8 класс. Английский язык

8 класс. Английский язык

IV четверть

A. You are supposed to write an essay on the following topics. (150 – 200 words)

Choose any you like:

1. What qualities do you appreciate in your friends, parents, teachers and schoolmates?

2. What is the greatest value that guides your life?

3. What qualities would you like to cultivate in yourself?

ment on the following:

“Actions speak louder than words”.

“A friend is a person with whom you may be sincere, before him you may think aloud.”

B. Grammar test

I. Open the brackets

1. It (get) dark when they returned home.

2. Mark was surprised and said he (not meet) the man before.

3. I don't know if he (come) tonight or not.

4. The reason he had an accident was that he (drive) 300 miles that day and was very tired.

5. She (teach) all over the world for the last 15 years.

6. Mary won't be slim unless she (stop) eating so much.

7. At last she showed me the letter she (write).

8. I wonder if they (be) in time today.

II. Translate using a participle

1.  Доктор обследовал сломанную руку.

2.  Первые лучи встающего солнца осветили вершины холмов.

3.  Выпив чашку чая, она почувствовала себя лучше.

4.  Прочитав много книг Диккенса, он хорошо знал этого писателя.

5.  Мальчик, бегущий мимо дома, вдруг остановился.

6.  Будучи очень занят, он не сразу услышал меня.

7.  Услышав шаги, он поднял голову.

8.  Раскрасневшийся и возбужденный мальчик подбежал к своей матери.

III. Open the brackets using a gerund

1. She accused him of (steal) her purse.

2. She reproached me for (not write) to her.

3. After (look) through and (mark) the students' papers, the teacher handed them back.

4. The job is not worth (take).

5. Going to the party was no use: he had no talent for (dance).

6. The Bronze Horseman is worth (see).

7. After (examine) the student thoroughly, the professor gave him a satisfactory mark.

8. After (examine) thoroughly by the examination commission the student was given a satisfactory mark.

IV. Open the brackets using an Infinitive

1 . You seem (look) for trouble.

2. They are supposed (work) at the problem for the last two months.

3. The only sound (hear) was the snoring of grandfather in the bedroom.

4. Her ring was believed (lose) until she happened (find) it during the general.

5. He seems (know) French very well: he is said (spend) his youth in Paris.

6. The woman pretended (read) and (not hear) the bell.

7. It seems (snow) heavily since early morning: the ground is covered with a deep layer of snow.

8. They seemed (quarrel): I could hear angry voices from behind the door.

C. Retell the story in writing

The famous director of a big and expensive film planned to film a beautiful sunset over the ocean, so that the audiences could see his hero and heroine in front of it at the end of the film as they said goodbye to each other for ever. He sent his camera crew out one evening to film the sunset for him.

The next morning he said to the men, "Have you provided me with that sunset?"

"No, sir," the men answered.

The director was angry. "Why not?" he asked.

"Well, sir," one of the men answered, "we're on the east coast here, and the sun sets in the west. We can get you a sunrise over the sea, if necessarv, but not a sunset."

"But I want a sunset!" the director shouted, "Go to the air­port, take the next flight to the west coast, and get one."

But then a young secretary had an idea. "Why don't you photograph a sunrise," she suggested, "and then put it through the projector backwards? Then it'll look like a sunset."

"That's a very good idea!" the director said. Then he turned to the camera crew and said, "Tomorrow morning I want you to get me a beautiful sunrise over the sea."

The camera crew went out early the next morning and filmed a bright sunrise over the beach in the middle of a beautiful bay. Then at nine o'clock they took it to the director. "Here it is, sir," they said, and showed it to him. He liked it very much.

They all went into the studio. "All right," the director explained, "now our hero and heroine are going to say good­bye. Run the film backwards through the projector so that we can see the 'sunset' behind them."

The 'sunset’ began, but after a quarter of a minute, the director suddenly put his face in his hands and shouted to the camera crew to stop.

The birds in the film were flying backwards, and the waves on the sea were going away from the beach.