Total 16] Task 2. Speaking You are given a card with a topic and questions to speak about for 2-3 minutes. Card 1 - «Earth and our place in it>> 1. What makes environmental problems? 2. What are some of the environmental problems that are affecting countries these days? 3. What are some problems that negatively affect animals? 4. What do you consider to be the world's worst environmental disaster caused by humans? Card 2 - «Charities and Conflict» 1. What types of charities do you think are doing the best and most effective work in the world? 2. What do you think about giving money to homeless people or beggars? 3. Do you think it is better to give time or money? 4. Do you think countries should help the poor in their own country before sending aid to other cou and why? Total [6]

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computers: a blessing or a curse?

in the one hand, computers can help people do something case easier and more convenient. for example: computer have permanent internet connection, so you can look up necessary information very quickly. in addition, if you have a computer you can take courses, study, gain knowledge. you can learn new programming language, design basics, or cook delicious. you can conveniently communicate with your distant relatives using a webcam.  

in the other hand, computer can distract you with its huge amount of games and entertainment. if you are going to do something necessary and notice a new computer game, you start to play it and you just can’t get enough.  

to sum up: new technologies are brilliant idea for study or learn something new, but it's also bad due to the sheer amount of entertainment.  

The white tiger is an individual of the Bengal tiger with a congenital mutation (not considered a separate subspecies). The mutation leads to a completely white coloration - a tiger with black-brown stripes on white fur and blue eyes. This color is very rare among wild animals. The frequency of appearance of white tigers is 1 individual per 10 000 with normal color. Reports of the white tiger for many decades came from Assam, Bengal, Bihar and especially from the territory of the former indigenous principality of Reva. The first discovery of the white tiger in nature, however, is attributed to 1951, when one of the hunters took a white male tiger from the lair that he had found and then unsuccessfully tried to obtain from him the same progeny from the female with normal color, but then after all succeeded in creating a second generation of white tigers. Over time, the population has significantly expanded: all white tigers, which are now contained in captivity, are descendants of the same found individual and have a relationship with each other. Now in captivity contains about 130 white tigers, about 100 of them - in India. The last known white tiger in nature was shot in 1958. The view that white tigers are albinos is wrong - in fact, this coloration is caused by the presence of recessive genes (a real albino tiger would not have black bands). If both parents are heterozygous, that is, orange, but are carriers of genes, then the chance to get their offspring in the form of a white tiger is 25%. Parents, one of whom is a white tiger, and the other an orange heterozygote, has a similar chance to increase up to 50%. If one of the parents is white and the other is orange, but homozygous, the whole offspring will be orange, but the carriers of the gene. White tigers are usually smaller (from childhood) than ordinary Bengal tigers, and often, due to closely related crossings, [1] have various genetic defects, including strabismus, poor vision, clubfoot, curved spine and neck, problems with kidneys. Nevertheless, the claim that infant mortality among white tigers is extremely high does not really correspond to reality. White tigers are popular not only in zoos, where they are often attracted to everyone's attention and are therefore considered a valuable specimen, but also in popular culture: in particular, some musical groups dedicated songs to them. I want this breed of tigers to be protected and not killed! Thank you for attention