Task1.Read the text below and mark the sentences True or False. Прочитайте текст ниже и отметьте предложения, Правда или Ложь

Travelling: means of transport

I always travel in summer. Do you? I like to travel and forget about school. As I know, people started traveling many years ago. The first travelers were explorers. They traveled because they wanted to find adventures and to become wealthy and famous. Their trips were dangerous, but they wanted to discover the new lands. Today traveling isn`t so dangerous and it is more convenient. The tourist companies take care of tickets and make all the necessary reservations. While traveling around the world you can choose different means of transport: trains, ships, planes or bicycles. I think that the fastest and the most convenient way of traveling is by air. However, it is the most expensive. Trains are slower than planes, but this way of traveling has its advantages. Modern trains are very comfortable besides, you can see the interesting places of the country you are traveling through. The main advantages of planes and trains are safety, comfort and speed. That is the reason why most people prefer them to other means of transport. Nowadays traveling by sea has become very popular. You can visit other countries or various places of interest within the country when you travel by ship or boat.

My favorite way of travelling is travelling by car. I believe it is very convenient. I don’t need to make any reservations or carry heavy suitcases. I can stop whenever I wish and spend as much time as I wish at any place.

Tom, 13 Britain

0. Tom prefers not to remember about school when he travels. True

1. Today travelling is more convenient than it was many years ago.

2. While travelling around the world people can choose only trains.

3. Travelling by planes people can see many wonderful sights.

4. Most people prefer travelling by cars because of their speed and comfort.

5. Tom has a relaxing time when he travels by car.

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Task 2. Answer the questions. ответить на вопросы.

6. Why did the first travelers want to travel?

7. What means of transport can people choose to travel around the world?

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- have you heard the weather forecast for today?

- they say the day will be a strong thunderstorm.

- something i can not believe. look, the sky is so clear, there is not a single cloud! and so quiet!

“don't you know   that before a thunderstorm there is often a lull. i tend to believe weather forecasters.

“but weather forecasters are people too.” and people tend to make mistakes. it doesn't seem to be raining at all!

- you are a big optimist. i suppose you will remember the weather forecast when you get wet to the skin.

- and you have always been a pessimist!

- it gets very stuffy. i even breathe with difficulty.

- yes, the heat is really unbearable.

- by the way, this also indicates the approach of a thunderstorm.

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east or west, home is best. i believe in this proverb.

i think that my home is a little world where i can live according to my own rules. it’s because here are my relatives, my dogs, my favourite things. when i feel tired, i can relax only at home. there's no place like home. when i am ill, i feel better only at home. everything is easier at home. i like to receive guests at my home. home is most important place in the life of every person. at home we feel comfortable, calm and happy. every family holiday we celebrate at home. many days off we spend at home within the family. my dearest people live there. the furniture, the things, the pictures at home can say a lot of about their masters. masters' character, his/her habits we can learn when we look at their homes. my home is my castle – englishmen tell so. i support this. i like my home city, my motherland. my favourite place is my mother’s place of birth –the hamlet anosovo. all my childhood i spent there. there are a lot of luxurious blossoming fruit   gardens. there is warm   newly drawn milk of a cow or a goat. there are bright-green watery meadows. there is my lovely pond covered by duckweed. every summer i went   there, but unfortunately, i don’t have time to go there now. it was the happiest time in my life when i was there. in the village near anosovo every summer celebrates holidays - the days of poetry. it’s because pushkin visited the village bolshoe boldino. when days of poetry are celebrated, famous actors’ concerts are performed   there. i recollect this time with tenderness and i regret that i couldn't return these times. i would like to go there again to see my childhood place.