Олимпиадные задания для VI класса

I. Listen to the story ‘Sindbad the Sailor and decide if the sentences are true (T) or false (F).

  1. Sindbad lives in Baghdad.
  2. A big and strong bird breaks his ship.
  3. Sindbad finds a plank of wood.
  4. The bird carries Sindbad over a distance and then let him go down.
  5. Sindbad falls on the snake’s back.
  6. Sindbad tricks the snake.
  7. Sindbad fills his pockets with eggs and runs away.
  8. Sindbad gives out his precious stones to the rich people.

II. Here is a part of a letter that you received from your penfriend Tom by name. Write your answer to the letter.

…I am very interested in your life in your country. Tell me about a typical day for you. What time do you get up? What do you do every day? At what times do you eat? And when do you go to bed? And what do you do at the weekends?

Write 80 – 100 words

III. Put the parts of the text into the correct order.

MR. WONKA AND THE INDIAN PRINCE

a) “He did indeed. And what a palace it was! It had one hundred rooms, and everything was made of either dark or light chocolate! The bricks were chocolate, and the cement holding them together was chocolate, and the windows were chocolate, and all the walls and ceilings were made of chocolate, so were the carpets and the pictures and the furniture and the beds; and when you turned on the taps in the bathroom, hot chocolate came pouring out”.

b) “But Mr. Wonka was right, of course, because soon after this, there came a very hot day with a boiling sun, and the whole palace began to melt, and then it sank slowly to the ground, and the crazy prince, who was dozing in the living room at the time, woke up to find himself swimming around in a huge brown sticky lake of chocolate”.

c) “Tell Charlie about that crazy Indian prince,” said Grandma Josephine. He’d like to hear that.

“You mean Prince Pondicherry?” said Grandpa Joe, and he began chucking with laughter.

“What did he do?” asked Charlie eagerly.

“Listen,” said Grandpa Joe, “and I’ll tell you”.

d) “When it was all finished”, Mr. Wonka said to Prince Pondicherry, “I warn you, though, it won’t last very long, so you’d better start eating it right away”.

“Nonsense!” shouted the Prince. “I’m not going to eat my palace! I’m not even going to nibble the staircase or lick the walls! I’m not going to nibble the staircase or lick the walls! I’m not going to live in it!”

e) Little Charlie sat very still on the edge of the bed, staring at the grandfather. Charlie’s face was bright, and his eyes were stretched so wide you could see the whites all around. “Is all this really true?” he asked. “Or are you pulling my leg?”[1]

f) “Prince Pondicherry wrote a letter to Mr. Willy Wonka”, said Grandpa Joe, “and asked him to come all the way out to India and build him a colossal palace entirely out of chocolate”.

“Did Mr. Wonka do it, Grandpa?”

9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14

IV. Form a word that fits in the space.

15. Mark Twain was a popular American …. WRITE

16. He spent his ….. in Hannibal, Missouri. CHILD

17. In his young years he was a … HELP

18. and …. boy. When his father died JOY

19. he began working in the …. shop PRINT

20. because his brother was a printer. Later he… PUBLISH

21. his first …… stories. The book “The Adventures HUMOUR

22. of Tom Sawyer” made him …. . FAME

23. He became a ….. writer. KNOW

V. Find mistakes

  1. Harald Dahl was been a Norwegian
  2. who came from a small town near the
  3. Oslo called Sarpsborg. His father had a
  4. shop in Sarpsborg and he had sold
  5. everything from cheese to soap. He
  6. was born in the 1820. And Harald Dahl
  7. was born in 1873.
  8. Harald Dahl and his a brother Oscar
  9. were very good friends. When they left
  10. school they were decided to go away
  11. to one of the big countries.
  1. Match the definition and the word.

A dinosaur a mechanic an octopus a farmer chopsticks a comb A knife a camel a snack a towel a swan soap A pilot insects butter
  1. This person works in the countryside, and often sells food to markets.
  2. You can use these to eat a bowl of rice.
  3. If you have a problem with your car this person will help you.
  4. You use this for washing when you are dirty.
  5. These have six legs and some of them can fly.
  6. This is often white with a long neck, and can swim and fly.
  7. When you are hungry you can eat this between meals.
  8. This is made from the milk of cows, sheep and goats.
  9. This lived a long time ago and now extinct.
  10. You can use this when your hair is untidy.
  11. This has eight legs and lives in the sea.
  1. Read the text and fill in the gaps with the proper words.

Last year Betty won a competition in (46)____ bookshop. She had to guess the number (47)____ words in one of the books. The book was (48)____ long, and she decided that the answer was about ten thousand words. A (49)____ days later, Betty got a letter from the bookshop. It said, ‘Well done! You (50)____ guessed the correct number of words in our competition. (51)_____ you like to come to the bookshop to get a present?’ Betty felt very happy, and the next day she (52) ____ to the bookshop again. There were a lot of people there, because a famous TV actress was visiting the shop. She gave a book to Betty, and said, ‘This is (53)_____ you it’s a book (54) _____ the English countryside that I have just written.’ Betty thanked her and said, ‘It (55)_____ very interesting and the photos are beautiful. Please (56) ____ you write your name here for me? I want to show all my friends at school. I’ve enjoyed today, thank you very much.’

46. a the an

  1. off in of
  2. so too very
  3. some few little
  4. have had has
  5. Would Do Will
  6. goes went gone
  7. from for by
  8. in of about
  9. looks look looking
  10. could may might

Keys:

Ex. I 1T 2 F 3 T 4 T 5 F 6 T 7 F 8 F

Ex. III 9 c 10f 11a 12d 13b 14 e

Ex. IV 15 writer 16 childhood 17 helpful 18 joyful 19 printing

20 published 21 humorous 22 famous 23 well-known

Ex. V 24 been 25 the 26 \/ 27 had 28 \/ 29 the 30 \/ 31 a

32 \/ 33 were 34 \/

Ex. VI 35 a farmer 36 chopsticks 37 a mechanic 38 soap

39 insects 40 a swan 41 a snack 42 butter 43 a dinosaur

44 a comb 45 an octopus

Ex. VII 46 a 47 of 48 very 49 few 50 have 51 Would 52 went

53 for 54 about 55 looks 56 could

Script.

SINDBAD THE SAILOR

Sindbad is a young handsome boy. He lives in the city of Baghdad. He is very poor. He always thinks about his fortune.

He decides to travel. For some days everything is all right but then a furious storm begins and breaks his ship. But Sindbad finds a plank of wood floating nearby and at last he reaches a wonderful island. Sindbad is very hungry. He climbs up a palm-tree and sees an egg. The egg is very big. This egg belongs to a bird called Roc.

‘Oh, how to get this egg? I’m so hungry’, thinks Sindbad.

Suddenly a big bird of the East appears and catches Sindbad. She carries him over a distance and then lets him go down.

Sindbad falls down into a big heap of precious stones.

‘Oh, my God! Where am I?’ shouts Sindbad.

A huge snake guards the stones. The snake wants to eat Sindbad up but he is too clever for this snake. He tricks the snake and fills his pockets with precious stones and runs away.

Luckily, a whale happens to pass by. Sindbad jumps on his back. The whale carries him to Baghdad.

Sindbad gives out all his precious stones to the poor.

[1]Are you pulling my leg? – Тыменя обманываешь?