Вариант 12 - ВАРИАНТЫ ЗАДАНИЙ УСТНОЙ ЧАСТИ ЭКЗАМЕНА ПО АНГЛИЙСКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ

Task 1. You are going to read the text aloud. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, and then be ready to read it aloud. Remember that you will not have more than 2 minutes for reading aloud.

Some people trace the history of fast food in America to 1912, when a fast food restaurant called the Automat opened in New York. The Automat was a cafeteria with its prepared foods behind small glass windows and coin-operated slots. Later numerous Automat restaurants were built around the country to deal with the demand. The company also popularized the notion of “take-away” food with their slogan “Less work for Mother”.

However, the hamburger restaurant, which is most associated by the public with “fast food”, was created by two brothers McDonald. They opened a barbecue drive-in in 1940. After discovering that most of their profits came from hamburgers, the brothers closed their restaurant for three months and reopened it in 1948 as a walk-up stand offering a simple menu of hamburgers, French fries, shakes, coffee, and Coca-Cola, served in disposable paper wrapping.

Task 2. You are going to take part in a telephone survey. You have to answer six questions. Give full answers to the questions. Remember that you have 40 seconds to answer each question.

Listen to the audio script of this task or ask somebody to read it for you.

Task 3. You are going to give a talk about your reading preferences. You will have to start in 1.5 minutes and speak for not more than 2 minutes.

Remember to say:

• what kinds of books you enjoy reading, why

• what book you can recommend your friend to read, why

• which books you prefer reading, printed books or electronic books, why

You have to talk continuously.