Let’s talk about your family. What role does it play in each person’s life?

БИЛЕТ №1

Вопрос №1. Text Can cheating be stopped?

Read the article and say in 2-3 sentences what it is about.

This article is about cheating, because more and more students at school and University are using the internet to cheat in their coursework. They copy material from the internet without indicating that they are using someone else’s work. Nowadays, a lot of students are more practical in their attitude to school and University. They don’t care of knowledge. Teachers want to stop cheating in school and University, but they don’t know how to solve the problem.

2. Is cheating becoming a problem in the USA and Britain? Read aloud the extract which says about it. №1

More and more students at school and university are using the internet to cheat* in their coursework. In Britain, about 25 % of students copy material from the internet when they write their homework. In the USA there is a similar problem. One report showed that about 54 % of students copy from the internet when they prepare for the lessons.

How do students cheat using the internet?

Students copy material from the internet without indicating that they are using someone else’s work.

Why do students cheat?

I think it’s an easy and fast way to prepare the coursework. The internet helps students to avoid the hard work of writing an original work.

Вопрос №2. Listen to radio programme and answer the questions below.

What books did Laura Reddington write trying to make a living?

Laura wrote romantic fiction.

What kind of story did she find one day?

She found a story of a man who thought he’d found a new planet.

Why does Laura think about all the details before writing a book?

She needs planning before actual writing.

Вопрос №3. Speaking

Let’s talk about your family. What role does it play in each person’s life?

The family is very important as a unit in our society. Nothing else but family can be an emotional center of people's life. Every mother feels great affection for her children and tries to bring them up in a proper way. Understanding between the members of the family and consideration for others are very important in family relationship. Tenderness, warm-heartedness and respect must always be present in the family to make it friendly. A lot of activities help members of the family to be on friendly terms: discussing all the family plans together, going on trips hikes together, visiting museums, theaters, exhibitions and exchanging opinions about them, sharing the same joys and sorrows.

Now I’d like to tell you about my family. Our family is not large. We are a family of four: my father, my mother, my younger brother and I.

My name is Olga. I am seventeen. I am a school leaver. My younger brother is ten. He is a pupil of the fifth form. He looks like our father. As for me everybody says I look like my mother. I am an ordinary girl of 17.

Our family lives in Vitebsk. We have a nice three-roomed flat on the fourth floor of a multistoried building. My mother is about 40. She looks pretty well. We all love dearly our Mum, and are always ready to help her about the house. We try to share our duties. My mother is an economist. The firm she works in deals with trading.

My father is an engineer in computers. He is considered to be an experienced engineer. We are very proud of him.

My younger brother also has his duties about the house. He helps mother to set the table and wash the dishes. On Saturdays Dad joins us in our work about the house. He likes to make or repair something. We don't have such problems as misunderstanding between the members of the family. I think that it is due to the age of my parents and their character.