Lesson 65. Listening comprehension

Цілі: перевірити рівень умінь учнів з аудіювання.

Procedure

Listen to the texts and do the tasks.

TEXT 1

Machu Picchu is a place of magic and mystery and really a wonder of the world. It is an Inca city high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. The Spanish conquistadors destroyed other Inca cities, but never found Machu Picchu. It was only discovered in 1911. Machu Picchu was built more than 500 years ago. It is said that the Inca ruler Pachacuti covered the buildings in the city with gold. About 750 people lived there and used the city for astrological and religious ceremonies.

The most important buildings in the city are the Temple of the Sun and the Room of the Three Windows.

Answer the questions.

1. What is Machu Picchu?

2. Where is it situated?

3. Why didn’t the Spanish conquistadors destroy it?

4. When did people discover it?

5. When did the Incas build Machu Picchu?

6. How did the Incas use it?

7. Why did people want to find it?

Key: 1 an Inca city; 2 in Peru; 3 They haven’t found it; 4 in 1911; 5 for astrological and religious ceremonies; 6 because the houses were covered with gold there.

TEXT 2

In 1999 Canada’s Inuit were given their own territory called Nunavut. It’s huge but extremely cold. The Inuit have lived in this frozen region of tundra, icy lakes and Arctic islands for thousands of years. In winter, it’s dark 24 hours a day, and the temperature can drop to -50 °C. In summer, it’s light 24 hours a day!

The Inuit used to be called “Eskimos”, which means “eaters of raw meat”, but they prefer “Inuit” because it means “the people”.

It’s hard to believe but 50 years ago the Inuit were nomads. They depended on hunting and fishing and moved from place to place as hunting seasons changed. Today they live in houses and work in offices and factories. Young people wear western clothes, eat fast food and listen to rock music.

Some Inuit, however, continue to live as hunters and fishermen. They wear their traditional clothes and eat their traditional foods like seal, caribou and polar bear and still make igloos when they go hunting.

• nomad — кочівник           

• caribou — карибу (північний канадський олень)

• depend on — залежати       

• seal — тюлень                 

• raw — сирий

Answer the questions.

1. Where do the Inuit live?

2. What is the climate like there?

3. What is the other word for “Inuit”?

4. What did they do 50 years ago?

5. What is their life like today?

6. How do some Inuit keep traditions?

Key: 1 in Canada; 2 very cold; 3 Eskimos; 4 they moved from place to place for hunting; 5 they have houses and jobs; 6 they wear traditional clothes and eat traditional food.

Lesson 66. Reading

Цілі: перевірити рівень умінь учнів з читання; виховувати почуття відповідальності.

Procedure

Read the text and do the tasks.

CURLING

1. Curling, born in Scotland in the first half of the 16th century, was played in frozen ponds using simple stones. It’s known since 1511. Examples of this sport can also be found in the paintings of Flemish artists. In the 17th century players started to use suitably treated stone discs and sticks to sweep the snow. Since 1775 the game has become popular in Northern America, where it was introduces by immigrants.

2. The first Olympic Winter Games curling tournament was held at Chamonix in 1924. After Lake Placid in 1932, curling was absent from the Olympic programme for 50 years; it appeared again as a demonstrative at Calgary in 1988. It was reinstated as a competitive discipline at Nagano in 1998. That year the men’s event was won by the Swiss team and Canada won the gold in the women’s.

3. Curling is a team game that is performed on a frozen pitch, the concept of which is very similar to bocce (traditionally played balls on natural soil or asphalt courts). It consists of sliding 19.92 kg blocks of stone (called rocks) which have a handle so that they stop as close as possible to the centre of a target drawn on the ice (called the house).

4. Each team consists of four players. The lead is the one that makes the first throw. The second is a good point maker, but also good at taking off the opponents stones that are in the way. The third is faced with a more tricky game. The fourth player, the skip, is the most experienced player, who devises tactics, advises his teammates on each throw and throws last.

Match the headlines with the parts of the text.

a) Curling at the Olympics.

b) The team.

c) From the history of curling.

d) Rules of curling.

Key: 2 a; 4 b; 1 c; 3 d.

Say if the following statements true or false.

1. Competitions on curling are held only in winter.

2. Curling is known since the 15th century.

3. Curling players need an ice pitch to play.

4. Nowadays this game is popular not only in Europe.

5. Curling tournaments have been held on each Olympic Games since the beginning of the 20th century.

6. Women’ teams as well men’s take part in curling competitions.

7. Curling player throw a ball.

8. The players should slide the rock to the house as close as they can.

9. There are more than three players in each team.

10. The skip makes the first throw.

Key: 1 T; 2 F; 3 T; 4 T; 5 F; 6 T; 7 F; 8 T; 9 T; 10 F.