Nmca English Exam 11

NMCA English exam. 6th Primary Education. Unit 11. Name: _______________________________________________ Date: ______________________ 1. Answer the following questions.

a) Complete the sentence. Ellen _______ listening when the teacher spoke to her   

Was Were Weren’t

b) Complete the sentence. Helen and I ____ looking when we crossed the road.   

Didn’t Wasn’t Weren’t

c) Complete with the appropriate form of: (Study). I _________________ economics at university when I met my wife. d) Complete with the appropriate form of: (not / feel). Raymond ____________________ very well, but he went to work anyway. e) Complete with the appropriate form of: (Do). What ___________________ when I called? 2. Listen to the audio and match to fill the gaps.

1. I ________ ________ this morning. 2. What ________ you ________ when I called you? 3. Bill heard about the report as he ________ ________ to the radio. 4. Who ________ ________ all that noise last night? 5. The machines ________ ________ properly. 6. Joe and Lisa ________ ________ in New York in the 1980s. 7. The driver ________ ________ a good job, so he was fired. 8. A security guard ________ ________ us while we were in the store. 9. A woman tripped as she ________ ________ onto the bus. 10. The accident was caused by a man who ________ ________ while he ________ ________. Were

doing

Were living

Weren’t running

Was listening

Wasn’t doing

Was testing

Was driving

Was working

Was getting

Was watching

3. Read the police interview to a woman about a crime. Then fill in the chart below with the information given by the woman.

Policeman: I’d like to ask you some questions, Miss. What’s your name? Mary: Mary Hopkins. Policeman: What’s your profession? Mary: I’m an optician. I work at the glasses shop. You know, the shop next to the bank. Policeman: Ok, Miss Hopkins, what were you doing at 2:00 yesterday afternoon? Mary: I was standing outside the shop waiting for a friend. Suddenly, I show two people running into the bank. There was a man and a woman. Policeman: Can you describe them? Mary: The man was short and fat. He had long black hair. Policeman: Short and fat, with long black hair. And what was he wearing? Mary: I think he was wearing a black sweater and jeans. Policeman: Where the jeans black? Mary: No, ordinary blue jeans. Policeman: And the woman, what was she wearing? Mary: She was wearing a jacket and black trousers. Policeman: Are you sure? Mary: Yes, she had black trousers. Policeman: What happened next? Mary: After a few minutes, the man came out of the bank carrying a big bag and the woman came out. They got into a red car and drove away. Policeman: A red car… Did you see the numbers on the car? Mary: Um… Let me think… I saw a three, a five and I think a saw an eight. But I definitely saw a three and a five. Policeman: Thank you very much. POLICE REPORT What was her name? What did she do? When did it happen? What was she doing? How many people did he she? What were they wearing? What happened? How did they scape? Did she know anything else? 4. Produce a 35-40 words ghost tale.

WITNESS’ INFORMATION At 2:00 yesterday afternoon. She was waiting for a friend. They came out with a big bag and scape. She worked at the glasses shop. In a red car. Mary. Some numbers on the car. He was wearing a black sweater and jeans and she was wearing a jacket and black trousers. Two people. A man and a woman.

Assessment Criteria and Indicators: A.C. 3-1 – I. 3.1.1. Understanding simple structures and lexis about familiar topics in different contexts. A.C. 3.2. – I. 3.2.1. Using appropriate strategies to understand the general meaning of oral messages. A.C. 3.3. – I. 3.3.1. Understanding sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects as well as social conventions in diverse contexts. A.C. 3.4. – I. 3.4.1. Inferring the meaning of the new lexicon through the context. A.C. 3.5. – I. 3.5.1. Understanding the main idea of oral messages, recognizing sound, stress, rhythmic and intonation. AC. 3.9. – I. 3.9.1. Identifying the general meaning and the main ideas of a short and simple text in any format with the possibility of using a dictionary. AC. 3.10. – I. 3.10.1. Using basic strategies and knowledge about cultural and linguistic aspects for the global understanding of different types of texts, highlighting the essential information and the main points, establishing similarities and differences with respect to the English-speaking countries. AC. 3.11. – I. 3.11.1. Demonstrating general understanding of the fundamental idea communicated in written text. AC. 3.12. – I. 3.12.1. Understanding syntactic structures, related to familiar contexts and situations to ask for information, show interest, or make a suggestion. AC. 3.13. – I. 3.13.1. Recognizing a limited repertoire of written vocabulary relating to everyday situations and habitual topics, differentiating the basic punctuation marks in texts. AC. 3.14. – I. 3.14.1. Writing short and simple texts in a neutral or informal register using with reasonable correction the basic orthographic conventions and the main signs of punctuation. AC. 3.15. – I. 3.15.1. Knowing and applying basic strategies to produce brief and simple written texts copying words and usual phrases. AC. 3.16. – I. 3.16.1. Producing written texts taking into account basic sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects applying the knowledge the vocabulary. AC. 3.17. – I. 3.17.1. Producing written texts with communicative functions and applying the basic discursive patterns.