1. Прочитайте текст и выясните, какие предложения соответствуют содержанию текста (True), а какие не соответствуют (False).
All the Year Round
Interesting things are happening all the year round all over England. In March and April you can watch the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race. Thousands of people come down to the river and watch the boats. Also in March or April is the Grand National – a long and colourful horse race at Aintree. Many of the horses never finish the race but the first horse gets more than a million euros.
In May there is the Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital in London. Here you see the most beautiful flowers and gardens.
At the end of June and the beginning of July you can see boat races on the River Thames.
More than two million visitors watch the Notting Hill Carnival in London on the last Sunday and Monday in August. There are two parades with lots of music and noise, one on Sunday and one on Monday. Some towns and cities have summer festivals.
1) Interesting things happen in England in spring and in summer.
2) Boat races and horse races are popular with English people.
3) The first horse of the Grand National gets the prize which is more than a million dollars.
4) Few of the horses that take part in the Grand National don’t finish this race.
5) You can watch boat races only in spring.
6) The Chelsea Flower Show takes place in summer.
7) The Notting Hill Parade in London is not popular with the visitors.

2. Выберите и напишите лексически правильные варианты из данных в скобках.
1) There is a small (isle/island) in the middle of the lake.
2) Easter is a spring (holiday/festival).
3) The (highest/tallest) mountains of Great Britain are in Scotland.
4) In England people give each other chocolate eggs (at/on) Easter.
5) The Browns live in the flat (which/whose) door is brown.
6) The man (which/who) is wearing a dark coat is my uncle.
7) There is (few/little) water in the lake this summer.

3. Впишите в предложения соответствующие формы глаголов из правой колонки.
1) We spent last summer in the south of Russia. We a lot in the sea, played ball games and went boating.
2) Aunt Sarah modern traditions. She says we should keep old customs.
3) Listen! The clock .
4) “Merry Christmas!” Emma said and her little daughter.
5) We came home and saw that everybody for the party.
6) Where are you going this painting?
swim

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hug
prepare
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