People work

Listening Strategy
Read the statements to understand what the text is about.
Underline the key words in the statements.
Listen to the text for the first time.
Choose the answer using the information from the text.
Use the pause before the second listening to find out the missing information.
Check your answers.

JOB interview
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
A1 The man applies for the position of PR manager.
A2 The interviewer has read the man’s resume.
A3 The applicant always relies on his work experience.
A4 The candidate has no weaknesses
A5 The man has a good education.
A7 The interviewer promises to inform about the results later.

A1 The man applies for the position of PR manager.
A2 The interviewer has read the man’s resume.
A3 The applicant always relies on his work experience.
A4 The candidate has no weaknesses.
A5 The man has a good education.
A6 The applicant has already worked in an international company.
A7 The interviewer promises to inform about the results later.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
2) False
2) False
2) False
1) True
3) Not stated
3) Not stated
1) True

Gapped text
Look through the whole text
Read the sentence with a gap
Read the text before and after the gap
Analyze the structure and decide what part is necessary
Read the list of sentences and translate them carefully
Choose grammatically and lexically suitable answer
Fill in all the answers
Decide on an extra sentence
Check your answers

A 6. you just have to be able to speak a bit of English
B 3. most of the time I really enjoy looking after these young ladies and gentleman.
C 5. simply playing the games they offered.
D 2. so I can visit morning classes that are cheaper.
F 1. arguing about everything beginning with the dinner and finishing the university their offspring is going to study at.
E 4. the parents of the children.
Extra 7. children don’t want to listen to

Word formation
Read the text
Decide part of speech needed
Form the new word with the same root
Answer all the questions
Check your answers

V N training
V N equipment
Adj N intelligence
V N food
Adj N privacy
Adj N activities

Noun forming suffixes
-al survival
-age carriage
-ance acceptance
-ation exploration
-dom wisdom
-ence dependence
-ency urgency
-hood childhood
-ing(s) belongings
-ion exception
-ity popularity
-ment argument
-ness darkness
-ship friendship
-th width
-ty safety
-ure failure
-y honesty
-ant assistant
-ee employee
-er trainer
-ian politician
-ist physicist
–or sailor

Comment on the following statement.
Some people choose a well paid job, others want to follow their bent. What is your opinion?
You have 40 minutes to do this task on the exam. Write 200–250 words.
Use the following plan:
− make an introduction (state the problem)
− express your personal opinion and give reasons for it
− give arguments for the other point of view and explain why you don’t agree with it
− draw a conclusion

Обозначение заданий в работе и бланке ответов: А – задания с выбором ответа, В – задания с кратким ответом, С – задания с развернутым ответом. Уровни сложности заданий: Б – базовый, П – повышенный,
В – высокий.