Сижу на ! огромное тому кто решит! read the article about ways of raising money. match the titles (a-i) with the paragraphs (1-8). there is one extra title. a crazy clothes f ridiculous records b great games wacky races c extreme sports h marathon events d horrible hobbiescool competitions e
silly sponsors 1.karaoke and talent shows are popular and you can organise your version of pop idol. other good competitions are guessing the weight animals or people, and music and sports quizzes. computer games competitions are fun, too. 2.fun football can include three-legged games or teams with
teachers versus students or mums versus dads. water battles between two teams are popular on hot days in the summer. murder and mystery games are good fun on dark winter nights. 3.get group of your friends to abseil down a local building, go parachuting or go bungee jumping. but check safety first!
4.organise an unusual animal race. pig, goldfish, cockroach and duck races are all popular. wacky human races include three-legged races, egg and spoon races and bed races 5. organise a marathon with a difference. invite your friends to your house and watch as many james bond films as you can in one
night. 0r, do the same playing chess, dancing, reading, paining or doing aerobics. kissing marathons are particularly popular! 6.people at your school or office pay to wear sunglasses. silly ties or bad hair. or, you can have a 'red nose day when people put on red noses and crazy clothes. 7.
people sponsor you to be really silly. you can walk backwards all day, dlean your bedroom with a toothbrush or have a bath in baked beans. or, you can tie your legs to a friend and go everywhere together for the day at school or work 8.find sponsors and try to break a record. ho)w many people can
you get into a phone box? how many cockroaches can you eat in one minute? (the record, by the way, is thirty-six! )

Exercise 4. Remember the meaning of the terms that you will find in the text. 1. Spread sheet package - a kind of computer programs that you calculate data on sale, taxis, profits and so on. 2. Floppy disk - a disk made of plastic material upon which data are stored on magnetic tracks. 3. Compatible - it is usually said about two computers when their programs can be run on both of them. 4. Peripheral devices, or peripherals are units connected to the central processing units (CPU); they are input devices, output devices and storage devices. 5. Input is the process of transferring data or program instruction into the computer. 6. Output is the result produced by a computer. 7. Storage is the process of keeping information in a special device in computer. 8. Software may be denoted as a set of programs or instructions executed by the computer. 9. Hardware is a computer machinery and equipment. 10. Digital computer is a type of computer that uses a binary system. 11 11. Chip is a tiny piece of silicon containing a complex electronic circuits. Before reading the passage " The Rise of the Personal Computer" find in the text "The Rise of IBM" the chronological information on the models of computers produced by this company. Was the policy of IBM successful in the 1960s? THE RISE OF THE PERSONAL COMPUTER The first personal computer, the Altair, was announced in Popular Electronics in its January 1975 issue. The Altair was also the first example of new computer hardware. It caused a sensation in the computer industry: those who wanted could have their own computers to play with at home, and a mighty computer industry soon began to grow. A young computer hacker from Seattle by the name of William Gates, then a freshman at Harvard, sold the Altair developers a computer language that would run on their machine and that made it possible to program many advanced functions. Emboldened by their success with Altair, Gates and his friend founded Microsoft Corporation, which has become the world's largest person

11. Мать спросила: "Возьми свой зонтик!" 12. Дети сказали: "Не выключайте компьютер!" 13. - Дайте мне ручку " возьми меня с собой!" 15. Мама попросила: "не опаздывай в театр. "

11. - Я его не слушала, - сказала Хелен. " 12. - Мы летим в Китай, - сказала Джейн. " 13. - Вчера утром мы сдавали экзамен по математике, - сказала Джин. " 14. - Мой сын работает в библиотеке, - сказала мать. " 15. Сэм сказал Борису: "вчера было ветрено. "

11. Он спросил: "Вы обычно завтракаете?" 12. Мама спросила: "Ты уже починил свою машину?" 13. Он спросил Питера: "ты играл в футбол в воскресенье?" 14. Фред спросил Джейн: "ты ответила на его письмо?" 15. Мой брат спросил меня: "ты пойдешь в кино?"

11 Она спрашивает 《Сколько тебе лет》

12 Хелен спрашивает меня 《》

11. Она спросила: "сколько тебе лет?'

12. Хелен спросила меня: "когда ты был там

последний раз в кино?"

13. Мальчик спросил у матери: "когда же это будет

вы пришли с работы?"

14. Он спросил Мэри: "сколько у тебя друзей

а у тебя есть?"

15. Я спросил Ника: "А какого цвета твои волосы?"