Reading Task 1. Watch the video, read and circle the best answers A, B or C . https://youtu.be/6zrn4-FfbXw

Narrator: I remember the first time I saw a blue whale.

Man on boat: Look, look! (… Wow!)

Narrator: I’d followed them since childhood.

Diver: Where do you think it’s from? Is it from a ship?

Narrator: I could see plastic everywhere.

Every year 8 million tons of plastic are dumped into our oceans

Presenter: We were in what we thought was a relatively pristine environment. I started to wonder

what was happening in oceans elsewhere on the planet.

A journalist who loves the ocean

Narrator: Growing up, my world was the ocean. It’s where I feel the most spiritual.

And a champion who dives below

Diver: As a free diver, it was a place where I proved myself to myself. Finally have the

opportunity to pay the sea back.

A crisis with global stakes

Narrator: Only a fraction of the plastic that we produce is recycled.

Man 2 on boat: This is never going to degrade. It’s got nowhere to go.

Narrator: It’s something that these animals are forced to endure because it was man-made and

we put it into their environment.

Diver: The record is two hundred and seventy-six pieces of plastic inside one ninety-day-old

chick. If the plastics are in the food chain for the dolphin, then they're also in our food

chain.

Lady on boat: Exactly!

Narrator: Communities are built on these landfill sites … So sweet potatoes, corn, sugar cane,

all growing on forty years of garbage.

Do you have anything not wrapped in plastic?

… No!

… No!

To save our future

Narrator: We have to make our life better for our kids' children.

• We need a wave of change

Narrator: Change is possible! It starts with us!

• A Plastic Ocean

1. When did the first narrator start following blue whales?

a. When he was a teenager

b. When he was a child

c. When he was an adult

2. How many tons of plastic are dumped into the oceans every year?

a. 8 million

b. 5 million

c. 9 million

3. What does the narrator do for a living?

a. He’s a TV presenter.

b. He’s a diver.

c. He’s a journalist.

4. How does the free diver feel about her work helping to clean the oceans?

a. That more people should do it

b. That it’s her way to pay back the ocean for all the pleasure it has given her

c. That it’s an impossible job

5. Why is the plastic in the ocean never going to degrade?

a. Because it has nowhere to go

b. Because there is too much of it

c. Because more and more is being dumped daily

6. How many pieces of plastic were found in a ninety-day-old chick?

a. 256

b. 266

c. 276

7. What has been built on the landfill sites?

a. Beaches – including resorts for tourists

b. Factories – including plastic bottle factories

c. Communities – including their food production

8. What does the main narrator believe is possible?

a. He believes change is possible and it starts with us.

b. He believes change is possible if we stop buying plastic bottles.

c. He believes change is possible if we stop throwing bottles in the ocean.

9 How can you title a text

a.A Plastic Ocean

b. A Plastic Ocean

c. A blue whale

Writing

Task 2. What have people done to save our planet? Answer the question and write an essay.

In your essay you should: -

-write down your ideas in a logical chain;

- connect your ideas using appropriate linking words;

- use topic related vocabulary

я тест сделала осталось только второе

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IV. Read the article about the nursing profession in Britain.

These words will help you to understand the text:

to depend on - зависеть от;

skill - мастерство;

to get promotion - получить продвижение (по службе);

to work shifts - работать посменно;

mentally ill -душевнобольной;

to respect for the work - ценить работу;

reward - вознаграждение, награда.

the nursing profession

In Britain, every nurse is on a grade. The grade depends on experience and skills, and each grade has different responsibilities and pay. On the bottom grades are unqualified auxiliary nurses who do the routine work on hospital wards. On the top grades are nursing officers, who are usually administrators.

Auxiliary nurses are on the bottom grades, but student nurses get the lowest pay. However, students don't stay at the bottom of the pay scale forever. When they qualify, they start working on a middle grade. As they get experience, they can get promotion and move up the ranks to become staff nurse, then sister (charge nurse if a man), and perhaps eventually nursing officer.

Many nurses work shifts, and often they work overtime to earn more money. After basic training, many nurses choose to further study and become specialists. Nurses can specialize in many different fields - there are triage nurses working in Casualty, and psychiatric nurses who treat the mentally ill. There are health visitors who visit patients in their own homes, practice nurses working in surgeries, and midwives who deliver babies.

Many of them say they do not get enough pay and respect for the work they do. They say that the work is physically and mentally hard, that they work long hours and get very tired. But they also say that there are many goeat rewards which have nothing to do with money.

EXERCISES

I. Number these jobs from the highest grade (1) to the lowest (4). Two of them are equal.

1 b. nursing officer

2 a. charge nurse and d. sister

3 e. staff nurse

4 c. auxiliary nurse

II. Look through the article again and decide if these sentences are true (T) or false (F).

1). The more responsibility you have, the higher your grade.  (T)

2). Nursing officers are the same as auxiliary nurses. (F)

3). Students are paid less than auxiliary nurses.  (T)

4). A charge nurse is a man.  (T)

5). There are not many opportunities for British nurses to specialize. (F)

6). Many nurses say that the job is rewarding, but the pay is low.  (T)

III. Answer the questions:

1. What are the differences between the nursing grades in Britain? They haves different responsibilities and pay.

2. Who stays at the bottom of the pay scale? Students.

3. What fields can nurses in Britain specialize in? Triage nurses, psychiatric nurses, health visitors, practice nurses and midwives.

4. What fields can nurses in Russia specialize in? Very many fields.

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