GRAMMAR
· Conditionals http://www.smic.be/smic5022/exercisesgrammar.htm
· English tenses (table) http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/tenses_table.pdf
· Little/few http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/little-few
· Much/many http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/much-many
· Some/any http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/some-any
· Reported speech http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-speech
· Passive http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/welcome.html#lowint
Prepositions
· Questions ending with prepositions http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?ContentType=text/html;quiz=125_questions_prepos
· Time prepositions http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/time_prepositions_1.htm
Tenses
· Present Simple vs Present Continuous http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentcontinuous.html
· Simple Past and Present Perfect
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/past_pres_perf.htm
http://www.smic.be/smic5022/testtenses2.htm
http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentPerfect1E.html
http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/presperf1.php
Vocabulary
· Make/do http://esl.about.com/cs/beginner/a/a_makedo.htm
Tekstai klausymui, skaitymui su pratimais žodyno įtvirtinimui
· http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2007/06/070613_elvis_fan.shtml
· http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2007/05/070530_smoking.shtml
· http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2007/05/070509_putin_vday.shtml
· http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2007/04/070425_china_cars.shtml
· http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2007/04/070411_army.shtml
· http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2007/03/070328_turkey_women.shtml
· http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2007/03/070307_crops.shtml
· http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2007/02/070214_japan_princess.shtml
· http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2007/01/070117_coffee_indonesia.shtml
Smoking worksheet A
SARAH
I’m delighted that smoking is going to be banned in the majority of enclosed public spaces in Britain from July this year. In fact, I can’t wait for the ban to arrive. I’m fed up with sitting in pubs with my eyes and throat hurting because of all the tobacco smoke in the air. As soon as I leave the pub I always find that my clothes and hair stink of cigarettes, so the first thing I do when I get home is have a shower.
It’s not my problem if smokers want to destroy their own health, but I hate it when they start polluting my lungs as well! Passive smoking is a real problem, as lots of medical studies have shown that non-smokers who spend a long time in smoky environments have an increased risk of heart disease and lung cancer.
It’s ridiculous when you hear smokers talking about the ban taking away their ‘rights’. If they’re in a pub and they feel the need for a cigarette, obviously they’ll still be able to go outside in the street and have one and what’s wrong with that? Sure, it will be a bit inconvenient for them, but maybe that will help them to quit.
ROBERT
I’m fed up with the government interfering in people’s personal matters, and the ridiculous ban on smoking is just one more example. Why can’t they respect freedom of choice? Instead of banning smoking completely, why can’t we just keep the system of having smoking and non-smoking areas in enclosed spaces? Or why don’t we just make sure that there is good ventilation in these places, so smokers and non-smokers can socialize together?
I think smokers should try not to smoke too much when they’re around non-smokers, and I don’t mind not smoking when I’m at the cinema or the theatre, but that’s not enough for the anti-smoking people, is it? No, they want to carry on exaggerating about ‘passive smoking’. You know what their problem is? They just want to feel superior by accusing others of being ‘dirty’ and ‘unhealthy’. Well, I don’t think they have the right to choose my lifestyle for me – they should leave me alone and worry about something more important instead.
Smoking worksheet B
A
Here are some simple definitions for words or expressions that appear in the text on Worksheet A. Can you find the words or expressions they refer to?
1. ______(verb) spend time with friends or other people, in order to enjoy yourself
2. ______(noun) a thing or power that people deserve to have
3. ______(adjective) stupid; deserves to be laughed at
4. ______(noun) the dried leaves of a particular plant; what cigarettes are made from
5. ______(adjective) filled with smoke
6. ______(verb) (informal) smell; smell very unpleasant
7. ______(verb) prohibit; make illegal
8. ______(noun) issue; situation
9. ______(verb) to involve yourself in a situation where you are not wanted
10. ______(noun) the way a person lives; the things a person usually does
11. the ______(noun) most; the large part
12. ______(noun) organs in our bodies that we use for breathing
13. ______(adjective) bored; annoyed
14. ______(adjective) surrounded by walls; not open
15. ______(noun) system for causing fresh air to move around an indoor area
16. ______(adjective) not acting to influence a situation; not in control
17. ______(verb) make something seem larger, more important, better or worse than it really is
18. ______(adjective) extremely pleased
19. ______(verb) stop; give up
20. ______(adjective) better than other people or things
Smoking worksheet C
B
Decide if the following statements about cigarettes and smoking are true (T) or false (F).
Then bet a minimum of 10 points up to a maximum of 50 on your choice.
T/F / Points bet / Points lost / Points won1 / According to the World Health Organization, more than 15 billion cigarettes are smoked every day – an average of almost 2.5 cigarettes per human being.
2 / Human beings only started smoking tobacco about 250 years ago.
3 / In Britain, the age-group with the highest percentage of smokers is 20-24.
4 / Smoking is banned on some beaches in Sydney, Australia.
5 / About 50% of British adults smoke.
6 / According to the World Health Organization, around one in three of the cigarettes smoked in the world today are smoked in China.
7 / The majority of British smokers started smoking when they were teenagers.
8 / In the small Asian country of Bhutan, smoking is banned in all public places and it is also illegal to sell tobacco.
9 / In most of the world’s countries there are more male smokers than female smokers.
10 / After rising continuously for most of the 20th century, the global consumption of cigarettes has been falling since the mid-1990s.
Total points lost and won
Final total (subtract total points lost from total points won)
Search at stricken Siberian mine
Attempts to rescue three Russian coal miners trapped underground are continuing, after an explosion killed 107 people at a Siberian pit on Monday.
One more body was recovered late on Tuesday at the Ulyanovskaya mine, and officials said the search for the three still missing was proving difficult.
Some 93 people were rescued from the mine, devastated by a methane blast.
Virtually the whole of the mine's management died in the explosion. A UK engineer was also among the dead.
Rescuers described a scene of utter devastation, with collapsed and flooded mineshafts and bodies ripped apart.
The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Moscow says it is Russia's worst mining disaster for a generation.
It occurred at 1030 (0730 GMT) on Monday, at a depth of about 270m (885 feet).
Russian mines suffered from the loss of state subsidies after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
However, the mine in question was only built a few years ago and had just had a new safety system installed.
The mine is run by Yuzhkuzbassugol, an affiliate of Russian coal and steel firm Evraz Group SA. It lies in the Kuzbass coal area in Kemerovo region, nearly 3,000km (1,850 miles) east of Moscow.
QUESTIONS:
1. What happened at the Siberian mine?
2. How many people were killed?
3. Were there any foreign nationals among casualties?
4. Were there any people rescued?
5. When did it happen?
6. How deep is the mine?
7. When was the mine built?
8. Was there a new safety system installed in the mine?
9. Where is the mine?
10. Who runs it?
11. How far is the mine from Moscow?
FIND THE EQUIVALENTS IN LITHUANIAN.
Mine, subsidy, rescuer, disaster, management, devastation, blast, collapse, affiliate. (gelbėtojas, vadovybė, sugriovimas, griūtis, šachta, finansavimas, nelaimė, sprogimas, filialas).
JOIN THE GIVEN WORDS INTO COLLOCATIONS
1.Rescue a) safety system
2. die b) subsidy
3. install c) in the explosion
4. utter d) people
5. state e) devastation
Read the texts from the following sites:
Siberia mine blast kills many **
A methane explosion at a coal mine in a remote part of Siberia has killed at least 100 people.
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Obstacles
At a temporary morgue on the edge of the forest, distraught relatives gathered in the freezing cold to identify the bodies.
The governor of Kemerovo province, Aman Tuleyev, said 20 members of the mine's management team were among the dead, including the facility's chief engineer and chief mechanic.
"Today we were to launch at this mine an English system to ensure the secure mine work underground," he said.
Mr Tuleyev's spokesman Sergei Cheremnov said the search was "very difficult" as there was "bad ventilation, flooding and a lot of destruction".
Officials said rescuers were working by hand, and divers had been sent into flooded parts.
Rescuers also reported smoke, pockets of gas and collapsed roofs.
There were thought to be about 200 miners working in the mine when the methane exploded.
"There was a bang and smoke then the rescuers came," survivor Alexei Loboda told Russian TV.
"We switched on our safety kits and started going to the surface. Five of us came out. First they helped me to walk then it was all normal and I came back to my senses."
Modern mine
Many of Russia's mines have poor safety standards and have not been updated since the fall of communism.
A methane blast at a Kemerovo coal mine killed 21 miners in 2005.
But the Ulyanovskaya mine was opened only four-and-a-half years ago and Governor Tuleyev said the mine had been fitted with modern equipment.
Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu was sent to the area by President Vladimir Putin to oversee the rescue operation.
Mr Putin has declared Wednesday a day of mourning for victims of the mine disaster, as well as of Tuesday's fire at an old people's home in the southern Krasnodar region and Saturday's plane crash in Samara, central Russia.
April Fools’ Day worksheet A
In Britain, as in many other countries, there is a special day in the year when people play practical jokes on each other and when the media invents hoax news stories. This day is called April Fools’ Day, and takes place on 1st April.
Some April Fools’ Day hoaxes have been very easy to spot. Examples include a television report about a dinosaur in a London park, and a supermarket advertisement for ‘whistling carrots’. The supermarket advert said that when people cooked the carrots, they would start making a whistling sound as soon as they were ready to eat!
Even completely ridiculous hoaxes can fool people, however. One year, when the BBC said the government was going to ‘modernise’ London’s famous Big Ben clock by making it digital, lots of gullible people phoned the BBC to say they didn’t agree with the idea. The same thing happened a few years later when the BBC invented a story about Britain suddenly having a new national anthem, with all the words in German!
One of the most famous April Fools’ Day hoaxes was a BBC television programme in 1957 about ‘spaghetti trees’ in Switzerland. In the 1950s, most British people weren’t familiar with ‘foreign’ food such as pasta, so the programme made thousands of people think that spaghetti really did grow on trees.
In the United States, April Fools’ Day hoaxes include a 1998 advert by Burger King for a special ‘left-handed’ hamburger. The advert said that when a left-handed person bit into the burger, any sauce that dripped out would always fall to the right, away from their hand. Anyone who fell for that one must have felt quite embarrassed, but perhaps less embarrassed than the people in Sweden who put stockings on their televisions on 1st April 1962. Why did they do that? Because all Swedish televisions were black and white at the time, but an ‘expert’ had just appeared on a popular programme to say people could immediately see everything in colour if they put a nylon stocking over their sets!
April Fools’ Day worksheet B
A
Fill the gaps below to complete the crossword and reveal the animal a Tokyo zoo said it was going to receive on 1st April 2005. The zoo told the Japanese public that the animal was 1.65m tall and weighed 80kg. Strangely, however, it never arrived.
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1. People who are very ______often fall for April Fools’ jokes.
2. Burger King said the sauce in their ‘left-handed’ burgers would never ______onto the hands of left-handed people.
3. Some people believed the BBC when it said Britain was going to have a new national ______with German words.
4. The BBC once said the British government wanted to ______Big Ben by giving it a digital readout.
5. In Sweden in 1962, all televisions were black and ______.
6. Spaghetti is a kind of ______.
7. The ______for ‘whistling carrots’ was a hoax.
8. The media ______lots of stories on April Fools’ Day.
9. An April Fools’ hoax took place on a TV ______in Sweden in 1962.
10. The British supermarket didn’t really have any carrots that made a ______when they were ready to eat – it was a hoax.
11. The BBC is part of the British ______.
12. The hoax news story about a ______was very easy to spot.
April Fools’ Day worksheet C
B
Below are eight quotes on the subject of fools and fooling people, but they have been split into three parts and mixed up. Can you put them back together again?
1 / If you wish to avoid / of the time, some of the people all of / old men know young men are fools.2 / Young men think old / let people think you are a fool than / or not. You can’t fool them.
3 / Any fool can say / fool expects to be / break your mirror.
4 / You can fool all of the people some / children. They know if you really love them / wise can admit he is a fool.
5 / Who is / he is wise, but only someone / the fool who follows him?
6 / It is better to keep your mouth closed and / men are fools, but / to open it and remove all doubt.
7 / Only a / seeing a fool, you must / happy all the time.
8 / I really love pets. They’re like / more foolish? The fool, or / the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
National Anthems worksheet A
What do you think of your country’s national anthem? Maybe it fills you with national pride, or perhaps, on the contrary, you dislike it for some reason. Maybe you are indifferent towards it, or have never given it much thought.
What about the anthems of other countries? Not many people know the words of national anthems other than their own, but you might know some of the tunes – for example that of the 1)______ of France, or the Star-Spangled Banner of the United States.