The notebook for English Control works district School № The pupil of 8th class

Date___________________

Progress Check 3
LISTENING
1. Listen and say True or False.

1) Aziz is going to the bookshop. _____

2) Lena likes to read late in the evening. _____

3) Lena’s favourite genre is poetry. _____

4) Aziz is going to buy a book about Harry Potter for his friend. _____

5) Aziz’s friend likes reading fantasy books. _____

6) Aziz’s friend has already read the novel “Jane Eyre”. _____

7) Lena hopes Aziz’s friend will like the book by Harper Lee

“To Kill a Mockingbird”. _____

2. Read and choose the appropriate word or phrase.


e.g. 1 a) were built b) was built c) build

2 a) goes back b) go back c) went back

3 a) are called b) is called c) calls

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4 a) has b) have c) had

5 a) was told b) tells c) told

6 a) there is b) there are c) is there

7 a) is found b) were found c) can find

8 a) is made b) makes c) are made

9 a) were brought b) bringing c) was brought

10 a) shows b) showing c) are showing

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WORD FORMATION

3. Make new words. Use -ist, -er/-or, -cian

e.g. piano= pianist
botany - _____________, physics - _____________, music _____________, mathematics _______________, geography _______________, swim _____________, create _____________, art _____________.

VOCABULARY

4. Read and choose the right words.

baker different leave air bread make

Samarkand bread
There is no tastier bread than Samarkand one. Real Samarkand bread can be soft for a long time. It is easy to (1) ___________. Everyone, who has ever visited Samarkand, does not (2) ____________ it without Samarkand bread. It is various: small or large but it is always delicious. That’s why people say legends about it.

Once Khan of Bukhara asked his advisers why the (3) ____________ is taken from Samarkand to Bukhara, if they could bake it in Bukhara. He was told that bread would be tasty if it was baked only in Samarkand. But the khan did not believe it and ordered to bring Samarkand’s best (4) ____________ to Bukhara and ordered him to bake bread in Bukhara. But the bread was (5) ____________ from what it was in Samarkand. Advisers decided that the reason was in the ingredients and brought from Samarkand a tandyr oven, flour, water, but even then the bread was different from Samarkand one. Then the baker said: “Probably, the reason is in the air.” But it was impossible to transport the (6) ____________, and soon the baker was allowed to return home. People began to carry bread from Samarkand as before.

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