04 лютого 2022

8  клас 

Good morning, students!

Let`s check your knowledge. Перевіримо ваші знання. Виконайте завдання у зошитах.

1. Read the text. Write if the statements are true or false.

Прочитайте текст. Напишіть, чи вірні ствердження.

My name is Mike Chirinos and I work as a sales manager. I used to be an active reader in my childhood, between the ages of eight and thirteen. I had enough time to read usual things for this age like Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne, Jack London’s The Call of the Wild or Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. In my teens I looked for books with strange and sometimes controversial ideas. I wanted to amaze my friends with original opinions. I looked for the longest titles and the authors with the funniest names; in the library I tried to find books which nobody usually reads. Later, when I studied at the university, I expected to spend long evenings in intellectual discussion with clever people, that’s why I started reading philosophy. Professional life was the end of books for me. Books didn’t really help in practical work. 

I didn’t stop reading, I read all day, but this was usually news on the Internet, manuals and documents. No books. In those days I only had a book «on the go» during airplane flights or train journeys. And in my free time I usually watched TV. Then, one fateful day, my TV broke. My new TV is inside my computer. It’s on a desk in front of a working chair and I can’t see it from the bed. I still use it for the weather forecasts and it’s nice to have it on while I’m typing… but what to do while long winter evenings? Well, have another go with books. Now, I just like books. I have a pile of nice ones by my bed and I’m reading about three or four at the same time. There are books everywhere and all of them have something to read in them. I have a strange feeling that they’ve been there all along, waiting for me to pick them up.

1) Mike didn’t read a lot in his childhood. ______

 2) Mike used to read books on philosophy because he hoped to take part in discussions with intellectuals. _______

 3) During his working life Mike was an active reader of books. _______

 4) While travelling by plane or train, Mike usually read newspapers. _________

 5) Mike became an active reader again after his TV broke. __________

2.  Complete the text with the words from the box. Доповніть речення наступними словами за змістом:

 written    character       published      fantasy     novels      author 

Artemis Fowl is a series of _______novels written by Irish ________Eoin Colfer who has described the teenage criminal organizer Artemis Fowl II. The series is ________in half-serious language, combining dark moments with humorous ones, a style favoured by a number of popular children’s authors. Artemis, the main ____________ , is a cruel and extremely intelligent young criminal whose main goal is the acquisition of money through a variety of often illegal schemes (although his values change towards the 5th book). There are six _________in the series; the first was _____________in 2001 and the sixth released in the United States on 15 July, 2008. 

 3. Transform the sentences into the Passive Voice. Перетворіть речення, вживаючи пасивний стан дієслова:

1) A young writer wrote this detective story.  

This detective story________________________________.

2) They founded America’s first college, Harvard, in 1636. 

America`s first college ____________________________.

 3) My son draws nice pictures. 

Nice pictures _____________________.

4) They pay her good money for her detective stories. 

Good money _____________________________.

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