III. Writing

2) You have received an email from an English friend inviting you to spend Christmas in England.

Write an email of 50-80 words to your friend in which you:

• Thank him/her for inviting you

• Apologize for having to turn down the invitation

• Explain why you cannot accept the invitation

EXAMINATION CARD № 3

I reading

Read the text and decide if the statements are T (True) or F (False).

If I were seventeen again, I would want to live on a Kentucky hill farm. I would want to grow up and live where there are trees, meadows, and streams. If I couldn't live on a large farm, a few acres would do. But I would want space to hunt over, and a stream or lake nearby where I could fish. I would want to mow the meadows with a span of horses or mules, and haul the hay to the barn on a hay wagon. I believe the boy or girl who hasn't ridden on a hay wagon has missed something in his youth. If he hasn't smelled new mown clover, he has missed the finest wind a youth ever breathed.

In the spring of the year, if I were seventeen again, I'd want to take long walks into the woods. I'd want to get acquainted with all kinds of birds, how they build their nests and the kind of materials they use, what colour and size eggs they lay - from the hoot owl to the chicken hawk and sparrow - and how and what they feed their young. I'd want to know all about the animals. I would want to know and I would find out what they ate, where they lived, what animals were friendly with each other and which were enemies. Every teenage boy should know this world. I've never seen one yet who didn't love the animal world. And I would protect each non-destructive animal, each non-destructive bird. I would want to know the hunting laws, abide by them, and help re-stock and protect the game so it would be here for the next seventeen—year—old when he came along.

Taken from If I Were Seventeen Again by Jesse Stuart

¹ abide (by) - змиритися з правилом чи рішенням, навіть якщо не згоден із ним

² re-stock - поновити запаси

1. The person telling the story wants to know how birds build their nests, how they walk, and how they steal eggs.

2. The person telling the story wants to hunt every animal to make sure that there are no animals left over for the next teenager.

3. The person telling the story wants to know how the animals communicate, migrate, and where they live.

4. The person telling the story wants to be seventeen again.

5. The person telling the story wants to walk in the mountains, valleys, and forests in the spring.

6. He wants to live on a farm in Kentucky.

7. He wants to keep all the destructive animals safe.

8. He wants to be able to fish and rock climb in nature.

9. The person telling the story wants to know the colour and size of sparrow eggs.

10. Every boy should know about the animal world.

II use of english

Complete the text with the necessary auxiliary verbs is, are, were, could, has, or will.

Visiting Lions

By Christy Rakoczy

There (1) ……….. only approximately 23,000 African Lions and about 300 Asiatic Lions still in existence as of 2010. Some of both of the existing types of lions (2) ………… kept around the world in zoos for the public to see. Safaris, another way in which people (3)…………. see lions, were also a popular thing of the past eras and they continue today. The object today though, (4) …………. entirely different. In the past, those on a safari (5)…………. intent on finding and killing animals that they (6)……… then have stuffed. These safaris of the past (7) …………… an example of the practice that has brought so many species of animals to the brink of extinction.

Today, those on a safari (8) …………. still intent on finding some of the same beautiful animals, but in this case, they (9) ………….. being shot with cameras only. This method of safari helps to ensure that these animals (10) ….. continue to exist for our descendants to view and appreciate.