VASI GENIUS
ANGOL NYELV
Középiskola
4. forduló
1 IN THE NEWS Visit the website below and choose the
best answer to the question. Write your answers to
questions 1-6 on the separate answer sheet. (6 points)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?ContentType=text/html;quiz=1130_
news
2 PRESIDENTS’ DAY On the third Monday of February,
Americans celebrate the birthday of two former presidents.
They are George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. They were
both famous U.S. presidents and they both have birthdays in
February. Even though they are different days, we celebrate
both of them on the same day.
To complete this activity, go to the following the webpage:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/
Find and read the short biographies of each of the ten presidents listed below. Then read
each statement (a-j) about the presidents and match the names and facts. There are two
names which you do not need. Write the answers on the separate answer sheet. (10 points)
George Washington Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Johnson
John Quincy Adams Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt Herbert Hoover
Harry S. Truman
John F. Kennedy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
a)
This defender of the common man was born in poverty and was the first president
to be impeached.
b)
He was president when the stock market crashed, one of the events that caused
the Great Depression.
c)
The United Nations was organized under this president, who was born and died in
Independence, Missouri.
d)
He proposed that the Federal Government bring together the sections of the United
States with a network of highways and canals.
e)
One of the writers of the Declaration of
independence, this president died on the
4th of July.
f)
This Spanish-American War hero was
the youngest man to become president of
the United States.
g)
This four-term president introduced the
"New Deal," which helped the United States
recover from the Great Depression.
h)
In the war, this future president led his fellow sailors to safety after their PT-boat
was sunk by a Japanese destroyer.
i)
This president, who freed the slaves by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation,
was assassinated in a theatre on Good Friday.
j)
He didn't take the oath of office in Washington, D.C. He took it while standing on
the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York.
3 WHO CAN BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES? Find the answers to the following
questions and write them on the separate answer sheet. Use the website below to work out
your answers. (4 points)
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/vote/presidential_elections.shtml
a) How old does the candidate for President have to be?
b) What other 2 requirements does the candidate have to fulfil?
c) How many times can a person be elected as President?
4 SAINT PATRICK The Scots, Welsh and English do not really celebrate their national saint’s
days. But St Patrick’s Day is important for Irish people all over the world. In New York, for
example, the Irish people always have a big St Patrick’s Day parade. Read the questions
below and learn more about the patron saint of Ireland. (10 points)
http://english-zone.com/holidays/st-pat.html
a) When is Saint Patrick’s Day?
b) What was Saint Patrick’s real name?
http://english-zone.com/holidays/st-patsymbols.html
c) What did he use the shamrock for?
d) According to the legend, if you kiss the Blarney stone what will you get?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/spring/patricks/book.shtml
e) Where was Saint Patrick’s first
church built?
f) Where is St Patrick reburied?
g) What was his job when he was a
young slave?
h) What is St Patrick said to have
driven out of Ireland?
i) Where are the holy wells?
j) What is Croagh Patrick famous for?
5 GRAMMAR Fill in the gaps with the verbs in the box in the correct tenses. There are some
extra verbs. (10 points)
MARK
HAVE
LIKE
DARE
OPEN
TAKE
NOT LOOK
PROVIDE
IMPORT
BE
BEGIN
SWITCH
DEVELOP
Bewley’s (a)........................ an old Irish tea house chain. The history of the famous
Bewley’s Oriental Cafés began in 1835 when Charles Bewley (b)....................... over
2000 chests of tea directly from the Chinese province of Canton to Dublin. It
(c)....................... like a great deal today, but back then it was a coup: no man before (d) ....................... to
import tea directly to Ireland. Bewley’s initiative put an end to the East India Trading Company’s tea
monopoly which before 1835had forced the Irish to import tea from London.
Samual Bewley’s son Joshua also became a tea merchant. Like his father, he imported tea into Ireland.
The Irish (e)....................... the idea of not having to import old tea from London. A tea expert noticed that
even the poorest Irish people bought only the fines tea. By the end of the 19th century a tea culture
(f)....................... in Ireland.
In 1894, Joshua’s son Ernest Bewley
wanted to stimulate the market for a product
that had been rather unknown that far:
coffee. In the back of his shop in Dublin’s
George’s Street, he began to run coffee
making demonstrations. His wife baked scones
to go with the coffee, and the couple
soon found out that their idea was extremely
popular
(g)....................... the beginning of the first
among
customers.
That
Bewley’s Oriental Café. In Dublin’s Grafton Street, Ernest Bewley opened another Bewley’s Oriental Café
in 1927.
Still now the interior furnishings and wonderful stain glass (h)....................... a very special oriental flair.
During Wold War II, Bewley’s had to restrict the supply of tea to an ounce per head, and many customers
(i)....................... to coffee. Today, Bewley’s is Ireland’s leading supplier of quality coffees and teas.
It has created a catering service for larger customers such as Trinity College and it (j)....................... cafes
in book stores and Dublin Airport. Bewley’s Clipper Gold Tea and Espresso Prima won Gold Awards in the
London Great Taste Awards.
6 PRESENTATION Prepare a presentation in maximum 6-8 slides or 200
words about Ireland and send it back (4-6 slides on a page) with your answer
sheet. (10 points)
GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR TASKS!
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