II. Read the text, choose True or False. And give reasons for any false answers

People all over the world are fond of sports and games. Sport makes people healthy, keeps them fit, more organized and better disciplined. It unites people of different classes and nationalities. Many people do sports on their personal initiative. They go in for skiing, skating, table tennis, swimming, volley-ball, football, body-building, etc.

       All necessary facilities are provided for them: stadiums, sports grounds, swimming pools, skating rinks, skiing sta­tions, football fields.

Sport is paid much attention to in our educational establishments. Gymnastics is a part of children’s daily activities in the kindergartens. Physical culture is a compulsory subject at schools and colleges.

      Professional sport is also paid much attention to in our country. In city, where I live, there are different sporting societies, clubs and complexes.

      Practically all kinds of sports are popular in our country, but football, gymnastics and tennis enjoy the greatest popularity. As for me, I go in for table tennis (ping-pong). It needs mobility, liveliness and much energy. It keeps a person in a good form. I have been playing tennis for five years, but the more I play, the more I like it. I get a real joy taking part in competitions or simply playing with my friends. Sometimes, I go to tennis courts.

      Certainly, there’s a great distance between my manner of playing and such favorites as Jim Courier, Stephan Edberg, Pete Sampras, Boris Becker, Per Korda, but I do my training with great pleasure and hope to play as well as our best players do.

 

1. Sport unites people of different classes and nationalities. True or false

2. All necessary facilities are provided for people. True or false

3. Physical culture is not a compulsory subject at schools and colleges. True or false

4.  Professional sport is also paid much attention to in our country. True or false

5. Practically all kinds of sports are popular in our country, but basketball, gymnastics and rugby enjoy the greatest popularity. True or false

 

III. Write an essay “Popular singers of Kazakhstan”.

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I. Complete the sentences with the correct modal verbs must, can, may or should

1. _____ you see anything in this dark room?

2. Lilly _____ speak English.

3. I _____ go to school from Monday to Friday.

4. _____ I try on this coat?

5. Bird _____ be known by its song.

6. It is already six o’clock. We _____ hurry if we don’t want to be late.

7. You _____ find any kind of information on the Internet.

8. You _____ take care of your parents.

9. It’s midnight. We _____ go home.

10. It’s quite cold today. We _____ wear our jackets.

 

II. Read the text, choose True or False. And give reasons for any false answers.

Stratford-on-Avon, where Shakespeare was born, is now one of the most popular tourist centers. But it was not so many years ago. In the 18th century only a few relics of Shakespeare were left — his tomb, New Place (a large house which was built in place of Shakespeare’s own house), the mulberry tree that he had planted, and his birthplace.

People from London and other places came to see these relics. Most of them came to New Place where they wanted to see the famous mulberry tree in the garden.

The owner of New Place wasn’t much interested in Shakespeare. He didn’t like the fact that so many visitors came to his house asking to see the mulberry tree. So in 1756 he cut down the tree and his life became quiet.

But it didn’t last long. The people who came to Stratford- on-Avon to see Shakespeare’s tree at first were surprised, then they got so angry that the owner of New Place had to leave Stratford.

After Stratford lost one of the most famous relics of Shakespeare, the city fathers decided to do something to attract people there. They asked the greatest actor of the time David Garrick to organize a festival in Stratford.

Garrick planned to do it in the first week of September, 1769. He wanted the festival to be the greatest outdoor festi­val staged in England.

At six o’clock in the morning of Wednesday September 6 the festival was opened. Many people came to Stratford. The first day was successful, and Garrick was happy. On the se­cond day it rained hard. The second-day evening ended as it began — in the rain.

On the third day all the people left Stratford, Garrick returned to London very sad. But his festival was the beginning of a tradition. Stratford is now famous for its Shakespeare festivals. Every year a lot of people come to Stratford for the Festival season which lasts from April to September.

 

1. Stratford-on-Avon, where Shakespeare was born, is now one of the most popular tourist centers. True or false

2. The owner of New Place was much interested in Shakespeare. True or false

3. They asked the greatest actor of the time David Garrick to organize a festival in Edinburg. True or false

4. The first day of the festival was successful, and Garrick was happy. True or false

5. Every year a lot of people come to Stratford for the Festival season which lasts from April to September. True or false

 

III. Write an essay “Modern Kazakh music”.

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I. Change the following sentences into the Passive Voice

1. I am writing a poem.

2. We are not playing football.

3. He has written a novel.

4. The boy killed the spider.

5. They have already brought the medicine.

6. By his arrival they had repaired his car.

7. The sociologist has interviewed a lot of students.

8. Have they tested all the machines?

9. People have made great progress in physics.

10. The company was developing a new project.