6 класс
Чтение
1. Read the text «A clever salesman».
(After L. G.Alexander)
Mr. Boxell lived at 5 Central Road in a little town in the North of England. He was a tall fair-haired man with dark eyes on his round pleasant face. Mr. Boxell was a salesman. He had a lot of things to sell in his small quiet shop: clothes, shoes, books. He also sold vegetables and fruit, meat and sugar, flour and bread in his shop. So, he was a baker, a grocer, a greengrocer and a butcher too.
People in that town knew Mr. Boxell’s shop very well. They could buy practically everything there and Tom Boxell was always kind and polite. Tom was married. His wife, Margaret, was a nice little woman, dark-haired, slim and very pretty. Sometimes she helped Tom in his shop. She could count well and was always very friendly. She worked fast and thought that her job was very important. One Thursday when Tom and Margaret were both in their shop a short man walked in and asked for an expensive pair of shoes. There was something dangerous in the man’s unfriendly eyes. At first Tom could not understand what it was but then he recognized the man’s face. It was Brooks, the burglar. Tom knew that the police wanted him very much. Brooks tried on a few pairs of shoes and then bought the pair which Tom strongly recommended. Brooks thought they were a bit tight but Tom said: “Don’t worry, they’ll stretch, sir.”
The next morning Brooks came into the shop to change his shoes. He was very unhappy and had a weak smile on his ugly face. But when he asked for a different pair of shoes the police arrested him as the policemen were in the shop. They knew that Brooks had a pair of shoes a size too small for him and they were sure he would come to change them the next day. What a clever salesman Tom Boxell was!
Correct the wrong statements using the text.
1. Mr. Boxell lived at 5 Central Road in the North of America.
2. Mr. Boxell was an architect.
3. Mr. Boxell sold only fruit and vegetables in his shop.
4. People seldom came to Tom’s shop as they could buy very few things there.
5. Tom wasn’t married.
6. Tom was dark-haired.
7. A short man came into the shop and asked for a pair of gloves.
8. Brooks didn’t buy any shoes in the shop.
9. Brooks was a famous actor.
10. The police didn’t catch the burglar.
2. Read the text «My school»
I remember my (0)__________________school very(1)_________________. It was not very big but it was a very (2)________________school. The school was near to the (3) ______ of town. I can remember my first classroom now. It was a very big room with four small (4) ____________. The walls were painted (5) __________________with posters and pictures on them. I was very young and I was very (6)______________ the first day. Some classes were (7)_________________ but I was very happy at school. My first teacher was (8)___________. His name was Mr. John Smith. He was a very good teacher. My(9)__________ activity was reading. My two(10)________friends at the school were George and Petros. Petros is in my class now. He is sitting next to me!
Complete the text with the words. Write the correct number beside the word.
best c good c
centre c nervous c
difficult c well c
fantastic c white c
favourite c windows c
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3. Read the text «The life of George Orwell»
George Orwell was born in India in 1903. When he was four years old, his mother took him and his sister back to England but his father stayed in India.
In England, the young boy had a private teacher but it was difficult for his parents to find the money to pay for it. He was lucky later – when he was thirteen he won a scholarship to Eton College but he was not a very good student.
He always thought of becoming writer. When he was eleven, he wrote a poem about World War I. This poem was very good and it appeared in the local newspaper.
George had a difficult but interesting life. For a long time he couldn’t find a well job. He lived in Paris and London but he didn’t have much money and he had to stay in poor parts of these cities. In London he even lived in The streets for some time. These years helped him to write his first book called Down and Out in Paris and London, published in 1933. In 1936 George went to Span to write for newspapers about the Civil War. Three years later he wanted to join the army to fight in World War II but he was very ill and couldn’t become a soldier. He decided to work for the BBC and in 1945 he published Animal Farm. After the war he moved to Scotland where he wrote his final book, Nineteen Eighty – Four.He died in London in 1950. He was only forty-seven
Read the text about George Orwell and decide which answer is correct, a, b or c.
1 Where is George Orwell’s place of birth?
a England
b India
c Spain
2 Where did he study when he was thirteen?
a at a private school
b at home
c at a college
3 What did he want to be?
a an author
b a soldier
c a teacher
4 Why didn’t he join the army during World War II?
a Because he moved to Scotland.
b Because he got ill.
c Because he was busy with his final book.
5 What happened in 1945?
a Orwell published his first poem.
b People could read Orwell’s Animal Farm.
c Orwell wrote his first articles about the Civil War in Spain.
Read the text again and decide if the statements are true (T) or false (F).
1 _____ George Orwell had one sister.
2 _____ In 1907 he returned to England with his mother and father.
3 _____ As a child he wrote a book about World War I.
4 _____ He lived in poor parts of London and Paris.
5 _____ He wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four in Spain.
Лексика и грамматика
1. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Simple, the Present Continuous, the Present Perfect or the Past Simple tense.
0 We often _____meet______ (meet) to play the piano together.
1 My brother _______________ (read) three books last week.
2 I _______________ (see) her three times in my life.
3 My friends _______________ (eat) a lot of pizza.
4 We _______________ (not go) to the cinema yesterday.
5 Look! He _______________ (talk) to a very attractive girl.
6 My sister _______________ (never write) a letter to her boyfriend.
7 Barbara _______________ (not work) in our company any more. She is in the United States now.
2. Write questions to complete the mini-dialogues.
0 A How many schools are there in your city_______ ?
B There is one.
1 A ________________________________________ ?
B On Sundays? He usually reads or watches television.
2 A ________________________________________ ?
B This bag? It’s mine!
3 A ________________________________________ ?
B At 5 p. m. I was ready to leave the office.
4 A ________________________________________ ?
B On Sunday? They went to the disco.
3. There is one mistake in each sentence. Find it and correct it.
0 John and Tom aren’t like football.
_____________don’t__________________________
1 They only have one children, her name is Barbara.
___________________________________________
2 This book is not her. It’s Susan’s.
___________________________________________
3 Lisa is most intelligent than Tom.
___________________________________________
4 Do you think everybody is going to know how to surf the Internet in the future?
___________________________________________
5 Good swimmers don’t have be tall.
___________________________________________
6 I usually am late for school.
___________________________________________
4. Underline the correct word in each sentence.
0 I usually get on/up at 7 o’clock.
1 We don’t have some/any meat at home.
2 They often play brilliant/brilliantly in the first half of the match.
3 My grandparents live in/at a small flat.
4 A I don’t like music.
B So/Neither do I.
5 The festival starts in/on the twenty-second of July.
plete the sentences with the correct form of the word in brackets.
0 The roads are very ____icy______ (ice) today.
1 Mr Smith is a very ____________ (experience) manager.
2 Can you see the ____________ (different) between red and pink?
3 Our teachers are very ____________ (friend).
4 Do you think ____________ (beautiful) is needed for a TV career?
5 This colour is not very ____________ (fashion) now.
6 It is a typical _____________ (romantic) story. They fall in love and get married
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