5. What does Mr. Pond want to find out?
A. How much money working children have to give to their parents.
B. On what things children spend the money they have earned.
C. With what kind of work children earn most.
34. Read the text. Choose the best answer to each question.
Fred Savage
An interview with 16-year-old American film and TV actor Fred Savage, who starred in the TV series “The Wonder Years.”
How did you start acting?
When I was six years old I did a Pac Man vitamins commercial. I love doing commercials because it’s such a lot of fun. A lot of my friends still do commercials on TV, and it’s just great because some day that money will pay their college course.
Why did you want to become an actor?
I’ve never done this to be popular or to have fans or anything. I’m doing this because I enjoy it. I don’t do it for the job or because I need the money.
Do you still go to school?
I have a teacher when I’m filming; he helps me with my schoolwork. I should spend three hours a day on it, but a lot of the time I do only one or two hours. I like science, but I hate English, because it is boring.
You don’t have a normal childhood do you?
It’s true I don’t go to school with my friends or spend a much time with them as I’d like to, but I’m getting knowledge that they may never get.
Didn’t you have your first film kiss on “The Wonder Years?”
Yes, I had to kiss this girl and it was also her first film kiss. It was bad enough doing it, but when I finished our parents stood up and clapped their hands- we felt really uncomfortable.
What do you think of your fans?
My fans are great. I really love them. People are able to find me in the strangest places, though. I can be riding my bicycle in the woods somewhere, and someone will find me and ask for my autograph. I guess it’s still new to me, so I’m really pleased by it.
1. How does acting in commercials help young people?
A. They can later pay their studies with the wages they earn.
B. They get a lot of friends who work in the the film or TV business.
C. They learn things that will help them to become good actors.
2. Why does Fred want to be an actor?
A. Because he likes the work of an actor.
B. Because he loves it if many people know him.
C. Because he wants to become rich fast.
3. Which of these statements about Fred’s schoolwork is true?
A. He does not really work hard enough for it.
B. He is better at language then at science.
C. He likes private lessons better than going to school.
4. What especially does Fred like about his way of life?
A. He has more freedom than most other young people have.
B. He has more money for nice things than his friends.
C. He learns things that most other young people do not learn.
5. What does Fred tell about his first film kiss?
A. He did not feel OK, especially because of his parents’ reaction.
B. He felt shy because he did not know the girl very well.
C. He was rather proud of the way he did it.
6. What does Fred say about fans?
A. He is sorry that he cannot speak with all his fans.
B. He thinks that fans cause a bit too much trouble sometimes.
C. He very much likes the interest fans have in him.
Answer Keys
1. A. 1c, 2e, 3g, 4d, 5a, 6h, 7f, 8b
B. 1d, 2e, 3g, 4a, 5b, 6c, 7h, 8f
2. penny, enter, loosely, see, writer, spaceship, disco,
4. can, apartment, subway, grade, fall, truck, candy, french fries, bathtub, druggist, gasoline, line, soccer
5. taught, do, learn, do, admitted, receive, left, find out, receipt, remind
6. smaller, larger, fastest, smallest, biggest, warmest, quicker, softer
7. must, deck, rang, sick, rob, pick, leg, luck
8. to, at, of, for, of, in, for, of, by, with, of, on, to, in, in, on, to, over
9. c, c, b, b, a, b, c, b, c
10. was born, delicate, minister, nurse, heroine, plays, opera
11. b, d, c, d, c, c, a, d, c, c, b, c, b, d, a, b, b, b, d, c, c, b
12. c, a, d, c, d, b, d, c, b, c, d, b, a, c, c, d, a
13. c, b, d, c, d, b, d, c, c, b, b, c, d, d, c, a, c, b, d, b
14. d, b, c, d, b, a, c, b, d, b, a, b, d, b, c, d, b, c, b, d
16. are testing, attract, start, gives, is doing, gets, prints, is studying, prefer, hate
17. appeared, started, spoke, have been, was, decided, wrote, is, came, began, had, sold, has not had, started, have met, have never been
18. ran, had gone, started, had started, left, looked, had seen, had been, had injured
19. The, the, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, a, a, a, a, the, the, the, zero, the, the, zero, zero, the, zero, a
20. b, c, a, d, d, c, c, b, b, d
21. b, a, c, b, c, b, a, b, c, c, b, c, c, a, b, c, a, b, a, a, c, a, c, b
22. recieve, have been, shall/will take, am sitting, have been, have done
30. 2, 2, 1, 1, 4, 2
33. b, b, c, c, b
34. a, a, a, c, a, c
Приложение II
Walt Disney’s World
Walt Disney was an American original, a man who developed the animated film into an art form. A brillant businessman, he also created Disneyland which proved to be as much an innovation in the world of outdoor entertainment as Disney films were in the world of motion pictures. From the very beginning of his remarkable career, Walt Disney lived on the edge of tomorrow. Dreaming impossible dreams. And daring to make them come true.
Walt Disney was born in Chicago in 1901. His father was Irish-Canadian and his mother was of German-American origin. He remembered nothing of his early years in Chicago, but the memories of Marceline, Missouri, stayed with him throughout his life. He revealed a talent for drawing and an interest in photography very early.
In 1911, when Walt was ten years old, the family moved to Kansas City. Mr. Disney bought a newspaper delivery business, and the father expected Walt to help with the newspaper business and deliver newspapers. After school Walt and his brother worked for their father. On Saturday mornings Walt took classes in painting and drawing at the Kansas City Art Institute.
Then one day Walt saw a silent film version of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” This film and the way it was projected onto the screen fascinated Walt.
In 1917 Walt Disney moved to Chicago and took a job at the post office. He worked long hours delivering mail, going to school and taking classes at Chicago’s Academy of Fine Arts.
Some of his pictures were cartoons in the Chicago newspapers. He drew comic pictures and sketches of politicians and people in the news. The short comments under them poked fun at them.
Elias Disney, Walt’s father, could not understand his son’s fascination with the entertainment world, nor did his sympathize with Walt’s ambition to be a cartoonist.
During the First World War, Walt Disney joined the American Red Cross as an ambulance driver, but when in 1919 the American Ambulance Corps was disbanded, he boarded the ship for the voyage back to America and the start of his career.
He went back to Kansas City where he got a job with an advertising company. It lasted only six weeks, but it taught him many things about working in the art field.
His next job was drawing cartoons for screen advertisement in movie theatres, just like TV commercials today. By 1923, Hollywood had become a company town, and movie makers started arriving in California.
Walt Disney asked for work as a director and was turned away. There were no cartoonists in Hollywood; the animation business was centered in New York. He found a man in New York to buy his films and hired some art students. Together they made seven animated cartoons but the man in New York ran off with the money made from the cartoons. Walt was forced to close his company, but wasn’t discouraged. He loved cartoons and was full of ideas. He decided to start all over again in California where movies were being made.
In Hollywood Walt rented an old camera and a garage which he turned into a small studio. He made a series of “Alice in Cartoonland” cartoons. Cinema owners bought them as quickly as he could make them. In 1927, he had some success with the series called “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit,” but it was not until 1928, when “Steamboat Willie” appeared, the first “Mickey Mouse” with sound, that he achieved lasting success. Mickey Mouse became a household word, together with such companions as Minnie, Pluto, and perhaps the favourite of them all- Donald Duck.
By 1930, Walt Disney had created 12 Mickey Mouse cartoons. They all were very popular with children and adults all over the world.
Then another great invention was made- colour in movies. Walt started making long colour cartoons. These included “Pinocchio”, “Bambi”, “Cinderella”, “Alice in Wonderland” and many others.
After World War II Walt made not only animated films, but movies about real animals. The film, “Seal Island” was made. Later Walt made many nature films, among them “Beaver Valley”and “Living Desert.”
In 1955, he branched out into a different enterprise- “Disneyland”, a huge amusement park in southern California. Of all the show places, none was as famous as Disneyland. This superb kingdom of fantasy linked to technology was created by Walt Disney.
Honours were given to Walt Disney. The highest came on September 14, 1964, when President Johnson presented him with the Medal of Freedom at the White House.
Walt Disney died in 1966 at the age of 65. the New York Times wrote, “He had a genius for innovation; his production was enormous; his hand was ever on the public pulse. He was a legend in his own lifetime- and so honored many times over.”
Walt Disney is gone but each year lots of new movies and cartoons are made in his studios.
The Jungle Book
Introduction:
This film is made from Rudyard Kipling “Mowgli” stories. The best and most beloved of Kipling’s prose works was written in 1894-1895 and was intended for children. In this beautifully written book, Kipling depicts the life of wild animals, and he shows their character and behavour.
The cartoon shows the life of a man-cub in the jungles and his adventures on the way to the man-village.
Characters:
Mowgli - a man-cub
Bagheera - the black panther
Rama - father wolf
Akela - the leader of the pack
Baloo - the bear
Kaa- the rock python
Shere-Khan - the tiger
Hathi- the elephant
Winifred- Hathi’s wife
Little Elephant (Hathi’s son)
Louie - the gray monkey
Vultures
Episode 1
Mowgli and Bagheera
1. Words and expressions.
to swear (swore, sworn) to look out for oneself
to grow up to go to sleep
to make a mistake
Things will look better in the morning.
Leave me alone.
You have just sealed your doom.
This is going to slow down my slithering.
2. Watch the film and show the correct order of events by numbering them from 1 to 6.
_____ Bagheera offered to take Mowgli to a man-village.
_____ A council was held to settle the problem with Mowgli upon the Council Rock.
_____ Bagheera fell asleep.
_____ Bagheera was explainig to Mowgli why he couldn’t stay in the jungle.
_____ Kaa hypnotized Mowgli.
_____ Bagheera helped Mowgli.
3. Use a word from the box to complete each of the sentences below.
to grow up to explain to swear to go back
ahead of us to be afraid
a. Shere-Khan has returned to this part of the jungle, and __________ to kill you.
b. Shere-Khan is not going to allow you __________ to become a man.
c. I __________ of Shere-Khan.
d. I don’t want __________ to the man-village.
e. No one __________ anything to Shere-Khan.
f. We’ve got a long journey __________ tomorrow.
Episode 2
Mowgli and Elephants
1. Words and expressions.
patrol muzzle
drill barracks
ranks treason
regulations colonel
to keep heels together to take good care of
2. Watch the film and answer the questions.
What did Mowgli and Bagheera hear in the morning?
What were the elephants doing?
What did Mowgli do?
Why was Colonel Hathi angry?
Why did Mowgli and the Little Elephant laugh?
Why did Bagheera leave Mowgli alone?
Episode 3
Baloo and Mowgli
1. Words and expressions.
bear (bare) necessities confidence
to fight like a bear to weave
to scare somebody to be in trouble
to knock somebody senseless to tickle
to give up to be a lot of fun
at ease Forget about your worries
2. Watch the film and show the correct order of events by numbering them from 1 to 5.
_____ Baloo sang a nice song about bear-necessities.
_____ Bagheera ran to help Mowgli.
_____ Baloo and Mowgli were swimming in the river.
_____ Baloo taught Mowgli to fight like a bear.
_____ Monkeys carried Mowgli off.
3. Use a word from the box to complete each of the sentences below.
scare to give up a lot of fun
worries to fight like a bear to carry off
a. Look for the bear (bare) necessities, Forget about your _____ and your strife.
b. Give me a big bear growl. __________ me.
c. You’re tickling. I can’t stand it. I __________.
d. I need help, kid. I’ll teach you to __________.
e. You __________, Baloo!
f. These mangy monkeys __________ him off.
4. Describe Mowgli’s adventures in the jungle (episodes 1-3).
5. Write a character sketch of Baloo.
Episode 4
Mowgli and Monkeys
1. Words and expressions.
Word has grabbed my royal ear.
I can fix it for you.
Have we got a deal?
I wanna be like you
to make one’s dream come true to be loaded with
to create a disturbance a swinging party
2. Watch the film and answer the questions.
Where did the monkeys take Mowgli?
What did Louie want from Mowgli?
Why did Louie want to be like a man?
Who came to rescue the man-cub?
What happened to the old castle?
3. Use a word from the box to complete each of the sentences below.
to be crazy to be like somebody to make fire
to have a deal to create a disturbance
a. I am not as __________ as you are!
b. Old King Louie can fix it for you. Have we got ___________ ?
c. I wanna be ____________.
d. I’ll rescue Mowgli, while you __________.
e. I don’t know how __________ .
4. Pretend that you are Baloo and retell this episode (Mowgli in the castle).
Episode 5
Bagheera and Baloo
1. Words and expressions.
to get into trouble
to learn something from the experience
to have a word with somebody
to take a look at somebody
to take care of somebody
to kidnap somebody
to make a mistake
Birds of a feather flock should together
Are you out of your mind?
That’s just the point.
2. Answer the questions.
Why did Bagheera think that the jungle was not the place for Mowgli?
How did Baloo try to prove the opposite?
Why was Shere-Khan against the kid?
To what conclusion did Bagheera and Baloo finally come?
3. Retell the conversation of Bagheera and Baloo in indirect speech.
Episode 6
Mowgli and Baloo
1. Words and expressions.
to forgive oneself to realize
to separate That’s going too far.
2. Why didn’t Mowgli understand what Baloo was trying to explain to him?
Episode 7
Bagheera and Hathi
1. Words and expressions.
cross-country march emergency
pompous volunteer
to be lost to pick up somebody’s trail
to take over command to get hurt
to have a plan in mind devotion to duty
element of surprise
That’s an entirely different matter.
2. Which of the following statements are true? Circle the number of each true statement.
1. Shere-Khan waited for Mowgli on the rock.
2. The jungle partrol was on a cross-country march.
3. Baloo told Colonel Hathi about what had happened.
4. Colonel Hathi agreed to help Bagheera at once.
5. Little Elephant asked his father to help his friend Mowgli.
6. Winifred forced Colonel Hathi to make the right decision.
7. The jungle patrol continued their march.
3. Retell the events of this episode using words and expressions from the first task.
Episode 8
Mowgli and Kaa
1. Words and expressions.
to trust somebody to blame somebody
to believe in somebody to cease
safe and sound
I have my own subtle little ways.
I’m not like those so-called fair weather friends of yours.
2. Answer the questions.
Why didn’t Mowgli trust Kaa?
How did Kaa make Mowgli believe in him.
Did Kaa really want to help Mowgli?
Episode 9
Kaa and Shere-Khan
1. Words and expressions.
to forgive to interrupt
to entertain to search for
to fool somebody sinuses
self-hypnosis skinny shrimp
Cross my heart1