BEC:April 10th Class

Basic English Conversation, Mid-term exam preparation sheet , Spring 2006.

Your exam has three components: Part One, Listening Comprehension; Part Two, Vocabulary; Part Three, Grammar.
What should you prepare: Units 1-5, plus ‘parts of the body idioms.”
PART ONE: Listening Comprehension. (10 -20 points).

a) You are asked to answer questions based on the familiar text. For example, Question: Where is she going to travel next year? Answer: Africa.
b) You are asked to fill out the blanks. She is going to travel to Africa.

PART TWO: Vocabulary. (10-20 points)
a) Make a list of at least 5 activities you can do on the weekend/ at least 10 countries in the world/ make a list of at least 5 types of sicknesses/things you should do in a business meeting.
b) Fill out the blanks.
If you have a business meeting you must arrive on time.
This year I am graduating from high-school.
If you’re going to a Korean home, take off your shoes.
If you are a man, wear a suit for a business meeting.

c) replace the underlined expression with the appropriate idiom, making sure that your sentence is grammatically correct. E.g. (example). I don’t know which movie we should watch. Let’s not plan and see what we feel like watching when we get to the movie theatre. Changed to: Let’s play it by ear;”

PART THREE: Grammar.
Adverbs of Frequency.
a) Write the adverbs of frequency in parentheses in the correct place in the same sentence: E.G. Movie theatres are crowded on weekends. (always). Movie theatres are always crowded on weekends.
b) Based on the given text, use the correct form of the verb phrases and an adverb of frequency to make sentence. See Workbook, page 13, Exercise no. 4.
Conjunctions and, but, so.
Link the two sentences. She was sick. She went to work. She was sick but she went to work.
Simple Past. Regular and Irregular Verbs.
*Change the Paragraph to describe Bianca’s day yesterday (in the past tense). E.g. She wakes up early. She drinks coffee. She woke up early. She drank coffee. * *Complete the sentences with the simple past tense of the verbs in parentheses: She won the Olympic gold medal in skiing. She took French lesons.
* Make Wh- or Yes/No questions based on the text. She lived in Japan. She married her co-worker.
Where did she leave? Who did she marry? //Did she live in Japan? Did she marry her coworker?

“going to” for the future

Based on the text, you will have to say what people are going to do. See Workbook, page 22.
“should” and “shouldn’t” for advice.

Write at 5 things that you should and 5 things that you shouldn’t do in your English class (see page 27).
Write what you should and shouldn’t do when you’re invited to your Western friend’s home for dinner.