2nd course extramural department students tashkent 2023 Criterion for the midterm assessment

1. What does the writer of the article want to tell her readers about?
A One family’s experience of living on a boat.

2. 
   Why she thinks it’s a good idea to live on a boat.
   
3. 
   The disadvantages of living on a boat.
   
4. 
   Where you can see people living on boats.
   

2. How does Mary Wilkinson feel about other lifestyles?

1. 
   She thinks they are unfair to children.
   
2. 
   She thinks they do not offer the advantages of living aboard.
   
3. 
   She is not sure what she thinks about them.
   
4. 
   She thinks they are safer than living aboard.
   

3. What is the main disadvantage of living aboard according to Sunny Wilkinson?

1. 
   She has to learn foreign languages.
   
2. 
   She hasn’t made many friends.
   
3. 
   They stay in the same place for too long.
   
4. 
   She misses her friends.
   

4. Which of the Wilkinsons have the same opinions about the advantages of living aboard.

1. 
   Mary and Jeffrey agree that the children are better educated.
   
2. 
   Jeffrey and Sunny agree that meeting new people and getting to know new cultures are important.
   
3. 
   Marry and Sunny agree that it is good to get away from pollution.
   
4. 
   Sunny and Jeffrey both think it is wonderful to be in close contact with nature.
   

TASK 3. LEXICAL AND GRAMMAR COMPETENCE
Task 2. Complete the text with words from the box. There are four extra words.
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