Variant 1 Reading task Football (Soccer) Football or soccer

Speaking task. Do we need parents in our family?


Writing task. Why do we use libraries while we have our own rooms at home?


Listening task

Tourism has _____________________ the past few decades. It is actually quite a new thing. It _____________________ fifty years ago. The only people who travelled then were rich, and they _____________________. I guess tourism started in the late 60s and early 70s when airplane travel became cheap. The _____________________ suddenly became very _____________________. Everyone wanted their two weeks of sun in the summer. Tourism today is a multi-billion-dollar industry. There _____________________ the Earth untouched by tourism. The number of tourists _____________________. Millions of people from Russia, India and China are now taking vacations. Tourism really is making the world a global village. I’m not sure _____________________ or a bad thing.

Variant 17
Reading task
Money is what you use to buy things. You may earn money from completing household chores, getting good grades, for your allowance, or for losing a tooth! Money is very important in our world and comes in many different forms.People have been using money for hundreds of years. Before money gave specific values for things, people simply traded items. In the United States, we use the dollar as our currency or money, but people in different parts of the world use different currencies, though some countries also use or accept our dollars.
People earn money from the jobs they work and use that money to save for the future, pay for their houses, cars, food, taxes, medical needs and household items among other things. Even things such as turning the lights on, using the air conditioning or heat, and connecting to the internet cost money.

1. 
   Select all of the things that money might be used for.
   

1. 
   Началоформы to pay bills
   
2. 
   to pay you for doing your chores
   
3. 
   to save for the future
   
4. 
   to buy things
   

2. 
   How long have people used money?
   

1. 
   Hundreds of years
   
2. 
   They started recently
   
3. 
   Thousands of years
   
4. 
   Since the beginning of time
   

3. 
   According to the author of this story, money is ____________.
   

1. 
   notveryimportant
   
2. 
   only earned by adults
   
3. 
   very important
   
4. 
   only used in America
   

4. 
   What did people do before there was money?
   

1. 
   The story doesn't tell
   
2. 
   They made everything themselves
   
3. 
   People traded to get what they needed
   
4. 
   They just never got what they needed
   

5. 
   The dollar .....
   

1. 
   is used in the United States.
   
2. 
   is never used in other countries
   
3. 
   is not used very much in the United States.
   
4. 
   is used in every country in the world.