Устная часть - Чтение текста

Task 1. Imagine that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some interesting material for the presentation and you want to read this text to your friend. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, then be ready to read it out aloud. You will not have more than 1.5 minutes to read it.

Despite her clear success as an author, Agatha Christie often claimed herself to be the “slow one in the family,” and always found writing and spelling very difficult. As a child Christie was homeschooled, and wasn’t expected to learn how to read until she was eight years old – but five-year-old Christie taught herself how to read years before it was expected of her. Christie and her mother were also avid storytellers, and Christie later wrote in her autobiography that she began her interest in becoming an author at eleven years old, when she started to put her stories to words and publish them in the local newspaper.

Living with learning disabilities didn’t stop her from becoming the best-selling novelist. Her books have been translated into more than 100 languages. Over the course of her life, she wrote 66 crime novels, six other novels, 24 plays, and more than 150 short stories.