Note-taking. List the points in which the young generation is different from the one the preceded it

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Use reasons and specific examples to support your opinion. Two is a company, three is a crowd.

Sharing a flat certainly has some advantages. To begin with, it should be cheaper, and if you are sharing with people that you get on well with, it is nice to have some company at have rather than being all on you own. Also the household chores are shared, and that is very important, Particularly when you are younger, and you are living apart from your parents for the first time, it can be very enjoyable to live with people of your own age, whose interests and life-style you shave.
1. Which of the words underlined could be replaced with one of the following?
Especially, first of all, another point is that.
2. Identify the topic and the controlling idea.
3. Distribute the advantages listed in the paragraph into the following groups:
a. those concerning money
b. those concerning housework
c. those concerning people

Do you agree with the following statement? The more you learn about the subject the easier it becomes. Explain why.

Write a definition to the word. You may use any definition structure:
a dictionary

Give no less than five reasons to support the statement:
Motorcycling is dangerous.

Give the Russian equivalent to the English word combination:
to correct a statement

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Билет № 11

Some people think that it is disgraceful that a censor should interfere with works of art. Who is this person, they say, to ban this great book or cut that great film? No one can set himself up as a superior being. But we must remember two things. …., where genuine works of art are concerned, modern censors are extremely liberal in their views – often far more liberal than a large section of the public. Artistic merit is something which censors clearly recognise. And …., we must bear in mind that the great proportion of books, plays and films which come before the censor are very far from being ‘works of art’.
1. Fill in the gaps in the paragraph with the suitable linking words.
2. Write a naming definition of a work of art.
3. How does the author prove that censorship does no harm to real art?

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Use reasons and specific examples to support your opinion. Beauty lies in lover's eyes.

Hobbies are important for many reasons. First, a hobby can be educational. For example, if the hobby is stamp collecting, the person can learn about the countries of the world and even some of their history. Second, engaging in the hobby can lead to meeting other people with the same interests. Third, a person’s free time is being used in a positive way. The person has no time to be bored or get into mischief while engaged in the hobby. Finally, some hobbies can lead to a future job. A person who enjoys a hobby-related job is more satisfied with life.
1. Identify the controlling idea.
2. Make an outline of the paragraph.
3. Complete the sentence in the best way. The author:
a. proves that stamp collecting is the most educational hobby.
b. explains why hobbies are important.
c. believes that people take up a hobby when they are not satisfied with life.

Very often forgetting occurs when one set of ideas has got mixed up with another. Do you agree with this statement? Give your examples.

Write a definition to the word. You may use any definition structure:
a pen

Give no less than five reasons to support the statement:
Language may be grammatically correct and clear in meaning and yet create a bad impression.

Give the Russian equivalent to the English word combination:
to make a flow-chart

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Билет № 12

Oxford and Cambridge, founded in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries respectively, are easily the most famous of Britain’s universities. Today ‘Oxbridge’, as the two together are known, educate less than one tenth of Britain’s total university student population. But they continue to attract many of the best brains, and to mesmerise a greater number, partly on account of their prestige but also on account of the seductive beauty of many of their buildings and surroundings.
1. Write the words to match the definitions.
a. The name by which Oxford and Cambridge are collectively known.
b. To produce a great impression, to hypnotise.
c. To draw to itself.
2. What sort of relationship do the underlined words express?
They continue to attract many of the best brains on account of their prestige.
3. Put the parts of the sentence in the correct order.
A. plate-glass universities
B. with the expansion of
C. many more
D. higher education
E. were established

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Use reasons and specific examples to support your opinion. Where there is a will, there is a way.

The major problems a working mother faces concern her children. She must either find a reliable person who will be loving toward the children or a good day-care center where the children can go. If a child gets sick, the mother must make special arrangements for the child to be cared for at home, or she must stay home from work. While at work the mother may worry about her children. She may wonder if they are safe, if they are learning the values she wants them to have, and if her absence is hurting them emotionally. She may also regret not being able to take them to after-school activities or participate in family activities with them.
1. Make an outline of the paragraph.
2. Translate into Russian.
She may wonder if they are safe, if they are learning the values she wants them to have, and if her absence is hurting them emotionally.