10 class

1     Task 1 Missing words

Complete each gap 1-20 with one word.

Have you 1................told a lie? Did people believe you? According 2...............research, whether it`s to avoid arguments or to get what we want, more 3................more of us are lying –and getting away with it.

Linda White from Manchester is a good example. Last year Linda got engaged. Unfortunately, she didn`t like some 4................of the friends her husband asked to the engagement party. At first Linda wasn`t sure 5................to do. Then she had an idea. She would invite them all, 6.............on the wrong day!

People also ie about 7..............careers. some add extra qualifications to their curriculum vitae, or make up previous jobs 8..................an interview. Robert Pool has 9...............working as a terail manager 10..................three years. When he 11................intreviewed for his job ha said he had a degree 12...................Management. He didn`t but the employers believed 13...............

More typically, people tend to lie 14...............they meet someone for the first time. They want to 15...............a good impression, so they lie about how 16...............they can play a sport, what places they 17..................been to, or the things they own.

But how can we tell if someone 18...............lying? the answer is watch their body language. Most people find it difficult to look directly 19....................someone when they are 20............a lie. They can`t keep their hands still and they often touch their nose or their mouth.

So if you make a new friend, watch their body language-it could reveal more than you think.

Number of speakers	Number of languages
A       More than 100 million	9
B       10 - 99,9 million	72
C        1 -  9 ,9 million	239
D        100 000 - 999,999	795
E        10 -  99,999	1605
F        1000 - 9,999	1782
G       100 - 999	1075
H       10- 99	302
I         1 - 9	181

The Last Word

1.      Maluerindi ( a name which means Running Water) is lonely because he has nobody to talk to, but his loneliness won`t change – he is the last person in the world who can speak his Aboriginal language. “It`s sad”, he says, “but there is nothing we can do about it now”.

2.      Experts who study languages say that there are 51 other languages with just one speaker left – 28 of them in Australia. These languages are so close to dying that nobody can save them. The experts tell us that out of the world`s 6000 languages, 3000 will disappear in the next 100 years.

3.      There are many reasons why languages die. Sometimes natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods or hurricanes suddenly destroy small groups of people who live in far away places. Sometime the weather changes and there isn`t enough food, and sometimes strangers bring new diseases.

4.      But disasters like these are not the biggest danger, and do not tell us why languages disappearing faster than ever before. The real problem comes from the big world languages such as English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. Today, mainly because of America, English is the first world language, and it is very hard for small languages to survive.

5.      There are things that small communities can do to save a language, but they need time and money. First, people need to record the language and write it down. Then they need to train teachers, and write grammar books, dictionaries and books for schools.

6.      We should care about languages that are in danger just as we should care about rare plants and animals. When a language dies it is not like when a civilization such as the ancient Greeks or Egyptians die. They leave behind buildings like the pyramids in Egypt and Parthenon in Greece – there is always something to show that they were there. But a spoken language leaves nothing behind- when it dies, there is only silence.

Read the article and match the topics a-f with paragraphs 1-6.

a.       What communities can do.

b.      The number of languages in danger.

c.       The last speaker of his language.

d.      The most important reason why languages are dying.

e.       Languages and natural disasters.

f.       What happens when languages die.

1.       Learn to speak body language

When we go for an interview, most of us think carefully about what to wear and what to say but hardly ever about how to act – in other words, what our body language is telling the interviewer. So can we appear cool when we are felling so nervous?

Judy james, a body language specialist and author, says that the most interviewees who ask for advice are told „Just be yourself“. This, she says, is the wrong approach. If you are just going to be yourself, why not turn up in an old tracksuit? You would never do that, so why just „be yourself“ in body language? Instead, by marketing your body language, you can control your own success.

According to experts, body language accounts for 55 per cent of the effect we have when communicating. Tyone of voice accounts for 33 per cent, and words for just 7 per cent – so what you say matters much less than how you behave.

Employers nowadays are cautious about the fast talking interviewee who has learned ceratain words and phrases but who  may be hiding a basic lack of knowledge or simply lying. So they look increasingly for other signs, which will show a person`s character and ability - such as body language.

You will be more impressive at an interview if you have prepared by doing a „dress rehearsal“ of your facial expressions and hand movements in front of a mirror. It sounds rediculous but it works.

When it comes to facial signals,you should always smile when you enter the interview room and when the interview has finished, because first and last impressions count. Try to smile from the eyes first –if models can do this, so can we. There is nothing worse than a painted-on smile and terrified eyes.

You should also try to maintain eye –contact with the interviewer, but not for too long. If you are in front of a panel of the interviewers, look first at the person who has asked you a question, and then at each of the other panel members in turn. Looking just at the questioner is a common mistake.

Once you are sitting down, your hands should generally stay loosely in your lap. Use them to make a point occasionally but never raise them above shoulder level, and do not play with your hair, watch strap or jewellery.

Body language is a subject that we have all heard about, yet we are not aware of the effect that oue own body language has on others. In fact, it is vital –and after someone has noticed it for the forst time, even subconsciously, they are unlikely to change their opinion because of what you say. So at an ibterview, take the trouble to get it right.

The Times.

Task 1. Choosing the statements which reflect content. 

Read the article, then from statements a-i, choose five which reflect the content of the text. Tell which paragraph of the text are reflected by the statement you chose.

a.       We rarely think about how to behave in an interview.

b.    People going for interviews are generally given useful advice.

c.      You can learn to „sell“ your image bu using suitable body language.

d.      Employers take more notice of body anguage than prepared interview language.

e.     Practise your interview technique by watching others in action

f.       Learn to smile throughout the interview.

g.       You need to make eye-contact with everyone interviewing you.

h.     Use your hands to communicate as often as possible.

i.        We must realise how important it is to use suitable body language in an interview.

http://www.english-magazine.org/english-reading/english-language-articles/919-body-language