SPEAKING 7 9/11/books/museums

Task 1. You are going to read the text aloud. You have 1 Task 1. You are going to read the text aloud. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, and then be ready to read it aloud. Remember that you will not have more than 2 minutes for reading aloud. The two sky-scrapers of the World Trade Centre, on Church Street and Liberty Street, were the tallest buildings in New York. There were more than one hundred floors, with offices, shops and restaurants inside. The ‘Windows on the World’ restaurant was one of the most famous restaurants in the city. But on the 11th of September, 2001 everything changed. At 8.46 a.m. on that day an American Airlines plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre. Seventeen minutes later another plane crashed into the South Tower. Nobody can forget this catastrophe. People all across the world watched it on TV and saw the last minutes of the two big towers. Thousands of people died in and near the Centre. Today this place is called Ground Zero. It is one of the unhappiest moments of American history.

What genres of books do you read? Task 2. You are going to take part in a telephone survey. You have to answer six questions. Give full answers to the questions. Remember that you have 40 seconds to answer each question. What genres of books do you read? 1________________________________________ What is your favourite time and place to read? 2______________________________________ What is the first book you can remember reading? 3_____________________________________ What was the last book you read? 4______________________________________ Do you read fiction or textbooks more? 5_______________________________________ Do you think people will read less in the future? 6________________________________________

if people in your country often go to museums Task 3. You are going to give a talk about museums. You will have to start in 1.5 minutes and speak for not more than 2 minutes. You have to talk continuously. Remember to say: if people in your country often go to museums what kind of museums you can visit in your area what the most interesting/unusual museum you last visited was

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