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Find and underline ten mistakes (lexical and grammar) and write the wrong variant in the left and the correct variant in the right column of the table below the text. Текст с ошибками Prehistoric Scotland Located on the western fringes of the European continent, Scotland was one of the last regions to be inhabiting after the end of the last Ice Age. The first humans arrived over 9,000 years before, around 7,000 BC, and were nomadic hunters and gatherers, but settled as farmers. The eldest surviving evidence of their Neolithic society is found a…

Comment on the story in pictures. В задании не указывался предполагаемый формат ответа и его объем…

Read the fable and write down the moral it contains in the space below the fable. The Ant and the Grasshopper Fable. In the field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest. “Why not come and chat with me,” said the Grasshopper, “instead of toiling and moiling in that way?” “I'm helping to lay up food for winter,&r…

Comment on the following extract (use 100–150 words). Extract Tourism and Global Environmental Change: Ecological, Economic, Social and Political Interrelationships The Coastal and Marine Environment Since the very beginnings of tourism as a significant human activity the coastal environment has been a major drawcard (Feifer 1986). The marine environment has engendered a sense of wonderment, awe, reverence and fear since humankind evolved, and much of that early mystique has remained to the present. The coastal environment has been an…

Write the appropriate ending to the story given below.after Somerset Maugham The Third Wish (after Joan Aiken) Once Mr. Peters was driving in his car at dusk. He entered a straight, empty stretch of road and heard a faint crying, and a struggling and thrashing, as if somebody was in trouble far away in the trees. He left his car and climbed the mossy bank beside the road. Then he saw the gleam of water. Coming closer he found that it was a swan that had become entangled in the tho…

Write the appropriate ending to the story given below.after Somerset Maugham I suppose every family has a black sheep. Tom had been a sore trial to his for twenty years. He had begun life decently enough: he went into business, married, and had two children. The Ramsays were perfectly respectable people and there was every reason to suppose that Tom Ramsay would have a useful and honourable career. But one day, without warning, he announced that he didn't like work and that he was…

Find and underline ten mistakes (lexical and grammar) and write the wrong variant in the left and the correct variant in the right column of the table below the text. Текст с ошибками Why Do Seashells Sound Like The Ocean? Its lovely to reminiscence about your beach vacation by listening to the sound of waves in a big conch shell — but be aware that it isn't the ocean you listen. The shape of seashells allow them to capture and reflect ambient noise, amplifying certain frequencies, so when you hold one to your ear, your really just hearing echoes of the quite sounds that are already surr…

Comment on the following statement: «Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference» (Sir Winston Churchill)…

Read the titles of some of the best novels in English. Who were these novels written by? Authors: Jane Austen; Emily Brontë; Agatha Christie; James Fenimore Cooper; Charles Dickens; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Kazuo Ishiguro; Jack London; W. Somerset Maugham; Oscar Wilde. Нажмите на название книги, чтобы увидеть её автора и сравнить со своим ответом.  The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro Wuthering Hei…