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Dear boys and girls!

Glad to see you at our game “The Cleverest”. The participants of the game are the pupils of the 7^th and 8^th forms. They like English very much and today they will show us their knowledge of the English language.

Now listen to the rules of the game:

·       the game consists of three rounds;

·       each round includes some questions and three variants of the answers;

·       you must choose the right answer;

·       when the round is over the jury will check up your answers. Only six of you will go to the second round and then only three of you will go to the third round. The winner of the game will get a prize.

And now let me introduce the jury ...

Let's get acquainted with the participants of the game ...

 

THE FIRST ROUND

1. What is the first holiday in a year?                                                  a)  Christmas Day

b)      New Year's Day

c)      Veterans' Day

2. Where is London situated ?

a)    on the Severn

b)    on the Thames

c)    on the Avon

3. How many parts does London consist of?

a)    four

b)    three

c)    five

4. How often do winter Olympic Games take place?

a)    every four year

b)    every ten year

c)    every five year

5. Where did the first Olympic Games take place?

a)    in England

b)    in Moscow

c)    in Greece

6. What do children have after the New Year's Day?

a)    summer holidays

b)    spring holidays

c)    winter holidays

7. Who brings presents at night for Ukrainian children?

a)    Father Frost

b)    St. Nicholas

c)    Cinderella

8. What is the most popular outdoor winter sport?

a)    chess

b)    skiing

c)    football

9. What is the great national sport in the USA?

a)    basketball

b)     football

c)    cricket

10. What do spectators do at the stadiums?

a)   sing songs

b)   watch sports matches

c)   recite poems

11. When do we celebrate Willow Sunday or Verbna Nedilya?

a)   on the last Sunday before Easter

b) on Sunday after Easter

c)  on the last Saturday before Easter

12. What is the official name of Great Britain?

a)  the United Kingdom of Great Britain

b)  the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

c)  Great Britain

13. What does «Great Britain» mean in everyday speech?

a)   England

b)   England and Wales

c)   the United Kingdom

14. What is the capital of Great Britain?

a)   Manchester

b)   Liverpool

c)   London

I5.What does Great Britain consist of?

a) England, Wales and Northern Ireland

b)    England and Scotland

c)   England, Scotland and Wales

16. When do the Ukrainians sing carols?

a)   at Makovii

b)   at Easter

c)   at Christmas

Key: 1b; 2b; 3a; 4a; 5c; 6c; 7a; 8b; 9a; 10b; 11a; 12b; 13c; 14c; 15c; 16c

 

THE SECOND ROUND

l. What do English people usually talk about when they meet?

a)   the weather

b)   the money

c)   the hot-dog

2. What is the commercial centre of London?

a)   the City

b)   the West End

c)   the East End

3. What is the administrative centre of London?

a)   the City

b)   the Westminster

c)   Piccadilly Circus

4. What is the seat of English Government?

a)   the Trafalgar Square

b)   the Houses of Parliament

c)   Regent Street

5. What are Britain's national sports?

a)   cricket, basketball, chess

b)   cricket, football, tennis

c)   football and cricket

6. What is a popular cricket ground?

a)   Dinamo

b)   Lord's

c)   Big Ben

7. What kind of sports are brothers Klychko famous for?

a)   fencing

b)   chess

c)   boxing

8. What is the longest river in Great Britain?

a)   the Thames

b)   the Spey

c)   the Severn

9. What is the highest mountain in Great Britain?

a)   Snowdon

b)   Ben Nevis

c)   Rock

10. Where is Scotland situated?

a)  in the south of Great Britain

b)   in the north of Great Britain

c)  in the centre of Great Britain

11.   What is the capital of Scotland?

a)   Glasgow

b)   Edinburgh

c)   Belfast

12. What is the largest city of Scotland?

a)   Edinburgh

b)   Glasgow

c)   Oban

13. Where was William Shakespeare born?

a)   in Stratford-on-Avon

b)   in London

c)   in Birmingham

14. Where was Robert Burns born?

a)   in England

b)   in Wales

c)   in Scotland

15. Who wrote the novel «Jane Eyre»?

a)   George Gordon Byron

b)   Charlotte Bronte

c)   Alan Marshall

16. What did Zaporizhyan Cossacks cherish above all?

a)   money

b)   freedom

c)   power

 

Key: 1a; 2a; 3b; 4b; 5c; 6b; 7c; 8c; 9b; 10b; 11b; 12; 13a; 14c; 15b; 16b.

 

 

 

THE THIRD ROUND

1. Where do the English people come to meet the New Year?

a)    to the City

b)   to the Clock Tower

c)    to the St. Paul's Cathedral

2. When did the English people build Clock Tower?

a)    in 1788

b)   in 1858

c)    in 1658

3. When did the first Olympic Games take place?

a)    600 years ago

b)   300 years ago

c)    800 years ago

4. When did the modern Olympic Games begin?

a)    in 1896

b)   in 1796

c)    in 1969

5. What kind of sports is Anna Kurnikova famous for?

a)    figure-skating

b)   swimming

c)    tennis

6. How is the flag of the United Kingdom called?

a)    Union jack

b)   the Jack Union

c)    the flag of crosses

7. How are the people who live in Scotland called?

a)    Scots or Scottish

b)   Scotch

c)    Scotlandish

8. What is the centre of steel industry of England?

a)    Coventry

b)   Sheffield

c)    Liverpool

9. What is the centre of textile industry of England?

a)    Manchester

b)   Birmingham

c)    London

10. What is the oldest university town in England?

a)   Cambridge

b)   London

c)   Oxford

11. How was Shakespeare's theatre called?

a)   the Earth

b)   the Globe

c)   the Sun

12. What was Kipling's father?

a)   a painter

b)   a writer

c)   a singer

13. What tribe did the Britons belong to about 2.000 years ago?

a)   Angles

b)   Saxons

c)   Celts

14. Whom was Britain conquered by in the first century before our era?

a)   by the Romans

b)   by the Americans

c)   by the Italians

 

Key: 1b; 2b; 3a; 4a; 5c; 6a; 7b; 8b; 9a; 10c; 11b; 12a; 13c; 14a.

 

Let’s have a rest.

Understand me

It’s a famous kind of a competition and four members of each team can try their abilities in miming. Take a card with a word on it and mime it to another team. Their task is to recognize the word correctly. For each correct word you’d get a point.

                        1. lemon                                                            1. kettle

                        2. tennis                                                            2. badminton

                        3. flower                                                           3. cooking

                        4. to drive                                                         4. mineral water

Making words

Do you know English alphabet well? Let’s check this in our next task. Each member of your team gets a letter. You have to listen to the words and make up them correctly near the teacher.

Ancient – nine, tie, tea, nice, ant, cat, ten, can, ice.

Find the opposites

Throwing the ball with tennis racket run to the table, do the task and come back quickly. You have to find opposites for the words.

Clever – stupid

Long – short

Hard-working – lazy

Big – small

Black – white

Fast – slow

Good- bad

Заключне слово вчителя.

Our competition is coming to the end

The score of the first team is... The score of the second team is...

So, the winner is the team... Our congratulations! Thanks a lot to all the participants of the competition.