LISTENING Task 1. Listen to the presentation about unusual British festivals and circle the best phrase to complete these sentences. 1 The Clavie is...
a whisky container / a wooden cross / a bonfire made of things people don't need
2. In the Up Helly Aa festival, they burn...
a wooden man/a Viking boat/ a line in the grass 3. During a pancake race, you have to...
eat as many pancakes as possible/ run as fast as possible while tossing a pancakes in a pan/ run and jump over the ropes without dropping the pancake
4. Nowadays, the people who win the cheese rolling competition are usually
top athletes/ people from the village/ visitors from all over the world
5. The fastest snail in the Snail Racing is ... cooked with garlic and butter / rescued from the barbecue/ given a prize of extra lettuce
6. The Buming of the Clocks festival is ...
2 years old/ 20 years old / 200 years old.
1. To get a constant current, you must have its source. 2. A pyrometer is used to measure the temperature of hot metals. 3. Man learned to dissolve atoms in order to receive a large amount of energy. 4. Scientists are trying to solve the problem associated with new phenomena of electricity. 5. Lightning rod-metal device for protecting buildings from lightning. 6. Carrying out experiments with atmospheric electricity was very dangerous at that time. 7. To magnetize an object is to place it in a magnet field.