12th form
Test 4
CONTENTS AND STRUCTURE:
1 .Comprehension: Text under “Democracy in a Global Era” – (one of the prescribed)
- Synonyms/referring/questions (90 points)
2 .Structure: (60 points)
2.1. Relative clauses – several types of exercises
2.2. Rephrasing - (using structures like passive voice, reported speech, concessive/adversative clauses. If-clauses, etc
2.3. Verb forms (general review)
3 .Composition: commenting on a given statement (50 ponots)
1. Oral exposition Available topics
A- A brief approach to Abraham Lincoln biography (focusing mainly the slaves liberation and the civil war (requires some research).
B. The freedom of expression in Portugal (requires a certain knowledge of the latest 70 years of the History of Portugal).
C. Religion – an essential human need or just a negligible activity? (personal opinion).
D. The curious case of Benjamin Button – a report (bearing in mind the relationship between birth and death, the right to be born, the love and the compassion, the work, the humour and the finitude of man).
E. The soap project – the making of (referring to the creative process and the difficulties to be faced).
2 Written test
I- COMPREHENSION OF A TEXT (SELECTED BETWEEN PAGES 104 AND 125 (INCLUSIVE) (ABOUT 90 POINTS)
. REFERRING EXERCISE
. TRUE/FALSE (FINDING EVIDENCE FOR BOTH (EVIDENCE QUOTED FROM THE TEXT)
. PRODUCTIVE COMPREHENSION – QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TEXT
. WORK ON LEXIS – SYNONYMS –FINDING EQUIVALENMTS IN THE TEXT
II – STRUCTURE (ABOUT 60 POINTS)
. (REVISION) REPORTED SPEECH – REPLACING “TO SAY” FOR OTHER VERBS
. VERBS + PREPOSITIONS
. POSITION OF ADVERBS
. BUILDING ADVERBS OF MANNER
.THE USE OPF WOULD
. PASSIVE VOICE NORMAL AND DOUBLE OBJECT PASSIVE VOICE)
III – COMPOSITION
The themes will stay much around the same already designed for the oral expositions. You will be informed IN TIME of any further situations.
Are you a good screenwriter? And actor? How about a fiction writer? What about a TV producer? Do you want to produce a sketch to be role-played and recorded?
Well, do not worry. The final product will not leave this room. It will only serve to make a lesson that, with a little luck and some help from the teacher, can be interesting and effective.
You should only respect the following two items:
1. You must use, at least, one passive construction, one inversion after restrictive adverbs, one conditional sentence;
2. You must work out at least one of the topics provided by the module you are studying at the moment: 1- The woman’s condition today; 2- Family life problems; 3- Problems couples have to face today: 4- Children’s education; 5- Freedom (speech freedom, religion freedom, political freedom); 6- The Search for Happiness.
Don’t forget: Write a text in dialogue, so that it can be role-played.
So get to work, will you?
Suggestions: 1- A discussion in the family (father mother, one or two children)
2- A discussion at a restaurant, café, bar, etc. (four friends – two girls and two
boys)
3- Other situations…
NOTICE: THE WORKS WILL BE CORRECTED AND EVALUATED BEFORE BEING ACTED
INVERSION AFTER RESTRITIVE ADVERBS (USED ESPECIALLY IN FORMAL ENGLISH
REWRITE THESE SENTENCES BEGINNING THEM AS SUGGESTED:
1. THEY RARELY SPEAK ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS
Rarely_____________________________________________________________
2. SHE HAS SELDOM PARTICIPATED IN A COMPETITION
Seldom ___________________________________________________________
3. HE HAS NEVER FACED SUCH TERRIBLE PROBLEMS
Never ____________________________________________________________
4. I HAD SCARCELY ENTERED THE SHOP, WHEN I SAW MY UNCLE BEN
Scarcely __________________________________________________________
5. SHE HAD HARDLY FINISHED HER MEAL, WHEN HER BOYFRIEND ARRIVED
Hardly ____________________________________________________________
6. WE HAVE RARELY SEEN SUCH PUBLIC INTERESTS IN THIS AREA
Rarely ___________________________________________________________
7. SHE LITTLE REALIZED THAT HER BOSS HAD DECIDED TO FIRE HER
Little ____________________________________________________________
8. AS SOON AS I HEARD THE RESULTS, I PHONED HIM
No sooner_________________________________________________________
NOW IMAGINE OTHER SENTENCES BEGINNING THEM AS SUGGESTED:
A) Never ________________________________________________________
B) Not only ______________________________________________________
C) Little _________________________________________________________
D) No sooner _____________________________________________________
F) On no condition _________________________________________________
G) In no way _____________________________________________________
GOOD WORK!
I
1.1. people 1.2. what is happening… 1.3. dictionaries 1.4. country
II
1 puzzled 2 refrain from launching 3 inarguably 4 amazing reach
III Several answers can be accepted in this group. However, it is highly expected that the links could suit
IV Several forms can be accepted.
V 1 surprised 2 speakers 3 widely 4 written 5 mutually
6 understood
VI
1. … are interviewing local people in English
2. Will the English language be transformed by non-native speakers?
3. It is estimated that there are now words from more than…
VII
1.
Passive 1 – This necklace was given to me by them
Passive 2 – I was given this necklace
2.
Passive 1 – A beautiful birthday present has been sent to her.
Passive 2 - She has been sent a beautiful birthday present
3.
Passive 1 – Their pictures should be shown to us.
Passive 2 – We should be shown their pictures.
4.
Passive 1 – The new news is (are) going to be told to them by us
Passive 2 – They are going to be told the new news.
5.
Passive 1 – Was the job I told you about offered to you?
passive 2 – Were you offered the job I told you about?
6.
Passive 1 – Information is being collected from the Internet by the boys.
Passive 2 – Impossible
7.
Passive 1 – The best chocolates in Europe have been boing produced by Switzerland.
Passive 2 – Impossible
8.
Passive 1 - Twenty minutes to get ready were allowed to me by mom.
Passive 2 – I was allowed twenty minutes to get ready.
VIII
1. If Mary hadn’t spent many years studying English, she wouldn’t have spoken it so fluently (or mixed: … she wouldn’t speak it so fluently)
Hadn’t Mary spent ( so ) many years studying English, (and) she wouldn’t speak it so fluently.
2. Had Peter heard the radio news and he wouldn’t have driven to work.
COMPOSITION: 50 PERCENT FOR THE CONTENT AND ANOTHER 50 PER CENT FOR THEFORMAL SPEECH.
