Tasks for the Summative Assessment for the term 4.
With the words” Elementary, my dear Watson…”, the most famous detective of all times, Sherlock Holmes, starts to explain something to his friend., Dr.Watson. That phrase has now entered the English language.
Sherlock Holmes first appeared in 1882. He became famous in “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”. After that came the whole series of books about him. Many thousands of books about Sherlock Holmes are still sold every year.
Who invented Sherlock Holmes? Arthur Conan Doyle was his inventor. He was a doctor. In 1882 he moved from Scotland to England to set up a practice. One of the doctors he worked with, Dr. Joseph Bell, was the model for Sherlock Holmes’s friend, Dr.Watson. Conan Doyle’s medical knowledge was a great help to him in his detective stories.
Conan Doyle started the fashion of the detective story, which goes on.
And what sort of man is Sherlock Holmes? We learn a lot about him from the stories in which he appears. He is a quiet man, who only speaks when he has something to say. He smokes a pipe (he has a collection of them). He plays the violin. He carries a large magnifying glass. He lives at 221B Baker Street in London.
If you go to London, you will not be able to find 221B Baker Street. But instead, you can go to a pub called the “Sherlock Holmes”. In that pub there is a room exactly like Sherlock Holmes’s room at 221B Baker Street as described in Conan Doyle’s stories.
Exercises:
1. Read the text. Mark the sentences TRUE or FALSE according to the context.
A. Dr. Watson was Dr. Bell’s assistant.
B. Dr. Watson was Conan Doyle’s friend.
C. Dr. Watson was Conan Doyle’s book character.
D. Dr. Watson was Sherlock Holmes’s relative.
E. Dr. Watson was Sherlock Holmes’s friend.
F. Conan Doyle was a doctor.
G. There is 221B Baker Street in London.
H. The fashion of the detective stories goes on.
2. Найди в тексте глаголы в
Present Simple Tense
Past Simple Tense
3. Writing
Task. Choose ONE of the topics to write.
Topic 1. Write an essay about the following topic “Books in our life”. Why are so many people fond of reading? Give reasons for your answer using your own ideas.
You should write:
- An introduction
- Main body
- Conclusion
Topic 2. Write an essay about the following topic: Doctors, nurses and teachers make a great contribution to society and should be paid more than entertainment and sports celebrities. Do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answers using your own ideas.
You should write:
- An introduction
- Main body
- Conclusion
Museum-reserve of Ф.И.Тютчева in a village Овстуг is the museum complex located on the motherland of poet in the Bryansk area.
History of Овстуга is indissolubly related to the name of the Russian poet Fedor Ivanovich Тютчева, that was born here in 1803. In this village, childhood of poet passed.
The farmstead of Тютчевых in Овстуге conducts the history from middle the XVIII century. дение of new proprietary house is dated the seventiess of the XVIII century. An old lithoidal house became the witness of birth Ф.И.Тютчева and served after to him and his children. In the middle the XIX century a farmstead began to come in desolation, and a house was taken apart.
The revival of farmstead began in the eightieth years of the XX century, and the first display of museum-reserve of Ф.И. Тютчева was opened in summer of 1989.
Today a farmstead house, windmill, enters in the complement of museum, economic building of farmstead of Тютчевых and church of dormition, next to that the grave of Ивана of Nikolaevich Тютчева, father of poet is located.
Also on territory of museum-reserve the monument of Ф.И is set.Тютчеву.