Progress check 4

Progress check 4                                          7 класс Афанасьева, Михеева 3-й год обучения

1. Listen to the tape, (49), and choose the true sentences.

Nina

1)  She is seven.  ___

2)  Her father always takes her to school.   ___

3) Nina hates her school.  ___

4) Sport and games are important in Nina's school.     ___                  

Boris

1)  He goes to primary school.      ___                                                          

2) He is a fifth-former.   ___

3)  He has one teacher.       ___                                                                        

4)  He likes French most of all.   ___

Mike

1)  He is older than Boris.   ___                                                             .     

2) He has a lot of subjects at school.     ___                     

3)  He dreams of travelling.  ___

4)  In winter Mike goes to the park to skate.  ___

Helen

1)  Helen has a lot of free time.      ___                                                        

2)  She is in the ninth form.   ___

3) She is a university student.   ___

4) She hates working on the computer.  ___

 2. Read the texts (a—d) and match them with the numbers (1—5). There is one extra number.

a) __   b)__   c)__   d)___   extra)____

1.  An American Cowboy

2.  A Difficult Life of a Poet

3.  The Famous Doctor

4.  A Man from Siberia1

5.  A Teacher Ready to Help

a)  Rudolf Nureyev was born on the 17th March, 1938 in the Soviet Union in the city of Irkutsk. At the age of eleven he be­gan dancing and when he was 17, he be­came a student of the Leningrad Ballet School. In 1961 he left Russia for France. He became a world-famous dancer. He died in Paris on 6th January, 1993.

b)  He was one of the men who went west on the back of a horse. The sun and the wind and the rain made his white face brown. He knew little about reading and writing but those things were not important to him. His talent was to know cows and their ways. He could control cows easily.

c)  Ann Sullivan taught blind2 children. One of her pupils was Helen Keller. Miss Sulli­van helped her to understand how to spell words. The first word Helen learned was doll. It was like a game for Helen and she liked it. The child made progress, Helen Keller finished school and went to college. She wrote a book The Story of My Life. Ann Sullivan was with Helen all her life.

d) Carl Sandburg, a well-known American poet, was born in 1878. Carl was interest­ed in writing poems at an early age. He read a lot and learnt many poems by heart. At the age of 13 after finishing the 8th form, he left school to help at home. He had many jobs. He was a worker, a shop-assistant, a fireman. His first collection of poems was for his mother.

1  Siberia [sai'biana] — Сибирь

2  blind [blaind] — слепой

4.  Write a tag for each sentence.

1.     We have got a lot of jam,....

2.     The Browns can't visit Peter,...

3.     There is a box on the table,....

4.     It is a box,.....?

5.     They were in the box,.....

6.     The babies are sleeping,.....

7.     The babies sleep here,.....

8.     The babies slept in the afternoon,..

9.     Your teacher's son isn't a pupil,..

10.  There isn't a bag in the box,...

5.  Choose the correct item.

1.    The trousers are too small. Don't buy.

a) it                          b) they                       c) them

2.    What. short jeans!

 a) a                           b) the                         c) —

3.    She will. speak French in two years,

 a) be able to             b) can                        c) must

4.    Don't learn all the words today. You. to remember them,

a) must                    b) won't be able        c) could

5.    I like the trousers. How much. ?

 a) is it                      b) are they                c) are there

6.    The clothes. in the box.

a) is                          b) are                         c) was

7.    What does he listen. ?

a) to                         b) —                          c) at

8.    Don't look. me.

 a) on                        b) —                          c) at

9.    My Granny's grandfather was a teacher,. ?

a) wasn't she           b) wasn't he              c) was he

10.   He never travels by plane,.?

a) does he                b) is he                      c) doesn't he