The detectives immediately organized a big search of the area, where Agatha Christie’s car was found. Policemen came from different parts of the country

According to the article Agatha was going through an unhappy time with her husband. She changed her name and she introduced herself as Neele, a visitor from South Africa. The police couldn’t find her.

II.

1. What does the boy want to do?

2. What does his mother want to do?

3. Why can’t they make a decision?

1.The boy wants to go to a football match with his friends.

His mother wants to go to the country for a picnic.

They can’t make a decision because they’d like to know their father’s point of view.

II.

Lyceum traditions

It is a tradition in our lyceum to plant trees and flowers in spring.

Every day in every group there is a pupil on duty. He usually brings a register to the lessons and helps teachers to mark those who are absent.

In autumn all the trees in our yard become coloured red and brown, yellow and orange, and fall down. It’s a tradition to gather the leaves and clean the ground before winter. When there is much snow in December and January students clean the lyceum roads from snow and ice. They are fond of working outside.

Every Thursday students make their classrooms tidy: sweep the floor, water the flowers.

Twice a week all the students have their training at the lyceum workshops or at the plants of the city of Minsk. They try to receive good skills and in future to become qualified turners, fitters, adjusters and machinists.

Билет № 8 ( 26 )

I. PABLO PICASSO

Пабло Пикассо

1. Read the article and say in 2-3 sentences what it is about.

2. The most famous painting of Picasso is Guernica. Read aloud the extract about it.

3. Where did Picasso learn to paint?

4. Picasso worked in different styles. Which styles are mentioned in the article? What are their typical characteristics?

This text is about one of the greatest artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso. He experimented in many different styles and changed the world of art during his time.His career had some periods. Some facts of his life had a great influence on those periods.

Абзац.) In 1936 Civil War broke out in Spain. During this period he painted his masterpiece Guernica. It shows the terrified people of the ancient Spanish town which was bombed during the Civil War. Picasso was shocked by this inhuman act and in his painting he shows people running in the streets and screaming with their mouths wide open. To display his sadness and anger he used only black and white as well as shades of grey.

Picasso learned to paint from his father and thenin Barcelona in art academy.

One of his style was his Blue Period, then his Rose Period and cubism. In his Blue Period he painted in gray and blue tones, in his Rose Period he painted in rose, pink and brown, in the period which was called cubism he didn’t show nature as it really was.

II.

1. What is Kerry’s typical day?

2. Why doesn’t Kerry follow a diet or go to the gym?

3. What piece of advice does Kerry give to beginners?

Kerry gets up at 10 o’clock, then she goes to the gym and meets her friends. She comes to the theatre at 6.15.

Kerry doesn’t follow a diet or go to the gym because she doesn’t eat much.

3. Be confident and keep practicing!

III. Choosing a career

It’s rather difficult sometimes to choose a career and to speak about the future profession. There are lucky people who chose their profession in childhood and since that time have been doing everything possible to acquire proficiency.

If we are thinking about our future career we are to pay attention to a number of important things. We should determine our abilities and inclinations. Then we should analyse job projects. We must know whether the profession we have chosen will guarantee good living conditions and give promotion. We must be sure we’ll avoid unemployment or at least will be able to apply our knowledge and skills in other fields of human activity. In short, we are to decide what we are going to do in our life and feel satisfied, but not bored and disappointed.

When I was a fifth-former I dreamt of becoming a doctor, but later I gave up this idea. Now I’d like to be a qualified worker: a turner or a fitter at a big plant.

Билет № 9 ( 30 )

I.

GOOD NEWS FOR CHOCOLATE LOVERS!

Хорошие новости для любителей шоколада!

1. Read the article and say in 2-3 sentences what it is about.

People eat a lot of chocolate. Read aloud the extract which says about it.

3. What health problems do people traditionally connect with eating chocolate?

What facts prove that chocolate can be good for our health?

1.This text is about chocolate. Studies carried out in the United States, show that chocolate is very useful for our health. But we should eat reasonable amounts of chocolate.

2.1абзац. It would be difficult to find someone who does not like chocolate. In the United States, chocolate is bought more often than any other kind of sweet. In Britain, each person eats an average of 11 kg of chocolate per year. That is a lot of chocolate! In the US people eat about 200 chocolate bars per second as a matter of fact. People love chocolate so much that they often think it is a bad habit. But there is good news for all chocoholics: eating chocolate does less harm to you than you might think.