Билет №13

1. Прочитайте текст и ответьте на вопросы по тексту “A STRANGE PICTURE”.  2. Прочитайте текст и выскажитесь по проблеме, затронутой в тексте. Аргументируйте вашу точку зрения. Чем наиболее часто занимаются в свободное время подростки в разных странах (в США, Великобритании, Германии, во Франции, в Испании)? А что привлекает тебя? Почему? Hobbies in our family.

3. Разыграйте с учителем следующую ситуацию. Возьмите интервью у популярного зарубежного певца. Расспросите его, когда он начал свою карьеру, почему он выбрал именно этот вид искусства, каковы его планы на будущее.

TEXT №13  “A STRANGE PICTURE”.

A rich American went to Paris and bought a very strange picture painted by a fashionable modern artist. The American thought the picture was very fine because he had paid a lot of money for it. But when he came to his hotel and wanted to hang the picture up on the wall, he could not tell which was the top and which the bottom of the picture. The American turned the picture this way and that, but still could not decide which was the top and which was the bottom.

So he thought of a plan. He hung the painting in the dining-room and invited the artist to dinner. When the artist came, the American said nothing to him about the picture.

When the artist began to eat his soup, he looked at the picture many times. When he began to eat his fish, he put on his glasses and looked at the picture again. Before he began to eat his fruit, he got up and walked over to the picture to look at it more closely. At last when they began to drink their coffee, he understood that the picture was upside down.

"Why, my friend", he said, "my picture is hung upside down".  "Oh, is it?" said the American. "Why didn't you tell me so at once?"  "Well, you see, I was not sure myself at first", said the artist.

Билет №14

1. Прочитайте текст и ответьте на вопросы по тексту “A SLAVE”.

2. Прочитайте текст и выскажитесь по проблеме, затронутой в тексте.

Аргументируйте вашу точку зрения. Молодежь любит разные музыкальные стили. Какие из них популярны сейчас? Какой стиль ближе всего тебе? Почему? Music in our life.

3. Разыграйте с учителем следующую ситуацию. Обсудите с вашим зарубежным другом, что нужно сделать, чтобы быть успешным в жизни: иметь талант, закончить вуз, успешно жениться/выйти замуж или что-то еще? Приведите не менее двух причин, почему вы так думаете. Спросите согласен ли ваш друг вашим мнением.

TEXT №14     “A SLAVE”.

Murillo was a great painter in Spain. He painted beau­tiful pictures and he had many students.

Once he came to his studio and found a very beautiful picture there. He asked his students who had painted that picture but nobody answered. Then he asked his slave Sebastian if he had seen somebody in the studio the night before. The slave did not answer. When the night came and everybody went away Sebastian began to paint. He did not think of the time. Suddenly he heard a noise behind him. When he turned round he saw Murillo and his students watch him quietly.

"Sebastian", cried Murillo, "you are a very good painter. How did you learn to paint?"

"You gave lessons to your students, and I heard them", answered the slave. Murillo understood that the slave was a very gifted painter, so he gave him freedom and be­gan to work with his "slave" who was not a slave any longer.