Time for a new quiz!

Guess which former British colony we’re talking about today 👇

🇬🇧 Once leased to Britain for 99 years.
🌉 Famous for its skyline, dim sum, and Victoria Harbour.
🐉 Its name is often translated as “Fragrant Harbour.”

Can you guess the place? 👀

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«В курсе мне нравится абсолютно всё! Для меня важна теория, так как это база для самообразования, а она очень важна. А также очень много новых слов, которые я учу и применяю!»

— вот что говорят о «Level Up» его участники! 💬

💛 Присоединиться к курсу можно в любой момент, а записи предыдущих месяцев занятий можно докупить.

📕 А ещё благодаря обучению в «Level Up» можно получить бесплатную подготовку к заклу: для этого нужно пройти на заключительный этап ВсОШ по тому же предмету, что и курс, и заниматься на тарифе «Много практики» больше двух месяцев.

⏰ Итак, если начать в декабре, вы успеете выполнить оба условия и получите шанс учиться у АПО бесплатно, уже готовясь к самой главному олимпиадному событию года.

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✨9–11 класс — Знакомство с олимпиадами
✨ 9–11 класс — Глубокое погружение

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15 декабря в 11:00 МСК пройдет консультационный вебинар по организации РЭ ВсОШ. Его проведут председатель ЦПМК Ю.Б. Курасовская и член жюри ЗЭ ВсОШ Т.А. Симонян.

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🚗 Beep! New crossword incoming!

📖 Read an exciting text about a driver memorizing all London streets and solve the crossword puzzle as you go. For the protagonist, the Knowledge test is a grueling examination, but we're sure you'll breeze through our task.

❓ Share your guesses in the comments. The corrects answers will arrive at 8 pm!

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🗝 KEY:
1. crawling
2. handlebars
3. navigating
4. destination
5. lights
6. commissions
7. carriages
8. radius
9. landmarks
10. trade

Which one was the most difficult? Let us know 🤔

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🚖 By the way...

Yesterday we talked about the legendary London black cabs. Let's take another look at the text.

🚘 What words can we use to talk about cars and driving?
👉the windshield – the glass at the front of a car that you look through while driving
👉to shoot past sb – to drive past someone very quickly
👉to crawl – to move very slowly
👉lights (red lights / stop lights) – in this case, the traffic lights that tell cars when to stop
👉a route – the path or way you take to get somewhere
👉to pick up passengers – to stop and let people get into your vehicle
👉road closure – when a road is blocked so cars cannot use it

🚗 Some other great phrases:
👉to be embossed in one's memory – to be remembered very clearly (to emboss = to print)
👉grueling (training, exam, etc.) – extremely tiring and demanding
👉to clock long hours – to work for many hours
👉to be (tightly) tethered to sth – to be strongly connected or tied to something (physically or figuratively)

🇬🇧 A bit of culture!
👉Charing Cross – a major area and railway station in central London
👉Snakes and Ladders – a simple children’s board game where ladders help you move up and snakes make you slide down
👉Sisyphean undertaking – a task that feels endless and impossible to finish, a reference to the myth of Sisyphus endlessly pushing a boulder uphill

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❄️ The weather outside is frightful but there is a poet who is able to turn these dreary winter landscapes into warm reflections on our life (and his name is quite fitting for our winter theme)

⛄️ It’s Robert Frost! ⛄️

❄️ He was inspired by other famous poets (that we must study for the Olympiad as well) such as William Wordsworth and John Keats

❄️ He was not only a four-time Pulitzer Prize laureate but also a teacher! (What other famous American writer do you know that was a teacher?)

❄️ His poem was used in the famous Twilight series (which is funny, since Robert Frost had his own “Twilight” — a small collection of poems for his wife)

In his most famous poem “The Road Not Taken” the poet’s lyrical subject takes the road “less travelled by” which then influences his whole life.

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⚡️This writing got 19/20 points at the Municipal stage this year. Read it to see if you can find the mistake(s)⚡️

For reference, the task was:

You see the following notice in an English youth magazine and decide to send your story.

Stories Wanted

Write a story for our magazine.

The story must end with the sentence:
Jim happened to see the letter and decided to book a ticket for the first train heading home.

The story must include:
● a title
● a rich relative
● a beautiful house

Write 200-250 words (the title is included in the word count).

BLOOD IS THICKER THAN MONEY
Jim was a young boy who lived in the suburbs of London. His family was not particularly rich, but they managed to live happily. One day, Jim found a letter from a mysterious woman named Anna Scrudge on their porch. In that letter, Anna invited Jim to visit her mansion in Scotland. Jim was confused.
He decided to talk to his mother and ask her about Anna. When he explained everything, his mother said, "Oh, Jimmy, Anna is your aunt. She is a nasty woman that always boasts about how affluent she is." Nonetheless, Jim was now intrigued by his aunt's fortune. Later that day he asked his parents to go to Scotland, and they, though unwillingly, agreed.
Three days later Jim was in Scotland. Anna picked him up at the train station. At first, she seemed lovely, but when they arrived at her house, grandeur and opulence of which took Jim's breath away, she turned into a "vicious monster", as Jim would later desribe Anna to his mother.
She made him work day and night, giving him only three hours of sleep. For some reason, Jim did not want to leave. He seemed mesmerized by his aunt's money and the beauty of her house. Meanwhile, his parents were getting worried. They wrote a letter to Scotland, asking Jim to come back. When Anna received the letter, she hoped no one would see it and threw it away. Oh, how wrong she was! Jim happened to see the letter and decided to book a ticket for the first train heading home.

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✨ Ready for the answer? This story got maximum points for everything except grammar, the bane of every student’s existence

Решение коммуникативной задачи: 4/4 points
✅рассказ заканчивается указанной в задании фразой,
✅в рассказе есть заголовок, соответствующий содержанию рассказа,
✅в рассказе есть упоминание (или описание) о богатом родственнике,
✅в рассказе есть упоминание (или описание) о красивом доме.

Организация текста: 4/4 points
✅в рассказе имеется логично построенный сюжет
в работе нет логических ошибок
✅средства логической связи использованы правильно
текст правильно разделён на абзацы

Лексика: 4/4 points
✅no mistakes!

Грамматика: 3/4 points
❌they arrived at her house, THE grandeur and opulence of which took Jim's breath away
Here, an article is missing. The nouns ‘grandeur and opulence’ are determined by the of-phrase, so the definite article is needed.

Орфография и пунктуация: 4/4 points
✅no mistakes!

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