4. Read the text. What is the text about? a) My Favourite Character b) Neighbourhood c) Unusual Job d) Can Carry a lot of Things e) Our Teachers. 1) My new neighbourhood is great. There are lots of shops and cafes. I even have a sports shop right opposite my house! My Mum is very happy because there is a supermarket and a chemist’s on our street. There is also a library next to the supermarket. I go there to read books every weekend. It is really nice here. 2) I am fond of reading, too. I like to read fairytales. My favourite book is «Mary Poppins». The author of the book is Pamela Travers. She is a famous English writer. The book tells us about wonderful adventures of children with their magic nurse Mary Poppins. She is my favourite character. She is kind and strict at the same time, joyful and tactful, well-bred and very pretty. Mary Poppins is popular with children. 3) It goes without saying, books are our teachers and friends. They teach us to be kind, clever, polite, hardworking, friendly. Books help us to learn more about nature, the world around us and many other interesting things. 4) The British often think their animals are like people. For example, in Britain animals can have jobs like people. British Rail has cats and pays them for their work. Their job is to catch mice. There is usually one cat per station. They get food and free medical help. The cats don’t catch a lot of mice but they are very popular with the British Rail staff and travellers. 5) For many years, in the desert camels were the only kind of transport. Before the age of modern trains, camel trains carried all the things between Central Asia and Europe. People made camel trains with 10,000 to 15,000 animals. Each camel could carry 200 kilos and could travel twenty miles a day. This kind of transport was so important that people called camels the ‘ships of the desert’.

Перевод задания: Прочитай текст. О чём он?

1 — b) Neighbourhood (район); 2 — a) My Favourite Character (мой любимый персонаж); 3 — e) Our Teachers (наши учителя); 4 — c) Unusual Job (необычная работа); 5 — d) Can Carry a lot of Things (может переносить много вещей).

Перевод ответов: 1 — район; 2 — мой любимый персонаж; 3 — наши учителя; 4 — необычная работа; 5 — может переносить много вещей.