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
