I. Reading.
Read the following text. Прочитайте текст и выполните задание
Hard work and no money
Every year thousands of young people in Britain finish school and then take a year off before they start work or go to University. Some young people go to another countries and work as volunteers. Volunteers give their time to help people – for example, they work in schools or hospitals, or they help with conservation.
Pauline Jones, 18, lives in Cardiff, Wales. Next year she wants to go to University to study Spanish, but now she is living in Belize. Pauline says, “I’m working with other people here to protect the coral reefs in the sea near Belize. The reefs here are beautiful, but if the sea water is very polluted, the coral dies. I’m helping to do research on the coral and the fish that live around the reefs. All over the world, coral reefs are dying. We need to do something about the problem before it’s too late.
I’m staying with a family here and I help with the cooking and the cleaning. I don’t get any money, but that’s OK. I love my work here, and I’m learning a lot about the people of Belize – and myself!. When I finish my work, I want to stay here for another three months. I want to travel around Belize and Central America”.

a). Mark the statements T (true) or F (false). Поставьте правильно или неправильно
1) Pauline comes from Belize. 
2) Pauline wants to save the coral reefs. 
3) Young people in Britain go to University just after they finish school. 
4) Pauline is studying the fish in the sea near Belize. 
5) Pauline is unhappy because she doesn’t get any money. 
6) Pauline wants to go home when she finishes her work. 
7) Pauline thinks people need to help the coral reefs. 
b). Turn the following sentences into negative.
1) Young people take a year off after school.
2) Pauline is living in Belize.
3) I’m helping to do research on the fish around the reefs.
4) I want to travel around Belize.
5) She wants to go to University to study Spanish.

II. Vocabulary and grammar. Работа по грамматике

Complete the sentences.
1) . you at school last week?
a) Was b) Were c) Are
2) When we . the office, it . .
a) left, was raining b) were leaving, was raining c) left, rained
3) It . a small car, but it . four doors.
a) is, is b) has, is c) is, has
4) Give the book to . .
a) her b) she c) hers
5) Flying is . than driving.
a) the quicker b) quicker c) the quickest
6) They work ... night.
a) on b) at c) in
7) When we were children, our parents . family problems with us.
a) discussed b) found c) thought
8) She was born twenty-five years ... in a small village.
a) since b) before c) ago
9) You have to be a very good . to get a job as a chef..
a) cooker b) cookery c) cook
10) If you are hot, you can take . your jacket.
a) off b) on c) away
11) You’re having a test next week, .?
a) don’t you? b) are you? c) aren’t you?
12) We haven’t got . money.
a) much b) many c) more
13) The . of the environment is everyone’s responsibility.
a) protect b) protection c) protective
14) She lives in …. Rome with her family.
a) - b) the c) a
15) Her hair …. lovely!
a) are b) is c) it’s

III. Use of English.
Complete these sentences by using the correct word from the box. There is an extra word which you do not need to use. Вставьте соответствующие слова
In a Language School.
water subjects exciting four problems love
making teacher boring summer learning

Fourteen-year-old Andy, who is from Korea, lives in France. He is (1) _ French and is also studying English. What’s it like for him? “I (2)_ living here,” says Andy, “and I’m beginning to feel like I’ve lived here my whole life and not for only (3)_ years. I’m not usually very good at (4)_ friends, but everyone here is so nice that I’m not having any (5)_. If I don’t understand an exercise at school, I ask the (6)_ or one of

my friends to help me with it, and they always do. I enjoy most of the (7)_ we do at school, but I’m not very fond of history. It’s a bit (8)_! Another thing I like about living here is that I’m able to do lots of (9)_ sports, like swimming and water-skiing. I’m really looking forward to my (10)_ holidays this year because I want to learn windsurfing!”