Самостоятельная работа для 7 класса. Rainbow English. Unit 4

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Gerald Durrel: the friend of all animals.

Gerald Durrel, a popular British writer and the author of brilliant books about animals, was born in India in 1925. His mother often joked that his first word was “zoo”. When he was three years old, his family moved to England, then to the Greek island of Corfu – to get away from the terrible English weather. With his mother, his sister Margo, and his brothers, Leslie and Larry, Gerald spent five years on the island. That was the start of long career as an animal expert.

They lived in an old villa. One day Gerald found a big scorpion in the garden wall. The scorpion had lots of light brown babies on her back. He put them into a matchbox and hurried home. It was time for lunch, so Gerald put the matchbox on the shelf…. He began his meal, and forgot about his new pets. He suddenly remembered about them when he heard a noise from the sitting room. He ran there and saw his brother Larry with an open matchbox in his hand. And the scorpions were free!

Larry shouted “Help!”, the Durrels’ dog went wild and the servant dropped a plate. The scorpion and her babies ran all over the room. Gerald had to catch them with a teaspoon, and put them back in the garden wall.

In 1939, the Durrels moved back to London because of the war. At the end of the war Gerald got a job in Whipsnade Zoo where he started looking after the lions and other animals.

On his 21st birthday Gerald decided to go on expeditions to collect wild animals for British zoos.

Back home in England he kept a lot of animals – monkeys, squirrels, frogs and others – in his sister’s garden.

Gerald’s brother Larry asked him to write about his journeys and voyages to different places. This is how Gerald Durrel became a famous writer. The title of one of his most famous books is “My Family and Other Animals”.

№1. Find English equivalents of the words from the text.

Блестящий - ___________________________________  обезьяны -_____________________________

чайная ложка - ________________________________    слуга - ________________________________

дикие животные - ______________________________   скорпион -_____________________________

переезжать - __________________________________    экспедиция -___________________________

остров - _____________________________________      избегать -______________________________

львы - ______________________________________       морское путешествие-___________________

спина -______________________________________      белки -________________________________

поездка/путешествие -_________________________      ужасный -_____________________________

присматривать -_____________________________         лягушки -_____________________________

спичечный коробок -__________________________      

№2. Match to columns to make logical word combinations. Use the text.

1.      popular 2.      go 3.      look 4.      hurry 5.      garden 6.      spend 7.      first

a)      word b)      after c)      wall d)      writer e)      home f)       wild g)      on an island

1._____ 2._______ 3._______ 4._______ 5.________ 6._______ 7.________

№3. Read the text and decide if the sentences True or False.

1.      Gerald Durrel was born on an island. ________________

2.      Gerald Durrel was a popular Indian writer. ________________

3.      He wrote stories about animals. _________________

4.      He hadn’t got any brother or sister. ___________________

5.      Once (однажды) he had a scorpion as a pet. ________

6.      His job was looking after Zoo animals. ______________

7.      Gerald made many expeditions to collect different animals. _______________

8.      He never wrote about his journeys to different places. ____________________

№4. Find in the text Past Simple of the verbs.

 be-__________________                                         put- _________________________

become- ____________________                            go -_________________________

begin - ______________________                           run - _______________________

have -_______________________                           get -________________________

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Самостоятельная работа для обучающихся 7 классов по учебнику Rainbow English Афанасьева, Михеева. Данная работа направлена на проверку знания лексики по теме 4 урока - Живые существа вокруг нас, а также на знание прошедшей формы неправильных глаголов. Работа предполагает работу с текстом. Вид работы: поисковое чтение.