Комплект заданий для учащихся 7-8 классов (стр. 6 )

Третье задание– прослушивание пяти небольших рассказов женщин о своих сестрах-близнецах (запись прослушивается 2 раза). Участникам предлагается из шести предложений выбрать пять, которые передают основную мысль прозвучавших отрывков и соотнести их с соответствующими монологами (задание на перекрестный выбор).

При подготовке материалов для конкурса понимания устного текста методическая комиссия исходила из следующих положений:

Сложность текстов соответствует продвинутому пороговому уровню В2 по шкале Совета Европы. По тематике тексты предлагают обсуждение тем общего характера, представляющих интерес для молодёжи. Речь говорящих четкая, находится в пределах литературной нормы; темп речи естественный. В текстах может содержаться до 2-3 % незнакомых слов, незнание которых не должно препятствовать пониманию текста и выполнению заданий по тексту.

Правильность выполнения заданий проверяется по ключам (см. Ключи).

Критерии оценивания: За каждый правильный ответ дается 1 балл. Максимальное количество баллов – 20.

Listening

Task 1

You are going to listen to some people. For questions 1-5 choose the best option A, B or C. You will hear the recording twice. There will be a short pause (15 seconds) between the first and the second listening.

1. What did the woman buy in the sales?
A. A black sweater.

B. A blue jacket.

C. A black jacket.

2. How did the man feel?
A. embarrassed

B. offended

C. confused

3. What is the man’s criticism of the book?
A. It’s too long.

B. It’s boring.

C. It’s complicated.

4. The flight to Budapest will leave from        

A. Gate В 50

B. Gate P 50

C. Gate В 15

5. The man is stressed because        

A. his friends have a problem with their luggage

B. his friends may think he isn’t there

C. his friends’ flight was late

You have a short pause (15 seconds) to look at task 2

Task 2

You’re going to listen to Martin Cinert from Prague talking about the night the River Vltava flooded. For questions 6-15, indicate whether you think each statement is TRUE (A) orFALSE(B). You will hear the text twice.

6. His office wasn’t at risk, but his flat was.

A. True  B. False

7. He took his wife and child to his parents’ house.

A. True  B. False

8. He went back to the flat because he was excited by the situation.

A. True  B. False

9. Martin went to a place near his flat to watch the water level rising.

A. True  B. False

10. He looked out of the window and saw that his car park was starting to flood.

A. True  B. False

11. He was the last person to leave his block of flats.

A. True  B. False

12. All of the roads he tried were flooded now.

A. True  B. False

13. He decided to follow another car through the water.

A. True  B. False

14. Martin’s car broke down as he drove through the water.

A. True  B. False

15. All the flats in his building were seriously damaged.

A. True  B. False

You have a short pause (15 seconds) to look at task 3

Task 3

You will hear five women talking about what it was like to grow up with a twin sister. For questions 16-20, choose from the list A-F the statement which best matches what each person says. Use the letters only once. There is one extra letter which you do not need to use. You will hear the recording twice.

A. The way people regarded us  16. Speaker 1…

used to annoy me.

B. I always felt I was being compared

to my sister.  17. Speaker 2…

C. I hadfrequent disagreements with  18. Speaker 3…

my sister. 

D. My sister and I had very similar  19. Speaker 4…

tastes. 

E. I was glad not to spend too much  20. Speaker 5…

time with my sister.

F. My sister used to let me down

occasionally.

Transfer all your answers to your answer sheet

Listening

Keys

1	B
2	C
3	C
4	A
5	B
6	B
7	B
8	A
9	B
10	B
11	A
12	A
13	A
14	B
15	B
16	C
17	F
18	D
19	A
20	E

Script

Внимание! Каждый текст прослушивается два раза. После первого прослушивания текста запись не останавливается. Между первым и вторым прослушиванием текста в записи сделана пауза примерно 15 секунд. Между первым и вторым текстом, а также между вторым и третьим текстом также сделана пауза 15 секунд.

Text 1

1  A: So what did you get in the end?

В: Well, I tried on loads of things but they were either the wrong size or the wrong colour. There was this divine bright blue leather jacket and it was really reduced, but I could only find a small and I very nearly got a black cashmere sweater, but then I thought, actually I’ve got one just like it already, so I left it and in the end I went back to where the jackets were and I found the blue one in a medium so I got it. But now I’m not sure if I’ll ever wear it.

2  Well, I’ve been here for about six months and I can tell you that the English are a lot stricter about being punctual than we are in Australia. Some English friends of mine asked me to dinner and I said what time and they said about eight o’clock. Well, I didn’t want to come too early because in Australia that’s not good manners. So I arrived at about eight twenty-five and when my friend opened the door she said ‘At last! Here you are! We thought you’d got lost.’ I mean she made it pretty clear that I was late! Apparently it’s OK to come about 15 minutes later than the time people say but not more...strange huh? Back home people wouldn’t mind at all, would they?

3  A: So, what did you think, John?

В:Well, I have to say that I didn’t really enjoy it – in fact, I didn’t like it at all. Of course I know some people love her style. And I quite enjoyed the last one – what was it? –The Station master’s daughter but that had a good plot and this one was just all over the place. And it’s not that the characters weren’t interesting – they were, but as soon as I started to get interested in one of them they would suddenly disappear and new ones would appear. In the end, I just couldn’t work out what was happening.

4  Air Brittania announces a change of gate for Flight AB 578 flight to Budapest. This flight will now be departing from gate В 50.

5  A: Excuse me?

B: Yes?

A: Do you know if the flight from Santiago has arrivedyet?

В:Er yes, it arrived about half an hour ago.

A: The Iberia one that came via Madrid?

В: That’s right. But it arrived in Terminal 2. This is

Terminal 3.

A: Oh no. Then I’ve been waiting in the wrong place. Do you think all the passengers will have come outby now?

В: It’s hard to say. It all depends how long it takesfor them to get their luggage and come throughcustoms.

A: Is there any way you could put a message out inTerminal 2 so that I can let them know I’m coming? Otherwise they might think I’m not here to meetthem.

В: Yes, I can. What are their names?

Text 2

I was at work when I heard the news on TV. It had been pouring with rain for several days and I could see that the River Vltava was swollen. Now it appeared that there was a real danger that the river would overflow. All of us who lived or worked near the river were being advised to get out and move to a place of safety. My office is in the centre of Prague only a hundred metres from the river bank and I live in a flat in a small town just a few kilometres north of Prague, right on the banks of the River Vltava, so I was in danger both at work and at home.

My wife and baby were at my flat, so I did the sensible thing and went home immediately. I packed my wife and my child into the car and I drove them to her parents’ house. They would be completely safe there. So far, so good! But then I stopped being sensible, and I jumped back into the car and went back to our flat. Why did I do that? I told myself that it was because I was afraid of looters breaking into our flat and stealing things, but the truth was that I felt that I wanted to be in the middle of things, to be involved in what was happening.

I stayed up all night watching the TV bulletins. They were giving regular reports on how fast the water level was rising at various places throughout the CzechRepublic. There was a journalist reporting from just down the road from where I was, north of Prague, so I could sit in my sitting room and watch the danger increase as the minutes passed, but I still didn’t move. I suppose I had a kind of perverse desire to be the last person to leave our block of flats. I could hear cars starting up and setting off all evening, and from time to time I looked out at our car park and I could see that it was almost empty. At about three in the morning, my car was the only one left in the car park and my nerves gave out – or maybe I just came to my senses, because I finally decided to get into the car and escape. The roads towards Prague were flooded, so I decided to try to get to a relative’s house, which was a few kilometres away in the opposite direction, away from the river. I tried various escape routes but even these roads were impassable now. I was about to give up – I thought I’d left it too late. On my last attempt, I drove until I met another car which was blocking the road. The road ahead was flooded, but the driver of the other car was wading into the water to see how deep it was. He said he thought he could make it, so I decided to follow him. The water was rising quickly now, but he drove really really slowly through the water and I felt a bit impatient. Anyway, he managed to get through the water safely. I followed him, but I went much more quickly. Water was coining into the car under the door, and the engine made a funny noise like a cough a couple of times, but I got through and finally arrived safely at my relative’s house. I was one of the lucky ones. My office escaped the flood and my flat wasn’t damaged at all as it’s on the third floor. But the poor people who lived on the ground floor – their flats were very badly damaged. They had been completely under water.