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Предложенные варианты были адаптированы под текущую демоверсию. В заданиях, где требуется выбрать один правильный ответ, мы решили оставить возможность «тыкать мышкой». Сделано это исключительно для вашего удобства. Особенно для тех, кто пользуется мобильными устройствами.

Разумеется, раздел будет постепенно пополняться новыми вариантами. И настоятельно рекомендуем набивать руку: письмо и эссе отправляйте на проверку нашему эксперту.

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Аудирование

▫ Тест 1. Аудирование. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

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▫ Тест 10. Аудирование. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

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Чтение

▫ Тест 1. Чтение. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

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▫ Тест 10. Чтение. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 11. Чтение. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 12. Чтение. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 13. Чтение. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 14. Чтение. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

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Грамматика и лексика

▫ Тест 1. Грамматика и лексика. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 2. Грамматика и лексика. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 3. Грамматика и лексика. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 4. Грамматика и лексика. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 5. Грамматика и лексика. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 6. Грамматика и лексика. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

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▫ Тест 14. Грамматика и лексика. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

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Письмо и эссе

▫ Тест 1. Письмо и эссе. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 2. Письмо и эссе. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

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▫ Тест 5. Письмо и эссе. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 6. Письмо и эссе. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 7. Письмо и эссе. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 8. Письмо и эссе. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 9. Письмо и эссе. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 10. Письмо и эссе. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 11. Письмо и эссе. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 12. Письмо и эссе. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 13. Письмо и эссе. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 14. Письмо и эссе. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

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Устная часть

▫ Тест 1. Устная часть. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 2. Устная часть. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 3. Устная часть. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 4. Устная часть. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 5. Устная часть. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 6. Устная часть. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 7. Устная часть. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 8. Устная часть. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 9. Устная часть. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 10. Устная часть. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 11. Устная часть. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 12. Устная часть. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 13. Устная часть. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

▫ Тест 14. Устная часть. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

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ЕГЭ

TEST 1

Раздел 2. ЗАДАНИЯ ПО ЧТЕНИЮ

B2.  

Установите
соответствие тем A – F абзацам 1- 5. Занесите свои
ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую букву только один раз. В задании одна
тема лишняя.

1. A few years ago a friend and I spent a couple of months travelling
around the southern states of America on a motorbike. We were on our way to New Orleans. It was Sunday evening and beginning to go dark. We were very low on petrol
and needed to find a petrol station, but everything was closed in the small
towns we had passed through. Soon night fell and after a couple of kilometres
we came to a crossroads.

2. In front of a closed petrol station we saw a couple of local people,
so we pulled over and asked where we could put up our tent for the night. One
of the men winked at his friend and told us that there was a small piece of
land at the end of the road.

 3.  Sure enough, after another kilometre, we came across the patch
of land. The sea sounded very close now but we weren’t concerned. Instead we
quickly unpacked the tent and put it up in the dark. We were soon sleeping
peacefully.

  4. After about half an hour I woke
up. I was vaguely aware that the ground was getting cooler. I started to panic
when I realised that the bottom of the tent was beginning to float. We were
closer to the sea than we thought!

5. In the torch light we packed everything, including the wet tent,
onto the back of the bikes. Then panic turned to horror when I couldn’t find my
motorbike keys. By now the water was getting deep, but luckily, after ten
minutes of splashing around we found them. The following morning Craig said
that looking back it was all quite funny. Today, would still disagree.

№	1	2	3	4	5
тема

B3.

Прочитайте текст и заполните
пропуски 1 – 3 частями предложений, обозначенными буквами A – D. Одна из частей в списке A—D лишняя. Перенесите ответы в таблицу.

I’ll bring back the car —when
I’ve been to Istanbul.

When
Steve Dodge lent his car to his best friend, Brian, he wasn’t worried.
Brian wanted to go to London, and needed the car for just one week.  
However,   as   Brian MacDonald was driving south, he found he couldn’t stop.
Before he knew it, he had driven through the Channel tunnel and into France.
And he just kept going and going. Unfortunately, Brian didn’t stop in France. While he was travelling to Paris, 1                                       .
His new friend persuaded him to go to Switzerland and see the Matterhorn
Mountain. After this trip, Brian decided to carry on through Austria,
the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria 2                                                         .    

 Three
months later Brian finally returned to Britain. He had travelled more than 7,000
miles, but 3                                                  .‘I
heard that he was quite angry with me,’ said Brian. He was right. Yesterday, an
angry Mr. Dodge said: ‘Some people might 4                                                   . 
I wondered where he had gone but there was no way
I 5                                         . I didn’t
even know that the car had gone out of the country. We were the best of friends
for years but we are definitely not now.’ ‘I did say I would see him in a
week,’ said Brian. ‘But once I was in Europe I was having such a good time I
decided to stay longer. I suppose I should 6                                      
 or phoned. I just hope he calms down and we can be friends again.’

 However,
this now looks unlikely as Brian is planning to use the car for another trip —
this time around Africa!

A. he didn’t return the
car to Steve immediately.

B. have sent a postcard

C. could contact him.

D. he met a German climber.

E. until he reached Istanbul in Turkey.

F. has been to different
countries.

G. think it’s funny but
I’m absolutely furious.

1	2	3	4	5	6

Прочитайте
текст и выполните задания А15–А21. В каждом задании
обведите цифру 1, 2, или 3, соответствующую номеру выбранного вами варианта
ответа.

An extraordinary adventure.

Travelling 2,600
miles across America alone on a horse is adventurous by anybody’s standards.
But when you are a woman, with a budget of only $25 a week, many people would
think it was madness. Emma Crosby’s family and friends certainly did. Emma, on
the other hand, thought it was a perfectly rational idea.

‘I
had always dreamt about riding across America,’ said Emma. ‘It made a lot of
sense to me to do it on a horse: a horse is cheaper to run than a car and less
likely to break down.’

 It took Emma two-and-a-half years to save up the
£3,000 she needed to pay for her air fare, a horse, equipment and spending
money. In that time, she taught herself first aid, went to self-defence classes
and read about the type of horse she would need. As soon as her plane landed in
Houston, Texas, she went straight to a horse farm.

The
first meeting between woman and horse was not encouraging: Smoking Spear was
not as wild as her name suggested. ‘I had had this image of a wild white horse
and there in front of me was this small grey pony,’ says Emma.  ‘I can’t say it was love at first sight.’
Nevertheless, Emma was persuaded that Smokey, as the horse became known,
was perfect for the job, so the two headed east to Georgia to start their
journey.

In the weeks and months
that followed, Emma and Smokey travelled through the southern states of America. They rode across hot deserts and freezing mountains and down lonely tracks that
went on forever. It was a hard way of life, especially crossing the deserts.
Emma and Smokey would set off at 5.30 a.m. and carry on until it became too
hot. Another problem was her budget. By the end of the journey, she had almost
run out of money.

Before she arrived in America, Emma had hoped that the
adventure would be an opportunity to get away and ‘have a bit of space’. What
she didn’t realise was that her journey would change her life. After crossing
nine states in 202 days, she reached a ranch in San Diego, California. Ranch
owner, Mike Spurling opened the door.

‘He invited me out to a restaurant that night and it just
went from there,’ says Emma. ‘I never left.’ A year later they were married.

Emma now lives in California, helping to run two
ranches. For years she had dreamt of owning her own horse, now she has 80. So
does she still have the desire to ride off into the sunset? ‘I would never do
it again,’ says Emma. ‘My last stop turned into a full-time husband. Now we’re
on an adventure all of our own — real life.’

The Daily Express

A15.
This text is about

1)    a
horse race.

2)    an
adventurous woman.

3)    a
life in America.

A16.
Emma chose a horse to ride across America, because

1)    she
didn’t have a car.

2)    it
was the only possibility to travel in that region.

3)    it
was more economical than a car, and more reliable.

A17.
It took Emma over two years to

1)    save
money and learn different things.

2)    ride
across America.

3)    reach
the ranch where she lives now.

A18.
When Emma first saw Smoky, she

1)    felt
relieved.

2)    was
very proud of it.

3)    was
disappointed.

A19.
The most difficult thing about the journey was

1)    riding
across the deserts.

2)    riding
across the freezing mountains.

3)    getting
enough food.

A20.
Before she arrived in America, Emma had hoped that she

1)    would
see a lot of beautiful places.

2)    could
escape for a while and spend some time alone.

3)    could
own at least several horses.

A21.
Emma has always wanted to have

1)    a
husband.

2)    her
own horse.

3)    a
ranch in California.

Прочитайте
приведенный текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами А22-А28. Эти
номера соответствуют заданиям А22-А28, в которых представлены возможные
варианты ответов. Обведите номер выбранного вами варианта ответа.

My holiday nightmare.

A year ago I was
backpacking in the Caribbean with my friend Matt. After we had spent a week in Honduras,
we A22                to go to the island of Utila.
The 15-minute flight to the island was expensive, so we A23                 a
4-hour boat trip on the Caribbean Queen,
a cargo boat carrying provisions to the islanders.

The Caribbean
Queen was an old, broken-down boat. As we stepped on deck, I wondered if we had made the
right decision. There were no other passengers, but it was too late to turn back. A24                    
 we had climbed on board, the blond,
sun-tanned captain shouted orders, and we were off to Utila.

The sun shone brightly as
we set out on our journey. A25                   , an hour later
the sea began to get rough. A storm was
approaching and very soon waves were pouring over the deck. Suddenly there was a shout from below. The engine
room was flooded! But before the crew could start pumping the seawater out, the
engine stopped. The boat was in trouble and the crew were told to start
throwing the cargo overboard. Matt was the
first on his feet, throwing as many things as he could into the sea.

Meanwhile I was beginning
to panic. I A26                  for a lifejacket, but I was told
that there weren’t any. Panic turned to fear and I started to cry.

 Fortunately, after a few minutes, the pump
started working again. The captain
skillfully steered us through four hours of stormy weather, A27            
 we reached the calm harbour at Utila. There, as we walked off the Caribbean
Queen, I promised myself that A28                  the price, we
were definitely flying back to Honduras.

A22     1) suggested         2) decided           3) claimed         4)
allowed

A23     1) asked               2) went                3) booked         
4) took

A24     1) As soon as       2) While              3) Although      4) Moreover

A25     1) However         2) Besides            3) Finally          4)
Despite

A26     1) found              2) took                  3) shouted         4)
asked

A27     1) despite            2) until                  3) while            4) as

A28     1) whenever        2) in spite             3) whatever       4) wherever

                        Раздел 4. ЗАДАНИЯ ПО ПИСЬМУ

С1. You
have 20 minutes to do this task.

You have received a letter from your English-speaking
pen-friend Sam who writes:

Write a letter to Sam.

In your letter:

—        
answer
his questions

—        
ask
3 questions about his trip to Oxford

Write 100-140 words.

Remember the rules of letter writing.

C2.
You have 40 minutes to do this task.

Comment on the following statement.

People should be encouraged to get out of their cars and find
other ways to travel, like public transport or cycling and walking.

What is your opinion?

Write 200-250 words.

Use the following plan:

—        
make
an introduction (state the problem)

—        
express
your personal opinion and give reasons for it

—        
give
arguments for the other point of view and explain why you don’t agree with it

—        
draw
a conclusion

TEST
2

Раздел 2. ЗАДАНИЯ ПО ЧТЕНИЮ

 

A.    Risk taking is
about living                    E. Books in modern world

     life to the fullest                                     
F. Proof of the American dream

B.     Extremists                                               G.
Strange change

C.    Exam dress code                                  
H. Thanksgiving Day

D.    Tastes differ

1.    
A Michigan-born
superstar Madonna is slowing but surely turning English. She has bought a $2
million house in London and is looking for an English school for her daughter, Lourdes. Her latest boyfriend is the English director Guy Ritchie, and even her accent has
become more noticeable. ‘I’m having a love affair with England,’
she admits. She also enjoys getting away from Hollywood’s celebrities.

2.    
My
friend was not allowed to take exams- he appeared there in torn jeans! His
whole future career was endangered because of the incident. The school
administration found his looks improper. They said he might draw other students
away from doing well in exams.

3.    
My
problem is that every time I need new clothes my mum comes with me to buy them.
We don’t have a lot of money, so any new clothes I need go on one of the credit
cards. She is quite old-fashioned and will only take me to shops like Burton’s
as she says all the other shops only sell rubbish and she wants me to get
something that’s good quality and will last.

4.    
When
you are high in the mountains, your attention becomes so extremely focused on
your purpose that you no longer notice the sore knees or the tired back. The
climb becomes a clear-eyed dream. Hours pass by like minutes. The routine of
day-to-day existence is forgotten. At such moments something like happiness
actually stirs in your chest and you feel like you have the world in your
hands.

5.    
The
author raises the problem of the future of books. She agrees that computers
will conquer the world. She says that printed books have no future. She has
some sentimental memories about how she read “Don Quixote de la
Mancha”. But the electronic era has changed her relationship with books and
now she thinks that books on-line are entirely replacing printed books.

6.    
In
the USA there is one area notorious for extreme straight edge behavior – Salt
Lake City in the state of Utah. Here many of the straight edgers like to
classify themselves as a “crew”. They are impatient with anyone who drink and
smoke or do not fit into their strict philosophy. Sadly, some are prepared to
physically hurt people in an attempt to get their message across.

7.    
When
the Pilgrim Fathers and their families reached the New World in 1620 it was too
late to plant corps for the next year and nearly half died of hunger during the
first winter. The survivors celebrated their first successful harvest with a
day of thanksgiving, which became a national festival. Today it is celebrated
on the fourth Thursday of November.

1	2	3	4	5	6	7

 

Scientists have discovered that people’s sense of
smell can make the difference between success and failure. The influence  1_____________
that once a particular smell becomes associated with failure any future
exposure 2___________________.

Scientists at a scientific center in Philadelphia
succeeded in proving this idea 3_____________________ to see if they were able
to find their way out. They didn’t know that they were being exposed to a
flower scent and that it was an impossible maze and they were bound to fail.

Some time later, the volunteers took another ,
4_________________; some were exposed to the same smell, and others to another
smell or no smell at all.

Dr Ruth Hertz, who led the research, said: “We found
that those 5_________________ as for the maze task performed significantly
worse. The feeling of failure induced by the smell led them to perform below
their natural ability in the second and solvable test. Our results suggest that
smells that have acquired specific emotional responses can change behaviour and
performance.”

Dr Hertz and her team are now working on the smell of
success. The idea is that 6______________can turn people into losers, then a
smell associated with success could turn losers into winners.

A.    by
putting volunteers inside a maze

B.     if
the smell of failure

C.    can
be so powerful

D.    who
were exposed to the same smell

E.     can
change your sense of smell

F.     can
turn winners into losers

G.   but
this time solvable test

1	2	3	4	5	6

	Прочитайте рассказ и выполните задания А15 – А21, обводя цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую номеру выбранного вами варианта ответа.

My dad had never really wanted children, he didn’t
think the world was fair enough or pleasant enough for them to grow up in but
somehow he did have children. I’m not sure how, there has always been an
abundance of storks in our village. My earliest memory was of long yellow beak
and soft feathers that were warm and soft to touch. Not only was I born but had
some brothers too. Can you only imagine? Three kids for a man who believed the
human race should just give up and call it a day. My brothers came by stork
too. All at the same time. We were all the same age except I assumed I was
eldest. My brothers decided which of them was the eldest and which was the
youngest. How they did that I don’t know, that’s their business.

When I was old enough to talk, my dad came into the
kitchen to see how we were doing and he said to me:

“Son, I don’t want to hamper your life with rules and
oppressive doctrines. I firmly believe that you’d do a better job raising
yourself, so you’d better get on with it and just see how it goes. You never
know, it might be fun one day.”

Me and my brothers did bring ourselves up. We used to
walk around like a six-legged creature, looking at things and making
observations of one kind or another. We were quite clever really. We saw our
dad from time to time. He came into the kitchen one night (we only ever saw him
in the kitchen). He just stood there and looked at us for a bit. I was in the
middle of preparing a quite difficult crab and lemon soufflé, I needed my
concentration and could have done without parental observation so late in life.
My brother was cutting my other brother’s hair, he wanted to look like Cary
Grant for the season. My dad stood there grinning, seemingly pleased with his
offspring. I said to him:

“Christ, Dad, I’ve burnt the soufflé now. If you
bother my culinary practices again I’ll have to lock you out of the hose for
good.”

“Ok, son, don’t fret,” he said in the
responsibility-free way that he had.

“I was just checking that everything was present and
correct.”

“Well it isn’t. This was a celebratory dinner for
Tractor” (We chose our own names). “He has been accepted at Oxford to study
philosophy, and crab and lemon soufflé is his favourite.”

“You shouldn’t base your life on soufflé, son.”

“I know that, but it’s the results that count, not the
thought. I don’t want him going away thinking how he could have had a good
soufflé.”

“Yeah, and look what you’ve made me to do Tractor’s
hair, he looks more like Clark Gable than Cary Grant now, God dammit!”

“Clark Gable is an equally admirable icon of the
silver screen, son. I’m sure most people wouldn’t notice the difference.”

My father left us in peace after that. A burnt soufflé
is one thing but a Cary Garnt/Clark Gable image dilemma is something else. Even
he realized that.

The narrator’s Dad has never wanted
children because

1)    he
didn’t know how to grow them up

2)    he
didn’t think he would be a fair and pleasant father

3)    the
world was fair enough and pleasant enough

4)    he
didn’t consider the world to be fair enough and pleasant enough

The narrator’s father believed

1)    the
human race shouldn’t reproduce anymore

2)    the
human babies should be brought by  a stork

3)    the
human race should just give up calling

4)    the
human babies should be of the same age

The narrator’s father brining up
principle is

1)    to
hamper children’s lives

2)    to
follow some rules and doctrines

3)    to
let children grow up themselves

4)     
to
believe firmly in children’s abilities

When the father came to the kitchen the
narrator was

1)    surprised
with his coming

2)    confused
with his coming

3)    frustrated
with his coming

4)    annoyed
with his coming

Three brothers

1)    spent
all the time together

2)    explored
the world around

3)    cooked
crab and lemon soufflé

4)    suffered
from parental observation

The father

1)    mocks
at his children

2)    treats
them as responsible people

3)    bothers
his sons

4)    seems
to be satisfied with his sons

Father’s mistake is

1)    he
interrupts sons’ talks

2)    distracts
sons from their

3)    acivities
tries to give useless pieces of advice to his sons

4)    
ignores
his children

Раздел 3. ЗАДАНИЯ ПО ГРАММАТИКЕ И ЛЕКСИКЕ

	Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных  номерами B4 – B10 так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы B4 – B10.

The art of prank calls (part 1)

I suppose it all started when Lorraine and I ______
hot on               BE

these 
phone gags last September. We did the usual ones like

dialing any number out of the book and
asking. ‘ Your refrigerator

__________?’-‘Yes.’-
‘Go catch it then.’ And we called every                   RUN

drugstore.
‘Do you have Prince Albert in a can?’ — ‘Yes.’ – ‘Then

let
him out.’

But then we made a new game in which the object

was
to keep a stranger talking on the phone as long as possible.

At
least twice a week we’d meet for a telephone marathon.

Anyway, the idea of the telephone marathon was that
you

had
to close your eyes, stick your finger on the number in the

directory and then call it up to see how
long you could keep

whoever
_______ talking on the phone. I wasn’t too good at this           ANSWER

because I used to keep bursting
out _________. The only thing I            LAUGH

could do  that kept them talking a while
before they hung up was

to
tell them  I ________ from TV Quiz and that
they                                  CALL

_________a prize. That was always
good for three and a half                     WIN

minutes before they ______
on.                                                                   CATCH

Ever since true humans
appeared on earth, they have lived in

close _______     with other     animals.
Throughout most of         ASSOCIATE                        

that time, humans existed as
hunter- gatherers who depended

on wild        animals for food and
clothing. They also found

a source of aesthetic pleasure and _______ strength in the                   SPIRIT

animal life about
them.     

Evidence of this exists
in the ______ paintings of Paleolithic               REMARK

people in the         caves       of __________ France.
The                       SOUTH

religious practices of
Native North Americans involved the      

__________ of      certain
animals, such as the bear, wolf, and          VENERATE

eagle, in an attempt to  acquire the power, _________,
courage,           WISE

and speed that these animals they believed possessed.

         Maressa
Orzak, a Harvard University psychologist, A22_______ a special clinic
for computer addicts. She is researching computer A23________, which she
sees as a growing problem. She experienced it herself when she became hooked on
playing solitaire on the computer instead of A24_____ herself a
difficult new software programme, and since then she has studied people whose
lives have been taken over computers. One of them was a divorcee who lost
custody of her children when her husband discovered she was neglecting them to
spend ten or more hours a day on the web.

         Ozrak
defines computer addiction as “a disorder suffered by people who find virtual
reality more attractive than everyday reality”. Symptoms A25_______
strange behaviour, spending large sums of money on computers and software, and
even mental A26_____problems, but most sufferers compound the problem by
A27____ it.

         One
of the strategies Ozrak uses to A28______ the condition, based on her
own experience of addiction, is to encourage her patients to limit the amount
of time they spend in front of a computer. But until the problem has been more
widely recognised and better researched, cures and solutions will be heard to
find.

A 22	1)	rules	2)	guides	3)	leads	4)	runs
A23	1)	dependence	2)	correlation	3)	addiction	4)	relation
A24	1)	educating	2)	studying	3)	teaching	4)	learning
A25	1)	include	2)	involve	3)	reflect	4)	require
A26	1)	activity	2)	health	3)	disorder	4)	disease
A27	1)	denying	2)	refusing	3)	rejecting	4)	voting down
A28	1)	cure	2)	heal	3)	treat	4)	doctor

 

Раздел 4. ЗАДАНИЯ ПО ПИСЬМУ

You
have 20 minutes to do this task.

You have 20 minutes to do this task.

You have received a letter from your English-speaking
pen-friend Steve who writes:

 

Write
a letter to Steve.

In
your letter

—         answer
his questions

—         ask
3 questions about his favourite works of art

Write
100 – 140 words.

Remember
the rules of letter writing.

You have 40 minutes to do this task.

Comment on the following
statement.

People should be encourage to
get out of their cars and find other ways to travel, like public transport or
cycling and walking.

What is your opinion?
Which is more useful for people, travelling on foot or by car?

Write 200 – 250 words.

Use the following plan:

—        make an introduction
(state the problem)

—        express your
personal opinion and give reasons for it

—        give arguments for the other point of view
and explain why you don’t
agree with it

—        draw a conclusion