1. Complete the sentences using the given words and phrases in the correct form: popular, glossy, instead, attractive, real.
About 50 per cent of British teenagers read teenage magazines! Two of the most magazines for girls are “Sugar” and “Bliss”. They have , colourful covers and include beauty and fashion, celebrity gossip, life stories, horoscopes and quizzes.
Of course, boys don’t usually find these magazines very interesting! , they buy music magazines or magazines about sport.
Usually, teenage magazines contain a lot of language that only teenagers use! This makes the magazines more to teenagers.
2. Match the titles with the categories.
This month’s horoscopes! articles
Get perfect skin! regular features
Our top 10 summer outfits! stars & celebrities
Win tickets to a Champion’s League match! competitions & offers
Britain’s hottest new boy bands! quizzes
Do your friends really know you? fashion
The Generations gap! health & beauty
3. Сomplete the sentences with the correct variants.
“Shoot” is at/for/to teenagers who like sport and especially football. It has articles about/for/from football matches and footballers.
“Cosmo” is for teenage girls. It probably has articles about/on/of fashion and beauty as/so well as gossip about stars. It also has problem pages but/and/or horoscopes.
4. Match the words and phrases with their Russian equivalents.
colourful наоборот, вместо
popular привлекательный
instead знаменитость
glossy популярный
attractive обложка
beauty глянцевый, блестящий
celebrity красота
real life story красочный
cover соревнование
offer история из жизни
competition предложение
5. Put the verbs in brackets into Past Simple or Past Continuous.
1) Anna (cook) dinner before dad came home.
2) Mike (ride) his bicycle while Steve was skateboarding.
3) The detective asked, “What (you do) at the time of the robbery?”
4) I (pass) the exam without difficulty.
5) She (leave) school when she was 16.
6. Put the parts of the article in the correct order. Prepare your own little article about any news you like and read it to the class.
The teenager’s wish to learn languages began in 2006 after completing Farsi lessons. He enjoyed it so much that he decided to become fluent in modern Arabic.
After that, there was no stopping him. Over the years, he has added Russian, Italian, Spanish, Persian, Swahili Indonesian and many others to his repertoire of languages. The list does not include the ones that he has taken up at school.
This has earned him the title of the world’s youngest polyglot. But he is still not satisfied.
Los Angeles teen Steven Tracy likes to learn languages. It took the 16-year-old five years to master 19 languages!
Then he teaches himself the correct grammar, develops his skills by reading newspapers and talking with native speakers, either in person or on internet chat rooms.
The most amazing part is that he has managed to learn all the additional languages on his own. The young polyglot begins by learning how to pronounce the alphabet correctly.
7. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits each space.
1) Teenage magazines contain lots of colourful pictures to be to young people. (ATTRACT)
2) The performance we saw at the theatre yesterday was . (AMAZE)
3) My sister works in a teenage magazine. (GLOSS)
4) There are a lot of cameras and near the concert hall. (REPORT)
5) My father watches news every evening. (NATION)
решите умоляю
About 50 per cent of British teenagers read teenage magazines! Two of the most popular magazines for girls are "Sugar" and "Bliss". They have attractive, glossy covers and include beauty and fashion, celebrity gossip, life stories, horoscopes, and quizzes.
Of course, boys don't usually find these magazines very interesting! Instead, they buy music magazines or magazines about sport.
Usually, teenage magazines contain a lot of language that only teenagers use! This makes the magazines more relatable to teenagers.
2. Match the titles with the categories:
This month’s horoscopes! - horoscopes
Get perfect skin! - beauty
Our top 10 summer outfits! - fashion
Win tickets to a Champion’s League match! - competitions & offers
Britain’s hottest new boy bands! - stars & celebrities
Do your friends really know you? - quizzes
The Generations gap! - articles
3. Complete the sentences with the correct variants:
"Shoot" is for teenagers who like sport and especially football. It has articles about football matches and footballers.
"Cosmo" is for teenage girls. It probably has articles about fashion and beauty as well as gossip about stars. It also has problem pages and horoscopes.
4. Match the words and phrases with their Russian equivalents:
colourful - красочный
popular - популярный
instead - наоборот, вместо
glossy - глянцевый, блестящий
attractive - привлекательный
beauty - красота
celebrity - знаменитость
real-life story - история из жизни
cover - обложка
offer - предложение
competition - соревнование
5. Put the verbs in brackets into Past Simple or Past Continuous:
1) Anna cooked dinner before dad came home.
2) Mike was riding his bicycle while Steve was skateboarding.
3) The detective asked, "What were you doing at the time of the robbery?"
4) I passed the exam without difficulty.
5) She left school when she was 16.
6. Put the parts of the article in the correct order. Prepare your own little article about any news you like and read it to the class.
The teenager’s wish to learn languages began in 2006 after completing Farsi lessons. He enjoyed it so much that he decided to become fluent in modern Arabic.
After that, there was no stopping him. Over the years, he has added Russian, Italian, Spanish, Persian, Swahili, Indonesian, and many others to his repertoire of languages. The list does not include the ones that he has taken up at school.
This has earned him the title of the world’s youngest polyglot. But he is still not satisfied.
Los Angeles teen Steven Tracy likes to learn languages. It took the 16-year-old five years to master 19 languages!
Then he teaches himself the correct grammar, develops his skills by reading newspapers, and talking with native speakers, either in person or on internet chat rooms.
The most amazing part is that he has managed to learn all the additional languages on his own. The young polyglot begins by learning how to pronounce the alphabet correctly.
7. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits each space:
Teenage magazines contain lots of colourful pictures to attract young people.
The performance we saw at the theatre yesterday was amazing.
My sister works in a teenage magazine. (glossy)
There are a lot of cameras and reporters near the concert hall.
My father watches national news every evening.