinema. B) John asked Tom he wanted to go to the cinema. C) John asked Tom did he want to go to the cinema. D) John asked Tom if do he want to go to the cinema. E) John asked Tom he had wanted to go to the cinema. *** 12. Choose the right variant: By the time the police arrived, the thieves ……. the stolen money. A) had hidden B) hide C) will have hidden D) are hiding E) hid *** 13. Choose the best question: Bill reads newspapers in the kitchen every morning. A) What does Bill do in the kitchen? B) Where do they read newspapers? C) How many newspapers does Bill have? D) Who cooks in the kitchen? E) Where does he buy newspapers? *** 14. Choose the best question: It usually takes her 15 minutes to get to the office by underground. A) How long does it take her to get to the office by underground? B) How long does it usually take you to get to the office? C) Who got to the office in 15 minutes? D) It usually took her 15 minutes to get to the office by underground, didn`t it? E) Where do you get in 15 minutes? *** 15. Choose the right order to make up a story: 1. Meat comes from animals. 2. People cannot live without food. 3. Where does our food come from? 4. People eat domestic birds too. A) 2,3,1,4 B) 4,2,3,1 C) 1,2,3,4 D) 2,1,4,3 E) 3,4,2,1

books, other things, inventions, communicate, CDs, all parts of the country, information
Radio, television and the Internet are the great 1) … of the 20th century. In 2) … there are many papers giving information about films, concerts and 3) … that are happening in the local area. These days you can read books on 4) … . In the Internet you can find any 5) … you want. Also you can 6) … with your friends there. But I think that 7) … are forever.
Task 2. The word in capitals in the right column can be used to form a word that fits suitably in the blank space. Fill each blank in this way (3 points).
1. Reading CD books you can see what’s happening in … . ACT
2. She … everything to the police. EXPLAIN
3. The famous … collected the most interesting material in the South Africa. REPORT
Task 3. Complete the sentences. Choose the correct variant (5 points).
1. The (new/ news) is shocking.
2. The (new/ news) film is shocking.
3. I have some (money/ moneys) in my pocket.
4. We have much (snow/ snows) in winter.
5. Her (hair/ hairs) is beautiful.
Task 4. Complete the sentences (5 points).
1. He agreed (to help/ helping) us with Physics.
2. We are fond of (to fish/ fishing).
3. His Dictionary was proved (to be/ being) useful.
4. He finished (written/ writing) the letter.
5. Children decided (to buy/ buying) the present for their teacher.
Task 5. Write the following statements in reported speech (6 points).
1. She says: “I saw you in the cinema”.
2. He said: “Helen left yesterday”.
3. My friend asked: “How long have you been here?”
4. She said to Richard: “Water the flowers”.
5. Mother said to the children: “Don’t touch the cat”.
6. The teacher asked: “Did you write your homework?”

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When I was four months old, my mother died. I had no brothers or sisters. So all my boyhood, from the age of four months, there were just two of us, my father and me. We lived in an old gypsy caravan. My father owned the filling station and the caravan, that was about all he owned in the world. It was a very small filling station on a small country road with fields and woody hills around it.
While I was still a baby, my father washed me and fed me, pushed me in my pram to the doctor and did all the millions of other things a mother normally does for her child. That is not an easy task for a man, especially when he has to earn his living at the same time.
But my father was a cheerful man. I thinks that he gave me all the live he had felt for my mother when she was alive. We were very close. During my early years, I never had a moments unhappiness, and here I am on my fifth birthday.
I was a little boy as you can see, with dirt and oil all over me, but that was because I spent all day in the workshop helping my father with the cars. The workshop was stone building. My father built that himself with loving care. We are engineers, you and I, he said to me. We earn our living by repairing engines and we can’t do good work in a bad workshop. It was a fine workshop, big enough to take one car comfortably.
The caravan was our house and our home. My father said it was at least one hundred and fifty years old. Many gipsy children, he said, he been born in it and had grown up within its wooden walls. Different people had knocked at its doors, different people had lived in it. But now its best years were over. There was only one room in the caravan, and it wasn’t much bigger than a modern bathroom.
Although we had electric lights in the workshop, we were not allowed to have them in the caravan as it was dangerous. So we got our heat and light in the same way as the gypsies had done years ago. There was a wood-burning stove that kept us warm in winter and there were candles in candlesticks. I think that the stew cooked by my father is the best thing I’ve ever tasted. One plate was never enough.
For furniture, we had two narrow beds, two chairs and a small table covered with a tablecloth and some bowls, plates, cups, forks and spoons on it. Those were all the home comforts we had. They were all we needed.
I really lived living in that gypsy caravan. I lived the evenings when I was in my bed and my father was telling stories. I was happy because I was sure that when I went to sleep my father would still be there, very close to me, sitting in his chair by the fire.
My father, without any doubt, was the most wonderful and exciting father any boy ever had. Here is a picture of him.
You may think, if you don’t know him well, that he was a serous man. He wasn’t. He was actually full of fun. What made him look so serious and sometimes sad was the fact that he nevr smiled with his mouth. He did it all with his eyes. He had bright blue eyes and when he thought of something funny, you could see a golden light dancing in the middle of each eye. But the mouth never moved. My father was not what you would call an educated man. I doubt he had read many books in his life. But he was an excellent storyteller. He promised to make up a bedtime story for me every time I asked him. He always kept his promise. The best stories were turned into serials and went on many nights running.

2. What is the difference between them nowadays?
3. What do tabloids write about?
4. What do broadsheets focus on?



In the UK we have two main kinds of newspapers: broadsheets and tabloids.
Originally these names came from the size of the newspapers. A tabloid format newspaper was smaller and the broadsheet format newspaper was bigger.
But nowadays when we talk about tabloids and broadsheets, we talk about two different kinds of newspapers: easy reading and quality newspapers. Tabloids report news in a very condensed form. They write about celebrities, the British Royal Family, sport, crime stories and scandals.
Broadsheets give their readers long, detailed reports on the latest news and focus on more serious things: politics, economy, government, international events, business, culture.