SPECIFICATION OF SUMMATIVE ASSESSMMENT FOR TERM 4 READING Task . Read the text and write True ( T ) or False ( F ) next to the sentences . Hi Ellie , How are you ? Are you having a nice holiday ? I'm having a great time in Spain ! It's great weather here ! It's very hot and sunny . My family and I go to the beach every day . The beach is a lot of fun because you can do lots of water sports here . I'm going to waterski this afternoon The food here is great . We're going to eat in a seafood restaurant tonight . I Ellie Harris , love seadfood . I want to try octopus ! 4 Bluebell Lane , Oxford , We're going to visit a museum tomorrow morning . It is about the history of OT2 9LM Spain Then later we're going to go shopping in the town . We want to buy England some presents . I want to get you a present from Spain We are going to fly home next week . I want to show you all my photos ! See you soon Best wishes , Lisa Write True or False . 1. Lisa is in Australia 2. Lisa is going to waterski this afternoon . 3. Lisa's family is going to eat seafood tonight . 4. Lisa doesn't like seafood 5. Lisa is going to buy Ellie a present 6. Lisa is going to fly home tomorrow . [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ] Total [ 6​

                     All children should learn English from a young age

Nowadays nobody questions the importance of knowing English. Many people believe that children should learn it from a young age. However, there are both pros and cons to this opinion.

On the one hand, there are a few advantages of starting learning English in early childhood. Firstly, it is easier for young learners to acquire a new language in comparison with adults. Children pick up the pronunciation better and enjoy copying and learning through games. Secondly, children are not as shy as adults and are not afraid of mistakes. Finally, children learning an additional language are more creative, better at solving problems and usually score higher on tests.

On the other hand, there is an opinion that children should not learn English unless they start school. Some people think that children need to master their mother tongue first and learning English at an early age is confusing and a time waster. There is a fear that learning English may delay development of the child’s first language.

To sum up, the benefits of learning English at a young age outweigh the disadvantages. After all, we need to know English, and childhood is the best time to learn it.

    Все дети должны учить английский язык с самого раннего возраста

В настоящее время никто не ставит под сомнение важность знания английского языка. Многие считают, что дети должны учить его с юных лет. Однако у этого мнения есть и плюсы, и минусы.

С одной стороны, изучение английского в раннем детстве имеет несколько преимуществ. Во-первых, юным ученикам легче усвоить новый язык по сравнению со взрослыми. Дети лучше воспринимают произношение, им нравится копировать и учиться в играх. Во-вторых, дети не такие застенчивые, как взрослые, и не боятся ошибок. Наконец, дети, изучающие дополнительный язык, более креативны, лучше решают задачи и, как правило, получают более высокие оценки в тестах.

С другой стороны, существует мнение, что дети не должны изучать английский язык, пока не пойдут в школу. Некоторые люди думают, что дети должны сначала освоить свой родной язык, а изучение английского в раннем возрасте сбивает с толку и становится пустой тратой времени. Существует опасение, что изучение английского может задерживать развитие родного языка ребенка.

Подводя итог, можно сказать, что польза от изучения английского в раннем возрасте перевешивает недостатки. В конце концов, нам необходимо знать английский, а детство - лучшее время для его изучения.

A crossword puzzle is a game of words where the player is given a hint and the number of letters. The player then fills in a grid of boxes by finding the right words. Liverpool journalist, Arthur Wynne invented the first crossword puzzle.Arthur WynneArthur Wynne was born on June 22, 1871 in Liverpool, England. He immigrated to the United States at the age of nineteen. He first lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and worked for the Pittsburgh Press newspaper. An interesting side-note, was that Wynne also played violin in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.Later, Arthur Wynne moved to Cedar Grove, New Jersey and started working for a New York City based newspaper called the New York World. He wrote the first crossword puzzle for the New York World, published on Sunday, December 21, 1913. The editor had asked Wynne to invent a new game for the paper's Sunday entertainment section.View a copy of Arthur Wynne's first crossword puzzleWord-Cross to Cross-Word to CrosswordArthur Wynne's first crossword puzzle was initially called word-cross and was diamond-shaped. The name later switched to cross-word, and then as a result of an accidental typo the hyphen was dropped and the name became crossword.Wynne based his crossword puzzle on a similar but much older game played in ancient Pompeii that translated from Latin to English was called Magic Squares. In Magic Squares, the player is given a group of words and has to arrange them on a grid so that the words read the same way across and down. A crossword puzzle is very similar, except instead of being given the words the player is given clues.Arthur Wynne added other innovations to the crossword puzzle. While the first puzzle wasdiamond-shaped, he later invented horizontal and vertical shaped puzzles; and Wynne invented the use of adding blank black squares to a crossword puzzle.The crossword puzzle in a British publication was published in Pearson's Magazine in February 1922. The first New York Times crossword was published on February 1 1930.First Book of Crossword PuzzlesAccording to the Guinness Book of Records, the first collection of crossword puzzles was published in the USA in 1924. Called The Cross Word Puzzle Book it was the first publication by a new partnership formed by Dick Simon and Lincoln Schuster. The book, a compilation of crossword puzzles from the newspaper New York World, was an instant success and helped to establish publishing giant Simon & Schuster, who continue to produce crossword books to this day.