Reading Task 1. Watch the video, read and circle the best answers A, B or C . https://youtu.be/6zrn4-FfbXw
Narrator: I remember the first time I saw a blue whale.
Man on boat: Look, look! (… Wow!)
Narrator: I’d followed them since childhood.
Diver: Where do you think it’s from? Is it from a ship?
Narrator: I could see plastic everywhere.
Every year 8 million tons of plastic are dumped into our oceans
Presenter: We were in what we thought was a relatively pristine environment. I started to wonder
what was happening in oceans elsewhere on the planet.
A journalist who loves the ocean
Narrator: Growing up, my world was the ocean. It’s where I feel the most spiritual.
And a champion who dives below
Diver: As a free diver, it was a place where I proved myself to myself. Finally have the
opportunity to pay the sea back.
A crisis with global stakes
Narrator: Only a fraction of the plastic that we produce is recycled.
Man 2 on boat: This is never going to degrade. It’s got nowhere to go.
Narrator: It’s something that these animals are forced to endure because it was man-made and
we put it into their environment.
Diver: The record is two hundred and seventy-six pieces of plastic inside one ninety-day-old
chick. If the plastics are in the food chain for the dolphin, then they're also in our food
chain.
Lady on boat: Exactly!
Narrator: Communities are built on these landfill sites … So sweet potatoes, corn, sugar cane,
all growing on forty years of garbage.
Do you have anything not wrapped in plastic?
… No!
… No!
To save our future
Narrator: We have to make our life better for our kids' children.
• We need a wave of change
Narrator: Change is possible! It starts with us!
• A Plastic Ocean
1. When did the first narrator start following blue whales?
a. When he was a teenager
b. When he was a child
c. When he was an adult
2. How many tons of plastic are dumped into the oceans every year?
a. 8 million
b. 5 million
c. 9 million
3. What does the narrator do for a living?
a. He’s a TV presenter.
b. He’s a diver.
c. He’s a journalist.
4. How does the free diver feel about her work helping to clean the oceans?
a. That more people should do it
b. That it’s her way to pay back the ocean for all the pleasure it has given her
c. That it’s an impossible job
5. Why is the plastic in the ocean never going to degrade?
a. Because it has nowhere to go
b. Because there is too much of it
c. Because more and more is being dumped daily
6. How many pieces of plastic were found in a ninety-day-old chick?
a. 256
b. 266
c. 276
7. What has been built on the landfill sites?
a. Beaches – including resorts for tourists
b. Factories – including plastic bottle factories
c. Communities – including their food production
8. What does the main narrator believe is possible?
a. He believes change is possible and it starts with us.
b. He believes change is possible if we stop buying plastic bottles.
c. He believes change is possible if we stop throwing bottles in the ocean.
9 How can you title a text
a.A Plastic Ocean
b. A Plastic Ocean
c. A blue whale
Writing
Task 2. What have people done to save our planet? Answer the question and write an essay.
In your essay you should: -
-write down your ideas in a logical chain;
- connect your ideas using appropriate linking words;
- use topic related vocabulary
я тест сделала осталось только второе
0 I have never watched a science fiction film.
1 He has never been to South America.
2 Her friends have never used a computer like that.
3 She has never used a smart phone.
4 They have never visited an art gallery.
5 You have never won a competition.
6 My teacher has never invented anything.
7 He has never walked to school.
8 We have never seen that film.
Номер 3:
0 Have you finished?
Yes, I have.
1 Has Mr Jones given you any homework?
Yes he has.
2 Have they taken any photos?
No, they have not.
3 Has it rained this morning?
No, it has not.
4 Have your grandparents used a computer?
Yes, they have.
5 Has she invented anything?
Yes, she has.
6. Have you understood?
No, I have not.
7 Has your sister been to Spain?
Yes, she has.
8 Have we ever been here before?
No, we have not.
1. Victor didn’t tell anyone what he had done because his creation was a real monster. The creature was ugly: with yellow skin, watery eyes and black lips. He was horrible and disgusting.
2. Yes, I felt sorry for the monster. He was like an evil, horrible and disgusting. Nobody could like him. He had to live alone, without family. He had no memories, no childhood. Nobody loved him. It was very sad. But his heart was kind. Remember the story when he saved a girl from drowning in a river. Only after people had not accepted him he promised eternal hatred and revenge on mankind.
3. Yes, I felt sorry for Victor too. He spent much time and gave all his strength and knowledge searching for the secret of life. He changed his life. And when he finally found it and made a new creature certainly he wanted him to be a breakthrough in medicine and chemistry. But he felt only disappointment about the monster he created, he felt horror and disgust. More over Victor felt responsibility for monster’s actions and further murders.
4. The story shows the contradiction between desires and reality. It expresses the absurdity of human existence. And how we are responsible for those who have tamed. (Мы ответственны за тех, кого приручили).