Task 1. Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals in brackets form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. Eg.: 0 – Greetings
All about the Brits
0… [GREET] from the UK! I'm having a great time, but I still haven't been out of London. Have you ever been to Britain? Even though I have, I've still got lots of questions about British culture. Why do the Brits adore 1 … [QUEUE] up? They're never 2.. [PATIENT]. I'd heard that everyone sat in 3 … [SILENT] on the Tube, and it's true! Are people too 4… [SOCIABLE] to talk to each other? The son in my host family is going to help me find some answers. Josh has just come back from Milan, so he's got some questions about Italian culture too. The Brits love 5… [SPICE] food and there's lots of 6 … [CHOOSE] from 7 … [DIFFER] cultures here. We went out for a Malaysian meal last Friday and it was a really 8 … [MEMORY] experience. 9 It … [APPEAR] that Indonesian food is really good too. I haven't tried much British food yet. I've already decided I want to come back next year, but it's expensive, so my parents are 10 … [LIKELY] to agree.
Sport as a spectacle and photography as a way of recording action have developed together. At the (0)turn of the 20th century, Edward Muybridge was experimenting with photographs of movement. His pictures of a runner (1)feature in every history of photography. Another milestone was when the scientist and photographer Harold Edgerton (2)extended the limits of photographic technology with his study of a (3)drop of milk hitting the surface of a dish. Another advance was the development of miniature cameras in the late 1920s, which made it possible for sports photographers to (4)leave their cumbersome cameras behind.
The arrival of television was a significant development in the transmission of sport. Paradoxically, it was of benefit to still photographers. People who watched a sports event on TV, with all its movement and action, (5)valued the still image as a reminder of the game.
Looking back, we can see how (6)radically sports photography has changed. (7)Early sports
photographers were as interested in the stories behind the sport as in the sport itself. Contemporary sports photography (8)emphasizes the glamour of sport, the colour and the action. But the best sports photographers today do more than (9)simply tell the story of the event, or make a (10)record of it. They (11)capture in a single dramatic moment the real emotions of the participants emotions with which people looking at the photographs can (12)identify
Sport as a spectacle and photography as a way of recording action have developed together. At the (0)turn of the 20th century, Edward Muybridge was experimenting with photographs of movement. His pictures of a runner (1)feature in every history of photography. Another milestone was when the scientist and photographer Harold Edgerton (2)extended the limits of photographic technology with his study of a (3)drop of milk hitting the surface of a dish. Another advance was the development of miniature cameras in the late 1920s, which made it possible for sports photographers to (4)leave their cumbersome cameras behind.
The arrival of television was a significant development in the transmission of sport. Paradoxically, it was of benefit to still photographers. People who watched a sports event on TV, with all its movement and action, (5)valued the still image as a reminder of the game.
Looking back, we can see how (6)radically sports photography has changed. (7)Early sports
photographers were as interested in the stories behind the sport as in the sport itself. Contemporary sports photography (8)emphasizes the glamour of sport, the colour and the action. But the best sports photographers today do more than (9)simply tell the story of the event, or make a (10)record of it. They (11)capture in a single dramatic moment the real emotions of the participants emotions with which people looking at the photographs can (12)identify
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Exersice 5
They have lived in that flat for five years.
We have been in this lesson since three o'clock.
I've like fishing for nine months.
exercise 6
2.I've been in this class since 8AM
3.We have been best friends since college .
4. I've been studying in this school for 5 years.
5. I've lived in my house for twelve years .
6. I have been learning English since 2012.
exercise 7.
2. How long have you been in this class?
3. When have you met your best friend?
4.How many years have you studied in this school?
5. How many years have you lived in your house ?
6. Where have you studied English?