UNIDADES TECNOLOGICAS DE SANTANDER

LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
SECOND EXAM UNITS 2 & 3 - 80%
ENGLISH B1.2

NAME: _____________________________________ DATE: ______________ MARK: ___________

I. LISTENING SECTION (5 Points) _____

A. Listen to the phone conversation between Oliver and his mom Sophie and circle the
proper answers. (5 marks, 0.71 marks each)

1) Why is Sophie outside the hotel?

A. Her room is filled with B. Her room is being C. Her room is noisy.
teens. cleaned.

2) Where is Sophie?
A. In North Carolina. B. In the Chimney. C. In China.

3) How do you get up the mountains?

A. By a lift / elevator. B. By a big escalator. C. By a thin translator.

4) How are local girls decorated?

A. With tons of towers. B. With hands of corn flour. C. With bands of flowers.

5) According to Sophie how is going to be Baofeng Lake?

A. Exciting. B. Fascinating. C. Cool.

6) According to Sophie how is her guide?

A. Blessed. B. A test. C. The best.

7) How does Sophie hope to find everything?

A. Clean and Tidy. B. Green on Friday. C. Lean and Tiny.

II. GRAMMAR SECTION (15 Points) _____

A. Complete the conversation with the comparative or superlative form of the adjectives
in parentheses. (5 marks, 1 each)
ROSE Wow! This quiz is (1) ………………………………….……….……. (difficult) than the previous one.
SAM Yes, but I really want to win.
ROSE Okay, let’s look at the next question. What’s the biggest country in the world?
SAM The United States.
ROSE No, I don’t think so. In my opinion Russia is (2) ………………………………….……….……. (big)
than the United States.
SAM Yes, you’re right. And the (3) ………………………………….……….……. (unspoiled) country is
Brazil, according to survey we read there’s a lot to explore and learn from The Amazons rainforest.
ROSE Question 3. Is the Gobi the (4) ………………………………….…………… (hot) desert in the world?
SAM No, it isn’t. The Sahara is because its temperatures reach 50-degree mark during high
summer!
ROSE What about this question? What is the tallest mountain?
SAM Oh! That’s easy, the Mount Everest.
ROSE Of course.
SAM Okay, here’s the last question. What is the (5) ………………………………….……….……. (good)
country to live in?
ROSE Wow! That’s the most difficult question. I don’t know the answer to it.
 B. Complete the advert with the correct form of be going to. (5 marks, 1 each)

The cheese rolling event in Gloucestershire 1_____________________ happen as

usual this year! Tourists 2_____________________ come from all over the world,
so make sure you join us! Usually we use local cheese, but this year we
3
_____________________ use real cheese; instead we’re going to roll plastic
cheese.

Last year Kenny Rackers won the men’s race. Is he going to win this year too?

There 4_____________________ be four races down and two up the hill. It 5_____________________ be
an exciting day!

C. Circle the proper relative pronouns to complete each relative clause. There’s one
example. (5 marks, 1 each)
I live in Canada, 0 who / which / when is a densely populated country, the city 1 where / whose / that I live in
is not very big. I am a teacher and I teach a class of students 2 which / that / whose native language is not
English. Yesterday, a student named Julien ran into a classmate named Noémie, and he twisted his ankle
so we took him to the hospital. The doctor 3 when / who / where examined the boy was very gentle. When
we drove Julien home, he told me: “I will always remember the day 4 that / which / when I had this
accident”. I answered him: “Then that’s something 5 that / whose / where you'll never forget in your whole
life.” And we both laughed.
III. VOCABULARY SECTION (10 Points) _____

A. Complete the sentences with the adjectives from the box. (5 marks, 1 each)

tiny dull touristy enormous picturesque

1) It’s an absolutely __________________ city, with over 20 million residents.

2) My home town is so __________________. There’s nothing to do, and nowhere to go.
3) Hassop is a __________________ village – it’s only got three house houses and a postbox!
4) From the top of the hill, the town looks very __________________, so remember to take
your camera.
5) Seatown is pretty, but very very __________________. The town is full of buses and people
taking photographs and buying ice creams.

B. Read the sentences about Nina’s home and write the corresponding parts of the
house. First letter is provided. (5 marks, 1 each)

There are eight rooms in the (1) d ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ where I live in. There’s a big (2)
g ____ ____ ____ ____ ____, with many plants and flowers. In the (3)
g ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ there’s our family car and my brother’s motorbike. On the second

story is my bedroom, I think it is the best. It has a (4) b ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____, where I

take fresh air, and (5) carpeted f ____ ____ ____ ____ s so I always walk barefoot.
 IV. READING SECTION (10 Points) _____

A. Harry was at home for three weeks. Yesterday was his first day at school again. Read
what happened and decide if the sentences below are True (T) or False (F). If the
sentences are FALSE correct them. (10 marks, 1 each)

Harry’s first day at school again

‘I’ll take you to school in my car!’ his mom said. Harry wasn’t pleased. He was having breakfast, thinking
about his friends. He wanted to go to school with them by bus. It was his first day at school after three
weeks at home. It normally takes Harry ten minutes to get from his house to the bus stop. But this
morning it was different. Harry was walking on crutches, because his right foot was in a plaster cast. It
wasn’t easy. When he arrived at the bus stop, nobody was waiting for him. His friends weren’t there
anymore. ‘No problem’, Harry thought. ‘I’m going to take the next bus.’ Half an hour later Harry was still
waiting. Suddenly it started to rain. When the bus finally came, Harry was completely wet. And he was
angry. Harry arrived at the school at a quarter past ten! When he opened the door to his class, there
were no kids. ‘Where are they?’ Harry thought. Then he remembered. They were watching a DVD in the
media lab with their biology teacher. The media lab was on the 3rd floor. Harry didn’t want to go there.
He was too tired from walking to school on the crutches. ‘I’ll stay here and wait’, he thought. 20 minutes
later the boys and girls of class 2b came back to their classroom. And when they opened the door to
the class, they started to laugh. There was their friend Harry. He was lying on his desk, and he was –
sleeping!
1) Harry was eating and thinking about his friends.
True / False _________________________________________________________
2) Harry normally walks from his house to the bus stop.
True / False _________________________________________________________
3) It was easy to walk on crutches.
True / False _________________________________________________________
4) When Harry arrived to the bus stop, his friends weren’t waiting for him.
True / False _________________________________________________________
5) When the bus came, Harry was wet and hungry.
True / False _________________________________________________________
6) The school has minimum 3 floors/stories.
True / False _________________________________________________________
7) Harry is in class 20b.
True / False _________________________________________________________
8) When Harry opened the door there were only girls in the class.
True / False _________________________________________________________
9) The students were in biology class.
True / False _________________________________________________________
10) When the students came back to the classroom Harry was laughing.
True / False _________________________________________________________
 V. WRITING SECTION (5 Points) ______

Write a short text about the following situation: You received an e-mail, letter, WhatsApp or
Facebook message, include: (1) when you received it, (2) what activity you were doing, (3) how
you felt before opening it, (4) how you felt after opening it, (5) what activity you did next. Use
adequate vocabulary and expressions studied in class. (90- 100 words)

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RUBRIC FOR WRITING SECTION
Mastery (5p) Accomplished Adequate (3p) Developing (2p) Inadequate (1p)
(4p)
Content & Sentences and paragraphs are All sentences are Main idea Incomplete Many sentence
Development complete, well-constructed and of complete and somewhat development of fragments or run-
• Topic Sentence varied structure well-constructed developed with main idea. It takes on sentences
• Ideas (no fragments, no adequate details, more than one
• Support Writer makes no errors in run-ons). but were not very reading to figure No support for
capitalization and punctuation. clear out what the main idea which
Writer makes 1-2 writing was about. makes very
The writing is 70 words long. errors in grammar difficult to
and/or spelling. Writer makes 3-4 Writer makes -5 - understand the
errors in grammar 6 errors in writing.
The writing is 50 and/or spelling capitalization and
words long. punctuation. Writer makes
The writing is 25 more than 7
words long. The writing is 15 errors in
words long. capitalization and
punctuation.

The writing is less

than 10 words
long.

VI. SPEAKING SECTION (5 Points) ______

RUBRIC FOR ORAL TEST

Excellent Poor
You exceeded the requirements of the assignment and put a
lot of thought and effort into this task. 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2
CONTENT
You understood what was said to you and responded
appropriately to the assigned task. 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2
COMPREHENSION
The listener was able to understand what you were trying to
communicate in the given assignment. 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2
COMPREHENSIBILITY
You used correctly the language functions and grammar
necessary to communicate your ideas. 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2
ACCURACY
You spoke clearly and without hesitation. Your
pronunciation and intonation sounded natural. 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2
FLUENCY