Progress check Unit 2 (7" grade) Variant 1 1. Listen and complete the sentences. These days a lot of people want to know foreign languages, Some of them have become (1) of the…

Progress check Unit 2 (7" grade) Variant 1 1. Listen and complete the sentences. These days a lot of people want to know foreign languages, Some of them have become (1) of the planet, They help people all over the world to give and get information and to (2) understanding. English is one of such languages. Sometimes people call English the global language, because nearly in all countries of the world people speak it. Nastya, a thirteen-year- old Russian pupil, explains why she wants to learn English. "It's fun to speak to people from different countries. When you travel abroad, you have to speak a foreign language because not many people there know Russian, If you speak (3), you'll have no problems they understand it almost in all places. When I came to Turkey, I made (4) with two girls from England and now i practice my English sending them e-mails every week." To learn English better Nastya reads a lot, listens to songs in English and watches different (5) and TV programmes in English. She also keeps her personal (6) and often looks up words in her English-English and English-Russian dictionarles. 2. Paraphrase the sentences. 1) She wants to have more tomatoes to make a salad. 2) Their words are very unusual. 3) We like summer more than winter. 4) Probably he doesn't understand anything. 5) He walked behind his parents into the bedroom. 3. Give two variants: British and American 1) A device that moves up and down inside a tall building and carries people from one floor to another, 2) An area of building where people can leave their cars. 3) A large vehicle that is used to transport goods by road. 4) A liquid which is used as a fuel for motor ve ovehicles. 4. Complete the sentences with the words: mother tongue / air / need / prefers / borrowed I vocabulary 1) Mary says she … traveiling by train to travelling by sea. 2) These words are not in my… 3) People travel by … faster than by car or by sea. 4) I … this camera from Alex. 5) People use English as … … in the Englieh-speaking countries. 6) Do we … any butter to make a pie? 5. Make sentences from these words. 1. already / has / Misha / in the sea / swum/, 2. you / met / famous / have / people /what /? 3. bult / never / has / he / a house /, 4 just / they / have / in the park / walked / 5 She / not esten / anything / this morning/. 6. Use the article a where necessary. 1) Have you ever seen such … blue cloudiess sky? 2) Don't teil me such … awful stories. 3) English has such … rich vocabulary. 4) I can't eat such … … ice cream. 5) Beaches with such … golden sand are very popular.