Тренажёр для подготовки к ЕГЭ. Блок "Говорение", все 4 задания по теме Ecology and Environment.

Task 1. Imagine that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some interesting material for the presentation and you want to read this text to your friend. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, then be ready to read it out aloud. You will not have more than 1.5 minutes to read it.

Ecology is a science which studies the relationship between all forms of live on our planet and the environment.

Since ancient times Nature has served Man, giving him everything he needs: air to breathe, food to eat, water to drink, wood for building and fuel for heating his home.  For thousands of years people lived in harmony with the environment and it seemed to them that the resources of Nature had no end or limit.

With the industrial revolution our negative influence on Nature began to increase. Large cities with thousands of steaming, polluting plants and factories can be found nowadays all over the world. They pollute the air we breathe, the water we drink, the fields where our crops are grown. Big cities suffer from smog. Cars with their engines have become the main source of polluting in industrial countries.

Vast forests are cut down everywhere for the needs of industries. As a result many kinds of animals, birds, fish and plants are disappearing nowadays. The pollution of the air and the world’s oceans and the thinning the ozone layer are the other problems arising from men’s careless attitude to ecology.

Active measures should be taken to save the life on our planet.

Task 1. Read the text aloud. You have 1.5 minutes to read it.

Ecology is a science which studies the relationship between all forms of live on our planet and the environment.

Since ancient times Nature has served Man, giving him everything he needs: air to breathe, food to eat, water to drink, wood for building and fuel for heating his home.  For thousands of years people lived in harmony with the environment and it seemed to them that the resources of Nature had no end or limit.

With the industrial revolution our negative influence on Nature began to increase. Large cities with thousands of steaming, polluting plants and factories can be found nowadays all over the world. They pollute the air we breathe, the water we drink, the fields where our crops are grown. Big cities suffer from smog. Cars with their engines have become the main source of polluting in industrial countries.

Vast forests are cut down everywhere for the needs of industries. As a result many kinds of animals, birds, fish and plants are disappearing nowadays. The pollution of the air and the world’s oceans and the thinning the ozone layer are the other problems arising from men’s careless attitude to ecology.

Active measures should be taken to save the life on our planet.

Task 2. Study the advertisement. You are considering joining the local eco club and now you'd like to get more information. In 1.5 minutes you are to ask five direct questions to find out about the following:

1. Topic for discussion

2. What activities | projects

3. Special uniform available

4. Membership fee or free meetings

5. Possibility of organizing meetings

You will have 20 seconds to ask each question.

Task 2. Question 1.

1. Topic for discussion

You have 20 seconds to ask the question.

Task 2. Question 2.

2) What activities | projects

You have 20 seconds to ask the question.

Task 2. Question 3.

3) Special uniform available

You have 20 seconds to ask the question.

Task 2. Question 4.

4) Membership fee or free meetings

You have 20 seconds to ask the question.

Task 2. Question 5.

5) Possibility of organizing meetings

You have 20 seconds to ask the question.

Task 3 Imagine that these are photos from your photo album. Choose one photo to present to your friend.

You will have to start speaking in 1.5 minutes and will speak for not more than 2 minutes. In your talk remember to speak about:

• where and when the photo was taken

• what/who is in the photo

• what is happening

• why you keep the photo in your album

• why you decided to show the picture to your friend

You have to talk continuously, starting with: I’ve chosen photo number … .

Task 3 You will speak for not more than 2 minutes (12-15 sentences).

In your talk remember to speak about:

• where and when the photo was taken

• what/who is in the photo

• what is happening

• why you keep the photo in your album

• why you decided to show the picture to your friend

You have to talk continuously, starting with: I’ve chosen photo number … .

Task 4. Study the two photographs. In 1.5 minutes be ready to compare and contrast the photographs:

• give a brief description of the photos (action, location)

• say what the pictures have in common

• say in what way the pictures are different

• say which kind of pollution presented in the pictures you consider more dangerous

• explain why

You will speak for not more than 2 minutes (12-15 sentences). You have to talk continuously.

Task 4. You have 2 minutes to compare and  contrast the photographs and you have to talk continuously (12-15 sentences).

• give a brief description of the photos (action, location)

• say what the pictures have in common

• say in what way the pictures are different

• say which kind of pollution presented in the pictures you consider more dangerous

• explain why