Задание
1. Read the task and get ready to read the text out loud
Imagine that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some interesting material for the presentation, and you want to read this text to your friend. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, then be ready to read it out aloud. You will not have more than 1.5 minutes to read it.
Materials are the basis of our day-to-day lives. Think about it: all the things we use are made of some kind of material. Examples include building materials like wood and steel. We need them to build houses, furniture, and infrastructure like streets or bridges. Fabrics, which are used to make clothes to keep us warm during winter or protect us from the summer sun, are another example. Two more complicated materials are silicon chips and polymers. Silicon chips are used in electronic devices. Polymers are the main ingredients of plastics, which have many different applications.
Scientists study materials and predict how a newly discovered one might behave, or how new materials with certain traits could be produced. In the past, finding the right material for a specific use could only happen by testing lots of different substances. Nowadays, new materials can be specifically designed for any application we want.
2. Do the task in class or record it and send it to your teacher
Total: out of 1.
Note: Study the section "Assessment" for the detailed criteria of scoring.
Assessment
Pronunciation
The student's score is 1:
The speech is distinct: there are no unjustified pauses; it satisfies the requirements of the rules of pronunciation, sentence stress, and intonation.
The student has made no more than 5 pronunciation mistakes including 1–2 mistakes breaking the communication.
The student's score is 0:
The speech is indistinct because of many pauses, hesitations, mistakes in stress patters and pronunciation of words.
OR The student has made more than 5 pronunciation mistakes.
OR The student has made 3 and more mistakes breaking the communication.