** Use the ideas in Ex. 5 and the plan below to write an essay called Should teens shop online? (120-180 words) Para 1: state the topic Para 2: advantages/examples Para 3: disadvantages/examples Para 4: conclude & give opinion
I was born in a small town on the Volga. As a child I was often sick n why he didn't like noisy games. I beat Liu books. The city was not their (local) theatre, but when he came to the Saratov theatre (company), I never missed an opportunity to look at them performances. I so loved the theater that he decided to become an actress after I graduate from school. I participated in an Amateur (amateur) performances, and several times during the holidays we went to Moscow to watch performances from such great actors, as Moskvin, Paschen, Kacha fishing, one Day, Tarasov. Finally the day came, when I first came on the scene well of this house. I was so worried that didn't notice, as the curtain rose. When I spoke to him, I didn't recognize his own voice. Then ended the first act and the curtain has fallen. I felt that I was crying because I was very upset: I thought I was bad played a role. I was approached and spronin why I was crying. "Don't you hear the audience applauding you? You played perfectly. At first I believed it, but then I was under my teacher, one of the oldest actors of the theatre, and said that he really liked my playing. I was approached the other actors and said that I had fulfilled my role. It was the happiest day of my life.
7. Read the text again. Are the statements true or false? Correct the false statements.
1) The train pushers' job is a full-time job. False. It's a part-time job.
2) Trains are crowded in the morning and in the evening. True
3) People hire stand-in-liners not to waste their time waiting in queues. True
4) Not everybody can work as an ice cream taster. True
5) Ice cream tasters work themselves. False. They work for large ice- cream corporations.
8. Match the highlighted words in the texts with their definitions:
1) crowded - (adj.) very full of people (многолюдный, переполненный)
2) flavors - (n.) the taste of a particular type of food or drink (вкусовые оттенки)
3) evaluate - (v.) to consider or study something carefully and decide how good or bad it is (оценивать)
4) consistency - (n.) how thick or smooth a liquid is (консистенция)
5) hire - (v.) to begin to employ someone (нанимать)
6) texture (n.) the way food or drink tastes or feels in your mouth (текстура)
7) rush hours (n.) the time when a lot of people are travelling to or from work and so roads and trains are very busy (часы пик)
8) degree - (n.) a qualification given for completing a university course (степень)
Finally the day came, when I first came on the scene well of this house. I was so worried that didn't notice, as the curtain rose. When I spoke to him, I didn't recognize his own voice. Then ended the first act and the curtain has fallen. I felt that I was crying because I was very upset: I thought I was bad played a role. I was approached and spronin why I was crying. "Don't you hear the audience applauding you? You played perfectly.
At first I believed it, but then I was under my teacher, one of the oldest actors of the theatre, and said that he really liked my playing. I was approached the other actors and said that I had fulfilled my role. It was the happiest day of my life.