Choose the right word to complete the sentence skyscrapers are very buildings

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работа по английскому языку ученка(цы) 6 «г» класса

Ф.И.ученика_________________________________________________________

I. Write the verbs in
the past forms:

II. Complete the
sentences using nobody, anything, everybody, somebody, nothing, anybody,
something, and everything.

1. _________________could
do the sum as it was very easy.

2. Did you
watch____________________ interesting on TV yesterday?

3. _________________knew
the answer to the question.

4. Ann was so sad
yesterday that __________________ interested her.

5. I’d like to do
__________________ exciting today.

6. _________________wants
to do the project with Mary. Will you help her, Jim?

7. Aunt Mary is moving to
a new house. ________________must help her.

8. Helen speaks English
so well. __________________ understands her.

III. Use the right
forms of the verbs in the brackets:

1. At 6 p.m. Jill (to
listen) __________________ to the news and her mum (to cook)
__________________.

2. Sarah (to have)
________________ a lot of homework to do and (not to go)____________ to the cinema
yesterday.

3. Russian people (to
defend) _________________their country in 1941.

4. I (to
write)______________________ an essay when my cousin (to come)_____________
yesterday.

5. When it (to
start)___________________raining, they (to rebuild)____________________ their
garage.

6. My aunt (to
move)___________________ to Klin in 1997.

7. Dad (to
miss)____________________us so much that he (to decide)_________________ to
come back home earlier.

8. Who (to found) _____________________the
city of Vladimir?

9. Peter (to
cut)__________________and (to water)_______________________ the plants from 2
p.m. to 3 p.m. yesterday.

10. Bill (to
change)______________________ his job several times last year.

IV. Write the
where necessary:

V. Choose the right words
in the brackets:

1. Skyscrapers are very
(tall/high) buildings.

2. There are many
(tall/high) palms on the beach.

3. We can see stars
(tall/high) in the sky.

4. There was a narrow but
very (tall/high) tower in the middle of the square.

5. Sarah put the
(tall/high) glasses on the table.

6. The oak tree is a
(tall/high) tree.

VI. Choose the right
words from the box to continue the rows:

Few: apples,________________________________________________________________

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Little:
news,________________________________________________________________

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 VII. Write everything
about your last summer holidays use all new words from unit № 1.

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ПОМОГИТЕЕЕЕЕЕ!!! A skyscraper is a very tall, continuously habitable building. There is no official definition or a precise cutoff height above which a building may clearly be classified as a skyscraper. However, as per usual practice in most cities, the definition is used empirically, depending on the relative impact of the shape of a building to a citys overall skyline. Thus, depending on the average height of the rest of the buildings and/ or structures in a city, even a building of 80 meters height (approximately 262 ft) may be considered a skyscraper provided that it clearly stands out above its surrounding built environment and significantly changes the overall skyline of that particular city. The word skyscraper originally referred to a nautical term tall mast or its main sail on a sailing ship. The term was first applied to buildings in the late 19th century as a result of public amazement at the tall buildings being built in Chicago and New York City. The structural definition of the word skyscraper was refined later by architectural historians, based on engineering developments of the 1880s that had enabled construction of tall multi-story buildings. This definition was based on the steel skeleton—as opposed to constructions of load-bearing masonry, which passed their practical limit in 1891 with Chicagos Monadnock Building. Philadelphias City Hall, completed in 1901, still holds claim as the worlds tallest load-bearing masonry structure at 167 m (548 ft). The steel frame developed in stages of increasing self-sufficiency, with several buildings in Chicago and New York advancing the technology that allowed the steel frame to carry a building on its own. Today, however, many of the tallest skyscrapers are built almost entirely with reinforced concrete. Pumps and storage tanks maintain water pressure at the top of skyscrapers. A loose convention in the United States now draws the lower limit of a «skyscraper» at 150 meters (500 ft). A skyscraper taller than 300 meters (984 ft) may be referred to as supertall. In the United States, the supertall convention is 100 stories, which is equal to 1,000 feet. Shorter buildings are still sometimes referred to as skyscrapers if they appear to dominate their surroundings. The somewhat arbitrary term skyscraper should not be confused with the slightly less arbitrary term highrise, defined by the Emporis Standards Committee as «A high-rise building is a multi-story structure with at least 12 floors or 35 meters (115 feet) in height.»[1] All skyscrapers are highrises, but only the tallest highrises are skyscrapers. Habitability separates skyscrapers from towers and masts. Some structural engineers define a highrise as any vertical construction for which wind is a more significant load factor than weight. Note that this criterion fits not only highrises but some other tall structures, such as towers. The word skyscraper often carries a connotation of pride and achievement. The skyscraper, in name and social function, is a modern expression of the age-old symbol of the world center or axis mundi: a pillar that connects earth to heaven and the four compass directions to one another.[2] 1. A skyscraper is :1) an extremely high building. 2)a building of medium height. 3) a small building 2. The connotation of the word SKYSCRAPER is: 1)positive. 2)negative.3) neutral. 3. We can call a skyscraper supertall if it is: 1) 100 metres. 2)200 metres. 3)300 metres. 4. The term SKYSCRAPER came into use wirh buildings:1)in the beginning of the twentieth century. 2) in the end of the nineteenth century. 3)un the middle of the twentieth century. 5. The terms HIGHRISE and SKYSCRAPER mean: 1)the same. 2) have some difference in meaning. 3) are very close in meaning. 6. A skyscraper cant be lower then 1) 50 metres. 2)100. 3)150

Skyscrapers are very tall buildings. They are found in many large, American cities. Skyscrapers in New York City and Chicago reach more than a 1000 feet into the sky (304.8 meters), which is about the length of three football fields. These huge structures are appropriately named «skyscrapers» because they are so tall that they seem to touch, or «scrape» the sky and the clouds. On a clear day, you can see a skyscraper from several miles away.

Early skyscrapers were built with iron, steel, and masonry; modern skyscrapers are built with steel, concrete, and a lot of glass. Skyscraper construction is popular in large cities nowadays because land is very valuable. The only direction for the development of a large building in a busy downtown is up. Skyscrapers help define a city’s skyline, and they help preserve land for parks and public plazas.

The Empire State Building (right photo) in New York has more than 100 floors. It’s a very famous building. Tourists enjoy going to the observation deck near the top of the building. From there, they have a good view of the city. The Empire State Building was the tallest building in the city until the construction of the World Trade Center buildings in the 1970s.

The tallest skyscraper in the United States is the Sears Tower (renamed the Willis Tower in 2009) in Chicago, Illinois. The tallest skyscraper in the world is in Dubai (the Burj Khalifa). It stands at 2,717 feet (828 meters), which is about the length of eight-and-a-half football fields. Other famous skyscrapers are Tapei 101 in Taipai, Taiwan, Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, China.

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Now you try it. Read the paragraph above. If you have a microphone, you can record your voice.

How much do you remember from the reading? Fill in the blanks.  

• 1: The Empire State Building is in ______________.
• 2: Skyscraper construction in big cities is popular because land is so _____________.
• 3A: How many ____________ does the Empire State Building have?
• 3B: It has _____________.
• 4: From an observation deck near the top of a skyscraper, you have a good _________ of the city.
• 5: Skyscrapers have to define a city’s ___________.

(Answers: 1. New York City; 2. valuable; 3A: floors; 3B: 102 floors; 4. view; 5. skyline)

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