Writing
Form 10
1. Many people, especially parents, believe that the media, in particular television and movies, influence human behaviour. Do you agree with this idea? How do you think this will continue to change our behaviour and relationships in the future? Do you think parents should limit their children's viewing of televisions and movies? If so, how?
2. In modern society people are often believed to be 'winners' or 'losers'. What do you think these terms mean? Which would you want to be in the future? Is there anything that you would never do for the sake of that? What is it? Why?
3. Some people believe that schools must teach only basic background skills like reading, writing and doing sums, and that deeper knowledge should be given only in colleges or universities because at school children have to waste a lot of time and effort on something they will never use in their future life. What do you think of this?

Speaking
1.
Imagine that you have won the first prize in a lottery — a 30-day trip for two to any country in the world. Where will you go? What would you like to see? Whom will you take with you and why? How will you spend your time?
2. Very often teenagers regard maturity as being able to act like adults in hanging out late, smoking, and drinking alcohol. Does all this really make a mature person?
3. The literature today is different from what it was, say, 100 years ago. What do you think the difference is? Which kind of literature is closer to you personally and why?
4. Most of the TV channels today exist on the money received from commercials. Which would you prefer: fewer TV channels and less advertising or more channels and more commercials? Why?
5. A lot of people believe that many of the newspapers and magazines today are not worth the paper they are printed on. Do you agree? What printed periodicals do you think are worth reading and why?
6. There's a common belief that children should follow in their parents' steps. Are you planning to take up one of your parents' career? Why? (Why not?)
7. In one of his songs Sting says about the way you should look, «Be yourself — no matter what they say». How do you understand these words?
8. How do you view the advantages and disadvantages of the today's
multimedia? How should they be best used for the sake of the human in your opinion?
9. Ukraine is going to elect the President. If you were to run for the office, what guidelines would you include in your political platform?
10. What do you think distinguishes a good actor? Can you provide any examples? Have you ever wanted to become an actor (actress) yourself? Why? (Why not?)
11. How do you understand the word “independence”? What do you think makes an independent person? Would you like to be one? Why? (Why not?)
12. If you were a movie producer and had a chance to screen any book you would like, what book would it be? Why? What actors would you invite to star? Why them?
13. All modern music (both classical, pop, and rock) is based on the rhythm rather than on the melody, which some critics view as a crisis. Do you agree? Why? (Why not?)
14. Both students, teachers, and parents are very often dissatisfied with the school today.
What changes do you think should be made to improve it?
15. There is a well-known saying «We Are What We Eat». How do you understand it? Do you agree?
16. How do you understand the proverb «The only free cheese is in a mousetrap»? Do you agree? How would you apply this proverb to modern life?
17. Imagine that you have the power to make any your 3 wishes come true. What would they be? Why?
18. In just a few years you may probably become a parent yourself. What would you change in bringing up your children compared to the way you are brought up by your parents? Why?
19. Many modern home appliances have been designed to make our lives easier and save our time. Do you support this idea? What appliances would you like to design or use in your home? Why?
20. Do you agree that gentlemanship cannot exist in our time of individualism and competition? Why? (Why not?) Can you imagine how the issue might be applied in modern life if possible?

10th FORM
LISTENING COMPREHENSION
MOTHER TERESA
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Mother Teresa was a simple nun. She never wanted to be famous, but everyone in the world knew who she was. She received many important awards. She travelled around the world to accept them. She asked people for help.
Then she gave everything to the poor.
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 in what is now Macedonia. She was the youngest of three children. Agnes's father died when she was a child. Her mother made dresses to support the family. Agnes's mother also liked to do charity work, such as visiting the sick. Agnes often went with her, and she enjoyed helping these people. She was a good and religious girl.
Even as a child, Agnes wanted to be a nun. When she was 18 years old, she joined a group of nuns in
Darjeeling, India. There, she chose the name Teresa. Then she went to Calcutta to work at St. Mary's School. The school was in a convent. Sister Teresa lived in the convent and worked at the school for 20 years. She eventually became the principal. During all those years, Sister Teresa was always concerned about how other people lived. The convent had clean buildings and beautiful lawns. But outside the convent, the streets: were dirty and crowded and full of very poor people.
One day in 1946, Sister Teresa was riding on a train to Darjeelmg. She looked out of the window and saw dirty children. They were wearing rags and sleeping in doorways. Sick and dying people were lying on filthy streets.
She loved her work at the school, but she realized that other people needed her help more. At that moment, she believed God sent her a message. She decided to go to work with the poor.
Two years later, Sister Teresa left the convent. First, she went to a hospital to learn to take care of sick people.
After three months, she was ready to live with the poor and the sick. One day, she saw a group of poor children and called them to her. She told them she was going to open a school. The school had no roof, no walls, and no chairs.
On the first day, only five students came. She used a stick to write lessons in the dirt.
Several months later. Sister Teresa had many students. Everyone in Calcutta knew about her. A friend let her use part of his house for the school. She taught the children language and math. She also taught them how to keep clean and stay healthy. Soon, other nuns came to help her. Sister Teresa was happy that they wanted to join her. But she told them that life with her was not easy. She said that everyone had to wear the same clothes — white cotton saris. She wanted all the nuns to look like the poor people in India.
In 1948, Sister Teresa started her own group of nuns. They were called the Missionaries of Charity. She was their leader, so they called her "Mother" Teresa. The nuns lived in the slums with people who were poor, dirty, and sick. It was hard work and the days were long. But many young nuns came from around the world to join Mother
Teresa.
One day, Mother Teresa saw an old woman in the street. She took her to a hospital. They refused to help the woman because she was poor. Mother Teresa decided to open a place for the sick and the dying. Later, she started homes for children without families. She also started clinics. Over the years, news of her work spread around the world. Many people sent her donations of money Others came to work with her in India or other places. By 1990, the
Missionaries of Charity were working in 400 centres around the world.
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Over the years,. Mother Teresa received many great awards, such as the Nobel Peace Prize, But she always said her greatest reward was helping people. Her message to the world was, "We can do no great things-only small things with great love". She died in1997 at the age of 87.The whole world mourned her death.

Task 1. True or False Statements
Listen to the text. Put a tick (٧) next to the true statements and cross (x) next to the false ones.
1. Everyone in the world knows who Mother Teresa was.
2. Agnes chose the name Teresa when she joined a group of nuns in India.
3. Sister Teresa had worked at St. Mary's school for 20 years and eventually became a principal.
4. Sister Teresa was rarely concerned about the convent where the school was.
5. She decided to go to work with the poor because she didn't like her work at school.
6. Sister Teresa was the only nun in the school she opened.
7. In their white cotton saris Sister Teresa and the nuns looked like poor people in India.
8. The Missionaries of Charity called her "Mother" Teresa because she guided and directed them.
9. The Missionaries of Charity worked mainly in India.
1.0. Mother Teresa didn't consider the Nobel Prize the greatest reward.
Task 2. Multiple Choice Questions
Listen to the text again. Choose the one best answer A, B, C, D to each question.
1. Mother Teresa became famous because she...
A. started a hospital.
B was a good teacher.
C. knew everything about everybody.
D. lived her life to help others.
2. When Agnes was 18 years old, she went to...
A. Macedonia.
C.India.
B.Mexico.
D. Indonesia.
3. Sister Teresa lived and worked in the convent in Calcutta for...
A. two years.
C. twenty years.
B. twelve years.
D. twenty two years.
4. Right after Sister Teresa had left the convent, she...
A. went to hospital to learn to take care of sick people.
B. went to Calcutta.
C. travelled around the world to accept awards.
D. went to St. Mary's School.
5. Sister Teresa decided to Work with the poor...
A. when she did charity with her mother
B. when she saw sick and dying people lying on dirty streets.
C. when she asked people for help.
D. when she opened her school.
6. Mother Teresa's first school...
A. taught religious subjects only.
B. was very small and simple.
C. wasn't liked by the people of Calcutta.
D. had clean buildings and beautiful lawns.
7. The Missionaries of Charity was...
A. an international organization.
B. a local company.
G. a good working system.
D. the group of nuns.
8. The nuns who worked with Mother Teresa...
A. wanted to be famous.
В. lived like other nuns.
C. had a very hard life.
D. learned languages and math.
9. Mother Teresa and her group of nuns wore...
A. old and torn clothing.
C white cotton saris.
B. long black dresses, D. plain clothes.
10. She died...
A. in 1998 at the age of 87.
C. in 1997 at the age of 87.
B, In1999 at the age of 97.
D. in 1998 at the age of 97.

READING TEST 1
FOOTBALL
The full official name of "soccer"(as it is called in the USA and sometimes in Britain) is "association football".
This distinguishes it from other kinds such as rugby football (almost always called simply "rugby"), Gaelic football,
Australian football and American football. However; most people in Britain call it simply "football". This is indicative of its dominant role. Everywhere in the country except south Wales, it is easily the most popular spectator sport, the most-played sport in the country's state schools and one of the most popular participatory sports for adults.
In terms of numbers, football, not cricket, is the national sport, just as it is everywhere else in Europe.
British football has traditionally drawn its main following from the working class. In general, the intelligentsia ignored it. But in the last two decades of the twentieth century, it has started to attract wider interest. The appearance of fanzines is an indication of this. Fanzines are magazines written and published by the fans of some of the clubs.
One or two books of literary merit have been written which focus not only on players, teams and tactics but also on the wider social aspects of the game. Light-hearted football programmes have appeared on television. There has also been much academic interest. At the 1990 World Cup there was a joke among English fans that it was impossible to find a hotel room because they had all been taken by sociologists!
Many team sports in Britain, but especially football, tend to be men-only. In the USA, the whole family goes to watch the baseball. Similarly, the whole family goes along to cheer the Irish national football team. But in Britain, only a handful of children or women go to football matches. Perhaps this is why active support for local teams has had a tendency to become violent. During the 1970s and 1980s football hooliganism was a major problem in
England. In the 1990s, however, it seemed to be on the decline. English fans visiting Europe are now no worse in their behaviour than the fans of many other countries.
Attendances at British club matches have been falling for several decades. Many stadiums are very old, uncomfortable and sometimes dangerous. Accidents at professional football matches have led to the decision to turn all the country's football grounds into "all-seater" stadiums. Fans can no longer stand, jump shout and sway. It is assumed that being seated makes fans more well-behaved. This development will turn football matches into events for the whole family.
Reading comprehension 2
DINOSAUR HUNTERS (after Kate McMullan)
Jim Jensen is a famous dinosaur hunter. He has been hunting dinosaurs for years and years. Once he discovered a dinosaur with a third eye in the middle of its forehead. Another time he discovered the biggest dinosaur ever. He is the best dinosaur hunter there is. That's why he's called Dinosaur Jim.
Of course, dinosaurs don't live on earth anymore. The last ones disappeared §bout sixty-five million years ago. So how can Dinosaur Jim hunt dinosaurs if there aren't any around?
To find out, imagine it is 140 million years ago. The oceans are warm and shallow. The weather is always sunny and dry. Lush green ferns and palm like trees grow everywhere. Dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes roam the earth.
Some of the dinosaurs are no bigger than a chicken. Others are taller than a six-storey building. Some have horns and spikes. Others have duck bills and bird feet. There are no people yet. It is the middle of the
Mesozoic Era. It is the age of reptiles.
Picture a huge Brontosaurus walking to a lake. Its footsteps echo like thunder through the forest. This
Brontosaurus is old and weak. It takes a last drink from the lake. Then it falls on its side in the mud. It is dead.
In time the soft flesh of the dead Brontosaurus rots away. But the hard bones sink deep into the mud.
The mud protects the bones. They do not rot away.
For millions of years the bones lie under the ground. Rain falls. It seeps down through the ground, dissolving minerals in the rocks. The rainwater carries the minerals along as it trickles down, down to the bones.
Like all bones, the Brontosaurus bones are filled with holes too small to see. The rainwater seeps into these holes. The water evaporates. But the minerals in the water stay and harden in the bones. Little by little what once was bone turns to stone. The bones of the Brontosaurus are now stone fossils.
Earthquakes rattle these fossil bones around. Volcanoes erupt and bury the bones under layers of lava. Glaciers drag tons of ice and snow over the bones. Oceans flow over the land. Their currents lay tons of sand and broken shells over the bones. The weight presses on the mud around the bones. Slowly the weight turns the mud around the bones to stone too.

Task 1. Multiple Choice Questions
Read the text. Choose the one best answer A, B, C, D to each question.
1. Most people in Britain call soccer simply..
A. association football.
C. football.
B. rugby.
D. match.
2. Football is the less popular spectator sport in...
A. Wales.
C. England.
B. Scotland.
D. Northern Ireland.
3. Football is the most popular participatory sport for...
A. the working class.
C. adults.
B. the intelligentsia.
D. children,
4. The appearance of fanzines is the indication of...
A. a number of football clubs.
B. a wider interest of football fans.
C. a football national character.
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D. the football official name.
5. Social aspects of football are discussed in...
A. magazines.
C. TV programmes.
B. books.
D. a crowd.
6. The whole families go to football matches...
A. to have a rest.
C . to cheer the team.
B. to discuss their problems.
D. to meet friends.
7. Football hooliganism was on the decline...
A. in the 1970s.
C. in the 1990s.
B. in the 1980s.
D. in the 2000s.
8. Many stadiums in Britain are...
A. very old.
C. big.
B. comfortable.
D. ruined.
9. The British football grounds are turned into...
A. professional.
C. clubs.
B. "all-seater" stadiums.
D. sports teams.
10. New "all-seater" stadiums make people more...
A. healthy.
C, light-hearted.
B. well-behaved.
D. good-looking.

Task 2. Multiple Choice Questions
Read the text. Choose the one best answer А, В, С, D to each question.
1. Jim Jensen was called.
A. Dinosaur Jim.
C. Dinosaur John,
B. Dinosaur Jam.
D. Dinosaur Jill.
2. The dinosaurs disappeared...
A. 65 million years ago.
C. 140 million years ago.
B. 60 million years ago.
D. 145 million years ago.
3. In the age of reptiles the dinosaurs...
A. roamed the earth.
B. swam in the shallot oceans.
C. lived alongside with people.
D. disappeared.
4. In the times when the dinosaurs lived,...
A. it often rained.
C. there were many hunters.
B. the weather was sunny.
D. the oceans were deep.
5. The ... protect the Brontosaurus bones.
A. ground C. mud
B. lake D. air
6. The Brontosaurus bones are filled with...
A. minerals.
C. rainwater.
B. holes.
D. sand.
7. What once was a bone turns to...
A. layers of sand.
C. glaciers.
B. stone fossil.
D. mud.
8. A paleontologist studies...
A. the earth's shifts.
B. earthquakes.
C. plants and animals from the past.
D. how to dig out fossils.
9. Dinosaur Jim figures out everything about...
A. fossilized bones.
C. mountains.
B. hunters.
D. the weather in Mesozoic era.
10. The text primarily discusses...
A. a monster in stone.
C. Mesozoic era.
B. Jim Jensen.
D. Brontosaurus.