Summative assessment for the unit “Our countryside” Reading

The Secret life of honey Bees.

A. Bees are very important to us. They are the only insects that give us food: honey. We see them every day in spring and summer, but what do you know about them?

B. Bees live in hives. There are often 40,000-45,000 bees in one hive! In one Hives are hot places with a temperature of about 33 C.

C. There are two types of bee in a hive: the queen bee and worker bees. There is only one queen bee, and she is very important. She lives for about three years. The worker bees live for four to six weeks. They usually fly about two kilometers a day to look for flowers, but they sometimes fly up to fourteen kilometers!

D. A lot of bee colonies are disappearing at the moment in North America and in some European and Central Asian countries. We don’t understand why, but some people think that pollution is a problem for bees.

Task 1. Read the text and match topics 1-3 with the paragraph A-D.

Ex: Types of bee C

1. Bees in danger ___

2.Where bees live ___

3. Introduction ___

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Task 2.Read the text again. Are the sentences TRUE or FALSE?

A lot of different insects give us food.False

1. Hives are cold places

2. Two different types of bees live in a hive.

3.Worker bees live for three years.

4.Bees sometimes fly fourteen kilometers.

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Writing

Task 3.Write the sentences using present simple.

1. I (to do) morning exercises.

2. He (to work) at a factory.

3. She (to sleep) after dinner.

4. We (to work) part-time.

5. They (to drink) tea every day.

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Lady Gaga was born in1986. Her real name is Stefany Joanne Angelina Germanotta. She could play the piano by ear from the age of four and later said her musical inspiration was the classical composeer Sebastian Bach. Gaga always loved perfoming and dreamt of fame from an early age. at 17 she became one of the yongest students at the Tisch school of Performing arts in New York. After that she followed her dream the hard way moving of her parent's home to a cheap flat while trying to earn a living as a singersongwriter. It wasn't easy. Gaga spent a few years perfoming in clubs without success. Then her luck started to change. She began writing songs for succsessful artists like "Breatny Spears" and "The Pussycat Dolls" and music executives quickly spotted her taelent for writing pop hits. Meanwhile Gaga was developing her own image and perfomance style wearing outrageous costumes wigs and make-up. Lady Gaga set up her own website as well as "My Spase" "Twitter" "You Tube" and "Facebook" profiles to promote her music. This was the turning point. She grabbed the attention of the world. She even made her songs avalible as free downloads. Lady Gaga also used these social media sites to chat with fans about various things such as her latest fashion statement or the lyrics of a new song. In fact Lady Gaga's Twitter page now has 7.5 million followers! Lady Gaga shows no sing of slowing down. She writes songs she sings and she dances surprising audiences with her unusual clothes. her taelant and hard work have made her a regining icon of today's pop culture. 

I am going to speak about  Aleksandr Pushkin , an Russia's greatest poet.
He was born in   May 26, 1799 Moscow, Russia, in the noble family (his father was the retired major).
He grew up in   Moscow with his grandmother   and spent his childhood with his  nurse  Arina Rodionovna.
He was very interested in reading and read all the books that he could get.
Pushkin  wrote his first poems at the  Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo, where he studied for 6 years.
When he grew up, he became a member of another society called the Green Lamp. At the same time he made friends with the people from Decembrist communities.
He continued write not only poems,  but  novels and in addittion he started to write fairy tales  too.
In 1820 the poet went to the Caucasus and, then, to the Crimea with the intention of recovering from his pneumonia.
In 1828 Pushkin was married beautiful 16-year-old Natalya Goncharova.
In 1837 Pushkin challenged Georges d'Anthes to a duel.
Pushkin was injured and died 2 days later after the duel, on the 29th of January
In conclusion, I would like to say that Pushkin is the founder of the contemporary Russian literary language.