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Elementary Készségfejlesztő feladatgyűjtemény 2 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, ox2 6dp, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Oxford University Press 2013 The moral rights of the author have been asserted First published in 2013 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 No unauthorized photocopying All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. 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CONTENTS ● File 1 It’s good to talk 4 ● File 2 Working 9 ’til 5 6 ● File 3 Festivals around the world 8 ● File 4 Cinema 10 ● File 5 Travelling in Europe 12 ● File 6 Cool Britannia? 14 ● File 7 Food and drink 16 ● File 8 I want to be in America 18 ● File 9 What a performance! 20 Test 22 English-Hungarian wordlist 24 1 It’s good to talk 1 READING Learn English at the a Why are you studying English? Would you like to study Winterbourne School abroad? Why (not)? What are the best ways to learn a Hello! My name is Martin Burridge and language? I am the director of the Winterbourne School. b Read the article about a language school. Mark the Who are we? sentences T (true), F (false), or ? (doesn’t say). The Winterbourne School of English is 1 The Winterbourne School is in the south-west of a small school, with eight teachers, six from England, one from the USA and Australia. one from Australia. We have about 80 students from all 2 Martin Burridge is from the UK. over the world. 3 The school has three different courses. Where are we? 4 You can drink free beer and wine in the students’ Winterbourne is in the south-west of England, about 20 room. minutes from Bristol and only two hours from London. 5 You can use the Internet in the resource centre. What do we offer? 6 There are classes on Saturdays. Course 1: 30 hours. One week of intensive business English. 6 hours every day. The ideal course for busy 7 Course 1 has classes in the afternoon. business people. 8 The minimum age of the students is 25. Course 2: 40 hours. Two weeks of general English. 4 hours a day. A good course for young adults who c Complete the information. don’t have a lot of time. 1 Number of teachers: ____________. Course 3: 80 hours. Long-term learners: One month of 2 Number of students: ____________. general English. 4 hours a day. This course is good for people who can stay in England for a longer time. 3 Classes start at ____________ a.m. Timetable 4 Cost of course 2: ____________. Classes are from 9.00 a.m. until 1 p.m. Monday to 5 Stay with a family or ____________. Friday. Students on Course 1 also have classes from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. d Would you like to study at the Winterbourne School? Prices Why (not)? Course 1 €480 Course 2 €550 Course 3 €990 Why is the Winterbourne School special? • Winterbourne is a beautiful little town with a 2 LISTENING good sports centre, a golf course, and some nice restaurants and pubs. 1.1 Listen to the receptionist and the student. For questions 1–5 complete the form. • Our teachers are all qualified with a minimum of two years’ experience. • We are a small school so we have Name 1 Anna _________________ time to listen to our students. • We have a large resource centre with Nationality 2 ______________________ Internet access, a listening room, and more than 1,000 books, videos, and Address 3 ___ London Road, Bristol cassettes. • We have a wonderful students’ e-mail address 4 ______________________ common room with TV, newspapers, free tea, coffee, and orange juice. Home phone number 5 ______________________0048 • You can stay with an English family or you can stay in a hotel. • Our students come back again and again and again! • The Winterbourne School of English – we want the BEST for you. 4 3 READING & SPEAKING Read the facts about world languages. Complete the information. The wonderful world of languages There are more than 200 artificial languages. There are more than 5,000 languages in the world. Some of them are spoken by very large numbers of people – 14 languages are spoken by more than 100 million people. And some All international pilots speak English. are spoken by very small numbers of people – 300 languages have nearly disappeared, with 90% of emails are in English. only a few old people who speak them. Some languages only have one speaker! Here are some more facts about the world of languages: There are 328 different languages spoken in the USA. 885 million people speak Mandarin Chinese at home. English has more words than any other language. 375 million people speak Hindi at home. 358 million people speak Spanish at home. 322 million people speak English at home. The official languages of the United Nations are: The shortest words in the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. Oxford English Dictionary are ‘I’ and ‘a’. English is the official language for 1.7 billion people. The longest English word in the Oxford English Dictionary is ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’. 1 Number of letters in longest English word: What do you think? ____________. Is it important to speak more than one language? 2 Percentage of emails that are not in English: ____________. 3 Number of official UN languages: PROJECT ____________. Find out about your language using the Internet. Write an 4 Number more Mandarin Chinese speakers than article for a school magazine. Include information on: Spanish: ____________. • number of speakers • number of words 5 Number of languages in the USA: ____________. • longest word • shortest word • any related languages 5 2 Working 9 ’til 5 1 VOCABULARY c 2.2 Listen to four people talking about their jobs. Match the jobs (A–E) with the speakers (1–4). There is a What do you think is the best job in the world? What’s one letter you don’t need to use. the worst? A teacher b What words and phrases can you use to talk about these B journalist jobs? Complete the chart. Add more words if you can. C taxi driver pupils interview airport passenger bill D pilot guest booking writing flight traffic driving E travel agent beach newspaper plane room holiday Speaker 1 ___ teacher pupils, classroom, school… Speaker 2 ___ Speaker 3 ___ journalist Speaker 4 ___ taxi driver pilot hotel receptionist travel agent c Choose a job from the table. What are the good points about this job? What are the bad points? Compare with a partner. 2 LISTENING a 2.1 Listen to someone talking about their job. Tick (✓) the words you hear. London Los Angeles plane fly Singapore flight schoolchildren passengers b Answer the questions. 1 What is the speaker’s job? 2 Which word is the odd-one-out? 6 3 rEADING & SPEAKING Tom Larter was born in London in 1961. When he a Read about Tom, who works in Germany. Mark the left school he worked as an electrician for seven sentences T (true), F (false), or ? (doesn’t say). years. ‘I worked for a photocopy company but I didn’t like it,’ said Tom as we sat in a bar, drinking 1 He works as a painter. his favourite beer. ‘Then the company went bust and 2 He’s married. I didn’t have a job for two years.’ Tom now lives in Mannheim, Germany. He works in a glass factory in 3 He misses English football. Heidelberg. He likes his job and the work is not too 4 He wants to stay in Germany. difficult. 5 He goes back to Britain every year. So why did he come to Germany? ‘I studied German at night school in London,’ explained Tom. ‘I knew 6 He doesn’t like his job very much. lots of vocabulary but my German accent was, and 7 He thinks Mannheim is the best place to live in still is, terrible. A friend of mine studied with me. Germany. He had a girlfriend in Germany and went over to join her in 1987. He wrote me a letter and told me 8 He watches a lot of football on TV. about life in Germany. I lived in a horrible flat in a 9 He paints every evening. poor part of London. One day my landlord told me I had to leave.’ 10 He never painted when he lived in London.