Final exam task - Reading
Read, translate and complete the 2nd task.
Complete the 1st and the 3rd.
2013. április 29., hétfő
2013. április 11., csütörtök
Future tense practice
http://www.english-test.net/lessons/20/index.html (explanation)
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/future.htm (practice)
http://www.english-test.net/lessons/20/index.html (explanation)
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/future.htm (practice)
Future
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc8mJU9OaRQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FgSmdfRUus
Which years are mentioned in the song?
Which of these things are predicted?
intelligent machines, pills that controll you, test-tube babies, machines for doing everything, an invasion by aliens, changes in your body, a nuclear war, space travell to other stars, the end of human kind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc8mJU9OaRQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FgSmdfRUus
Which years are mentioned in the song?
Which of these things are predicted?
intelligent machines, pills that controll you, test-tube babies, machines for doing everything, an invasion by aliens, changes in your body, a nuclear war, space travell to other stars, the end of human kind
2013. április 4., csütörtök
• You are going to read an article about Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian explorer.
Some words are missing from the text.
• Your task is to write the missing words on the dotted lines (11-18) after the text.
• Use only one word in each gap.
1.ship
2.wrote
3.still
4.largest / biggest
5.to
6.allowing
7.has
8.on
9.would
10.too / very
A century ago, Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the Far North. He let his 1……………… drift slowly across the icy Arctic Ocean. In his diary, Nansen 2……………… he doubted anything could survive at this end of the Earth. So imagine his shock when he came face to face with a walrus!
People are 3…………….. amazed that animals can live in such harsh environments. But some animals are perfectly suited for a cold climate. That’s why the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—20 million acres in size—is set aside for them. Located in the northeast corner of Alaska, it’s our country’s 4………………. natural area reserved for wildlife.
The refuge’s mountains and forests are home 5……………….. minks, wildcats, and wolverines. Its plains are where caribou raise their calves. Even its seas are vital to wildlife. They provide summer passage for migrating whales. Come winter, they freeze solid, 6……………….. polar bears to roam in search of food. And seals use sea ice as a place to rest and nurse their pups.
In this frozen wilderness, little 7………….. changed since Nansen’s day. Unless you fly a plane, there are only two ways in: by boat or 8………….. foot. There are no roads, and the only trails are those left by animals. But all of that could change. Some people want to use the area to drill for oil.
Petroleum oil supplies fuel, heat, and energy for homes and businesses. Oil companies say drilling in the refuge 9…………… give people jobs. And it would allow the U.S. to depend a little less on foreign countries for oil.
But drilling would bring unwanted changes too. Homes would have to be built for workers. Soon, airports and garbage dumps would appear. So would trucks, bulldozers, and cargo planes. Before long, the Arctic would be 10…………… noisy, crowded, and polluted to be a refuge for wildlife.
Some experts claim there isn’t enough oil in Alaska to last a year. Rather than drill for oil, they suggest we use less energy. People could work at finding ways of reducing energy waste. And the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could continue its job: giving animals a home.
Some words are missing from the text.
• Your task is to write the missing words on the dotted lines (11-18) after the text.
• Use only one word in each gap.
1.ship
2.wrote
3.still
4.largest / biggest
5.to
6.allowing
7.has
8.on
9.would
10.too / very
A century ago, Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the Far North. He let his 1……………… drift slowly across the icy Arctic Ocean. In his diary, Nansen 2……………… he doubted anything could survive at this end of the Earth. So imagine his shock when he came face to face with a walrus!
People are 3…………….. amazed that animals can live in such harsh environments. But some animals are perfectly suited for a cold climate. That’s why the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—20 million acres in size—is set aside for them. Located in the northeast corner of Alaska, it’s our country’s 4………………. natural area reserved for wildlife.
The refuge’s mountains and forests are home 5……………….. minks, wildcats, and wolverines. Its plains are where caribou raise their calves. Even its seas are vital to wildlife. They provide summer passage for migrating whales. Come winter, they freeze solid, 6……………….. polar bears to roam in search of food. And seals use sea ice as a place to rest and nurse their pups.
In this frozen wilderness, little 7………….. changed since Nansen’s day. Unless you fly a plane, there are only two ways in: by boat or 8………….. foot. There are no roads, and the only trails are those left by animals. But all of that could change. Some people want to use the area to drill for oil.
Petroleum oil supplies fuel, heat, and energy for homes and businesses. Oil companies say drilling in the refuge 9…………… give people jobs. And it would allow the U.S. to depend a little less on foreign countries for oil.
But drilling would bring unwanted changes too. Homes would have to be built for workers. Soon, airports and garbage dumps would appear. So would trucks, bulldozers, and cargo planes. Before long, the Arctic would be 10…………… noisy, crowded, and polluted to be a refuge for wildlife.
Some experts claim there isn’t enough oil in Alaska to last a year. Rather than drill for oil, they suggest we use less energy. People could work at finding ways of reducing energy waste. And the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could continue its job: giving animals a home.
Read the comments (1-6) from the website of www.blogontravel.com, and then read the sentences (A-G) following them.
• Your task is to decide which messages the sentences refer to.
• Your task is to decide which messages the sentences refer to.
• Remember that there is an extra letter that you will not need.
1. Great list! I really hate the timeout issue. That’s happened so many times when I’ve put in all my details, flight times, picked seats and all of that stuff then I hit submit and the thing times out. AARRGH! The other one that bugs me a lot is when you get an email with an advertised price – $99 or something and I have yet to ever be able to figure out how to create an itinerary that even close to that low fare. If that at least give you something that can be used as a starting point. Throw your customers a bone!
2. I know it’s hard to find specials during the Holidays, I find the best times are a month or 2 after school starts.
3. Well this list is quite completely. I utterly agree with almost all of these annoyances listed, especially having to create an account for all those travel sites before you can go on. Gah. Losing a low far because it suddenly becomes unavailable is probably just the nature of online booking but I really bet that they do this on purpose sometimes. the old bait and switch! haha
4. Reading the post made me relieve all my horrible online booking experiences, grrr… i hate it when the web tech geeks get to decide how a website works and not usability folks that think of the customer. I have to add my other pet peeve with online booking, when a site advertises on the landing page a special deal and you click the link and cannot figure out how to book the deal, all of a sudden prices doubled just by clicking a link!!
5. The failure to offer realtime bookings or information is a real nightmare. I booked a holiday with onthebeach, a UK travel agency. My room was bumped a few days before Christmas for a New Years Eve holiday. I was told to find an alternative hotel on their website “because they are a web business”. I wasted ages doing this. Then had to phone to confirm and was told I had basically wasted my time – their web site was not updated and the hotel I found available on their web site wasn’t!. The only thing worse than using their website was dealing with them over the phone! Maybe an eleventh worst thing about online bookings is when they are an excuse for dreadful person to person customer service – this was my experience with these guys.
6. Hi Sylvain! Thanks for a great post – found it via a link from another travel blog. But have now added you to my list of feeds. Definately the kind of thing we would love to get from our users. What do you think would be the best way to get this kind of info from your users? We’re about to do some usability testing – so I’m reading on up on how best to do this. I think the overall rule is stand near them and keep quiet.
The person who commented in the blog
a. has an experience with online travel services and fake numbers
b. asks for advice for a future blog site
c. thinks the ideal time for going on holiday is after the kicking off of school
d. has an experience with a website showing expired data
e. has the same opinion about the bad internet services and dislikes online registration
f. does not like when not having enough time to prepare the registration online.
g. has never found a special offer matching his/her holiday periods
b. asks for advice for a future blog site
c. thinks the ideal time for going on holiday is after the kicking off of school
d. has an experience with a website showing expired data
e. has the same opinion about the bad internet services and dislikes online registration
f. does not like when not having enough time to prepare the registration online.
g. has never found a special offer matching his/her holiday periods
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