BEC. WEEK OF JUNE 4-8. About Final Exam

IMPORTANT: Answer key to workbook exercise is under the entry BEC - Answer Key Workbook exercises - Exam Prep

WRITTEN EXAM SCHEDULE

Day Class: Wednesday, June 13th, regular time, regular classroom. 1,5 hours
Day Class IMPORTANT NOTICE : No class on Tuesday, June 12th

Night Class: Tuesday, June 12th, regular classroom, regular time. 1,5 hours

ORAL EXAM SCHEDULE:

Day Class: Wednesday, June 20th, regular time, regular classroom.
Day Class: No class on Tuesday, June 19th.

Night Class: Tuesday, June 19th, regular time, regular classroom

WRITTEN EXAM

Prepare Lessons 6-9 and handout

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THE EXAM HAS THREE PARTS: listening, vocabulary and grammar

PART ONE: LISTENING

a) Listening to the unknown text and circling multiple-choice questions.

Example: You hear: "She plays the piano."
Question: What does she do?
a) plays poker; b) plays badminton; c) plays the piano

B) Listening to the known, previously heard text, and answering questions with one or two words

Example: You hear: "She is a doctor."
Question: What is her job?
Answer: a doctor



PART TWO, VOCABULARY

To prepare for the vocabulary part, please review all the vocabulary pages in your workbook, all the handouts you were given, and pages 38 and 52 [ only 52 A, unit 9] in your workbook.

Vocabulary testing will be in any of the following forms:

a) fill out the blanks with the correct words.

*use your money to buy or pay for something ______________________[spend]
*have a particular price ________________________________[cost]
* the man is 2m. He is very __________[tall]. He weighs only 50 kg. He is very _______________[thin]

b) Complete the conversation using the red words rent, cost, pay, spend, etc.

We're going to ____________[rent] a car and drive up the coast.

c) provide the correct expression for the definitions below
a movie that makes you laugh is a __________________[comedy]

d) provide the opposite word
fat ____________[slim,thin]
tall ____________[short]

e) name vocabulary
5 desserts: _______________[cake, cookies, ice cream, pie, sorbet]
4 types of hair found on a man's head [mustache, beard, goatee, eyebrows, eyelashes]

f) circle the word which does not belong in the group

coffee espresso tea {sauce }
comedy drama action {camera}

GRAMMAR:

a) making suggestions with How about/ let's (not)/ why don't we-you/ you-we could.

*You and your friend want to improve your English. Make suggestions about learning English using different suggestion-making expressions in each sentence (how about, why don't, let's (not), maybe __could)

Let's speak with foreigners.
Why don't we watch movies in English?

*Circling the correct expressions to complete the conversation or correcting mistakes. Loook at page 30 in your workbooks)

b) be and have for descriptions

She ____ tall and she _____ dark-haired. She _______ slim body and she ______not fat. (see page 33)

c) said and told in indirect speech

*Complete the sentences with said or told:
1. She ________ that she wanted to go to the movie.
2. She ________Peter that she wanted to go to the movies.

*Look at the dialog and then use the speakers words in the indirect speech. (page 39D)
Example:
Ben: "My favourite movie is Titanic.
Jerry: " Oh, really? I hate it"

Ben ________[said] that his favourite movie was Titanic
Jerry ______ [told] Ben that he hated it.

d) Forms of prefer/would prefer and like/ would like

*fill out the blanks with the correct form
Waiter: And for you, sir? Can I get you soup or salad?
Customer: I _______________[would prefer] salad, please.
*circle the correct phrases to complete the conversation
1. Waiter: Do you like/would you like to see the menu?
Customer: Yes, please.

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ORAL AND EXAM STEPS:

1. you and a partner will write a short one page dialog (see examples on the handout I gave you)
2. you must use 10 expressions that you learned in class and use at least 3 times grammar that you used in class.
3. you will give me your dialog script before your performance
4. memorize your lines - learn them by heart
5. prepare props, costumes, special effects
6. act out (NOT READ!!) in front of the class

IF YOU NEED HELP WITH PREPARING FOR EITHER YOUR WRITTEN OR YOUR ORAL EXAM, PLEASE, CONTACT ME!
DO NOT BE SHY OR EMBARASSED.

Good luck. Have fun with your 'drama'