Reading. 1 semester. 6 grade. Karpiuk

At lessons of … pupils learn about continents, countries, mountains and rivers.

At … lessons pupils learn new words and dialogues, read, write and play games.

At lessons of … pupils learn about plants and animals and do some experiments.

At … lessons pupils run, jump, play football and other games.

At lessons of … pupils learn about the life of people in the past.

At … lessons pupils learn to draw and paint.

At lessons of … pupils do different mathematical calculations.

At … lessons pupils learn to sing and play different musical instruments.

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I’ve got a penfriend Tim. He lives in Cambridge. He is eleven years old and he goes to school for boys. His family is big. His father is tall and thin. He has got short straight hair and he wears glasses. Tim’s father is a doctor. He is clever, helpful and hard-working. He likes sport and plays football and tennis. Tim’s mother is a very beautiful woman. She has got long curly hair and big blue eyes. She is romantic and likes flowers and animals. Tim has got two younger sisters — twins. They are lovely girls with long straight hair. They usually wear their hair in braids. They are only five and they don’t go to school. Tim’s grandmother is very kind. She likes cooking very much.

1) Who is kind? —         [Tim, Sisters, Granny]

2) Who is clever and helpful? —        [Mother, Father, Granny]

3) Who is romantic? —         [Granny, Mother, Sisters]

4) Who wears glasses? —        [Father, Tim, Granny]

5) Who likes animals? —         [Mother, Sisters, Tim]

6) Who goes to school? —         [Sisters, Tim, Father]

7) Who doesn’t go to school? —         [Mother, Tim, Sisters]

8) Who likes cooking? —         [Sisters, Granny, Mother]

Make up a dialogue.

Read the text and mark the correct variant.

Sport in Britain

The British are regarded to be stolid and phlegmatic. True or not, their traditional sports are rather slow and effortless. A good example of such a sport is darts, a popular game played in pubs in which short steel darts are thrown at a circular board with the aim of scoring a particular number of points. As darts is popular among the working class, golf is played by the upper classes. This is an old Scottish game for two or four persons who hit small hard balls with special golf-clubs into 9 or 18 holes on a mown ground called a golf-course. Cricket is even more sophisticated. The cricketers are usually men traditionally wearing white clothes. The game is played by two teams of 11 people on a mown grass field with special bats and wickets. The English also like snooker (very similar to billiards) and bowls, a game in which a heavy wooden ball is rolled over a lawn in such a way that it stops as close as possible to a small white ball. Another British sport is polo (reserved for the elite), a ball game played on horseback with mallets. The sports mentioned above may be considered as typically British but it does not mean that they are the most popular ones. The vast majority of British people take part in individual sports such as swimming, cycling, fishing, aerobics or just walking. However, only 10 per cent of adults practise sports regularly. Others prefer watching on TV. The favourite spectator sports are football (the national game), rugby, athletics and tennis.

1. How can you characterize British traditional sports?                           [a) fast and attractive, b) slow and effortless, c) uninteresting, d) progressive and modern]

2. What game is very popular in pubs?                  [a) cards playing, b) chess, c) darts, d) bowls]

3. What is an old Scottish game for two or four persons?             [a) cricket, b) golf, c) snooker, d) bowl]

4. What kind of game is cricket?                     [a) easy, b) sophisticated, c) individual, d) one team playing]

5. What sport is reserved for the elite?                      [a) cricket, b) cards playing, c) bowls, d) polo]

6. What clothes should you wear when you play cricket?             [a) white, b) yellow, c) green, d) black]

7. What another individual sports are popular in Great Britain?                            [a) snooker and bowls, b) basketball and aerobics, c) cricket, d) golf]

8. What sports do you associate with Britain?                      [a) football, rugby, b) aerobics, walking, c) shooting, d) running]

9. How many English people practise sports regularly?           [a) 20 %, b) 10%, c) 30%, d) 5%]

10. What is English national game?                  [a) boxing, b) football, c) ski jumping, d) skating]