Written Comprehension

1. Describe your ideal living situation, including city or country, an apartment or house, alone or with a family.

2. Write advice for a foreigner visiting your country. Discuss when to come, what to bring, where to go and what to expect.

3. A youth magazine `` The Best Teacher of the Year`` competition and has asked its readers to submit their compositions describing their teachers. Write about your `` Best Teacher``. Why is he/she the best?

Speaking Comprehension

1. Imagine you`ve got a chance to choose any career you`d like. What would it be? Why?

2. Tell about a good book or a good movie you`ve recently read / seen.

3. What do you feel when you have to go and see the doctor? What`s the reason for feeling this way?

4. Do you think the story of Cinderella could happen in the 21^st century? Why? How could that be?

5. What do you think is the right age to start driving? Drinking beer? Drinking alcohol? Why?

6. What school subjects would you not study at all? Which ones do you think you should study more? Why?

7. Does it matter for you if some animal or plant species disappear from our planet? Why?

8. Why do you think people laugh? Is humor very different in different countries? Explain your ideas.

9. Do you think people should encourage those who do services (waiters, taxi-drivers etc.) by tipping them? What makes you think so?

10. Who is more important in the world history: men or women? What makes you think so?

Listening Comprehension

 

The Perfect Dog

During summer vacations, I would volunteer at the vet's, so I'd seen a lot of dogs. Minnie was by far the funniest-looking dog I'd ever seen. Thin curly hair barely covered her sausage-shaped body. Her bugged-out eyes always seemed surprised. And her tail looked like a rat's tail.

She was brought to the vet to be put to sleep because her owners didn't want her anymore. I thought Minnie had a sweet personality, though. "No one should judge her by her looks," I thought. So the vet spayed her and gave her the necessary shots. Finally, I advertised Minnie in the local paper: "Funny-looking dog, well behaved, needs loving family."

When a young man called, I warned him that Minnie was strange looking. The boy on the phone told me that his grandfather’s sixteen-year-old dog had just died. They wanted Minnie no matter what. I gave Minnie a good bath and fluffed up what was left of her scraggly hair. Then we waited for them to arrive.

At last, an old car drove up in front of the vet’s. Two kids raced to the door. They scooped Minnie into their arms and rushed her out to their grandfather, who was waiting in the car. I hurried behind them to see his reaction to Minnie.

Inside the car, the grandfather cradled Minnie in his arms and stroked her soft hair. She licked his face. Her rattail wagged around so quickly that it looked like it might fly off her body. It was love at first lick.

"She’s perfect!" the old man exclaimed.

I was thankful that Minnie had found the good home that she deserved.

That’s when I saw that the grandfather’s eyes were a milky white color - he was blind.