Grammar
Vocabulary
"Natural" song
Speakout texts
Facts
100
Name the general formula of a passive form of verbs
to be (in correct tense) + III form/-ed
100
To create or design something that has not existed before.
to invent
100
In the song they advise to be what kind of a person "to make it in this world"?
cold
"...you gotta be so cold
to make it in this world"
100
Galileo became the first person to look at the sky through a _____________
Telescope
100
The US president that was assassinated in 1963?
John F. Kennedy
200
What type of conditional sentences describes real present/future activity? Put the sentence in the correct tense "If you (to buy) tickets I (to go) to the cinema with you"
I type
"If you buy tickets I will go to the cinema with you"
200
An animal that is hunted and killed by another for food.
prey
200
According to the song "nothing ever comes without _____?"
a) truth
b) price
c) consequence
c) consequence
200
After the World War II, a generation was born that has come to be known as ______________
Baby Boomers
200
The real name of Sting is:
a) Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner
b)Farrokh Bulsara
c) Stephen Edwin King
a) Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner
300
What quantifiers we use with countable (apples) and what with uncountable (time) nouns?
much/many
few/little
countable: many apples; few apples
uncountable: much time; little time
300
A phrasal ver that means "to stop doing something that you do regularly;to stop trying"
to give up
300
Insert the missing words:
That's the price you ______
Leave behind your heartache, ______
Just another product of ______
Rather be the hunter than the ______
That's the price you pay
Leave behind your heartache, cast away
Just another product of today
Rather be the hunter than the prey
300
Which amazingly original and creative writer was banned from entering the USA for years?
a) Charles Dickens
b) Gabriel GarciaMarquez
c) Jack London
b) Gabriel GarciaMarquez
300
When the Titanic sank? In what ocean?
In 1912 in the Atlantic Ocean
400
Think about a hypothetical situation. Your friend did something wrong. Imagine your actions in his situation. What type? Choose the correct tense:
"If I (to be) him I (not to run away. I (to call) the police"
"If I were him I would not run away. I would call the police"
400
A phrase that means "say where to go"
give directions
400
Say the year when the song was released
in 2018
400
Another name for generation Y?
And what is the name of our children's generation?
Millenials
Generation Z
400
The current President of the French Republic is
a) Nicolas Sarkozy
b)Emmanuel Macron
c)Georges Pompidou
d)François Hollande
b) Emmanuel Macron
500
What conditional type should we use here? Put correct tenses:
"If John Lenon ______(not meet) Paul McCurtney, they ________(not form) The Beatles."
III type
"If John Lenon had not meet Paul McCurtney, they would not have formed The Beatles."
500
This phrase (2 words) means "a moment of great change," for example, in history or someone's life
turning point
500
Put words from the song in the correct order:
past; the (3); through; looking; glass; wrong; within; find
Looking through the glass find the wrong within the past
500
What is the name of the Pacific island, which is one of the most remote communities on Earth? Just 24 families live there, and they have a "community fish drive."
Anuta Island
500
What is the nationality of Cleopatra?
Macedonian
While Cleopatra was born in Egypt, she traced her family origins to Macedonian Greece and Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great's generals.