BEC: June 5th. Final Exam Preparation

Basic English Conversation, Final Exam Preparation Sheet
June 2006, by B. Turalija



Time
(Place: in your regular classroom)
Day Class:
1:00-3:00
Evening Class:
19:50-21:50

WHAT TO PREPARE?
Units 6-10 (vocabulary, grammar).
Handouts: movies, Restaurant foods
How to prepare?
As long as you have been doing your homework, it should be easy for you to prepare for this exam. The homework related to the workbook was all about reinforcing vocabulary and grammar. Written homework will help you with the written part of the exam.

Part One: listening comprehension (10 points).

You will listen to a familiar text (from the CD included with your student book) and answer each question IN THE FULL SENTENCE FORM. One-word answers and incomplete answers will not be accepted!!!! There will be approximately 10 questions .
E.g. (example): Question: Where is she going to travel.
Wrong answer (incomplete, not a full sentence, NO POINTS). India.
Correct Answer: (full sentence): She is going to travel to India.
Check the grammar and spelling in your final answer. Each mistake will cost you a point. Only perfect answers will be given full points.

IMPORTANT NOTE: you can find the tape scripts on my blog or in the student book. How to prepare? Listen to the text on the CD while following it on the blog. Listen as many times as necessary for you to feel confident in your ability to understand the text without looking at it.


Part Two: vocabulary (10 points) . Study vocabulary from Units 6-10 (a complete list is on pages 151-152 of your Textbooks), plus the vocabulary from the two handouts (movies and food).
The vocabulary test will have the form of any of the vocabulary testing forms in your workbook:
Vocabulary testing may take any of the forms of vocabulary checking in your workbooks (p. 29, 32, 35, 38,40, 52).


Part Three. Grammar. (15 points) – All Grammar we covered: page 144 and 145!!! PLUS: on the blog

You need to study and practice grammatical features covered in Units 6-10
Unit 6: Expressions for making suggestions: why don’t, let’s[not], maybe…could, how about); Unit 7: Be and have with physical descriptions (‘be’ with people’s age, height, weight/ ‘have’ with eyes, hair, facial hair, parts of the body, etc); Unit 8: Say and tell; Unit 9: would like/like, would prefer/ prefer; Unit 10: Future tense- ‘will’ for predicting

Grammar testing may have any of the grammar testing forms used in the workbook (pages 30, 33, 36, 39, 41, 44,53).

Part Four. Writing. (15 points)

Part of your regular homework was writing assignments. You will be given a choice of two topics to write . Please choose ONLY ONE topic, NOT BOTH!!. Possible Topics:
1. Write your dating video script (describe yourself: age, height, appearance, personal characteristics, hobbies/interests; describe your ideal partner (12-15 sentences)
2. a short review of a movie: the title, the genre, starring, plot, what you like most about it, what you don’t like about it; would your recommend it. (12-15 sentences)
The dialog

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Final oral presentation: 20%

Students will choose a partner or two partners to work with. First, you will write an original script loosely based on the topics in the textbook Worldview 2. If you don’t like any of the topics in the book, you can choose any topic that you like. For example, you may choose to create a restaurant scene, a visit to a doctor, talking about travel, marriage/blind dates, etc. You will hand in the script to me before your presentation is about to take place. Second, you will memorize the script and act it out in front of the whole class.

The script guidelines:

The script must contain at least 10 expressions and 3 grammatical features learned in class. Each time you use an expression or grammar learned in class you MUST underline or boldface it, or both (like I did here with words underline, boldface and both. .) If you don’t do so, you will get “0”(zero) points on the ‘Vocabulary’ category in your evaluation rubric.

Presentation guidelines:
-know your lines and speak naturally. Pay attention to your pronunciation and the clarity of your speech.
-act: be natural and relaxed, not rigid and nervous.
-use costumes and props, music, posters…anything that might impress the teacher – me!

****Remember, you will not be allowed to read during your presentation.****

If you need more assistance and guidance, please visit me in my office or call to schedule an appointment.
EVALUATION RUBRIC


CONTENT (QUALITY OF THE SCRIPT


Choice of topic/level of interest
1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Grammar (3 at least)

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Vocabulary (slang, idioms; 10 learned in class)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Creativity/Originality

1, 2, 3, 4, 5


DELIVERY (QUALITY OF PRESENTATION)

Knowing your lines
(fluency)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Pronunciation and Clarity

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Acting

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Creativity (Costumes, Props, etc)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5


TOTAL (out of 40): ________________________