Independent work variant Read the text and fill in the blanks with the appropriate words

3.Write a short essay on the topic “Foreign Languages in Our Life “(200-250words)

4. Speak on the topic: “English culture”
Variant 21
1. Read the text and fill in the blanks with the appropriate words
There are many __1__people in Great Britain. People of Great Britain honored the ___2____of great people of the past. Here the names of some of __3___.
They are William Shakespeare, a great writer of the middle Ages. Charles Dickens, the most popular___4___ writer, the founder of realistic ideas and others.
William Shakespeare the greatest writer of ___5__was born 1564 in the little town of Stratford- upon- Avon. He was an actor and produced his own plays, which ___6___staged at the Globe Theatre. His famous plays are: “ Romeo and Juliet”, “Hamlet”, “Othello”, “King Lear”, “King Richard II”. In 1613 after the Globe had been destroyed by fire ___7___performance of Henry VII he retired and stopped writing. By then he was very ill and ___8__on April 23, in 1660.
Charles Dickinson was born at Portsmouth on the 7^th of February 1812.He was a clerk in ___9___office and as a reporter he had to go to the country and he described his experiences in many of his novels. A firm of publishers asked Dickens to write some short ___10____to illustrate a number of amusing pictures they intended to publish.

1. a) large b) tall c) mostfamous d)famous

2. a) memory b) moment c)life d) victory
3. a) they b) their c)them d)they
4. a)English b) French c)Italian d)American
5. a) novels b) plays c)stories d)drama
6. a) was b) are c)were d) is
7. a) among b) during c) by d) till
8. a) died b) dead c) live d)lived
9. a) a lawyers b)a lawyers‘ c)a lawyer’s d)a lawyer’
10. a) article b)articles c)novels d) play
2.Listen to the text and write ten or more questions according to it.

3.Write a short essay on the topic: “Travelling”.(200-250words)