Your turn 5 Look at the adjectives in Exercise 4.
What usually makes you feel this way? Write
sentences with the words in the box or your
own ideas.
long weekend spiders going on a school trip
losing an important game or competition
a very sad book or film my brother or sister
If you go to school or university, you are faced with a number of exams. Basically, these exams are supposed to test your knowledge and skills. Also, they may motivate you to study harder.
In my opinion, it is really the case that exams motivate students to study harder. Firstly, exams are often a pass to a higher level of education. If you get good marks in examinations, you are admitted to further education. If you fail, you do not get the admittion. So, you make every effort to keep the right to study further. Secondly, exams are a good way to assess your learning efficiency and detect possible gaps in your knowledge. Bad marks mean that your knowledge is flawed and you need to be more disciplined and work harder to do away with the flaws.
But there are people who believe that examinations do not give real motivation to a student. They say that being a good student with excellent marks does not guarantee future prosperity.
Nevertheless, I cannot assent to the foregoing opinion, because being a good student is the beginning of being a good employee or worker who can earn a good living. Highly qualified professionals are always in great demand in any business sector.
In conclusion, exams play an important part in our life, although any exam is a kind of pain. But the saying is: no pain, no gain!
1. If you don't turn off that noisy music, I will do it myself. You have been playing it since morning. Why don't you listen while I am speaking to you?
2. — Tell me, Mr. Smith, were you fixing the computer when the slid fell down?
— Yes. I have been doing the same thing ever since I started working here.
3. Last night Tim was taken to see «My Fair Lady» at «The Paradise». After the performance he told his friends he had never seen a better musical.
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Вставьте правильный предлог или послелог, где необходимо.
1. Agatha was brought up in the country by her aunt.
2. They arrived .to New York on 13th of June and are leaving to Japan next week.
3. I filled in the wrong form by mistake.