Внеклассное мероприятие по английскому языку

Время на выполнение письменной работы – 90 минут

LEXICAL – GRAMMAR TEST  ( 10^th Form)                                                      (Total:50)

1.      Fill in the correct tense.                                                    (15 points)

LOVE FOR TRAINS

Herbie loves trains ! He first1. _____________ (SEE) a train when he was five years old and he 2.__________ (BE) absolutely fascinated. He 3.___________ (GO) to a different train station every week and 4._________ (WRITE) down the engine number of every train he sees. He 5.____________(DO) this since he was seven. By the time he left school he 6._____________________ (COLLECT) over 5000 different engine numbers from all over the world. At one time, while he 7._____________ (STAND) at a station he 8._____________ (SEE) something very strange. He 9._______________ (WAIT) for a train for an hour when he suddenly 10.______________ (SEE) an old steam locomotive coming down the tracks. It 11.____________ (NOT STOP) at the station and when it 12.______________(PASS) Herbie saw that all the passengers 13._____________ (WEAR) old-fashioned clothes. He told the station manager about this, but the manager said that no steam locomotive 14.______________ (PASS) through the station for years, and that the last one 15.______________ (CRASH), killing everyone on board.

2. In the following text some lines are correct, and some have a word that shouldn’t be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (V) by the number. If a line has a word which shouldn’t be there, write the word on the left. There is an example at the beginning.  (15 points)

THE QUIZ SHOW

0       has_________      My best friend Jenny has appeared on a television quiz show a few

1 _________________ of nights ago. It was very exciting. We all knew that she would be

2 _________________ on, so all our friends met at her parents’ house so to watch it.

3 _________________ Her parents videoed it too, of course. The programme was

4 _________________ started at half of past seven. We screamed and clapped when

5 _________________ we saw Jenny. She looked great. She had had her hair gas

6 _________________ done, and was wearing the new top she had bought the day

7 _________________ before. She sat in the chair in the middle of the studio while the

8 _________________ presenter asked her some of questions. The questions got

9 _________________ harder and harder as they had increased in value. If she didn’t

10 ________________ make any mistakes and got up the most difficult question right,

11 ________________ she would win a million pounds. By this time, Jenny had won a

12 ________________ thousand pounds. That was definitely for hers, whatever

13 ________________ happened. She answered to the next question correctly, which

14 ________________ was worth five thousand pounds. I didn’t know the answer, but

15 ________________ she did know! Then, with the next question, she took a risk but got the answer wrong. She was out of the game. Still, she had her thousand pounds, and we were very proud of her!

3. Use the word given in brackets to form a word that fits in the text.        (10 points)

Creating your own dishes

Good cooking is always a strange ______________(1 mix) of science and art and you certainly have to be fairly ____________(2 create) if you want to come with your own recipes. All cooking also demands a fair amount of _____________(3 prepare), and this is doubly true when you’re producing ______________(4 origin) dishes. You also have to be thick-skinned. You’ll be _____________(5 surprise) by how honest people can be when it comes to food. I’ve had people tell me my latest dish is ______________(6 disgust) and _______________(7 thorough) inedible! Sometimes, they were right! But don’t get upset. Just smile ___________(8 sweet) and thank them for their valuable opinion. And never forget that you’re waiting ________________(9 anxious) to hear whether or not your  ‘masterpiece’ is a success and they suddenly show their _____________(10 appreciate) you’ll realize it was all worth it. My tips: home-grown vegetables are always the tastiest. Every good cook needs a top-quality mixer . It’s essential piece of kitchen equipment, not a luxury. Make sure you’ve got lots of good-quality food storage containers. And finally, remember that designing a new dish is not about safety. It’s about taking risks, and learning from your mistakes. Have fun in the kitchen!

4. Read the text about how we spend out free time. Decide which of the four words best fits each space. Write the correct word into the space provided.               (10 points)

FREE TIME TRENDS

 (1) ________________ people all over the world are working longer hours. We also have more leisure time than ever before. After sleeping and working, watching TV is by far the most (2) _____________ leisure activity the world over. The British watch more TV than any other nation in Europe, but they read more too. The (3) ___________ majority, eighty-five per cent, read newspapers, and 54% regularly read books. Two thirds of modern European women work full-time, but they still do the main (4) ___________ of the housework too. Husbands help in the household more than they did in former (5) ___________.  No wonder that many working women say they are stressed and (6) ___________. According to the latest (7) __________by supermarkets, the average British family spends just 11 minutes preparing for the main evening meal. Almost half of all UK families in the UK eat together only once a month or (8) ____________. More than half of young people in the UK have a fulltime job (9) ___________ the age of 19, but the (10) _______________ of young Spanish and Italian people do not start full-time work until they are 24. The average American fourteen year-old spends only half an hour a day doing homework, and less than a fifth of them participate in sports, music or have other hobbies. Nevertheless, 65 % say they spend their time chatting on their mobiles and hanging out with friends in shopping malls. In the UK, pensioners are almost twice as active as teenagers, according to recent research. People over 65 spend nearly two hours a day doing physical activities such as walking, cycling or gardening. However, surprisingly, people who use the Internet regularly do more sport than people who never use it.