Card # 13

LISTENING (7 minutes)

Task 1. Listen to the recording [T.13] ‘Studying Economics’ and complete the test.

(listening - 2 minutes; time for fulfilment - 1 min., for answering -1 min.).

#		true	false
1	Two students are considering to study economics next year.
2	Economics is not reffered to as “a gloomy science”.
3	Economics can save the world.
4	Three persons would like to make the world a better place.

Task 2. Retell the listened text (time for preparation – 2 min., time for answering -1 min.).

SPEAKING (10 minutes)

Task 1. Discuss the given topic: ‘Do clothers make a man?’

(Time for preparation – 2 min., time for answering – 2 min.)

Task 2. Speak on the given topic: ‘Technological innovations in my profession’

(Time for preparation – 5 min., time for answering – 1 min.).

READING (9 minutes)

Task 1. Read the text (silent reading – 1 min., reading aloud – 2 min.)

Make a plan to the text (time for preparation- 1 min., time for answering- 1 min.).

The origin of American nation

These lines are inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. They were written by the poet Emma Lazarus (1846-1887).

Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:

I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

With these legendary words, immigrants from other lands came to America for a new and better life. They did so by way of Ellis Island. Ellis Island goes back a long way. It was originally called Oyster Island by the early Dutch colonists. Then, in the 18^th century, a merchant from New York City named Samuel Ellis bought the island and gave it his name. In 1890-, it was chosen by the House Committee of Immigration as the site of the new immigrant station for the Port of New York. Feeling hardships such as poverty, religious persecution, or political unrest in their homelands, the immigrants came to America in search for freedom and opportunity. Most came by steamship and landed at the Port of New York.

Each passenger had to answer a series of 29 questions recorded on manifest lists. These questions included: name, age, sex, marital status, occupation, nationality, ability to read or write, race, physical and mental health, money in possession, prison record**, if any, and if they were polygamists or anarchists. At the entrance to the Lower Bay of New York Harbor, the first quarantine examinations took place aboard ship. Passengers were inspected for contagious diseases such as: smallpox, yellow fever, scarlet fever and measles. Once finished, the ship arrived in Manhattan. First and second class passengers were released and steerage passengers boarded ferries bound for Ellis Island. Once there, they were led to the main building’s reception area.

Task 2. Translate the 3-rd paragraph of the text (Time for preparation- 3 min., time for answering – 1).

WRITING (14 minutes)

Task 1 Write an essay: “Are books more important than experience?” (100 words)

(Time for preparation – 13 min. Time for answer – 1 min.).