Listen to the presentation about unusual British festivals and choose the right answer: True/False
1. Many of these festivals are actually races or competitions. True /False
2. The Burning of the Clavie brings good luck for the new year. True /False
3. On Shrove Tuesday in Scarborough people dance with ropes. True /False
4. Cheese rolling involves running away from a big, round cheese. True/ False
5. Snail racing started in the UK. True /False
6. The competition to pull the ugliest face is an old tradition. True /False
7. The Burning of the Clocks festival marks the summer solstice. True /False
8. The Burning of the Clocks festival ends with people throwing water. True /False
Listen to the conversation about plans for the weekend and circle the best option to complete these sentences.
1. A dirt board is a board with wheels that you stand on / a board with no wheels that you stand on / a board that you sit on .
2. To go cannoning you need ropes and a helmet / a guide and special equipment / ropes and special equipment .
3. Zip-wiring is scary and difficult / easy and exciting / scary but exciting .
4. Paris looks so beautiful at night / on television / in the photos .
5. The impressionist paintings are in the Louvre / the Musée D’Orsay / the Rodin Museum .
6. The famous Rodin statue is called The Worker / The Thinker / The Philosopher .
7. The girl is going to Paris for the weekend / four days / five days .
8. She’s going with her friend / her boyfriend / her family .
Reading
T ASK 1 (1 text). Match the explanation (1 – 5) and the word (A – F). Mind that one word from the list A – F is odd.
1 It is a pronounceable word formed from the first letter or first few letters of each word in a phrase or title. Sometimes the newly-combined letters create a new word that takes the place in everyday language. These are very widely used: RADAR, LASER, SCUBA, WASP.
2 The activity of getting a large group of people to contribute to a project or task, especially by using a website where people can make contributions; for example, online proofreading services.
3 Can you imagine that this word was not coined in the 2000s? Everybody talks about them, everybody creates them nowadays. However, it was a faraway 1976 when Richard Dawkins invented it.
4 Who on earth doesn’t know this word now? However, not every person is aware of its origin. This word was first presented in Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver Travels where they were primitive cruel creatures with materialistic attitudes.
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5 In Cabbages and Kings, a collection of short stories by O. Henry, the author introduced the term like this” Later, politicians in the U.S. exploited this term in referring to unstable countries that depend upon exported products.
A. Crowdsourcing
B. Meme
C. Acronym
D. Banana Republic
E. Yahoo
F. Twitter
T ASK 2 Complete the text with A – G. There is one item that you do not need to use.
I have been working as a trained chef for several years and I am also a restaurant and food critic. I’m currently taking part in a reality TV series 1. ______________
Some of the situations I have dealt within the series are quite incredible. I’ll just mention a few to show some of the problems 2. ____________________________
In many cases, it is the food that is not up to standard. One Italian restaurant that I visited recently served me nothing but frozen or re-cooked food. I had to spend several days re-training the chef 3. ______________________________________
The last restaurant I visited was in a stunning position by the sea, and there wasn’t a dish of fresh fish on the menu! Next week, I’m taking the owners out fishing to show them what they have been missing! Some chefs I have met have simply lost their passion for food, but sometimes they will give it one more try, because of the support and encouragement 4. __________________________________________
My worst eating experience was in a burger restaurant. The burgers were all either undercooked or overcooked and burnt on the outside. What a disaster! I find it unbelievable 5. _____________________________________________________
Other problems I have encountered usually concern the staff or the management, particularly if it’s a family –run business. Working with family can be stressful, but we usually manage to work out a solution together, mainly 6. ________________
At least I feel really happy when the restaurants I visit improve!
A. because there’s too much to lose if we don’t!
B. so he could feel confident about using fresh food again.
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C. that running a restaurant may involve.
D. that these places have survived for so long.
E. how a restaurant shouldn’t be run.
Use of English
Task 1. Use of English
Music – a universal language
Music is universal – it is (0) ____ by all cultures. Some scientists believe that music came before speech and (1) ____ as a development of mating calls. In fact, there is (2) _____ theory that the (3) _____ languages were chanted or sung rather than spoken. Indeed, in some cultures, music is a form of (4) ______ history. The Aboriginal Australians, for example, use music as a means to (5) ______ on stories of the land and spirits to the next (6) _______ .
New evidence suggests that music does not just (7) ______ the feel-good factor but it is also good for the brain. A study of intellectually (8) ______ children showed that they could recall more (9) _____ after it was given to them in a song than after it was read to them as a story.
Researches also report that people (10) _____ better on a standard intelligence (11) _____ after listening to Mozart. The so called ‘Mozart effect’, has also been (12) _____ by finding that rats (13) ______ up on Mozart run faster through a complex network of paths or passages, (14) _____ as a maze. Overall, it seems that in most instances people who suffer from any form of mental (15) ____ benefit from listening to music.
| A | B | C | D | |
| 0 | produced | written | considered | sung |
| 1 | was | swelled | reacted | arose |
| 2 | one | every | such | that |
| 3 | earliest | newest | easiest | simplest |
| 4 | enjoying | making | recording | stating |
| 5 | move | pass | hand | happen |
| 6 | children | people | tribe | generation |
| 7 | convince | satisfy | please | prefer |
| 8 | disabled | nactive | incapable | disordered |
| 9 | facts | knowledge | memory | information |
| 1 0 | examine | prepare | score | achieve |
| 1 1 | form | scheme | demonstration | test |
| 1 2 | supported | given | marked | remembered |
| 1 3 | held | brought | stood | set |
| 1 4 | called | heard | regarded | known |
| 1 5 | badness | hurt | illness | pain |
TASK 2 Use of English
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