Text 1. A letter from Alex

I. Read the letter and do the task following it.

Hi, Steve,

It’s nice to be writing to you again. Thanks a lot for your help and concern. I am glad to say I see eye to eye with you on all matters mentioned by you in your last letter: ecological problems, healthy life style and preservation of nature. I wonder if we have the same or different tastes and preferences in music, art and favourite occupations. I am fond of music. I play the guitar and like to listen to concerts of well-known guitarists. I also enjoy listening to modern rock music, especially “Muse”, and “Radiohead”. Last summer I went to Moscow to a “Park Life” international music festival. Wasn’t it great! We listened to music from morning till night.

I am keen on reading. I prefer reading to watching TV or playing computer games. I like classical literature and fantasy, but now I am reading for the exams which we are to take in summer.

The academic year is nearing its end. We are arranging an English quiz game on the knowledge of crimes, their definitions and classifications, punishments, the rights of the defendant, investigation, trial and pre-trial procedures, the work of the police, in a word, on a wide range of questions connected with the themes of our course of legal English as a whole. What would you advise me to pay special attention to?

I am looking forward to your answer.

All the best,

Alex.

II. Find in the text of the letter equivalents to the following.

1. забота

2. одинаково смотреть на многие вещи

3. интересно

4. предпочтения

5. любимое занятие

6. Это было замечательно!

7. сохранение природы

8. викторина