Задания для викторины по английскому языку «I like English»
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Задания для викторины по английскому языку «I like English»

Name ______________  Surname ________________________  Group __________

І. How can you translate it?

1. …never look a gift horse into the eating… _____________________________

2. …double Dutch … ________________________________________________

3. … time and again…_______________________________________________

4. … a mare's nest… ________________________________________________

5. … turn back the clock … ___________________________________________

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6. …do not cross the bridge until you come to it… _________________________

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7. …a Jack of all trades… _____________________________________________

8. …to buy a pig in a poke… __________________________________________

ІI.Solve therebus:

1. ( ____________________ )                  3. ( ____________________ )

2. ( ____________________ )4. ( ____________________ )

ІIІ.Match each literary character to the author. Be attentive: there are two extra names in the author's column. →

IV. Guess riddles

1. Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I? (______________________________________________________________)

2. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps? (____________________________________)

3. What can't be used until it's broken?(_________________________________)

4. What walks on four legs in the morning, two at mid-day, and three in the evening? (__________________________________________________)

5. Why do lions eat raw meat? (_______________________________________)

V. “Who was …”. Answer the questions.

1. Who was the only English king whom English people called “the Great”? _____

2. Can you name the last Anglo-Saxon King of England who lost the battle at Hastings? _______________

3. Who had to sign the Magna Carta? ____________

4. Who was the king after the Wars of the Roses? _____________

5. Who is one of the most well-known monarchs in English history chiefly because he took six wives during his life? ___________________

VI. Task 6.True or False

1. The Grampians are a part of the Highlands. ______________

2. The capital of Northern Ireland is Dublin. ______________

3. Loch Lomond is the largest lake in Scotland. ______________

4. Windermere is the largest lake in Wales. _____________

5. Snowdon is the highest peak of the Highlands. ____________