d a letter to the word on the left to make a new word. To help you, there is a clue for each new word. # WORD CLUE NEW WORD 0 tin The opposite of fat. thin 1 have Men do this if…

D a letter to the word on the left to make a new word. To help you, there is a clue for each new word. # WORD CLUE NEW WORD 0 tin The opposite of fat. thin 1 have Men do this if they don’t have a beard. 2 sick She’s hurt her leg and is using a walking …. 3 hut The opposite of open 4 coat The land meets the sea here. 5 our ‘Please … some juice into my glass.’ Максимальный балл – 5 Task 2. An anagram has all the same letters as another word, but in a different order. For example, dear is an anagram of read. Read the clues and write the anagrams. 0 Make near get money by working. EARN 1 Make hated the end of life. 2 Make name unkind. 3 Make earth an important part of the body. 4 Make wives things you look at. 5 Make notes a very hard thing. Максимальный балл – 5 Всероссийская олимпиада школьников по английскому языку РАЙОННЫЙ этап 2024/2025 учебный год Санкт-Петербург 7 – 8 КЛАССЫ 6 Task 3. Finish the first word and start the second word with the same two letters so that you have 2 different words as in the example. Write the new words. 0 READDRESS read address 1 BECO _ _ MORY 2 FIR_ _AMP 3 ME_ _MBERS 4 NARR_ _N 5 SA_ _MALE Read the text and choose the best option for each gap. Imagine that you are a printer (1) ___ in China around a thousand years ago. Paper, a Chinese invention, has already been (2) ___ use for hundreds of years. You produce printed books, but these are very expensive because they are difficult (3) ___. To print just a (4) _ page of a book, you have to take a wooden board and cut into it (5) _ all the words and pictures stand up from the wood. After that, you spread ink over the board, turn it upside (6) _ onto a piece of paper and press hard. And when you (7) _ boards for all the other pages, and printed enough copies of the book, there is no possibility of reusing them. This system is (8) _ than writing each book (9) _ hand, but it is still very slow. It (10) _ you and the other printers a very long time to make one book. 1. work / worked / working / works 2. in / or / under / since 3. making / made / to make / make 4. only / one / lonely / single 5. until / unless/ when/ if 6. under / down / over / up 7. have made / will make/ are making/ were made 8. quick / quickly / quicker / more quickly 9. at / by / next to / near 10. demands / asks / orders/ takes Максимальный балл – 10 Всероссийская олимпиада школьников по английскому языку РАЙОННЫЙ этап 2024/2025 учебный год Санкт-Петербург 7 – 8 КЛАССЫ 7 CULTURE STUDIES What’s the last word of each of these sayings? The first letter of each word is given to you. Example: Honesty is the best p _ _ _ _ _. Правильный ответ: policy 1. An apple a day keeps the doctors a_ _ _. 2. Better late than n _ _ _ _ . 3. Blood is thicker than w_ _ _ _. 4. First things f_ _ _ _. 5. No news is good n_ _ _. 6. Practice makes p_ _ _ _ _ _. 7. The best things in life are f_ _ _. 8. The grass is always greener on the other s_ _ _. 9. Two heads are better than o_ _. 10. Two wrongs don’t make a r_ _ _ _. Максимальный балл – 10 WRITING Task 1. Read this story and fill the gaps with one of the phrases below. There are two extra phrases. It was a Saturday afternoon and (1) ___ . We couldn't go outside (2) ___ , so we decided to play football in the sitting room. The score was 3-2 (3) ___ . Unfortunately, I kicked the ball too hard, hit the old silver clock above the fireplace (4) ___ . We thought our mother (5) ___, but all she said was, “Oh well, (6) ___ . I never liked that clock, anyway.” She even let us continue with our game, (7) ___! a). and broke it into pieces b). would be furious c). because it was raining d). though this time it was volleyball, using a balloon e). never mind, it can't be helped f). will be enjoyable g). it was sunny and hot h). and I was at home with my younger brother, Daniel i). and I was trying to equalise