My name is Inga I’m 17 and I study in 12th grade at the same time I study in the state theater of song.I sing my spare time and I love it.I can say that I’m a responsible and hard-working student,yes but sometimes I’m lazy.I enjoy my time at school.it’s so nice because my friends are friendly.My friends always say that I’m very funny girl with a good sense of humor.I think that my friends also enjoy their time with me.
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Leaving home
Leaving your family home to go to university is not always easy. Read the advice from a first-year student
and her dad to get two points of view on the experience, and then do the exercises.
Do the preparation exercise first.
Match the things you need to know when leaving home with their description and write a–e next to the numbers 1–5.
1. How to budget
2. How to cook
3. How to make friends
4. How to be professional
5. How to be independent
a. Learn some simple, cheap and healthy recipes to impress your flatmates.
b. Be slightly formal when emailing university lecturers. Don’t post anything on social media you wouldn’t want employers to see.
c. Plan to minimise debt, pay all the bills, eat and still have enough money for some fun.
d. Take responsibility for yourself. Manage your time and balance your social life with your studies.
e. Relax, be yourself, and don’t feel you have to be cool.
Read the article and do the other exercises.
Leaving home
Going away to university is always a tricky time, both for the students who are leaving home and their parents who are staying behind. We got advice on how to cope from a student daughter and her dad.
A daughter’s advice to parents, by Kerry Price
My parents drove me to uni at the beginning of the first term. That was great, but then they hung around, so it was hard to chat to the people in the rooms near mine. It’s best if you leave us to unpack ourselves.
Don’t ask us to come home during term time. There’s a lot going on at weekends, there just isn’t time.
Get another interest or a pet if you feel lonely without us. Don’t make us feel guilty about leaving home!
It is quite interesting to hear about your experiences at uni, but remember that it was a LONG time ago so don’t go on about it so much. Things have changed a lot. Now we have a lot more debt and it’ll be harder to find a job in the future.
Please don’t check up on us or our friends on Facebook. I know it’s a public site, but we have the right to some privacy.
Don’t change anything in our bedrooms. We have only half left home – we’ll be back in the holidays, so please don’t touch anything.
We’d still like to come on family holidays with you. Don’t forget to include us just because we’re not there all the time.
A father’s advice to students, by Stuart Price
Don’t complain so much about how much work you have to do. We work a lot too. You’re an adult now, get used to it.
Put up with the fact that we refused to get a dog while you were at home, then suddenly bought one as soon as you moved out. We miss you!
Just because you’re at university studying very complex subjects, it doesn’t mean that you’re more intelligent than everybody else. Don’t treat your family as if they were stupid; we’re really not.
Let us come and visit you now and again. We promise to try not to embarrass you in front of your friends. We just want to see you for a short time and take you out for a meal.
Don’t waste so much time on Facebook. You need time for all that work you have to do, remember?
We might make a few changes to your room, so deal with it. It’s great to have a guest room at last, but we won’t change things too much, promise.
Don’t forget to call home from time to time and don’t get annoyed if we phone you. It’s not pestering. If we didn’t call, you wouldn’t know that we care.
I. Check your understanding: multiple choice
Circle the best option to complete these sentences.
1. When children leave home to go to university, it’s ___.
a. the moment they’ve been waiting for
b. a difficult experience
c. more difficult for parents than for children
d. more difficult for children than for parents
2. Kerry says when students first go to uni, parents should ___.
a. give their children a lift and then stay a while
b. give them a lift and then leave
c. let their children find their own transport
d. help them unpack their things
3. Kerry thinks students should ___.
a. do everything they can to avoid upsetting lonely parents
b. go home regularly while everyone gets used to the change
c. not feel bad about spending weekends in their university town
d. avoid visiting their parents too much during term time
4. Kerry thinks Facebook is ___.
a. a good way to send private messages to family
b. a good way to show her parents what she’s doing with her friends
c. a space that parents should keep away from
d. great for parents as long as you’re careful with your privacy settings
5. Stuart thinks students sometimes ___.
a. look down on people who are not studying
b. ask for help with their work too much
c. talk about their university subjects too much
d. forget that their parents were young once
6. Stuart says parents would like to ___.
a. stay for at least one night when they visit
b. meet their son or daughter’s university friends
c. come and visit at least once a fortnight
d. visit every so often and go to a restaurant together
7. Stuart is ___.
a. hurt that his daughter won’t talk to him on Facebook
b. critical of the amount of time his daughter spends on Facebook
c. a big fan of Facebook
d. confused about how to use Facebook properly
8. Stuart promises to ___.
a. make only minimal changes to his daughter’s bedroom
b. keep his daughter’s bedroom exactly as she left it
c. redecorate his daughter’s bedroom and turn it into a guest bedroom
d. clean his daughter’s old room before she comes back to visit
II. Complete the gaps with the given verb phrase.
take her out; hang around; going on; put up with;
leave home; check up on; give her a lift; go on about;
1. The text gives two points of view about the difficult time when young people _______________.
2. Kerry was happy that her parents agreed to _______________ when she first went to uni.
3. Kerry advises parents not to _______________ while their children are trying to chat to their new
roommates.
4. Kerry says students can’t come home at weekends because there’s so much _______________.
5. Kerry wishes her parents wouldn’t _______________ their university days so much.
6. Kerry says parents should not use Facebook to _______________ their children.
7. Stuart thinks children just have to _______________ the fact that their parents might get a pet
when they leave.
8. Stuart says he would like to see Kerry occasionally and _______________ for dinner.
III. In 250-330 words or less prepare your personal statement on the topic “
Are you looking forward to leaving home?” Why or why not?
Translation
1886 թվականին ատլանտացի (Ջորջիա նահանգ) բժիշկ և դեղագործ Ջոն Փոմբերտոնը հարավ-ամերիկյան կոկա բույսի տերևների մզվածքից և տոնուսային հատկություններ ունեցող աֆրիկյան կոլա ընկույզից պատրաստեց խառնուրդ, որն ուներ դուրեկան համ։ Նա կարծում էր, որ այդ օշարակը կարող էր օգնել հոգնածությունից, ստրեսից և ատամնացավից տառապող մարդկանց։
Սկզբում օշարակը Ատլանտա քաղաքի «Ջեկոբա» խոշոր դեղատանը վաճառվում էր մեկ բաժինը հինգ ցենտով։
Սակայն Կոկա-Կոլա ըմպելիքն առաջացել է անփութության արդյունքում։ Օշարակը խառնելիս վաճառողը, պատահաբար շփոթելով ծորակները, սովորական ջրի փոխարեն լցրել է գազայինը։ Ստացված խառնուրդն էլ հենց դարձել է Կոկա-Կոլա։ Այս խմիչքի անվանումը հնարել է Փոմբերտոնի հաշվապահը։
In 1886, John Pomberton, a physician and pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia, prepared a mixture of the South American coca leaf extract and the tonic African kola nut, which had a pleasant taste. He believed that this syrup could help people suffering from fatigue, stress and toothache.
At first, the syrup was sold for five cents per portion at the large “Jacoba” pharmacy in Atlanta.
However, the Coca-Cola drink was created as a result of negligence. While mixing the syrup, the seller accidentally mixed up the taps and poured gas instead of ordinary water. The resulting mixture became Coca-Cola. The name of this drink was coined by the accountant of Pomberton.
My job
When I was 16 I found job at a hotel.I worked as a receptionist.I helped people because they came from another country and they were getting hard to talk with our language.I helped them to check in and check out,sometimes they wanted to go to sights and I helped them because I’m also a guide.I learned from that job communicate with people easier than before.Also I learned new languages and new cultures.That’s right I skipped a lot of lessons from my high school but I could fill in all that.I’m so glad that I was working in that hotel and it doesn’t matter that it was a temporary work.
Expectations from the university
Going to university is a big jump in the life of anyone who decides to enroll and not everyone who attends has the same expectations. I want to have a lot of fun socially, but I also want to succeed academically.
I hope to meet new people. I’m looking forward to learning about other people and their backgrounds where they come from, what there part of the country or world is like. I think it’s interesting to get to know people who grew up from a totally different culture than myself. So I think I’ll adapt to university life soon.
Test – 11
- Choose the right option:
Only humans speak using words. But all species in the animal kingdom can communicate in one way or another. Maybe you have heard about the way bees dance around to send messages to each other and the way dogs bark in different ways to give warnings, to be friendly or to be playful.
But did you know about infrasonic communication used by elephants? This is how it works.
Humans hear low sounds like the bass notes in music or thunder rumbling in the sky. But we don’t hear sounds lower than these. However, animals such as elephants and hippos can hear much lower sounds than humans can. And what’s more, they can make sounds in that range as well, and they use them to communicate with each other. This is known as infrasound.
Another amazing thing about infrasound is that it travels over several kilometers. Sounds which have a higher pitch, like the ones people can hear, don’t travel well through walls, leaves, trees and so on, which is why we can’t hear sounds from more than 100 meters away. But infrasound is much ‘stronger,’ and things like grass and trees have no effect on it. Therefore it can travel much further. Elephants can hear infrasonic calls from four kilometers away.
There have been reports of people watching herds of elephants feeding or resting and then the elephants suddenly all charged off for no reason at all. They obviously heard a warning call from a long way away, but the people didn’t hear a sound. In places like a zoo or wildlife park where you can get nearer to animals, it is a bit easier to sense when infrasonic sounds are made. When you stand near mother elephants with their babies in a zoo you may notice a slight rumbling in the air every few minutes – not loud or strong, but clearly noticeable. This is infrasonic communication – the mother elephants ‘talking’ to their babies.
- The writer mentions bees and dogs…
a) because they want to learn how they communicate.
b) as examples of animal communication.
c) because they use infrasonic communication.
2. Humans can hear …
a) lower sounds than elephants can.
b)sounds that travel long distances.
c)sounds with higher pitch.
3. Things like trees …
a) cause problems for low sounds.
b) ) cause problems for high sounds.
c) don’t affect sounds at all.
4. in places like zoos …
a) human can sense when infrasonic sounds are being made.
b) elephants don’t need to make infrasonic sounds.
c) it is easier than in wildlife parks to sense when elephants use infrasonic sounds.
- Write one word in each gap:
I’m very fond (5) of my husband, William. I’ve been married (6) to him for over sixty years. I know he cares (7) about me now just as much as when we first met all those years ago. I’d got lost, and I asked him for directions. He was so kind (8) to me. He offered to drive me wherever I wanted to go. It was love at first sight and since then my relationship (9) whit him has always been wonderful.
William is proud (10) of my success as an artist, and he’s never been jealous (11) of my fame. I really admire him (12) for supporting me so much over the years. Every evening, we chat (13) with each other (14) about the day’s events. Of course, we do sometimes argue (15) about things. All couples do. But whenever I have an argument (16) with him, we soon start laughing and both apologize (17) for each other (18) about getting angry. I can’t imagine life without him.
5. a) of b) about c) to d) with
6. a)about b) with c) to d) –
7. a) for b) about c) of d) with
8. a)to b)of c) about d) with
9. a) for b)of c) to d) with
10. a)with b) with c) of d)for
11. a)of b)for c) with d)about
12. a) for b) of c) with d)about
13. a) about b) after c)to d)on
14.a) about b)of c)after d)on
15.a)about b)of c)for d)before
16.a) about b)for c)with d)to
17.a) for b)to c)with d)about
18.a)for b)with c)to d)about
- Choose the right verb form:
Fishermen and sailors sometimes claim to have seen monsters in the sea. Though people often (19) ….. at stories told by seamen, it is now known that many of these ‘monsters’ which (20) …… at times are simply strange fish. Occasionally, unusual creatures (21) …… to the shore, but they are rarely caught out at sea. Some time ago, however, a peculiar fish (22)…… near Madagascar.
19. a) had laughed b) are laughing c) will laugh d) have laughed
20. a)had been sighted b) have been sighted c) have sighted d)will be sighted
21. a)were washed b) wash c) are washed d) had washed
22. a) had been caught b) has caught c) was caught d) caught
The summer school (23)—– to be as good as I (24)—–, and my English (25)—- enormously. Maria and I had a great time while we (26)—– there, and made lots of new friends from all over the world .She was the last person I (27)—– to see.
23. a) will turn out b) would turn out c) has turned out d) turned out
24. a) hope b) had hoped c) have hoped d) was hoping
25. a) improved b) is improving c)will improve d) has improved
26. a) are b) will be c) were d) have been
27. a) expected b) will expect c) have expected d) was expecting
- Read the text below and choose the word that best fits each space.
The name hamburger dates back to German immigrants (28) traveling to the USA in the 1880s. It’s only since 1902, however, that hamburgers have been (29) served in a bun. Before the 1920s, when the first chain of hamburger restaurants opened, most hamburgers were (30) cooked at home.
The fashion for hamburgers in Britain started in the 1950s, and by the 1970s hamburger restaurants had become some of the most fashionable in London. In the 1980s, McDonald’s decided to expand their operations (31) outside the country and by the 1990s they had (32) opened restaurants in most countries in the world.
Since 1980, people have begun to question the assumption that fast food, abd hamburgers in (33) usual, are making progress.
28. a)running b) driving c) traveling d) walking
29. a) drunk b) served c) closed d) classified
30. a) cooked b) taken c) bought d) brought
31. a) near b) aside c) away d) outside
32. a) locked b) made c) opened d) stopped
33. a) usual b) practical c) definite d) particular
V. Find the odd word.
34. He must have been gone downtown by train as his car was in the garage.
a) must b) been c) gone d) the
35.How long can I keep on the book I took from you yesterday.
a) can b)on c) the d) from
36.Although despite I wrote to him two months ago I have got no answer yet.
a) although b) despite c) to d) no
VI. Fill in the blanks with the word form that best fits each space.
(37)—- to tradition, the first American Thanksgiving was (38)— in 1621 by the English pilgrims who had founded the Plymouth Colony. The Pilgrim marked the (39)— by (40)— with their Native American guests who brought gifts of food as a gesture of goodwill. Although this event was an important part of American colonial history, there is no (41)— that any of the participants thought of the feast as a thanksgiving celebration.
37.a)accordingly b)accordance c)according d)accordant
38.a)celebrating b)celebrated c)celebration d)celebrate
39.a)occasion b)occasional c)occasionally d)occasionalism
40.a)feast b)feasted c)feastivity d)feasting
41.a)evident evidently c)evidence d)evidenced
VII. Which of the options provided is the best choice for reported speech?
42.’’Yesterday Tom and I went to look at the rare plants,’’ said Jane.
a) Jane said that the day before she and Tom went to look at the rare plants.
b) Jane said that she and Tom had gone to look at the rare plants the day before.
c) Jane told that she and Tom had gone to look at the rare plants the day before.
d) Jane said to us that the day before she and Tom had gone to look at the rare plants.
43.’’You can keep that one if you like, Ann. I’ve got plenty of others’’, he said.
a) He told Ann she could keep that one if you liked as he had got plenty of others.
b) He told Ann she could keep that one if she liked as he had got plenty of others.
c) He told Ann she could keep that one if she liked as he has got plenty of others.
d) He told Ann she could keep that one if she liked as he got plenty of time.
44. “I hope you’ll have a good journey. Don’t forget to send a card when you arrived,” he said.
a) He said that he hoped I would have a good journey and reminded me to send a card when I arrived.
b) He said that he hoped I had had a good journey and reminded to send a card when I arrive.
c) He said that he hoped I had had a good journey and reminded to send a card when I arrived.
d) He said that he hoped I would have a good journey and don’t forget to send a card when I arrived.
45. “What was she wearing when you saw her last?” the policeman asked.
a) The policeman asked me what she has been wearing when I had seen her last.
b) The policeman asked me what she had been wearing when I saw her last.
c) The policeman asked me what had she been wearing when I saw her last.
d) The policeman asked me what she was wearing when I saw her last.
46.”Could you sew on this button for me,” he asked me.
a) He asked if I can sew on that button for him.
b) He asked if I had been able to sew on that button for him.
c) He asked me to sew on that button for him.
d) He asked me to sew on this button for him.
VIII. Which of the following questions are grammatically correct?
47. Which of the following questions is correctly formulated?
a) Does my sister have ever lived in the village?
b) Has my sister ever lived in the village?
c) Have my sister ever lived in the village?
d) Has my sister never live in the village?
48. Which is the best question for the underlined part of the sentence?
He likes to listen to the radio while he is writing.
a. When does he like to listen to the radio?
b. Why does he listen to the music?
c. What does he do while he is writing?
d. How often does he listen to the radio?
49. Which is the best question for the following sentence?
Yes, I asked him to help me while translating the article.
a) What did you ask him to do while translating the article?
b) What did you do while translating the article?
c) Did you ask him to help you while translating the article?
d) Who did you ask to help you while translating the article?
50. Which is the best ending for the following questions?
Neither your parents, nor your children know about it,——– ?
a) did they
b) do they
c) don’t they
d) didn’t they
Թարգմանություն
Քանի որ ԱՄՆ ԵԱՀԿ Մինսկի նախագահող երկիրն է,վաղուց պարզ է դարձրել՝ ռազմական լուծում չի կարող տալ:Մեր նախագահը դրա համանախագահն է։ Մենք շարունակում ենք հետևել իրադաձության շատ մոտիկից և շարունակում ենք աջակցել հակամարտության հետ կապված բոլոր հարցերի բանակցային, համապարփակ և կայուն կարգավորմանը: Ավելի վաղ մեր հանդիպման ժամանակ նշել էի,որ ջանքեր ենք գործադրել երկար ժամանակ, տասնամյակներ Կոնգրեսում երկկուսակցական ձևով, մենք փորձել ենք այդ հակամարտության համար պատասխանատվության տակ դնել Թուրքիային, ինչպես նաև Ադրբեջանին:
Նախքան թեմային անրադառնալը ,թույլ տվեք արտահայտել իմ հպարտությունը Հայաստանի երեք ամենաուժեղ չեպիոնների համար ովքեր երբևէ ծառայել են Կոնգրեսում:Նյու Ջերսիի նախագահ Ֆրենկ Փալոնը, Էներգետիկայի և առևտրի հանձնաժողովի նախագահը,Կալիֆորնիայի կոնգրեսական Ջեքի Սփիերը, շատ հանձնաժողովների նախագահեր,և երկու կարևոր՝ ներկայացուցիչներ Պալատի Զինված ծառայությունների հանձնաժողովից, ռազմական և հետախուզության նախագահ:Բացի Ջեյքից ոչ ոք չի ղեկավարում երկու ենթահանձնաժողովները:Եվ Կոնգրեսական Աննա Էսնուն Կալիֆորնիայից, հետախուզության կոմիտեի նախկին անդամ և այժմ Առողջապահության ենթահանձնաժողովի նախագահ՝ էներգետիկայի և առևտրի ներքո:
What i’m looking forward to this year
This year I’m in my final year. Since the beginning of the academic year, I’ve been working a very busy schedule, but I’m doing it with great pleasure and I get a lot of satisfaction. I’m looking forward to passing my exams and getting into university. I hope to get used to being a student very soon. It’s true that I don’t imagine myself as a student, but I’m looking forward to it. I’m happy that I’ll make new friends and a lot of knowledge. I like to draw, play sports, but my favorite pastime is singing, and I’ve been singing since childhood. I also take responsibility in the field of my singing. I will make great efforts to be successful in Orpez music.
Marilyn Monroe’s letter to her father
February 2
Dear Dad,
I am having this letter typewritten because my handwriting is very poor and hardly legible sometimes. It was good to talk to you the otherevening. I promised I would write, so here I am. Now, are you sure it is all right if I visit you at the Sea Isle Hotel in Miami, because I amreally looking forward to seeing you and spending a very pleasant day and evening with you. The invitation still stands for April for you to fly out to visit me. I think you will like my littlehouse. Even though it is a 11ttie house, it has a big swiming pool. The neighborhood is quiet and yet it is close to shopping areas.
How have you been feeling, Dad? I hope you’re well and happy, and having a good time in Florida. Have you heard from Joan and George since they left for South America? But, I guess I’ll get answers to all those questions when I see you. In the meantime, I’ll call when I arrive in Now York. I am leaving on the plane this afternoonat five o’clock, and I’ll arrive in New York about midnight tonight. I got a letter from Bobby Just the other day and I loved bearing from him. He writes a little more often than Janie, however, I’ll probably hear from her pretty soon. Were are Sam and Blanche? Are they planning to see you at all in Florida? Give than my best the next time you write them or soo them. And,do ivo y invitation some serious thought because remember you haven’t been west of the Rockies yet and you ought to Just got a look at California, even if it is just to compare it with Florida. But, most of all, I would love to have you spend the time with me.
Թարգմամություն
Փետրվարի 2
Սիրելի հայրկ
Ես գրում եմ այս նամակը տպագիր,քանի որ իմ ձեռագիրը վատն է և շատ ժամանակ անհասկանալի:
Լավ կլիներ եթե խոսեինք այլ երեկո:
Ես խոստացել էի որ կգրեմ, ահա և ես:
Հիմա, դու վստահ ե՞ս, որ ճիշտ կլինի մեր հանդիպումը Sea Isle Մայամիի հյուրանոցում, որովհետև ես անհամբեր սպասում եմ մեր հանդիպմանը որպեսզիր անցկացնենմ շատ հաճելի օրեր քեզ հետ:
Հրավերը դեռ մնում է ապրիլի համար,որպեսզի դու թռչես ինձ մոտ: Ես մտածում եմ դու կհավանաես իմ փոքրիկ տունը: Չնայած նրա փոքրությանը, ունի մեծ լողավազան:
Հարևանները հանգիստ են և տունը մոտ է առևտրի կենտրոնին:
– Ի՞նչ զգացիր հայրիկ, հույս ունեմ դու լավ ես և ուրախ:
Լավ ժամանակ ես անցկացնում Ֆլորիդիայում:
Լսել ե՞ս Ջոնի և Ջորջի մասին այն ժամանվանից երբ նրանք գնացին Հարավային-Ամերիկա, ես ուզում եմ ստանալ այս հարցերի պատասխանները երբ կտեսնեմ քեզ:
Միևնույն ժամանակ ես կզանգեմ քեզ, երբ հասնեմ Նյու-Յորք: Ես մեկնում եմ ինքնաթիռով կեսօրից հետո ժամը հինգին, և ես կլինեմ Նյու-Յորքում մոտավորապես կեսգիշերին:
Ես ստացել եմ նամակ Բոբից հենց հաջորդ օրը:Նա ավելի հաճախ է գրում քան Ջեյնը, այնուամենայնիվ ես կլսեմ նրա մասին շատ շուտով:
Իսկ որտե՞ղ են Սամն ու Բլանկը: Նրանք պլանավորում ե՞ն քեզ տենել Ֆլորիդայում: Կբարևես նրանց իմ կողմից երբ նորից տեսնես կամ նամակ գրես:Լուրջ ե՞ս վերաբերվում իմ հրավերին,որովհետև հիշում ե՞ս դու դեռ չես տեսել Rockies-ի արևմուտքը,և անպայաման պետք է տեսնես Կալիֆորնիան, նույնիսկ ուղղակի համեմատելու Ֆլորիդաի հետ : Բայց ամենաշատը ես ցանկանում եմ որ դու ինձ հետ շատ լավ ժամանակ անցկացնես:
English
I’m looking forward to passing my exams and going to university. This year I’m in my final year. I have loved English since I was a child, but it was a little difficult for me to learn it, but this year, realizing that I want to continue my studies in English, believing in my abilities, I started spending my free time on English and it seems to work very well for me. I have goals for music, but I leave that for the future.
Ինգա Առաքելյան 