Практическое задание (осэк)

Задание 1. Прочитайте статью, выполните письменный перевод выделенного отрывка.

Do I really look like this?

Our passport (or identity card) photo is the photo we show to the largest number of different people during our lives. But how happy are we with our photo? Do we make an effort to get a good one? According to research by the US printer company Lexmark, the answer varies according to nationalities. It seems that the Italians are the most embarrassed about their passport photo (21% said they didn’t like showing it to other people). On the other hand, 98% of Norwegians said they were happy with their photos. And the French spend most their time trying to get the perfect photo (sometimes spending an hour in the photo booth!). We asked three British media celebrities how they felt about their passport photos…

MICHEL WINNER (film director)

―I used to be very proud of my passport photo,‖ said Michel Winner. ―For more than forty years I looked like an elegant film director.‖ But recently Michel renewed his passport and took a new photo in a photo booth. Now I look like a drug dealer,‘ he says.

RUTH ENGLAND (TV holiday show presenter)

Ruth England spends her life travelling and showing her passport photo to passport officials around the world. She confessed, ―Once I had a passport photo where I looked really hideous and so I deliberately ―lost‖ my passport and got a new one. For my latest passport, I took several photos and chose the best one. I quite like it. I‘ve had much worse ones.

TOBY YOUNG (author and journalist) Toby Young said, ―I‘m often stopped when I go through passport control because I don‘t look like my passport photo at all. In my photo I had a lot more hair but now I‘m bald. No one believes it is me. So, now I have two possibilities: take a wig with me every time I travel or get a new passport photo.‖

Задание 2. Прочитайте первый абзац статьи еще раз и ответьте на вопросы письменно.

1. Why is our passport photo important?

2. Which nationality are the least happy with their photo?

3. Which are the happiest?

4. Which nationality are the vainest?

Задание 3. Выберите правильное значение для каждого слова.

1. Research

a. a study

b. a book

2. Embarrassed

a. feeling uncomfortable

b. feeling happy

3. Celebrities

a. journalists

b. famous people

4. Proud

a. feeling pleased with yourself

b. feeling unhappy with yourself

5. Hideous a. very beautiful

b. very ugly

6. Bald

a. without hair

b. with a lot of hair

7. Wig

a. a kind of document

b. false hair

Задание 4. Для каждого верного предложения поставьте T (True) и F (False) для каждого неверного (в конце предложения).

1. Michael winner was never proud of his passport photo.

2. Recently Michael winner renewed his passport and now he looks like an elegant film director in his new photo.

3. Once Ruth England had a passport photo where she looked very ugly.

4. For Ruth‘s latest passport, she took only one photo.

5. Toby Young is never stopped when he goes through passport control.

6. Toby changed a lot since he took his passport photo.

Задание 5. Напишите синонимы для одних слов и антонимы для других в таблице.

SYNONYM

Large –

Different –

To say –

Happy –

Hideous –

Good –

ANTONYM

Best –

Elegant –

To show –

Worse –

To like –

New –

To chose –

To lose -

Задание 1. Прочитайте и письменно переведите.

We don't need any education …or do we?

The song (by Pink Floyd), which was a number 1 in the UK and abroad, was an attack on school and education and it had the famous chorus, ―we don't need no education, we don't need no thought control.... teachers, leave those kids alone!‖.

The chorus was sung by thirteen schoolchildren from Islington green School in London, who were taken to the Britannia Row record studio to sing on the recording by their music teacher. They never met the group and were not paid for their work. When the head of the school heard the song with its antischool lyrics, she banned the children from receiving any publicity or from appearing on TV.

Peter Rowan, a royalty expert from Edinburgh, has spent two years trying to find the children, now adults, and he intends to help them make a legal claim for royalties.

Mr. Rowan said, ―They probably won't get more than a few hundred pounds each, but this is about recognition. They deserve to have their work recognized even if it has taken 25 years.‖

Ian Abbott, 40, was one of the children who sang on the record. He said, ―Now I don't agree that ―we don't need any education. Education is so important. I really regret that I didn't study more at school. I would like to go to university now and get a degree. But work gets in the way when you get older. Sometimes I say to my nieces, ―you must study harder,‖ and they say, ―But why? Look at what you sang on that record.

Mirabai Narayan, another one of the children, now works as a teacher herself. She said, ―I sometimes wonder if the song influenced my career. My job now is to help kids with learning difficulties.‖

Задание 2. Прочитайте предложения и поставьте T(True- верно) и F(False- неверно) в конце предложения. 2. Another brick in the wall was also successful outside the UK. 3. The children got little money for singing on the record. 4. The music teacher was a friend of the group Pink Floyd. 5. The head of the school wasn‘t happy about the song. 6. Peter Rowan was one of the thirteen children. 7. He thinks the children will get a lot of money. 8. Ian Abbott is sorry that he didn‘t work harder at school. 9. He doesn‘t have any children of his own. 10. Mirabai Narayan is sure the song made her become a teacher.

Задание 3. Заполните пропуски словами из списка.

Help, study, work, anti-school, go, get, head, study, thought, music

1. ________ control

2. ________to university

3. ________teacher

4. ________a degree

5. ________ of the school

6. ________ harder

7. ________ lyrics

8. ________ as a teacher

9. ________ more at school

10. _______ kids

Задание 4. Подставьте верный предлог. Воспользуйтесь текстом статьи, если это необходимо.

1. an attack ______ school and education; 2. chorus was sung ______ thirteen schoolchildren; 3. schoolchildren ______ Islington green School ______ London 4. head ______ the school 5. song ______ its anti-school lyrics 6. expert ______ Edinburgh 7. one ______ the children 8. study more ______ school 9. ______ that record 10. help kids ______ learning difficulties

Задание 5. Напишите три формы неправильных глаголов. Воспользуйтесь словарем, если это необходимо.

do

get

have

hear

leave

make

say

sing

spend

take