В. П. Кузовлева "Английский язык 10-11 класс" моу "сош №20 с углубленным изучением отдельных предметов" г. Белгорода

You have 20 minutes to do this task.

Write a letter to Sarah and answer her question.

Remember the rules of letter writing.

You have 40 minutes to do this task.

Comment on the following statement.
At sixteen she is a typical teenager.
What can you say for and against this statement?

Write 200 – 250 words.

Use the following plan:

- make an introduction (state the problem)

- express how you understand the statement.

- draw a conclusion

Family life.

• 
  There are 286,100 marriages each year and
  160,000 divorces.
  

• 
  The typical family today has 1.6 kids.
  
• 
  The most popular boy's name is Jack.
  
• 
  The most popular girl's name is Chloe
  

strict - строгий

permission - разрешение

dressmaker - nпортниха

upbringing - воспитание

responsibility - ответственность

for his own good - ради его же блага

Spare the rod and spoil the child. Пожалеешь розгу - испортишь ребенка

a) an early age

c) a middle age

2. In … the law made it easier to get a divorce and now Britain is often called 'the divorce capital of Europe'.

a) 1969,

b) 1978,

a) A few

c) A lot of

b) The minority

c) Some

5. Children have … and the things they are interested in reflect this: music, computers, television, the Internet, fashion, shopping and money.

a) less freedom

b) more freedom

c) some freedom

6. As for young British people, they are keen … and can't wait to move out of their parents' homes, although for some of them this may be financially impossible.

a) to become dependent

b) to become lonely

c) to become independent

7. Members of a family try to keep in touch and that's why … is so important in Britain.

a) Christmas

b) New Year

c) Birthday
Test 2 (grammar)

1. … in Britain still get married and stay together until the end of their lives.

a) The elderly

b) The retired

c) The young

2. … treat the … more as equals than they used to.

a) The retired, the young

b) The elderly, the young

c) The disabled, the elderly

a) despite the act that

b) because of

c) though

4. Britain is often called 'the divorce capital of Europe' … the law which made it easier to get a divorce.

a) in spite of

b) although

c) because of

5. … that it is difficult for members of a family to be in regular contact with each other they try to keep in touch.

a) In spite of the fact

b) Because of

c) While

1. In Great Britain some categories of people are entitled to financial help. The benefit paid to retired people is the state pension or retirement pension, to which women are entitled at the age of 60 and men at 65. Anyone below the retirement age of 65 who has previously worked for a certain minimum period of time can receive unemployment benefit (known colloquially as the dole).

2. Women who leave work to have a baby receive maternity pay from their employer. Women, who do not qualify for this, for example, the self-employed, receive a maternity allowance from the government. A woman whose husband dies before he retires, receives a widow's pension if she is aged 45 or over. If she has children, she receives a widowed mother's pension.

3. Some people are entitled to neither pension nor unemployment benefit (because they haven’t previously worked for long enough or because they have been unemployed for a long time). These people can apply for income support and if they have no significant savings, will receive it.

4. Child benefit is a small weekly payment for each child, usually paid directly to mothers, for examples are housing benefit (distributed by the local authority, to help with rent payments), ness benefit, and death grants (to cover funeral expenses).

5. Family credit is for working families on modest incomes. Income support is for those without work and with low financial resources.

There is also a housing benefit scheme, a mobility allowance available to the disabled to pay for transport or to buy a special vehicle. Invalidity pension is paid to a person who is unable work after a sickness period.

№ текста	1	2	3	4	5
тема

Ключи: 1- E 2- C 3 –B 4 – D 5 – A (6 -F)
Повышенный уровень задания

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски 1 – 6 частями предложений, обозначенных буквами А - G. Одна из частей в списке А – G лишняя. Занесите букву, обозначающую соответствующую часть предложения, в таблицу.

In Great Britain some categories of people are entitled to financial help. The benefit paid to retired people is the state pension or retirement pension, to which women are entitled at the age of 60 and men at 65. Anyone below the retirement age of 65 who has previously

Women who 2 ………………to have a baby receive maternity pay from their employer. Women, who do not qualify for this, for example, the self-employed, receive a maternity allowance from the government. A woman whose husband dies before he retires, receives a widow's pension if she is aged 45 or over. If she has children, she receives a widowed mother's pension.

Some people are entitled to neither pension nor unemployment benefit (because they haven’t previously 3 ……………… or because they have been unemployed for a long time). These people can apply for income support and if they have no significant savings, will receive it.

Child benefit is a small weekly payment for each child, usually 4 ………., for examples are housing benefit (distributed by the local authority, to help with rent payments), ness benefit, and death grants (to cover funeral expenses).

Family credit is for working families 5 …………………… Income support is for those without work and with low financial resources.

There is also a housing benefit scheme, a mobility allowance available to the disabled to pay for transport or to buy a special vehicle. Invalidity pension is paid to a person who is 6 ……………..

Women who leave work to have a baby receive maternity pay from their employer. Women, who do not qualify for this, for example, the self-employed, receive a maternity allowance from the government. A woman whose husband dies before he retires, receives a widow's pension if she is aged 45 or over. If she has children, she receives a widowed mother's pension.

Some people are entitled to neither pension nor unemployment benefit (because they haven’t previously worked for long enough or because they have been unemployed for a long time). These people can apply for income support and if they have no significant savings, will receive it.

Child benefit is a small weekly payment for each child, usually paid directly to mothers, for examples are housing benefit (distributed by the local authority, to help with rent payments), ness benefit, and death grants (to cover funeral expenses).

Family credit is for working families on modest incomes. Income support is for those without work and with low financial resources.

There is also a housing benefit scheme, a mobility allowance available to the disabled to pay for transport or to buy a special vehicle. Invalidity pension is paid to a person who is unable work after a sickness period.

2. unemployment benefit

3. the state pension

4. the dole

2. maternity allowance

3. a widow's pension

4. a widowed mother's pension

2. unemployment benefit

3. state pension

4. income support

2. paid to relatives

3. paid to mothers

4. paid to fathers

1. unemployed

2. the disabled

3. invalids

4. a person who is unable work after a sickness period

1	2	3	4	5

Ключи: A1 – 3 A2 – 2 A3 – 4 A4 –3 A5 –3

Базовый уровень А 2+

Установите соответствие между заголовками A – D и параграфами 1 – 3. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую букву только один раз. В задании один лишний заголовок. Если вы затрудняетесь соотнести какой-либо текст с темой, то ставьте в таблице знак Х под номером этого текста.

A Medical charges

B Patients’ rights

C Health reforms

D National medical system

E Family doctors
1. The National Health Service (NHS) provides com­prehensive medical care which is available to all residents, regardless of their income. The NHS is financed mainly out of general taxation. Some forms of treatment, such as hospital care, are provided free; others are charged for. People are free to choose their family doctor, dentist, optician and pharmacist, who have contracts with the NHS.

2. Family doctors provide the first diagnosis of an illness and either prescribe a suitable course of treatment or refer a patient for more specialised treatment elsewhere. About 80 per cent work in partnerships or group practices, often as members of primary health care teams.

3. Patients pay for medical prescriptions, although in prac­tice almost 80 per cent are supplied free, since charges do not apply to people on low incomes, children, expectant mothers, pensioners and other groups. Charges are made for dental treatment under the NHS, although people on low incomes receive free treatment, as do pregnant women, children and young people below the age of 18. NHS hospital treatment is free.

4. Under recent wide-ranging reforms in management and patient care, each health authority is funded to buy health care for its local residents through con­tracts with public or private hospitals. Hospitals may apply to become self-governing trusts, independent of health authority control, but remaining part of the NHS; they treat NHS patients and are funded largely through contracts with health authorities and with those family doctors who choose to become responsible for part of their own NHS budgets. Trusts may also treat private patients.

The National Health Service administers the National Health Service Act, which went into effect in 1948. The cost of the program is met largely 3 ……………… Benefits, which are of unlimited duration, include hospital services, general medical services outside of hospitals, and local health services. Hospital services are provided 4…………………., for inpatient, outpatient, and day-patient care, including the services of specialists. General medical services include those of general practitioners and dental, pharmaceutical, and ophthalmic services. The local health services include maternity and child-welfare services, domiciliary nursing care, aftercare, immunization, and some mental-health services.

A person may use all the facilities of the National Health Service, or only 5 …… He or she may, for example, make private arrangements with a practitioner for medical care and apply for free hospitalization. Practitioners are not required to participate in the program. Those who participate and work outside of hospitals receive a fee for each patient as well as a basic practice allowance. Participating physicians may 6 ……………….. Almost all of the hospitals in Great Britain are administered by the National Health Service.  

At one of the hospitals in a certain town there worked two young doctors. Let's call them Dr. P. and Dr. Q. They were very good friends — these doctors, P. and Q., and they had been good friends for a long time. They had studied at the same medical school under the same professors, and, what was even more important in strengthening their friendship, they had lived in the same room during their course of studies.

Now they worked at the same hospital and always dis­cussed what was most interesting to both of them — how to treat their patients.¹

Their approach to the problem was quite different, though they had studied under the same professors.

Dr. P. was for a thorough investigation of the patients' health and condition, for a set of thorough analyses before the patient's illness could be diagnosed. He was against chance taking any part in diagnosis.

As for Dr. Q., he said that a thorough investigation and sets of analyses were important, but could sometimes be wrong, and it was just as important for a doctor to use his talent, experience, and intuition when diagnosing a patient's illness, all the more so, since sometimes there was no time for a thorough investigation and analyses — something had to be done quickly to save the patient's life.

The nurses at the hospital thought Dr. P. to be a better doctor than his friend, for whatever he did, he always did it thoroughly. 'One feels sure with him,' they said. As for Dr. Q., some of the nurses thought that he took the treatment of his patients too lightly, because he sometimes diagnosed their illnesses at once, before making a thorough investiga­tion. It was true that he always diagnosed them correctly, but people thought that he was sometimes too quick in his decisions.

One day a worker was brought to the hospital. He had suddenly fallen ill at the plant where he worked. There hadn't been any accident. He had just fallen ill, and fallen seriously ill.

The doctors examined the man but could not diagnose his illness for sure. It was clear that the man was suffering greatly and that he took his suffering bravely. But what did he suffer from? — that was the question.

Dr. P. ordered a thorough investigation of the patient; but when Dr. Q. examined him, he thought that the man must be operated on at once. It seemed to him that he knew the man's illness. But how could the man be operated on before all the analyses were made, before one knew for sure what was wrong with him?

Late that night the man's condition became much worse, and he nearly died. It was Dr. Q. and the nurse on duty, who were with him all the time, who managed to save the man's life.

Next day, when the results of the analyses came, it became quite clear that an operation was absolutely necessary, and that valuable time had been lost.

After the operation the man felt better and was later able to go back to his work at the plant. Nothing terrible had happened. The man was well again.
A1. The nurses at the hospital thought Dr. P. to be a better doctor than his friend because
1. he was for a set of thorough analyses

2. he was for a thorough investigation of the patients' health and condition

3. he was against chance

4. for whatever he did, he always did it thoroughly

2. he was against a thorough investigation of the patients' health and condition

3. he diagnosed their illnesses at once

4. he was sometimes too quick

2. a seriously ill worker

3. a worker from the plant

4. a suffering worker

2. he couldn’t operate the man without analyses

3. Dr. Q. thought that the man must be operated on at once

4. they both couldn’t put the diagnose

2. it seemed to him that he knew the man's illness

3. that valuable time would be lost

4. he thought that an operation was absolutely necessary

• 
  social payments;
  
• 
  different categories of citizens and their rights;
  
• 
  benefits, which are paid to different categories of people in Russia (the UK or the USA);
  
• 
  medical care through social programmes;
  
• 
  how elderly people live in different countries.
  

You and some of your friends have come to a home for elderly people with presents. You want to know as much as possible about the life of these people and ask the director the following questions:

You are discussing the most important points of your work with your friend. You want to know:

• 
  who lives in the home;
  
• 
  why these people don’t live with their families;
  
• 
  if they are unable to look after themselves;
  
• 
  what they think about their life in the home;
  
• 
  what allowances they have;
  
• 
  what they can buy at a reduced prices.
  

• 
  be active and polite;
  
• 
  ask all the questions to get the necessary information.
  

You have to decide which type of contribution is valued more by our society and explain why. Give specific reasons to support your answer.

You begin the conversation.

Remember to:

• 
  discuss all the points;
  
• 
  take an active part in the conversation and be polite;
  
• 
  come up with suggestions;
  
• 
  give reasons;
  
• 
  invite your partner to come up with suggestions;
  
• 
  find out your partner’s attitudes and take them into account;
  
• 
  come to an agreement.
  

B5

B7

Employers are not required to sponsor pension plans, but the government _____________ them to do so by offering generous tax breaks if they establish and contribute to employee pensions.

ENCOURAGE

B6

The nature of employer-sponsored pensions _____________ sub­stantially during the final three decades of the 20th century.

CHANGE

B8

Many employers stopped offer­ing traditional "defined benefit" plans, which provide guaranteed, monthly payments to retirees _____________ on years of service and salary.

BASE

B9

B10

Moreover, with the post-war baby-boom generation due to retire early in the 21st century, politicians grew concerned that the government _____________ to pay all of its Social Security obligations without either reducing benefits or raising payroll taxes.

BE ABLE