II. Listen to the conversation and answer the questions below.
1. Where was Tina going to?
2. What happened at the airport?
3. Why was Tina scared during the flight?
Script:
Man: And what about you, Tina? Have you got a story about a journey you remember?
Tina: Yes, I have actually. There's one journey I'll never forget. I was going to Hong Kong, from London. The flight was early in the morning, so I made up my mind to spend the night before the flight in a hotel near the airport. When I woke up it was after five o'clock. You know you have to get there early to check in, right? So I panicked, took my bags and rushed outside, looking for a taxi. Luckily, after a few minutes an airport bus came along.
When I got there, it was actually nearly six so I thought, you know, I've missed my plane. The whole terminal was empty except for a huge crowd of people at one end and luckily, that was the queue for my flight. It was delayed! Yeah. I was really pleased... but the delay went from one hour to nine hours! Finally, at around three o'clock, the plane took off. But the worst part was yet to come!
After a few hours there was a huge storm and the plane started bouncing around all over the place. I was really scared. And then! The worst thing of all — the oxygen masks dropped down. I put my mask on and just sat there in absolute terror. Anyway, the plane didn't crash, thank God, and we got to Hong Kong OK in the end, but what a journey! I'll never forget it.
III. Let’s talk about art.
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I. 1. Read the article and say in 2-3 sentences what it is about.
Great grandad
It was a funny, surprising thing that brought Grandad back to me. It was algebra. I couldn’t cope with algebra in my first year at secondary school, and it made me mad. “I don’t see the point of it,” I screamed. “I don’t know what it’s for!”
Grandad, as it turned out, liked algebra and he sat opposite me and didn’t say anything for a while, considering my problem in that careful expressionless way of his.
Eventually he said, “Why do you do PE1 at school?”
“What?”
“PE. Why do they make you do it?”
“Because they hate us?” I suggested.
“And the other reason?”
“To keep us fit, I suppose.”
“Physically fit, yes.”
He reached across the table and put the first two fingers of each hand on the sides of my head.
“There is also mental fitness, isn’t there? I can explain to you why algebra is useful. But that is not what algebra is really for.”
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He moved his fingers gently on my head.
“It’s to keep what is in here healthy. PE is for the head. And the great thing is you can do it sitting down. Now, let us use these little puzzles here to take our brains for a jog.”2
And it worked. Not that I fell in love with algebra. But I did come to see that it was possible to enjoy it. Grandad taught me that maths signs and symbols were not just marks on paper. They were not flat. There were threedimensional, and you could approach them from different directions. You could take them apart and put them together in a variety of shapes, like Lego. I stopped being afraid of them.
I didn’t know it at the time, of course, but those homework sessions helped me to discover my Grandad. Algebra turned out to be the key that opened the invisible door he lived behind and let me in.
Now I learnt that Grandad’s world was full of miracles and mazes3, mirrors and misleading signs. He was fascinated by riddles and codes and labyrinths4, by the origin of place names, by grammar, by slang, by jokes – although he never laughed at them – by anything that might mean something else. I discovered My Grandad.
1 PE [ˌpiːiː] физкультура
2 take our brains for a jog [ˈteɪk əʊə ˈbreɪnz fər əˈdʒɒɡ] шевелить мозгами
3 a maze [meɪz] путаница
4 a labyrinth [ˈlæbərɪnθ] лабиринт
2. The author says she had problems with algebra. Find this extract and read it aloud.
3. How did the girl’s Grandad help her understand the subject?
4. What else did the author learn about her Grandad?
II. Listen to the member of the Greenpeace organisation telling a story about whales and answer the questions below.
1. How did Uncle Roger explain to the boy why the whales were on the beach?
2. How did the people help them?
3. How did this event affect the story-teller’s life?
Script:
One night there was a big storm with huge waves. It stopped only in the morning.
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We were having breakfast when we heard somebody screaming "Whales!" We ran to the beach. I will never forget what I saw that morning. Two whales were lying on the beach, they were so helpless. "Are they dead?" I asked Uncle Roger. "One is dead, but the other is still alive," he answered in a sad voice. "Why did they do it?" I continued asking him. "Nobody knows for sure but many people believe that whales sometimes throw themselves on the beach. They sort of go crazy. Dirty water makes them that crazy. As you know plants and factories throw rubbish into the water," he added angrily.
There were a lot of people on the beach. Some people brought ropes* and we began to pull him into the water. It was hard as he was very heavy. I will never forget the moment when the whale began moving in the water and a fountain of water came out of it. We all felt happy.
The whale disappeared but the memory stayed in my heart forever. I think it is the main reason why I decided to study the ocean and protect animals. Now I am a member of Greenpeace and my priority is to protect whales both from hunting and the many other daily threats they face.
*a whale [weɪl] кит
*а rоре [гəʊр] верёвка
III. Let’s talk about future career.
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