5 1.34 Complete the mini-dialogue with the key phrases. Listen and check. Then practise
the mini-dialogue.
Sal Hello.
Ben Hi, Sal.Ben.
Sal Hi, there! ? __ at the moment?
Ben I'm at the skateboard park with Tom.
We're practising
Sal Really?'_ a good time?
Ben Yeah. It's fun. We can meet later
.
Sal OK. '_ a call.
Ben Sure. Bye for now
In our camp there were 12 teams, and I got to the fifth. Counselors Daniel Ivanovic, Svetlana Igorevna Anna Vladimirovna jokingly called us "pioneers."
Even in the "Sunny" four shifts, each for 18 days. I came just for the best: a third. The first few days I was still homesick, but soon business camp took me entirely.
Every day we have a lot of interesting things happened: different concerts and competitions. For example, we celebrated "Neptune Day" and were making masks, hats, and jewelry made of plastic wrappers, old shiny discs of colored paper. Then we dressed up as mermaids, fish, water, even in the "Sponge Bob", danced and sang.
The camp worked several circles. Girls sewing soft toys, woven beaded jewelry. I went to the clay modeling and computer class.
It was a lot of fun at sea. It is a pity that for a long time were not allowed to bathe counselors. But we played volleyball in the sand. In the evening we went to the counselors at the disco and always late at the beginning because of the girls, who have long collected and painted.
1) __A__ huge animal is rumoured to 2) _be living in Loch Ness, in Scotland.
“Loch” 3) ___is__ a Scottish word meaning “lake”. The water in Loch Ness is deep,
cloudy, and extremely cold 4) __that___ makes it hard to explore. The Loch’s mystery
inhabitant, “Nessie”, is said 5) _to___ have a huge body, a long neck and flippers.
Some people think Nessie 6) __must___ be an ancient species of reptile, called a
plesiosaur. But experts disagree, for two main reasons. First, plesiosaurs 7) _are
believed to be extinct; they probably died out millions of years 8) _ago___ . Second,
plesiosaurs were cold-blooded animals, so they could never 9) _have survived in the
freezing waters of Loch Ness, Recently, it has been suggested that “Nessie” could 10)
be_ an elephant! One expert pointed out that in the past, Nessie 11) __was___ often
seen when a famous circus came to Scotland. The circus often stopped at the Loch
12) that the animals could cool down. The elephants often swam in the Loch.
When an elephant is swimming, only 13) __its___ long neck and two small humps (parting
of the head and back) can be seen. Might eyewitnesses have mistaken this for a
monster?