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Dmitriy Klimentyev, Kursk State University, 2015
 Task 1. Imagine that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some Menu
interesting material about foods and how they affect our moods. You want to read this text to your
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friend. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, then be ready to read it out aloud. You will not
have more than 1.5 minutes to read it. Sample

The idea of storing food in tin cans was developed in England in the early 19th
century. A British merchant named Peter Durand is responsible for this idea. The
main market for canned food at that time was the British Army and Royal Navy, but
it is known, that Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III, first tried and enjoyed
canned beef in 1813. It is interesting that no one invented a can opener until fifty
years later. For a long time, British soldiers tore open canned food with pocket
knives. They were even known to shoot the cans open. The can opener that we use
today was invented about 1870. It had a cutting wheel that rotated around the can’s
edge. It was immediately popular and it has been changed only once. In another 55
years, a special wheel was added. This was called the “feed wheel” and it made the
can rotate against the cutting wheel.

1.5 minutes to prepare Stop 1.5 minutes to read aloud

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1.5 minutes to prepare Stop 20 seconds to ask each question

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 Task 3. These are photos from your family album. Choose one photo to Menu
describe to your friend. Grading

You will have to start speaking in 1.5 minutes

and will speak for not more than 2 minutes.
In your talk remember to speak about:
•when and where the photo was taken
•what/who is in the photo
•what is happening
•why you keep the photo in your album
•why you decided to show the picture to your friend
You have to talk continuously, starting with: I’ve chosen photo number … .

1.5 minutes to prepare Stop 2 minutes to speak

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 Task 4. Study the two photographs.
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In 1.5 minutes be ready to compare and contrast the photographs:

•give a brief description of the photos (action, location)
•say what the pictures have in common
•say in what way the pictures are different
•say how you prefer to spend your free time
•explain why
You will speak for not more than 2 minutes. You have to talk continuously.

1.5 minutes to prepare Stop 2 minutes to speak