Книги і письменники

8 КЛАС

Books and libraries

1. Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs. Use the Present Simple Passive.

1. Hundreds of e-mails______ every seconds (send)

2. The Internet _____ by million people (use)

3. English and German______ at our school (teach)

4. Ukrainian _______ in Ukraine (speak)

5. This office _______ every day (clean)

1. Rewrite the sentences in Passive.

1. They play tennis twice a week.

2. I wear sandals in the summer.

3. Young people read teen magazines.

4. She invites all her friends to the party.

1. Choose the right answer.

1)___________

He was English. He was born in 1564. He was a dramatist, a poet and an actor.

2) ___________

The main character of his stories is Sherlock Holmes.

3)___________

The man who wrote such famous books for children as “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-Glass”.

4)___________

He was well-known as the author of the “Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn”.

5)____________

This story-teller became famous with his trilogy “The Lord of Rings” (1954-1955)

1. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

3. Samuel Langhorne Clements (Mark Twain)

4. William Shakespeare

5. Lewis Carrol (Charles Dogson)

1. Write a letter about your favourite book.