Correccion Examen Cuarto.docx

ASOCIACION PAMPEANA DE CULTURA INGLESA

FOURTH YEAR

MID-TERM TEST

2016

Name:……………………………… Time allowed: 1 h 30 minutes

Date: Teacher: ……

READING COMPREHENSION Read the newspaper article and decide if the statements below are True or False.

1.......... Linda Ho is a high school student. 2.......... She has written the poem Whale Song and she has won a prize. 3.......... People of all ages could win this prize.

4.......... Linda never writes poems. 5.......... This was her first competition. 6.......... Linda was sure that she was going to win the competition. 7.......... She got the inspiration for this poem when she saw a real whale. 8.......... Occasionally, she finds the inspiration to write poems when she is in the street. 9.......... She wants to save the money of the prize to go to university. 10........ In the future, she wants to write more poems and participate in more competitions.

P.T.O.

USE OF ENGLISH Mark: ……………………… A. Complete this passage with the verbs in brackets in the correct form.

Caroline Gordon (1) ........................ (not be) happy at the hospital where she is a nurse. She (2) ................................. (not like) the work and she thinks that it is boring. Every day she makes the beds, feeds the patients and (3) .......................... (write) reports. She hates (4) ............................ (write) reports. At the moment Caroline (5) ............................ (talk) to a patient, but she is thinking about her holidays. She wants to talk to her friend Valerie because they are going to go on holidays together. Last year they went to the Alps but they (6) ............................... (not know) where to go this year. Caroline and her friend (7) ........................... (like) climbing and both of them are very good at it. But they can’t go on a very expensive holiday this time because they (8) ............................ (not have) much money. Caroline (9) ............................... (want) to leave the hospital right now, but she has still two hours left at work. The patient (10) ............................. (tell) her a nice story but she isn’t listening to him.

B. Choose the best option to complete these sentences. 1. I enjoy ....................................... but I can’t play any instrument. TO DANCE

DANCE

DANCING

2. This new game is ........................... amazing! Would you like to try it? REALLY

VERY

A BIT

3. If I don’t help my dad at home, he doesn’t give me ............................ money to go out. ANY

SOME

NO

4. We are here .......................... the trip to Bariloche. FOR ORGANISE

TO ORGANISE

TO ORGANISING

5. ..................................... enough time to visit the whole city? HAS SHE HAD

HAVE SHE HAS

HAS SHE HAS

6. No, mum! The party hasn’t finished ......................... . I don’t want to leave! ALREADY

EVER

YET

7. Have you ........................... bought anything online? ALREADY

EVER

YET

8. I ................................................... to Chile, but I would love to! HAVE NEVER BEEN

HAVEN’T NEVER BEEN

HAVE BEEN NEVER

C. Tina is usually a very tidy girl but today she has woken up late. She has just left for school but she hasn’t even had time to have breakfast. Look at her bedroom and write five sentences about what she has or hasn’t done. There is an example (0).

Example: (0) She hasn’t turned off the lamp. 1………………………………………………………………………………… 2………………………………………………………………………………… 3………………………………………………………………………………… 4………………………………………………………………………………… 5…………………………………………………………………………………

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WRITING Mark: ……………………… Read this e-mail from your friend Justin. Hi! How are you and your cousin doing in the UK? Where are you now? (England? Scotland? Ireland?) Do you like it there? What do you do every day? And what is your cousin doing now? Write to me soon and tell me everything!!! Love, Justin. P.S. - Have you bought any present for me yet? Write an e-mail to Justin to answer his questions. Write your e-mail in 80-100 words.

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Listen to two friends talking about the computer game SimCity, and tick (√) only the correct statements. 1................. Both friends have played SimCity. 2................. SimCity was created 12 years ago but there are new versions. 3................. In this game, you have to build different cities to form a new country. 4................. You need to plan everything so that the people who live there are satisfied. 5................. Money is a very important aspect to consider in this game. 6................. If the people in SimCity are unhappy, they may decide to stop working. 7................. Natural disasters can also affect the cities in this game.

8................. According to the man, SimCity is not a game about destroying things. 9................. He says that the design of SimCity is very good. 10............... The game was created for teenagers, and adults usually don’t like it.

KEY AND MARKING SCHEME READING COMPREHENSION Total marks: 10 Pass mark: 6 (60%) Correct answers: 1.T – 2.T – 3.F – 4.F – 5.T – 6.F – 7.F – 8.T – 9.F – 10.T

USE OF ENGLISH Total marks: 28 Pass mark: 16 (60%) Exercise A: Marks: 10 Correct answers: 1.isn’t – 2.doesn’t like – 3.writes – 4.writing – 5.is talking – 6.don’t know – 7.like – 8.don’t have / haven’t got – 9.wants – 10.is telling Exercise B: Marks: 8 Correct answers: 1.dancing – 2.really – 3.any – 4.to organise – 5.Has she had – 6.yet – 7.ever – 8.have never been Exercise C: Marks: 10 (2 marks for each correct sentence) Expected structures: Present Perfect Simple Accept any plausible answer

Marking scheme: 28 --- 27 ------------------ 10 26 --- 25 ------------------ 9 24 --- 22 ------------------ 8 21 --- 19 ------------------ 7 18 --- 16 ------------------ 6 ________________________ 15 --- 14 ------------------ 5 13 --- 11 ------------------ 4 10 --- 8 ------------------ 3 7 --- 5 ------------------ 2 4 ------------------------- 1

WRITING Impression out of 10 marks. Pass mark: 6

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Listening taken from New Total English – Pre-intermediate (Pearson / Longman) – CD 2– Track 2 Total marks: 10 Pass mark: 6 (60 %) Correct statements: (√) 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 10

Incorrect statements: (X) 1 – 2 – 3 –