I LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Marcy and Joel are the two main characters in the book The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by P. Danziger. They are talking about their future professions. Don’t take their talk seriously. What are they going to be when they grow up? Mark the statements with T if they are true and with F if they are false.
1 Joel says that he is going to be a set of Tinker Toys.
2 Marcy says that she would like to be a kumquat.
3 Marcy knows what a kumquat looks like.
4 Joel is going to be a doctor.
5 Joel can play music.
6 Marcy wants to write books.
7 Joel wants to be a musician.
II READING COMPREHENSION
Here are two stories. One is told by Harriet* from the book Harriet the Spy and the other one by Russell Baker, a popular American journalist.
Mark the sentences after the stories with T if the information is true and with F if the information is false.
Harriet: When I am big I will be a spy.1 I will go to one country and will find out its secrets and then I will go to another country and tell them. And then I will find out their secrets and I will go back to the first one and rat2 on the second. Then I go to the second and rat on the first. I will be the best spy and I will know everything. Everything. Maybe when I grow up I can have an office. People will come in and tell me who to go and spy on. I would like to have a gun3 and follow people.
Russell: Fifty years ago parents still asked boys if they wanted to grow up to be President. A great number of little boys said yes and meant it. When they asked me I said NO. I didn’t want to grow up to be President. “Well, what do you want to be then when you grow up?” asked my uncle. I loved to collect bottles, tin cans with pretty labels, and old magazines. “I want to be a garbage man4,” I said.
1 In her future profession Harriet will know everything about people in different countries and what these people do. _
2 In her job Harriet will have to tell other people about her secrets.
3 Harriet wants to work in her own office.
4 When Russell was small, he wanted to be President.
5 When Russell was a child, he collected bottles and cans.
6 Russell liked to read old magazines with pretty pictures.
III USE OF ENGLISH (GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY)
1. What do these people have to do in their jobs? Underline the correct word in brackets. There is an example (0) for you.
Mr Gordon is an architect. He (0) (designs/examines) comfortable houses and other (1) (buildings/enterprises). He does not have to
(2) (organise/explain) people to build them. Mrs Lee is (3) (a postal worker/a postal officer). She (4) (delivers/reads) newspapers and letters to people.
Mr Bixby and Mr Fraser are (5) (engineers/designers). They (6) (repair/design) and build engines, machines, bridges.
Mrs Pierce is (7) (a manager/a housewife) in a big supermarket. She (8) (organises/does) other people’s job.
Mr Pierce is a mechanic. He has to (9) (repair/produce) cars and he has to (10) (explain/serve) to a driver what has happened to his or her car.
2. Russell Baker is an American journalist.
Read about Russell Baker’s job which he did when he was eight. Fill in the gaps with have to and must in the correct form.
When Russell Baker was a small boy, he worked as a paper boy.He didn’t like this job because he (1) _ do a lot of things he did not like. He (2) _ get up early. He (3) _ carry a heavy bag with a lot of newspapers. He (4)_walk from house to house and ring the doorbells. Every day he (5) _ sell 30 newspapers but he didn’t. His mother told him, “You (6) work a lot. You (7) _ know that life is not all play. If you want to make a fortune you (8) _ have the character. If at first you cannot do what you should, you (9) _ feel unhappy. You (10) _work and work.” In his dreams Russell want-ed to be a writer. He thought the life of a writer was easy. Writers (11) _ to walk from house to house. They (12) _ carry a heavy bag. They (13) _ ring doorbells. And what is more, writers (14) _ have the character.
3. Complete the questions according to the answers. There is an example (0) at the beginning.
4. Jane’s trip was interesting.
Why? Complete the sentences with the correct verb forms (the Past Simple Tense, the Past Perfect Tense). There is an example (0) at the beginning. Jane and her parents (0) come (come) to St David’s on July 22. They (1) _ (find) that their friends (2) _(leave) before they arrived. Jane and her parents (3) _(go) to one of the beautiful beaches. Jane (4) _(not see) a city in the park before they (5) _(come) to St David’s. They (6) _ (enjoy) the wonderful old buidings and (7) _ (walk) a lot. They (8) _ (be) sorry that their friends (9)_(go) home before they (10)_(meet).
IV SPEAKING
1. Role play. You and your foreign friend are talking about what you are going to be when you grow up.
Pupil Card 1
You and your foreign friend are talking about what you are going to be when you grow up. You begin the conversation. Remember to:
ask about your friend’s future profession; ask him/her about it; answer your friend’s questions; give some reasons to explain your choice.
Pupil Card 2
You and your foreign friend are talking about what you are going to be when you grow up. Listen to your friend. Remember to:
• answer your friend’s questions;
• name your future profession;
• give arguments to explain your choice;
• ask about your friend’s future profession;
• ask for arguments.
WRITING
Emily Henson has written a letter to one of the children’s newspapers. Her letter is about her mother’s profession, which Emily thinks to be very interesting. She wants to be an accountant, too.
What do you think about all of this? Write a letter to the newspaper. (50 words)
CULTURAL AWARENESS
How well do you know British and American culture?
Choose the correct answer and circle the corresponding letter.
1 A Sentry is
a a soldier who keeps order,
b a person who takes care of Tower Ravens,
с a police officer.
2 Roald Dahl was
a a famous writer,
b a famous filmmaker,
с a famous musician.
3 Vivien Leigh was
a a famous American actress,
b a famous Hollywood filmmaker,
с a famous British musician.
4 James Cook was
a a famous sea explorer,
b a famous admiral,
с a famous cook.
5 Before Charles Dickens became
a famous writer he had been a a journalist.
b a shop assistant in a bookshop,
с a traveller.
VII NEW WORDS AND WORD COMBINATIONS FROM UNIT 7
1. Which words are similar in spelling or pronunciation to Russian words?
2. Which words do we use to name jobs?
3. Which words do we use to name placcs where people work?
4. Which words do we use to describe what people do at work?
5. How many new words and word combinations from Unit 7 do you know?