LICEO POLIVALENTE
BICENTENARIO
“MARIANO LATORRE “
CURANILAHUE
LPBML ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
SCORE: ______/ 38
PROGRESS TEST - Listening- Reading – Grammar – Writing
I.- LISTENING: Samsung Shows Off Foldable Phone
1.- LISTEN TO THE RECORDING AND COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH THE WORDS FROM
THE BOX. (5 points)
Experience – mobile – device –revolutionary – designed – tablet – flexible
a.- The pone is ____________________ to fold open to make the __________________ the size of a
small tablet.
b.- “Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the future of __________________ display.
c.- “…when it´s open, it´s a ________________________, offering a big screen________________.
d.- He said one of the biggest difficulties was finding a material that was ____________________.
e.- Technology experts see the new foldable design as a wy to get users to buy a new device seen
as ________________________.
2.- TRUE OR FALSE EXERCISES. (4 points)
a.- __________The phone can also perform some operations of a tablet.
b.- __________ Justin Denison is Samsung´s senior president of mobile product marketing.
c.- __________ Denison said the design and development of the foldable device was very easy.
d.- __________ Denison said that the device will permit users to keep up to three apps open at
one time.
II.- READING
TEXT:
Did you know that apart
from Roger Ebert and
Stanley Kubrick there
was another man who
predicted the future
through stories? That
man was the French
writer Jules Verne.
His famous stories like Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth
to the Moon showed different devices that
exist today. In Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea, Verne described an electric
submarine. In his famous science fiction
classic novel From the Earth to the Moon, the
visionary writer described three devices used
by NASA: one of them is the solar sail which
is a method of spacecraft propulsion. Another
device imagined by Verne is the lunar
module, or rocket, that takes astronauts to the
moon. Finally, he predicted what we call now
a splashdown, which is a method of landing
a spacecraft in the ocean by parachute. His
legacy has had a big influence on literature
and science. The most curious thing is that
Jules Verne lived between 1828 and 1905, and
he was able to foresee the future through his
unique creations.
3.- ANSWER: (2 points)
The text is:
a.- ______ an interview
b.- ______ an article
c.- ______ a leaflet
d.- ______ an advertisement
The purpose of this article is:
a.- ______ to give information.
b.- ______ to classify information.
c.- ______ to express opinión.
d.- ______ to give instructions.
4.- READ AGAIN. Write the names of the ítems that Jules Verne imagined under the
corresponding picture. (3 points)
a.-
b.-
c.-
5.- ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ARTICLE. (6 points)
a.- Who was Jules Verne?
b.- What are the two novels mentioned n the text?
c.- What is a splashdown?
d.- When did Verne live?
e.- What is special about Verne?
f.- Did you like this text? Why / why not?
III.- GRAMMAR
(8 points)
6.- Complete wit will or won´t
a) In the future, people _____________ use cars, they´ll teleport to different places.
b) Climate change _______________ have an important effect in our daily lives.
c) Traveling to s pace _____________________ be as expensive as it is now.
d) I think in the future, robots will be made of cheaper materials, so they ________________
be expensive.
7.- Complete the statements with predictions about the future (Answers may vary)
a) Cell phones will ____________________________________________________
b) Climate change will _________________________________________________
c) Diseases won´t _____________________________________________________
d) Space vacations won´t _______________________________________________
IV.- WRITING
Write a your opinion about global warming and give solutions to cope with it. (60 – 85 words).
(10 points).
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