English Language Decade QUIZ

Учитель Береш Ольга Николаевна

 What kind of a sport game that was played in Egypt in the second millennium B.C. known as ‘checkers’ in North America?  Do you know how British and American people write dates? What is the British variant?  

Find their children's’ names in their family names adding some letters to them  1.Mr. and Mrs. PILLER have a son. What is his name?  2. Mr. and Mrs. INTHEBLANKS have a son. What is his name?  3. Mr. and Mrs. OKE have a daughter. What is her name?

 This holiday is called Cuckoo Day in Scotland, Fish Day in France, Doll Day in Japan, Boob Day in Spain?  How is this holiday called in England?

 Bellow is a broken thrilling story. It is mixed up. To enjoy it put all the parts of it in the right order.  1. drying myself off when I saw something more near the  2. Suddenly it pounced and grabbed the cobra behind the neck.  3.cobra was waiting in the door way, staring at me. I really  4. I was in the shower at our guest’s house, and was just  5. help or not. I stood there, and the snake waited and  6. clean if snakes live there.’’  7. and one very shaken lady!  8.waited. My blood froze.  9.Later I told the landlord, and he said,  10. door. I put my glasses on and just froze. A huge black  11.I stood motionless and was about to faint away  12. when I noticed a cat coming so quietly behind the snake  13. didn’t know what on earth to do, whether to scream for  14. What was the result? One dead cobra, one proud cat,  15. “Cobra? Never mind it! It means that the bathroom is

 4,1, 10, 3, 13, 5, 8, 11, 12, 2, 14, 7, 9, 15, 6

Are you a brilliant linguist?  In 1890 in London there lived a man whose surname was used later to mean a man who behaved himself badly. You can find this name in some other languages too. We have the same word in Russian.

 “t…e”, “…f”, “a…d”, “t…”, “i…”, “t…at’, “f…r”, “a…”, “…s”

 1.An apple a day keeps the doctor away.  2.Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.  3. Brevity is the sole of wit.  4.Too many cooks spoil the broth.  5. Every cloud has a silver lining.  6.Dog doesn’t eat dog.  7.Don’t trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.  8.It’s no use crying over spilt milk.  9. Habit is a second nature.  10. One hand washes the other.  A. It is always darkest before the dawn.  B. The less people think, the more they talk.  C. What is done cannot be undone.  D. Diet cures more than the lancet.  E. It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him.  F. Scratch my bag and I shall scratch yours.  G. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.  H. Many commanders sink the ship  The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his mind.  There is honor among thieves.

1D 2G 3B 4H 5A 6J 7E 8C 9 I 10F

Are you good at idioms? Match the English and Russian idioms 1.Nothing to speak of 2.To pull oneself together 3.Come hell or high water A. Брать голыми руками B. Не бог весть что 4.To win hands down C.Взять себя в руки D. Была не была

Can you read numbers LXXXIII a.Eighty-three b.One hundred and thirty- three c.Eight hundred and three d.Twenty-eight

These lines of the poem were written incorrectly. You should rewrite them correctly. Do you know the writer of this poem? Here not is heart my, Highlands the heart’s my; Deer the chasing-a, Highlands the in the heart’s my: Roe the following and, deer wild the chasing, Go I wherever Highlands the in the heart’s my.

Robert Burns

How many words can you make up out of the word