Level :TCST School Year: 2009/2010

Second Term English Exam Time : 02H00

Text :
What do young people in Britain do in their leisure time? Read the results of a survey in
Britain.
Carol Kendall, from the daily News has written this report after having questioned 100
teenagers about their leisure activities.
In Britain, young people have a lot of hobbies they practice in their free time. These
activities are sporting and non- sporting activities.
Among the non-sporting activities, all the adolescents said that they loved watching TV.
When I asked them which programme they preferred best, most of them replied they enjoyed
listening to music.
When asked if they used the Internet, many of them answered that they spent a lot of time
chatting with friends, playing video games and watching videos. Some of them said they
liked going to a concert or the theatre, and others told me they enjoyed eating in a fast- food
restaurants. I, then, wanted to know if they liked reading and only a few of them replied they
did.
As to the sporting activities, boys are more sporty than girls. Of course, football is the
most popular sport among boys. Both boys and girls said they did a lot of cycling. Forty-two
boys and thirty-six girls said they liked going to the swimming pool. When I asked them what
other sports they practised, they replied tennis and basket- ball. Only 6% of the boys added
that they practised boxing. None of the girls is interested in that sport which they find too
violent.

Questions
I- Section one: Reading comprehension
Text:
Read the text carefully then do the following activities:
1- This type of text is found in:
a- A fashion magazine
b- A newspaper.
c- A sports magazine.

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2- Carol Kendall is a :
a- Sports commentator.
b- Sports coach.
c- A specialist in youth’s problems.
d- Journalist.
3-
a- Match the words in A with their synonyms in B:

A B
- Teenager - Answer.
- Chat - Interest.
- Hobby - Not one.
- Reply - Adolescent.
- None. - Talk.
b- Find in the introduction a word which corresponds in meaning to
the following definition:
- An examination of opinions, behaviour...etc made by asking people questions:..........

4- Answer the following questions according to the text:

a- What is the young people’s favourite programme on TV?
b- Do teenagers use the Internet? What for?
c- Is boxing one of their favourite sports? Justify?
d- What do girls think of boxing?

II- Mastery of language:

1- Turn these adjectives into adverbs; then put them into sentences
a- Serious
Impolite
Accidental
Slow.
b-
• He answered the teacher................, so he was punished.
• if you walk so................, you will miss the bus.
• Do you think he died .................?
• There was an accident in my street yesterday. A car lit a boy who
was......injured.
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 2- Rewrite these sentences into indirect speech:
Last week you had dinner with Rachel look at the thing she said to you then tell
your friend what she said.
• “I work for a small publishing company”.
• ‘My company has opened an office in Barcelona”.
• “Where do you work?”
• “Will your friend come and visit you?
3-
4- Circle the silent letter:
Wednesday- Know- Yacht- Column.

Section Two: Written expression: Choose one topic

Topic one:

Write the following paragraph as a conversation.

The travel agent asked Mr Corder if he would hire a car. Mr Corder answered that he would
and then asked if he could use his British driving licence. The travel agent said that it was
absolutely fine. Then Mr Corder wanted to know how much it cost to hire a car. The travel
agent replied that it depended on who was going to drive.

Topic Two:

Imagine you are a witness of an accident report what you have seen.

Causes Features
A car - Car driver: Vehicles: Collide:
A bus • Talk on the phone. People: Car driver Killed
• Not put seat belt Bus driver: Badly injured
- Bus: talk with passengers /overtaking

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 Correction TCST

1- This type of text is found in: a newspaper.

2- Carol Kendall is a: journalist.
3- Marching the words with their synonyms:
Teenager= adolescent: Hobby= interest: None= note
one.
Chat= Talk Reply= Answer
Definition:
- An examination of opinions, behavior, ….etc made by asking people
questions= a survey

Comprehension questions:

1- Music programmes.
2- Yes, they use the Internet for chatting with friends, playing video games,
and watching videos.
3- No, itsn’t, since only 6% of the boys practice this sport.
4- They think it is a violent sport; therefore none of them practices it.

I- Mastery of language:
1- Seriously.
- Impolitely
- Accidently.
- Slowly
• Impolitely.
• Slowly.
• Accidentally.
• Seriously.
2- She said that she worked for a publishing company
She said that her company had opened an office in Barcelona
She asked where she worked.
She asked if my friend will come and visit me.

3- Circle the silent letter

Wednesday- know- yacht- column
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