idiom-based
A Preface for a Magazine
You’re dreaming of being a journalist or a magazine’s editor. You are lucky to have been offered to work during summer holidays as an editor’s personal assistant. You are given a task to try to write a preface for the next issue of a teenager’s magazine.
Task Details
Your preface should include the name of the magazine, what sections the next issue has (for example, News, advertisements, Innovations, Fashion, Quizzes, Interesting people and etc.) You should write what a reader can find in each section in the next issue. You should describe 3 sections.
Use the following words and expressions in y…
Translating Idioms
Read the binomials and give the right translation of the following expressions into Russian.Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet, for example, safe and sound – ЦЕЛЫЙ И НЕВРЕДИМЫЙ. You will earn 0,5 points for each correct answer. Please, be careful with Russian spelling.
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Writing a Story — 18
CREATIVE WRITING (60 minutes — 35 points)
IMPORTANT: You should not indicate your name in any parts of your work
Write a story based on one of the given sayings:
Every cloud has a silver lining.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Use your imagination. Your story must have:
A title
Characters and their characteristics
A setting (when and where the story is taking place)
A plot (sequence of events)
A conclusion based on…
Writing a Story — 24
CREATIVE WRITING (60 minutes — 35 points)
IMPORTANT: You should not indicate your name in any parts of your work
Write a story based on one of the given sayings:
You live and you learn.
As you brew, so you must drink.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Use your imagination. Your story must have:
a title
characters
a setting (when and where the story is taking place)
a plot (sequence of events)
a conclusion (which comments on the saying).
You should write abo…