8th -term Variant №1

Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages The department of English lexis and stylistics Mid –course assessment on "The second foreign language(English)" 8^th -term Variant №1 1.Listen to the tracks and underline some points in them 2. Complete and match the sentences 3.Write short summary about the text ''The generation who refuse to grow up'. Head of the department: Amriddinova N.Sh.

Task 1



Task 1

A.

1. 
   False
   
2. 
   True
   
3. 
   False
   
4. 
   True
   
5. 
   False
   
6. 
   False
   
7. 
   True
   
8. 
   False
   

B.

1. 
   Contrived, alterly
   
2. 
   Cheesy
   
3. 
   Joke
   
4. 
   Can’t sing
   
5. 
   Better
   
6. 
   Manipulated
   
7. 
   Don’t care
   
8. 
   Seriously, obviously
   

Task 2
1 Complete the exclamations with What …, What a …, or How… .

Example How terrific!

1 What a wonderful meal!

2 How awful!

3 What a silly thing to say!

4 What brilliant news!

5 What clever children!

6 How absolutely ridiculous!

7 What a nice surprise!

8 What confusion!

2.Match a sentence (1–9) with a response (a–k). Not all the responses are used. One example has been given.
1 f You really should apologize to your parents.

2 K My computer isn’t working. Can I use yours?

3H I didn’t go to the party.

4 B Have you spoken to your boss yet?

5 C I’m sorry, but I can’t pay you what I owe you.

6 I We’re going out for a walk.

7 B Ow, I’ve cut my finger.

8 E Shall we eat Chinese or Italian?

9 D I don’t know whether to take the job or not.
a For goodness’ sake stop criticizing me!

b There’s no point. She never listens.

c Never mind. Give it me when you can.

d I see what you mean. It’s a difficult decision.

e I don’t mind. You choose.

f Why? I don’t care what they think!

g Have you? Let me have a look.

h How come? Were you ill?

i Hang on a sec. I’ll come with you.

j I bet you were. I’d have reacted the same way.

k By all means. Help yourself.
3.Complete the sentences with the correct form of get and the particles in the box. Some of the particles are used more than once.
Out at over up through off
Example I tried to get out of doing the test but my teacher made me do it.
1 Where are the children? I bet they are getting up to something naughty!

2 My parents are so critical. They are always getting at me!

3 He’s fine now, but it was a long time before he got over the illness.

4 I had paint all over my hands. It took me ages to get it off .

5 I tried to call him on his mobile phone but I couldn’t get through .

6 We tried to keep things a secret but eventually the truth got out .

7 I gave up trying to teach myself Russian after getting up to lesson 20.

8 Don’t be nervous. You will get throughtomorrow’s test with no problem.

Task 3

3.Write short summary about the text ''The generation who refuse to grow up'.

The text has touched one of the most significant issues of today. Nowadays, our young generation, people aged from 20 to 25 do not know what to do in the life. They have no any plan for the future.

It is true that most of the people nowadays are feared of responsibilities such as marriage, family, having children and so on. This situation is different in many countries, inasmuch as it depends on culture, national identity and mentality as well. According to the text, the most frequent answer from parent, "What is your plan?” many people answer I don’t know.

Parent always persuade their children to be ready for the life, save money for the house, settle down and star building their career, at least create a family. However, most of the youngsters do not want to do anything, either they do not know what to do. Sociologists argue that it does not depend on economy, for the blaming the expensive houses and so on. The key of this issue is fear of responsibilities.

Nowadays, people get married in 32-35 age, however, 30 years ago this data was quite shorter 22-25. According to the professor Furedi, today young people are spoilt with choice. In other words, they cannot decide independently what to do and make a choice by themselves.

Despite, there are people who begun to change their life style and bought a house, got married and started a family. They became much happier than before and successfully completed the life phase which is called “I don’t know”.