ЗАДАНИЕ НА ЛЕТО
(базовый учебник Английский язык для VI класса О.В.Афанасьева, И.В.Михеева)

PART I

Find a single world equivalent

1. to make a prediction

2. to look forward to

3. every day

4. still

5. unstable

6. to dislike greatly

7. hotness or warmth

8. to bring about

9. very large in area

10. a heated glass building for growing young plants

11. no longer in existence

12. the seashore

13. easily broken

14. a place where someone or something is usually found

15. to treat medically

16. to ruin

17. to put in danger

18. to hold or put within limits

19. that which surrounds

20. to make unclean

21. to remain alive

22. a fence formed by bushes or small trees growing close together

23. characterised by good fortune; successful

24. characterised by a moderate estimation of oneself

25. to do harm to

Possible answers: to forecast, to expect, daily, calm, changeable, to hate, heat, to produce, huge, a greenhouse, extinct, a coast, fragile, a habitat, to cure, to destroy, to endanger, to include, environment, to pollute, to survive, a hedge, prosperous, modest, to injure

PART II

Circle the letter under the underlined word(s) which is/are not correct

1. On March 30, 1981, President Reagan was shot as his was leaving a Washington hotel.

A   B    C   D

2. President Andrew Jackson had and official Cabinet, but him preferred the advice of his informal adviser, the Kitchen Cabinet.

A    B   C   D

3. Almost half of the Pilgrims did not survive theirs first winter in the New C D World.

A   B   C   D

4. There was no indication from the Senate that he would agree with the Decision made in the House.

A   B   C   D

5. A baby starts learning the meanings of words as they are spoken by others and later uses they in sentences.

A   B   C   D

6. In the places where people drink poisoned water, eat bad food and breathes polluted air they suffer from serious diseases.

A   B   C   D

7. Though nowadays the Queen reigns but don’t rule, the Royal family plays a very important role in the country.

A   B   C   D

8. Although no two day will have exactly the same weather, people can forecast some types of weather.

A   B   C   D

9. I’d like to know what influencing his decision.

A   B   C   D

10. Nowadays the air surrounding the earth has became much warmer because the heat can’t go back into space.

A   B   C   D

11. It is impossible to believe that somebody actually admire that man.

A   B   C   D

12. The leek, a member of the lily family, has a mildest taste than the onion.

A   B   C   D

13. The grizzly bear, which can grow up to eight feet tall, has been called a more dangerous animal of North America.

A   B   C   D

14. I really do not want to live in the southeast because it is one of the most hot areas in the United States.

A   B   C   D

15. The U.S. Congress consists of   both the Senate as well as the House of  Representatives.

A   B   C   D

PART III

Getting to the Root of the Matter!
Can you match up the following sentences with the expressions below? All the expressions have something to do with plants, flowers or trees.

1. Sometimes things are very difficult. Life is not all ________.

2. Mary led Sam ________. She kept promising to marry him but in the end she left him for John.

3. Susan’s ready to ______. She travelled all over the world, but now she wants to settle in one place.

4. The police were determined to ______. It took them several weeks but they finally discovered the cause of the fire.

5. Don’t ________. Tell me exactly what it is you want to say.

6. John’s _________. He’s much nicer than any of his brothers.

7. Sally’s done very well in her job. She’s at _______ in her profession.

8. You should act quickly . Don’t let _______.

9. I feel as if all our hard work is belonging to _________. The results are really worth the effort we put in!

10. The teacher realised that the class might cause trouble, but managed to ________.

A. the grass grow under your feet

B. nip it in the bud

C. the top of the tree

D. the pick of the bunch

E. a bed of roses

F. beat about the bush

G. put down roots

H. bear fruit

I. get to the root of the matter

J. up the garden path

PART IV

Reading Comprehension

He Went with Magellan

On the twenty-second of March, 1518, Magellan, his wife Beatriz and Faleiro were still in Valliadolid – waiting for the king’s decision about exploration in the South Seas. They had finished dinner and now were sitting round the fire. It was cold outside.

Magellan was studying a chart. Faleiro was thinking about something.

Suddenly Faleiro got up from his chair and walked up to the window. For a minute he looked at the sky. Then he began to walk up and down the room. He did not speak, and no one spoke to him. Once he stopped and looked very angrily down at the chart. He said something in a low voice, but no one could hear him.

Magellan paid no attention to the astronomer. Faleiro was a strange person, but he was clever. He measured longitude so well that Magellan felt sure Faleiro could tell the exact place of a ship in the sea. Neither Columbus nor Vasco da Gama had been able to be sure how far east or west a ship had travelled. With Faleiro’s tables of longitude. Faleiro stopped near the table and said, “What chart is that?”

“A copy of a chart which the great Admiral Christopher Columbus used in his voyage,” Magellan said.

Faleiro said gloomily: “Columbus didn’t know where he was going. When he got to the New World he didn’t know where he was, and when he got home he didn’t know where he had been.”

“He was the greatest navigator the world has ever seen,” Magellan said quietly.

“But he would have been still greater if he had had Faleiro with him.”

Faleiro made this modest statement and gloomily returned to the window.

Suddenly they all heard a knock at the door, a very loud knock. Then they heard voices and people coming upstairs.

The courier came into room.

“To Ferdinand Magellan and to Ruy Faleiro from our most noble king Don Carlos,” he said and handed a packet to Magellan.

It was a great day for Magellan: he learned that Don Carlos gave them ships and money to explore the South Seas.

After L.KENT

The South Seas – name of the Pacific Ocean before Magellan’s voyage

1. The word “a chart” is closest in meaning to which of the following words?

A. a picture

B. a draw

C. a marine map

D. a route

2. Faleiro was

A. Magellan’s friend

B. an explorer in the South Sea

C. a great navigator

D. an astronomer

3. It was a great day for Magellan because

A. he met Faleiro.

C. he found a copy of a chart which Columbus had used.

B. the king gave him ships.

D. he met the king.

4. Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

A. Long days wait

B. The great Columbus

C. Magellan studies a chart

D. The courier from the king

When we are back at school again, we’ll begin with this task and try “to get to the root of the matter”.

By Youdif BOYARSKAYA
Moskow, School No.814,

Key:
PART II
1.B, 2.B, 3.C, 4.C, 5.D, 6.B, 7.B, 8.A, 9.C, 10.B, 11.C, 12.B,13.D,14.C,15.D

PART III
1 - E, 2 - J, 3 - G, 4 - I, 5 - F, 6 - D, 7 - C, 8 - A, 9 - H, 10 - B.