Контрольная работа по английскому языку , С.Г. Тер-Минасова, 3 класс, 2 четверть

Test 3

(to the textbook “Happy English.ru 8” by K.Kaufman, N.Kaufman)

1. Listen and choose the best name of the text.

1. The Tower of Babel

2. The worst punishment

3. English is the language of the future

1. Listen again and answer the questions.

1. Why could the people understand each other?

2. What did the people decide to build?

3. Why did they want to build the city?

4. Why did God get angry?

5. How did he punish the people?

1. Fill in the gaps with the positive or negative forms of can or to be able to in the correct form.

In very early times, all the people on the Earth ________ speak the same language.

They lived together and _________ understand each other. People at that time were strong and ambitious. One day they had an idea. “If we all get together, we________ build a great city. We will call it the city of Babel and the tower of this city will go up to the sky. If we ________ do it, everybody will be happy.”

When the men started the tower, God was watching them. “They __________ work really fast,” he thought. Everything was going well and people forgot about God. They thought that they _________ build the tower without him. God got very angry with the people. He decided to punish them. He gave them different languages so that (так чтобы) they __________ understand each other. After that people _____________ finish the tower. They ________ live together and went to different places of the world.

Nowadays people ______________ speak many languages, but most of them ___________ speak English.

May be, one day English will become the language of the Earth and people ___________ communicate easily again.

1. Fill in the gaps. Use the, a or no article.

1. __ _computers can help you do a lot of things.

2. ___ television will be more popular in the 21^st century.

3. ___ Chinese invented ___ paper.

4. ___ water is very good for you. You must drink two liters of water every day.

5. ___English don’t speak any other foreign languages.

6. ___dogs are people’s best friends.

1. Complete the dialogues. Use the expressions with have.

1. -________________________ .

-Take some aspirin.

1. -I am tired.

-________________________.

1. – I am hungry.

-________________________.

1. - I am thirsty.

-________________________.

1. - I am flying to London on holiday.

-___________________________.

1. - I am dirty.

-___________________________.

6. Write five things that may happen to you in the future if you learn English.

1) ________________________________________________________________

2) ________________________________________________________________

3) ________________________________________________________________

4)_________________________________________________________________

5)_________________________________________________________________