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Государственное бюджетное профессиональное образовательное учреждение

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(Письмо, Говорение, Аудирование, Чтение)

І семестр

1 курс

2023-24г

The control-audtion

I. Mark True or False Statements

1. Everyone in the world knows who Mother Teresa was.

2. Agnes chose the name Teresa when she joined a group of nuns in India.

3. Sister Teresa had worked at St. Mary's school for 20 years and eventually became a principal.

4. Sister Teresa was rarely concerned about the convent where the school was.

5. She decided to go to work with the poor because she didn't like her work at school.

6. Sister Teresa was the only nun in the school she opened.

7. In their white cotton saris Sister Teresa and the nuns looked like poor people in India,

8. The Missionaries of Charity called her "Mother" Teresa because she guided and directed them. 9. The Missionaries of Charity worked mainly in India.

10. Mother Teresa didn't consider the Nobel Prize the greatest reward.

II. Choose the correct answer.

1. Mother Teresa became famous because she...

A. started a hospital. B. was a good teacher.

C. knew everything about everybody. D. lived her life to help others.

2. When Agnes was 18 years old, she went to...

A. Macedonia, C. India.

B. Mexico. D. Indonesia.

3. Sister Teresa lived and worked in the convent in Calcutta for...

A. two years. C. twenty years.

B. twelve years. D. twenty two years.

4. Right after Sister Teresa had left the convent, she...

A. went to hospital to learn to take care of sick people.

B. went to Calcutta.

C. travelled around the world to accept awards.

D. went to St. Mary's School.

5. Sister Teresa decided to work with the poor...

A. when she did charity with her mother.

B. when she saw sick and dying people lying on duty streets.

C. when she asked people for help. D. when she opened her school.

6. Mother Teresa's first school...

A. taught religious subjects only. B. was very small and simple.

C. wasn't liked by the people of Calcutta. D. had clean buildings and

beautiful lawns.

7. The Missionaries of Charity was...

A. an international organization. B. a local company.

C. a good working system. D. the group of nuns.

8. The nuns who worked with Mother Teresa...

A. wanted to be famous. B. lived like other nuns.

C. had a very hard life. D. learned languages and math.

9. Mother Teresa and her group of nuns wore...

A. old and torn clothing. B. white cotton saris.

C. long black dresses. D. plain clothes.

10. She died...

A. in 1998 at the age of 87 C. in 1997 at the age of 87

B. in 1999 at the age of 97 D. in 1998 at the age of 97

The text for teachers

MOTHER TERESA

Mother Teresa was a simple nun. She never wanted to be famous, but everyone in the world knew who site was. She received many important awards. She travelled around the world to accept them. She asked people for help. Then she gave everything to poor people. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha in 1910 in what is now Macedonia. She was the youngest of three children. Agnes's father died when she was a child. Her mother made dresses to support their family Agnes's mother also liked to do charity work, such as visiting the sick. Agnes often went with her and she enjoyed helping these people. She was a good and religious girl. Even as a child, Agnes wanted to be a nun. When she was 18 years old she joined a group of nuns in Darjeeling. India. There, she chose the name Teresa. Then she went to Calcutta to work at St. Mary's School. The school was in a convent. Sister Teresa lived in the convent and worked at the school for 20 years. She eventually became the principal. During all those years, Sister Teresa was always concerned about how other people lived. The convent had clean buildings and beautiful lawns. But outside the convent, the streets were dirty and crowded and full of very poor people. One day in 1946, Sister Teresa was riding on a train to Darjeeling. She looked out of the window and saw dirty children. They were wearing rags and sleeping in doorways. Sick and dying people were lying on filthy streets. She loved her work at the school, but she realized that other people needed her help more. At that moment, she believed God sent her a message. She decided to go to work with the poor. Two years later, Sister Teresa left the convent. First, she went to a hospital to learn to take care of sick people. After three months, she was ready to live with the poor and the sick. One day, she saw a group of poor children and called them to her. She told them she was going to open a school. The school had no roof, no walls, and no chairs. On the first day, only five students came. She used a stick to write lessons in the dirt.

Several months later, Sister Teresa had many students. Everyone in Calcutta knew about her. A friend let her use part of his house for the school. She taught the children language and math. She also taught them how to keep clean and stay healthy. Soon, other nuns came to help her. Sister Teresa was happy that they wanted to join her. But she told them that life with her was not easy. She said that everyone had to wear the same clothes — white cotton saris. She wanted all the nuns to look like the poor people in India. In I948, Sister Teresa started her own group of nuns. They were called the Missionaries of Charity. She was their leader, so they called her "Mother" "Teresa. The nuns lived in the slums with people who were poor, dirty and sick. It was hard work and the days were long. But many other nuns came from around the world to join Mother Teresa. One day, Mother Teresa saw an old woman in the street. She took her to a hospital. They refused to help the woman because she was poor. Mother Teresa decided to open a place for the sick and the dying. Later, she started homes for children without families. She also started clinics. Over the years, news of her work spread around the world. Many people sent her donations of money. Others came to work with her in India or other places. By 1990, the Missionaries of Charity were working in 400 centres around the world.

Over the years, Mother Teresa received many great awards, such as the Nobel Peace Prize. But she always said her greatest reward was helping people. Her message to the world was, '"We can do no great things - only small things with great love". She died in 1997 at the age of 87. The whole world mourned her death.

The control-reading

I. Read the text and do the tasks.

Thomas Alva Edison

The American inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, was born in Ohio in 1847. Tom, or Al, as his family called him, was one of those children who are always asking "Why?" He was always trying to learn how things worked or how they were made. The boy's education was limited to three months in the public school of Port Huron, Michigan. He started work in 1859 when he was only twelve. Young Edison began to travel on one of the trains between Port Huron and Detroit. He sold fruit, sweets and cakes to the passengers. The hours that he had to wait at Detroit before starting' back home, he spent in the library reading technical books. Several years later, in 1863, Edison learned telegraphy and he became a telegraph operator. He was soon one of the fastest operators in a large telegraph company in Boston. He wanted to improve the telegraph system and worked very hard at it. Night after night he read “The Book of Experiments”, by Michael Faraday, the inventor of the electric generator, in the hope that this would help him to solve his problems. He did not sleep more than four hours a night and sometimes he did not go to bed at all. He often did not even find time for breakfast. "Aren't you going to stop to eat your breakfast?" his landlady once asked him. "No", he answered, "I've got so much to do, and life is short". After a few months of work, he built a transmitter of a new kind. This was his first important invention. Edison was advised to go to New York where the opportunities were greater. He did so, but when he reached New York in 1869, he had no money left at all. "I had to walk in the streets all night because I hadn't the price of bed, and in the morning nothing to buy breakfast with", he said. But soon he opened a small workshop. In 1867 he had two inventions. One of Edison's greatest inventions was the gramophone, or the "phonograph", as he called it, which repeated his words. He told his assistants that this was the beginning. The time would come, he said, when this new instrument would record music. "It will play symphonies and whole operas, the world will hear again the great singers who are no longer living". Another of Edison's inventions was the electric lamp. Edison believed that only work could bring success. He continued active work until only eighteen days before his death in 1931, at the age of eighty-seven. That evening, Americans all over the country turned off their electric lights for a few moments — the light which, Edison had given them.

I. Choose the correct answer. 1 point

1. Where was Edison born?

a) in New York; b) in Detroit; c) in Ohio.

2. When did he start work at the rail way?

a) at the age of fifty; b) at the age of twenty; c) at the age of 12 .

3. What did young Edison do when he had to wait at Detroit before starting back home?

a) sold fruit, sweets and cakes; b) spent hours in the library; c) walked around the city.

4. What did Edison want to improve when he became a telegraph operator?

a) railway communication; b) a telegraph system;

c) streetlights in New York.

5. What was Edison's first invention?

a) a phonograph; b) a transmitter of a new kind;

c) a motion picture projector.

6. What did Americans do the evening he died?'

a) turned off the electric lights: b) organized meetings:

c) came to his place.

II. Mark true or false statements. 2 points

1. He was one of those children who are always asking "Why?"

2. Edison got his education in a private school in Detroit.

3. He started work at the age of twelve when the first telegraph company appeared in the USA

4. He sold newspapers to the passengers on one of the trains.

5. He learned telegraphy and became one of the fastest operators in a telegraph company.

6. Edison went to New York because the opportunities were greater there.

7. At the age of twenty he had twelve inventions.

8. He invented a new instrument that could compose music

9. Edison believed that only a lot of money could bring success.

10. He continued active work until the day he died.

II. Read the second text and do the tasks.

The valuable fence.

The Greggs were coming back from their first trip to Europe. On board "The Queen Elizabeth" they got acquainted with a Frenchman. His English was good and soon they got quite friendly. The Frenchman told the Greggs that he was an artist and his name was Lautisse. He asked them to keep it in a secret. He did not like publicity. The Greggs didn't know any artist whose name was Lautisse. So they talked to the ship's librarian and found out that their new friend was the world's famous artist whose pictures were very valuable and expensive. The librarian found a book with a biographical sketch and a photograph. The sketch said that the artist had retired at fifty-three to a villa on the Rivera. He said he would never touch a brush again. Lautisse was going to spend a month in New York. Mrs. Greggs suggested that he would come to their place for the weekend. The artist accepted the invitation and made them promise not to invite any other people to their place and not to speak about art. At the appointed time Lautisse arrived at the Greggs and they were happy to see him. Mr. Greggs and his wife did their best to entertain the famous artist, but he did not want to go for a swim or walk in the wood. He wanted to sit and relax. The next morning Mr. Greggs got up very early as he wanted to paint the fence around the vegetable garden. He took a brush and was about to begin painting when Lautisse approached him, as soon as he saw the brush, he seized it from Mr. Greggs and began painting the fence. The same day Lautisse started for New York. Some correspondents found out about Lautisse's stay in New York. An article was published in one of newspapers saying: "Mr. Lautisse has spent all his time in New York except for the weekend at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Greggs. He met the Greggs on the ship coming from Europe". The day after the story appeared, two reporters came to the Greggs' place. They wanted to know everything about the stay of the famous artist at their place. They were shown the fence painted and signed by Lautisse. A long article, headlined "Lautisse paints again", was published the next day. The fence turned out to be a valuable thing. It was sold for a big sum of money. It was taken to a museum. The fence was not worth it.

I. Choose the correct answer. 3 points

1. Where were the Greggs coming from?

a) from their trip to Japan: b) from their trip to Africa;

c) from their trip to Europe.

2. What was the Frenchman they got acquainted with?

a) an inventor b) an artist c) a writer

3. How did the Greggs learn the information about Lautisse?

a) From the newspaper article; b) from the ship's librarian;

c) from the artist himself.

4. Where did the Greggs invite their new friend to?

a) to their place; b) to the art gallery; c) to their wedding party.

5. What did Mr. Greggs want to paint the next morning?

a) the door of his house; b) Mrs. Greggs' portrait;

c) the fence around their vegetable garden.

6. What did the Greggs do with the fence painted by the famous artist?

a) they sold it for a big sum of money; b) they gave it to Lautisse;

c) they kept it in their garden.

II. Choose the correct word. (3 points)

a) invitation b) publicity; c) sketch d) friendly; e) headlined

f) best.

1. On board the ship the Greggs got acquainted with a Frenchman and soon they got quite__________

2. The famous artist didn't like_______________

3. The librarian found a book with a biographical____________and a photograph.

III. Choose the correct ending. 3 points

1. The Greggs get acquainted with a Frenchman

a) on board the ship; b) at the British Museum; c) at their place;

2. Lautisse asked them to keep his name a secret because:

a) he was afraid of the police; b) he didn't like publicity;

c) he was a brave person.

3. The Greggs learned from the sketch in the book that

a) Lautisse had lost all his money

b) Lautisse had married a girl younger than he was

c) Lautisse had retired and promised not to take brush again

4. The famous artist wanted

a) to start a new picture; b) to relax;

c) to help Mrs. Greggs in the vegetable garden.

5. As soon as the artist saw a brush he

a) got afraid and ran away, b) got angry with Mr. Greggs;

c) seized it from Mr. Greggs and began painting the fence

6. At the Greggs place two reporters were shown:

a) Lautisse's photograph signed by the artist b) Mr. Greggs' photograph c) the fence painted by the famous artist

The control-writing

I. Choose the correct answer.

In 1873, a grocery salesman named Joel Cheek became interested in coffee and came up with his own unique blend. Realizing that he (1)__________a fine brew, he decided to sell it. One of the South's (2)__________hotels, the Maxwell House, liked his coffee and began to serve it to guests; hence the name Maxwell House Coffee. In 1907, on returning from a bear hunt in (3)__________Mississippi, President Theodore Roosevelt was a guest of the Ladies Hermitage Association at Andrew (4)__________homestead in Nashville, Tennessee. He was served a cup of Maxwell House Coffee. Upon being offered a refill, he remarked on the excellent quality of the coffee and uttered the famous line, "Delightful. This coffee is good to (5)__________drop." Apparently when Roosevelt (6) _______people listened.

II. Choose the correct answer.

Big Ben is probably the UK's most famous clock and one of London's (7)__________known landmarks, sitting on the bank of (8)__________Thames and forming an important part of the city's skyscape. It's popular both with tourists and locals alike. There is some confusion as to the name Big Ben. Some people use it to refer to the entire clock tower, (9)______ use the name to refer to just the clock. In fact strictly speaking the name Big Ben applies just to one bell, the largest bell in the clock. However you define it, Big Ben is massive. The tower is 316 foot high. (10)__________of the four faces of the clock is 23 foot square and the figures are each 4 foot tall. The origin of the name Big Ben is uncertain. Some people have said it (11)________ about during the parliamentary debate to consider naming the clock - after Sir Benjamin Hall, who was known as "Big Ben". Another possibility is that the name referred to Benjamin Caunt, a heavyweight boxing champion of the time (12)____________ nickname was "Big Ben".

III. Use the Conditionals I, II, III. 1. If it (to snow), the children will play snowballs.

2. If I (not to know) English, I should not be able to enjoy Byron's poetry.

3. I (not to do) it if you did not ask me.

4.The dish would have been much more tasty if she (to be) a better cook.

5. He never (to phone) you if I hadn't reminded him to do that.

6. If Steve (wake up) half an hour earlier, he wouldn't have been late for school.

7. If I (be) you, I would study Law.

8. If Mary had enough money, she___________(open) her own cafe.

9. If we had a new car, we__________(drive) across Ukraine.

IV. Write a report to the newspaper about Valentino's Restaurant using an example. Use the table.

1. The purpose of my report is to assess the new Blue Moon Restaurant in Abington's city centre, which I visited on 14^th May.

Food and Prices

The menu at the Blue Moon is rather boring for vegetarians as there are only a few salad and pasta dishes to choose from. However there are plenty of delicious dishes for those who eat meat. I ordered the grilled chicken with Basmati rice. The chicken was very tasty, but the rice was rather cold! I also thought that the Blue Moon was rather expensive.

Service

The staff at the Blue Moon were friendly and helpful. Our waiter was polite and patient with us. Although it was very busy on the night I visited the Blue Moon, the service was still fast.

Atmosphere

The comfortable seating, lovely furnishings and live piano music helped to give the Blue Moon a relaxing atmosphere.

Conclusion

The new Blue Moon Restaurant in Abington's city centre is, in the whole, a wonderful place to dine. However, I think the manager should make a few changes. Firstly, she should have a wider selection of vegetarian dishes. Secondly, all hot dishes should be served hot. Finally, the manager should lower the prices to give everyone a chance to visit this fabulous new restaurant.

The control-speaking

Choose one of the topics to speak and speak about.

1. How much TV should children be allowed to watch each day?

1. Is watching TV good for children?

2. What types of programmes are good for children?

3. What do children learn from watching TV?

4. What problems do children have as a result of watching TV?

2. You have an opportunity to go anywhere in the world for one month. Where would you go?

a) You may choose more than one place to go to.

b) Why did you choose to go there?

c) Would you go for pleasure, to spend time with someone you know or to learn something?

3. Which person has had the greatest influence on your life?

a)Was this person in your family or outside your family?

b) Why was this person influential?

c) What did this person teach you?

4. What is the value of learning English?

a) Do you think English will be important in your future carrier?

b) Do you think it is important for other reasons?

c) Where would you use English?

5. An important person is visiting your school and has only one hour to spend there.

a) What would you show this person at your school?

b) What would you tell this person about your school?

c) What would you like this person to remember about your school?