Form 8, Unit 4, Section 4, Thanksgiving Day.
Read the text and fill in the words: thanked, built, helped, celebrate, better, fourth, America, England, traditional, started, called, two, hundred, hard, decided.
Every year all Americans ( 1 ) Thanksgiving Day on the ( 2 ) Thursday in November. American families get together and eat ( 3 ) food: turkey and pumpkin pie. The story of this day ( 4 ) in 1620. A group of people ( 5 ) to leave ( 6 ) and go to live in ( 7 ).They wanted a new and ( 8 ) life and practice their religion.. Their ship was ( 9 ) “The Mayflower”. There were about a ( 10 ) of people on his board. The pilgrims took ( 11 ) months to cross the Atlantic Ocean. They saw America on the 9th of November. The first winter in America was ( 12 ). Some people didn’t live to see America. The Indians ( 13 ) the Pilgrims. The pilgrims fathers ( 14 ) the town Plymouth and ( 15 ) God for their new home.
Form 8, Unit 4, Section 3, Bullying.
Read the text “What is bullying?” and fill the words in the correct form.
A bully is a person who is physically or __________ verbal
hurts someone. A bully picks on people who cannot defend____ they
Abuse, stealing,__________ and blackmail are all forms of bullying. threat
The word bullying covers ______ situations. There is a clear differ
________ of bullying: “It is an attempt to hurt, threaten or frighten definite
someone”. Bullying must ____ about. Students and teachers should speak
try to prevent bullying. ________ is better than cure. Bullying is prevent
wrong and should ________ . Interview with the teacher, letter punish
home, suspension and __________ from school are various levels exclude
of _______ punish
Form 8, Unit 3, Section 2-3
Match the words.
1. An ambitious A. wastes
2. A biggest – selling B. expedition
3. Chemical C. leader
4. Economical D. substances
5. Presidential E. product
6. A scientific F. development
7. Unequal G. team
8. Recycling of H. rights
Fill in the words: listening, becoming, driving, playing, going, reading, watching.
1. The sportsman has always dreamed of ( ) an Olympic champion.
2. She has always dreamed of ( ) the piano.
3. Our head teacher has always dreamed of ( ) round the world.
4. Dangerous ( ) is dangerous not only for you, but for people around you.
5. I don’t like ( ) newspapers very much.
6. I prefer ( ) news on TV.
7. I like ( ) to music on radio.
Form 8, Unit 3, Section 5
Read the text and fill in the words in correct form.
1_________and photographers are reporting on the events and journal
taking pictures.
2. These people put themselves in _______ situations. Danger
3. Some may be ______hurt or even killed because of their efforts. Serious
4. They go to areas where there ________conflicts to report on the be
War.
5. Photographers are _________ people. Courage
6. Sometimes they take ________ pictures. drama
7. International journalist, Artyom Borovik, died ________ Mysterious
in a plane crash at Moscow airport. He was 39.
8. He________ his career as a correspondent in Afghanistan in 1980s. Begin
9. He became the Special correspondent and _______ in Moscow for Interpret
Most popular _________TV news show in the US “60 Minutes” week
10. He _______the Sovershenno Sekretno (Top Secret) publishing found
House which produced a popular newspaper and TV programme to
investigate corruption.
11. He was the ________ Russian to win a top American Press Award. One
12. In his office before he died he started work on a new __________ investigate
Form 8, Unit 3, Section 6.
1. Read the text and fill in the correct words.
I like ___1___ books. I should say they are read
my ------2----- friends for many years. I used to spend a lot of time good
----3------fairy tales, fantasy books, science fiction. They are read
-----4----- . Some of them ---5 ------- ages ago. But I enjoy them very wonder,
much. write
They are still -----6------ for people of my generation. That’s why I believe interest
books are the -----7----- media. ancient
2. Read the text and fill in the correct words.
I -------1---- like reading when I was a little boy. not like
It was-----2----- to sit for hours with a book in my hands bore
------3----- to learn what happened to the characters. try
I have to confess I read very -----4---- . slow
At school we -----5---- a lot of homework, so I have to read anyway. give
So much reading. Not long ago the situation changed. My father
-----6 ---- me my first CD book. It’s fantastic. It’s like a computer buy
game. ------7------ the pages over you can see what’s happening Turn
in pictures, in colours and in action. It’s really ------8------ amaze
I think CD books will be much ----------- with teenagers of my generation popular
than printed books.
Form 8, Unit 3, Section 7.
Choose the correct variant.
1. She says that she (phoning, phones) her friends every day.
2. She says that she (will phone/ would phone) me tomorrow.
3. She said that she (will phone/would phone) to me the next day.
4. He said that he (can/could) solve the problem.
5. He says that he (can/could) solve that problem tomorrow.
Say the following sentences in reported speech.
6. “I am not joking”, said my friend.
7. “My son is a student”, said Henry.
8. “I was to London last year”, she said to me.
9. Simon said: “I must go now”.
10. She said: “ I phoned you at 5 yesterday”.
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