Card 29

LISTENING (7 minutes)

Listen to the text. T. 29 “Sightseeing” ( listening – 2 min.).

Task 1. Listen and complete (time for filling - 1 min., for answering – 1 min.).

Task 2. Retell the listened text (time for preparation - 2 min., for answering – 1min.).

SPEAKING (10 minutes)

Task 1. Discuss on the given situation (time for preparation- 2 min., for answering – 2 min.).

Greatest capital in the world – London.

The greatest writer of all time – W.Shakespeare.

Task 2. Speak on the given topic (time for preparation – 5 min., for answering – 1 min.).

Worldwide Sightseeing of Great Britain

READING (9 minutes)

Read the text (silent reading - 1 min., aloud – 2 min.).

Fashionable ladies

For many in the 1990s, supermodel Cindy Crawford was the perfect American dream girl: slim, natural-looking, with long, shiny hair. People have described her as ‘The Face of Decade’.

Until the 1920s, suntans were for people, ‘ladies’ stayed out of the sun to keep their faces as pale as possible. In the times of Queen Elizabeth I of England, fashionable ladies even painted their faces with lead to make them whiter.

Ideas of beauty can be very different according to where you live in the world. For the Paduang tribe in South East Asia, the most important sign of female beauty was a long neck. At the age of five or six, girls received their first neck ring, and each year they added new rings.

Task 1. Find the key words of the text (time for preparation – 1 min., for answering – 1 min.).

Task 2. Translate the 1^st paragraph of the text (time for preparation – 3 min., for answering – 1 min.).

WRITING (14 minutes)

Task 1. Write an essay to the given topic (time for preparation – 13 min., for answering – 1 min.) – 40 words.

Your last holiday.