The
9-th form
PROGRESS
CHECK 1
PART
I. LISTENING COMPREHENSION (Student’s Book: ex. 1 p. 58); 9 points)
a) Listen
to the text about the book fair. Read the sentences and tick the correct ones
b) Listen
to the text again and fill in the missing information.
PART II. READING COMPREHENSION
Task 1. Read the text and
do the tasks below (Student’s Book: ex. 2 p. 58) (3 points)
1. Choose
the title which fits the text best.
a) Sarah’s
mother.
b) How
should parents care about their teenagers.
c) Sarah
arranges home parties for her friends.
d) The
difficult age.
2. Find
the sentence that is not true.
a) Sarah’s
mother thinks that the best way to treat teenagers is to make them realize
responsibility for their actions.
b) Sarah
thinks that she was grown up enough to manage the party.
c) Sarah’s
mother didn’t let her invite the friends she wanted.
d) She
accepted that arranging the party is not only making a list of the guests.
3. Look
at the text again. Notice the lines in bold. Choose what Sarah’s mother means
there.
a) Sarah
keeps her school uniform wherever she likes and I can’t do anything about it.
b) Because
Sarah keeps her things under the bed I’ll help her to clean and iron it in the
morning.
c) It’s
her business where she keeps her blazer, but she should look nice and tidy at
school.
d) I
don’t care where she keeps her school uniform. It’s her business how to look at
school.
Task 2. Do you think that
Sarah’s mother is right when she says that parents should not take too much
care of teenagers? Give your reasons (2 points).
Task 3. Sum up how
Sarah’s mother prevents problems and conflicts with her daughter. Do you share
her point of view or not? Explain why (2 points).
PART
III. USE OF ENGLISH (GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY)
Complete pet-related
questions. Mind the tenses (8 points).
- ……………………………………a pet?
(have got)
- What pet
………………………….? (have)
- Who ………………………………the
cat? (feed)
- How often
………………………..your hamster? (feed)
- Where ……………………………?
(your parrot/ sleep)
- Have you ever
…………………… as a pet? (rat/ keep)
- What pet ………………………….
to have when you were 7 years old? (you/ want)
- ………. you ever
………………… a live bear? (see)
PART
IV.
WRITING (Home task; 6 points)
Write a letter to your
friend and tell him/ her about the most interesting weekend you’ve had with
your family or friends.
PART
V. SPEAKING
You are planning
an outing or day of entertainment. Make up a dialogue following the guideline (Student’s
Book: ex. 7 p. 60). Then act out the dialogue. Don’t forget to greet each other
and to say goodbye. (5 points)
Maximum
35 points
35
– 32 points
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“5”
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31
– 25 points
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“4”
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24
– 17 points
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“3”
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The
9-th form
PROGRESS
CHECK 2
PART
I. LISTENING COMPREHENSION (Student’s Book: ex. 1 p. 99)
Listen to the
conversation and choose the right sentence. Listen again and correct any
mistakes. (5 points)
PART II. READING COMPREHENSION
Read the text and do the
task below (5 points)
IS
INSURANCE NECESSARY FOR A TRAVELLER?
Fill in the gaps with appropriate
words from the text. Don’t write more than one word in each gap. Then transfer
your answers to the table.
Nowadays different people buy
different 1) … policies. People who own cars buy car insurance, People who own
flats and houses buy 2) … insurance, and for people, who travel a lot, travel
insurance is highly recommended.
When we travel, something can go
wrong and we have to face some 3) … risks. We can get ill, or our luggage can
be 4) … or damaged or even stolen. Most people buy travel insurance from travel
agencies because they want to have some 5) … during vacations and don’t want to
worry about anything.
PART
III. USE OF ENGLISH (GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY)
Choose the right option. Write the
correct letter in each gap. Transfer your answers to the table (8 points).
Sharks have always been depicted as
cruel and murderous creatures. Lots of feature films 1) … to demonstrate how dangerous
to people they are. Though some kinds of sharks can really attack people, the
number of people 2) … or killed by sharks is very small. Marine biologists
insist that most sharks are 3) … to people. Along with that, the shark is one
of the most ancient creatures of the world, and it should 4) … by all
countries.
One of the sharks which has
recently been added to the Red List is the dog-fish or the dumb gulper shark.
It is one of Australia’s rarest deepwater sharks. The average length of an
adult shark is one meter forty centimeters, 5) … it can live up to forty years,
It’s not dangerous to people 6) … people are a real danger to it. The dog-fish
population 7) … down by 99 % over the past 20 years.
The trouble of the shark is that
its oil (fat) is widely used in cosmetics for producing face and hand creams
and in dietary food. People fish it illegally for the oil. Scientists say that
if fishing is not stopped immediately, the dog-fish 8) … into the list of
extinct creatures very soon.
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PART
IV.
WRITING (Home task; 6 points)
Student’s Book: ex. 4 p. 101
PART
V. SPEAKING
a)
Choose one
of the countries: Russia, Great Britain, or the USA. Arrange the presentation
of the country following the guidelines. Be ready to answer your classmates’
questions. The beginning and the ending of the presentation are done for you
(Student’s Book: ex. 5 p. 102); (5
points).
b)
You want to
invite your pen friend from Canada to stay with your family in the summer.
Complete the telephone conversation. (Student’s Book: ex. 6 p. 102); (5
points).
Maximum
34 points
34
– 31 points
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“5”
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30
– 24points
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“4”
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23
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“3”
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The
9-th form
PROGRESS
CHECK 3
PART
I. LISTENING COMPREHENSION (Student’s Book: ex. 1 p. 149)
Listen to the speakers and choose
the sentences that reflect the feelings of the people in the most accurate way (3
points).
PART
II. USE OF ENGLISH (GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY)
Use the words at the end of the
line in the appropriate form. Transfer your answers to the table
(10 points).
I’M
OPTIMISTIC ABOUT OUR FUTURE!
Some people think that
wars are 1)…, and that people will always be fighting with each other. I’m
more 2)… on this point. The process of 3)… is going rapidly and soon we may
find ourselves living in one huge country. We’ll wearing the same clothes,
listen to the same music, and watch the same films. We certainly risk 4)…
ethnic and cultural diversity, which is not good news, but, on the other
hand, this means that there will be no grounds for 5) … and ethnic
discrimination. There will be no boarders which need
6) …, so we’ll be able
to dismiss (распускать, увольнять) the army. If the police work
well and the law is fair and clever, we’ll get rid of criminals very easily.
Former policemen may work as rescuers or firemen, as occasionally we will
still have some 7)… natural disasters and catastrophes. 8)… former policemen
can work in schools and it will prevent any 9) … or 10)… there.
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optimist, integrate
lose
religion
protect
expect, alternative
fight, bully
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PART III. READING COMPREHENSION
Read the text. Then mark the
sentences as True (T) or False (F).
Dear Editor,
Dear
Editor,
We
represent the Young Journalists Club and we would be happy to publish some of
our articles in your journal. The topics we study refer to teenagers' life.
We run different surveys and questionnaires which help understand what
teenagers are interested in, what they care for, and what they are indifferent
to. Most of our research is on political and cultural issues, and we want to
find out how competent contemporary teenagers are in those topics. We
certainly don't ignore environmental issues and human rights problems and try
to display a wide diversity of views and opinions.
Lately
we've been studying the TV topic, i.e. (то
есть) what
teenagers watch on TV and what TV programmes they enjoy. Forty teenagers, aged
14-16, were interviewed, and we got some curious results. Here are some of
them.
About
35% of the interviewed said that they don't watch the news at all. “I don't
watch the news,” said Julia Smith, one of the typical representatives of that
group, "they speak either about wars or terrorist attacks. If I watch it,
I feel down and scared..., so... I don't watch it at all."
65%
watch the news occasionally and randomly, and were not able to name any
programme they trust. They confuse Presidents and Prime Ministers, and they
are not sure about the regions of armed conflicts, and don't know what the word
"summit" means. However, about half of our respondents mentioned
that they would like to feel more confident about political issues, and that
it would be useful to have some classes on political literacy (грамотность)
in the school curriculum (учебный
план).
The
survey revealed some unexpected things. For example, most teenagers are not
really keen on thrillers and action films. They say that they prefer
point-and-shoot computer games to action films.
As
for TV, about 60% of our respondents claim that they would like to see more
educational, cultural and popular science films on TV. Scientific
breakthroughs, new technologies, mysteries of the past and the present,
ancient civilisations are very welcome. These topics have always been a great
attraction for teenagers of all generations.
In
conclusion we would like to thank you for the time you gave to our letter. If
you find our topics of some interest to your journal and your readers, we would
be happy to present the full texts of our projects and articles, and discuss
our possible cooperation.
Sincerely
yours,
Martine
Swift
President
of the Young Journalists Club
1. Club publish their articles in the
journal on a regular basis.
a) True b) False c)
Not given
2. The young journalists have already
published some of their articles in their journals and newspapers.
a) True b) False c)
Not given
3. The young journalists write about
teenagers and topics related to them.
a) True b) False c)
Not given
4. Their research proved that most
teenagers are very good at politics and know what’s going on in the world.
a) True b) False c)
Not given
5. The young journalists never give
names of the people they interview.
a) True b) False c)
Not given
6. The young journalists have got some
ideas on how to make TV more interesting and useful for teenagers.
a) True b) False c)
Not given
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PART
IV.
WRITING (Home task; 6 points)
Student’s Book: ex. 4 p. 151
PART
V. SPEAKING
1)
Read the
text (Student’s Book: ex. 5 p. 152). Then speak about the following points
(5 points).
a)
Express your
agreement or disagreement with the idea.
b)
Give some
arguments to support your point of view.
2)
Make up
a dialogue between the parent and the son/ daughter. Use the information from
the cards (Student’s Book: ex. 6 p. 152) (5 points).
Maximum
35 points
35
– 32 points
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“5”
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31
– 25 points
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“4”
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24
– 17 points
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“3”
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The
9-th form
PROGRESS
CHECK 4
PART
I. LISTENING COMPREHENSION (Student’s Book: ex. 1 p. 182)
Listen
to the people speaking about their future careers. Match the number of each
speaker (1, 2, 3) with the sentence (a, b, c, d, e) that reflect his or her
idea most accurately. Transfer your answers to the table (3 points).
PART
II. USE OF ENGLISH (GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY)
Choose
the right opinion. Fill in the correct letter in each gap. Then transfer your
answers to the table (5 points).
I received
that emergency call nearly midnight. A worried male voice informed the
emergency service that his three kids 1) … not at home yet. The man explained
that his two sons 2) … for a bicycle ride and there was no sign of them yet. I
had to ask some questions to understand the details. It turned out that the
kids liked to ride down the hills which were four kilometers away from their
house. The rescue party headed right there.
The
rescuers saw the boys soon. They 3) … the hill. They were walking very slowly.
Two of them were helping the third boy – his leg 4) … . Later he told us that
they had been practicing extreme cycling.
Unfortunately,
things like that happen quite often. People often ignore safety rules, and get
injured or worse. They cannot realize that without a very careful preparation
any extreme sport is a 5) … activity.
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moving down
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PART III. READING COMPREHENSION
Read the
article and fill in the gaps with the sentences and parts of sentences A- G.
Write the letter of the missing sentence in the box. There are two extra
letters you will not need (5 points).
Robot technologies
in our home
There are
lots of science fiction books and films about robots. Nice and humanlike metal
and plastic creatures often become children's friends there. Robots learn how
to distinguish (различить) between
good and evil, and how to become a friend to a human being. To our surprise and
delight we find out that robots are able to experience feelings — they can feel
happy, upset, and even angry. [1] They can
even risk their life, [2], for someone they love.
Is
artificial intellect a pure fantasy or are there any scientific discoveries
behind this idea? [3] What we know for sure is that robotics is a
rapidly developing technology, and soon we can expect robots to enter our
houses and stay there for a long time. It’s already happening in Japan, where
machines of all shapes and sizes are widely used. Besides being used in
different industries, robots do lots of housework: they clean the house, serve
tea and wash up after that. [4] These robots wake people up in the
morning, inform them about the weather and ask questions about their health.
The robots are able to recognise faces, keep eye contact and maintain
conversations. In Japan, [5] humanoid robots have already become friends
for lots of elderly people.
Robots for
households are usually designed in a humanlike manner and resemble human beings
— they have a head, arms and legs. Japanese scientists believe that in several
years robots will be common in every household and feel very enthusiastic about
it.
A. in robots’
terms they risk being destroyed or reprogrammed
B. Amazing but
robots can take care of disabled or aged people!
C. Some rescue
robots, which can dig deep after earthquakes, have already been created.
D. It’s still
difficult to answer this question.
E. We can see
robots break the technological low of logic and rational to defend human
beings.
F. Elderly
people often feel lonely and need some company.
G. which has
the largest percentage of aged people in the world
PART
IV.
WRITING (Home task; 4 + 6 points)
Student’s Book: ex. 4, 5 p. 184
PART
V. SPEAKING
Imagine that you are being
interviewed by a journalist of a radio programme called “Meet yourself”. It’s a
programme for teenagers about teenagers. The journalist asks different
questions in order to find out what worries and what interests people of your
age. (Student’s Book: ex. 4, 5 p. 184); 7 points).
Maximum
30 points
30 – 28 points
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“5”
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27 – 21 points
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“4”
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15 – 20 points
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“3”
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