Tasks for the Summative Assessment for the term 2 • What are you doing tomorrow?

6 points
Listening Reading
Task 1. Listen to the conversation and choose the right answer A, B, C or D… Task 3. Read the text and answer the questions.
Is Pluto a Planet?
1. What is the man's destination? Many people are saying that Pluto is no longer a planet. National Geographic
A) Salt Lake City, USA News says that, according to the International Astronomical Union, a full planet is
B) New York City, USA an object that orbits the sun and is large enough to have become round due to the
C) Helsinki, Finland force of its own gravity. Because Pluto doesn't meet these standards, the
D) Stockholm, Sweden International Astronomical Union classifies Pluto as a dwarf planet. Not everyone
2. When is the man's departure date? agrees that this is a good way to decide, though. Andy Cheng, a planetary scientist
A) the twenty-first at Johns Hopkins University, says that the new rules aren't clear enough and asks
B) the twenty-second the question “how round is round?” “...I'll still continue to maintain that Pluto is a
C) the twenty-third planet," he said. Owen Gingerich is an astronomer and historian at Harvard
D) the twenty-fourth University in Cambridge. He favored a special distinction for Pluto. Gingerich
3. What is the flight number for the second half of his journey? supported a proposal to call the big eight planets classical planets—as opposed to
A) 555 just plain "planets"—and Pluto and the others dwarf planets, so there would be two
B) 90 classes of planets. He believes that reclassifying Pluto as a dwarf planet is not
C) 1070 "sensitive to the historical and cultural role that Pluto has played." The argument
D) 830 continues. What do you think it is?
4. How long is the man's layover between flights? 1. What planet is a full planet?
A) less than an hour __________________________________________________________________
B) less than two hours 2. Is Pluto the only dwarf planet?
C) less than three hours __________________________________________________________________
D) more than three hours 3. How many classes of planets are according to the astronomer?
5. What request did the man make regarding his flight? 5 points
A) He asked for a specially-prepared dinner. Speaking
B) He wanted an aisle seat. Task 4. Discuss the questions with classmates.
C) He requested a bassinet for his baby. Questions:
D) He asked for a seat near the front of the plane. 1. Would you like to be an astronaut?
5 points 2. Have you ever wanted to be an astronaut?
Writing 3. Would you like to go to the Moon or travel into space?
Task 2. Write a postcard to a friend. You may answer the questions while you are 4. What kinds of people become astronauts?
writing. 5. How important is the job of an astronaut?
• Who will you write to? 6. What planet would you like to travel?
• Where are you? 6 points
• Are you having a good time? \Total 22\
• Where are you staying?
• What is the place like?
• What are the people like?
• What did you do yesterday?