Стр.30 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 8 класс

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LISTENING

10 T04 Listen to a radio talk. What is its subject? What is the main idea? Suggest your title for the talk.

Текст аудирования:

Why are typical teenagers never tired at 11 p.m., but they hate getting up in the morning? Are they lazy? No, the good news is that it’s natural.

Everyone has a natural body clock which tells them when to wake up and fall asleep. In teenagers, the chemical that controls sleep, melatonin, is in their brains between 11.00 p.m, and 8.00 a.m. The result is that teenagers don’t feel tired late in the evening, but, when they get up before 8 a.m., their brain is telling them to sleep. This lack of sleep means they are often unhappy, angry, can’t learn and get bad marks.

In the US a lot of high schools start at about 7.30 in the morning. This means the students are at their desks after only five or six hours sleep. However, they need nine to ten hours because their bodies and brains are still developing, so they are very tired. Tiredness means 20 percent of high school students fall asleep during their first two hours of school.

Sleep scientists are researching the problem. They say that it is crazy to fight nature, so the only answer is for schools to start later. As one scientist said, ‘At 7.30 a.m. students are at their desks, but their brains are at home in bed.’ Luckily, some head teachers listened to the new scientific advice and changed their school hours. The results are very interesting: teachers and parents say students behave better, learn more, get better marks and fewer students drop out.

11 T05 Read the questions. Then listen and choose the best.

1 This is a radio discussion.

a lesson.

b phone-in.

c discussion

d documentary.

2 The guest talks most about Dorothy Wordsworth.

a Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

b William Wordsworth

c Dorothy Wordsworth

d the Romantic poets.

3 The guest thinks Dorothy Wordsworth was fascinating.

a boring.

b fascinating.

C stupid.

D popular.

4 Dorothy wrote diaries.

a novels

b plays

c diaries

d poetry.

Текст аудирования:

Interviewer: My guest today on Radio Poetry is Gregory Thompson. Welcome to the programme, Gregory.

Guest: It’s a pleasure to be here.

Interviewer: You’re interested in the Romantic poets, aren’t you?

Guest: Yes, I am — I find their poetry and lives very interesting. I first read Coleridge’s Kuhla Khan at school. I then read more of his poems and those of his friend, the poet, William Wordsworth, and I studied the romantic poets at university.

Interviewer: So your main interest is in Coleridge and Wordsworth?

Guest: Well, it was. But now Dorothy Wordsworth — William’s sister — fascinates me.

Interviewer: Can you tell me why?

Guest: First let me tell you a bit about the family. There were five children and their father died when Dorothy was twelve years old. After that, she went away to school and then — when she was a young woman — she lived with different members of the family.

Interviewer: Was William with her?

Guest: No, at that time he wasn’t. The family didn’t have a lot of money, so the children couldntaskt be together. It wasn’t unusual then for poor relations to go and live with grandparents, aunts, uncles and so on. Dorothy finally lived with her brother again when she was in her twenties and after that she spent her life looking after him. She never got married. Interviewer: But why are you interested in her? She doesn’t sound very interesting.

Guest: Well, in the 1930s — about eighty years after she died, someone found her diaries. These are extraordinary — she wrote about her day-to-day life, nature, her poet brother and their famous friends like Samuel Coleridge and Sir Walter Scott. When you read the diaries, you learn a lot about how much she helped her brother. In fact, he sometimes used her ideas in his poems.

interviewer: As they say, behind every great man there is a great woman.

Guest: I’m sorry? What?

interviewer: ‘Behind every great man there is a great woman,’ I mean, Wordsworth could write poems and be famous because she looked after him and the home.

Guest: Oh, yes — but that’s what most women did then.

interviewer: Indeed, Did Dorothy publish anything when she was alive?

Guest: No, she didn’t. It is clear in her diaries that she didn’t want to be famous — her ‘job’ was to look after her brother so he could write. No one outside her family read her diaries until the 20th century. However, as I said, William used some of her notes and ideas, in his poems.

interviewer: So what happened to Dorothy?

Guest: Sadly, during the last part of her life she had serious health problems. She died in 1855, five years after her brother. It’s only this century that people learned about how much she helped one of our greatest poets.

interviewer: Can we read her diaries?

Guest: Yes, of course you can. You can buy them in any good bookshop.

Interviewer: Well, I think our listeners will be interested to find out more when they read these. Thank you for coming into the studio ...

12 Read the sentences and listen again. Tick true and cross false.

1 The guest first read Kubla Khan at university.

2 He wasn’t interested in Dorothy Wordsworth when he was at school.

3 Dorothy left her parentstask home when she was twelve years old.

4 Dorothy lived with William when she was a teenager.

5 The diaries are interesting because they are about politics and international news.

6 Dorothy Wordsworth’s life was typical for an English woman in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

7 Dorothy was jealous of William because he was famous.

8 William died before Dorothy.

13 Complete the saying the radio interviewer uses.

Behind every great man there’s a great woman.

Do you think this is true?

14 T06 Listen again to Monica, Jonathan and Lee and fill in the gaps.

Jonathan We didn’t really know 1) what was happening. We saw that the whole family 2) was waiting for us. Then my dad 3) switched on our new colour TV.

Lee After that I ran home, 4) turned on my computer and then I started surfing the 5) Internet. It was an 6) unforgettable day.

Monica I just couldn’t relax because I 7 ) was waiting for my exam results. Finally, at the end of August it 8) turned out that I had the best results in the class. I felt really 9) proud.

Текст аудирования:

1. It was in 1969. I was about five years old. My brother and I were sleeping and Mum came to wake us up. We didn’t really know what was happening. We got dressed and after that we went downstairs. It was the middle of the night — we felt really grown-up! We ran into the living room and we saw that the whole family was waiting for us — my Mum, my Dad and my grandparents. Then my Dad switched on our new colour TV. I still remember his face ...

2. After that I ran home, turned on my computer and then l started surfing the Internet. Finally, I found some information about the attack. I was so shocked. It was an unforgettable day.

3. I had a terrible summer. I just couldn’t relax because I was waiting for my exam results. Finally, at the end of August, it turned out that I had the best results in the class. I felt really proud. It was the best day of my life.

15 T07 Fill in the gaps. Then listen again to the story and check yourself. Explain the use of verbal forms.

In the summer of 1797 Coleridge 1) was travelling alone around southwest England.

One evening he 2) decided to spend the night in a lonely farmhouse.

He 3) wasn’t feeling very well and took some strong medicine.

While he 4) was sleeping, he had an amazing poetic vision.

When he 5) woke up, he found that he could still remember his fantastic dream.

Coleridge 6) took a pen and some paper and 7) Began to write.

Текст аудирования:

Narrator: Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of England’s greatest poets. He was also very unlucky... In the summer of 1797 Coleridge was travelling alone around southwest England. One evening, he decided to spend the night in a lonely farmhouse ... He wasntaskt feeling very well and took some strong medicine ... He sat in a chair by the fire and read a book. After a few minutes he fell asleep ... While he was sleeping, he had an amazing poetic vision — he saw a wonderful, exotic palace with beautiful gardens... When he woke up he found that he could still remember his fantastic dream. Coleridge took a pen and some paper and began to write ... Some people think that the first lines of this poem Kubla Khan — are some of the most beautiful in the English language.

Coleridge: In Xanadu, did Kubla Khan/A stately pleasure-dome decree ...

Narrator: While he was writing, somebody knocked at the door.

Coleridge: Who can that be?

A man: Good morning, Mr Coleridge!

Narrator; It was a man from Porlock, a town nearby. Nobody knows what the man wanted, but it was nothing very important.

The man: I was saying to my wife ... it was a cold evening, very cold. I was worried about my potatoes, so I went out into the garden ...

Narrator: The poet stood at his front door for almost an hour. As he was listening to this talkative stranger, Coleridge began to forget his dream ... He felt very irritated. Finally, when he returned to his pen and paper, the poet found that he could remember almost nothing. One of the great masterpieces of English poetry was lost forever.

SPEAKING AND WRITING

16 Describe a day when something frightening, amazing or embarrassing happened to you. Write what you say.

Remember to:

say when the story happened, how you felt and why it was important.

use linking words, e.g. then, next, after that, finally.

use the Past Continuous to say what you were doing at the time.