Nehali Mohamed Secondary School

School year: 2007/2008

Beni-Snous
Classes: 1 L1, 2

Third Term Final Exam

Part one: Reading and Interpreting

Read the passage and do the activities.
Television plays an important part in children’s lives. Parents and teachers often express
concern about the amount of hours that children spend in front of TV.
According to recent statistics, teenagers watch between 2 and 3 hours of television everyday.
Many children watch television in the morning over breakfast but most viewing takes place after
school in the evenings. They watch police series, music programmes and quiz shows. Girls watch
more drama series, documentaries and news programmes. Boys like more science fiction and sport.

1. How many sentences are there in the second paragraph?

2. Choose the best title for the passage: a. Teenagers’ favourite hobbies
b. Children’s TV viewing habits.
c. Television programmes.
3. Answer the following questions according to the text.
A-How many hours a day do teenagers spend watching TV?
b- What time of day does most viewing take place?
c- Do boys and girls watch the same programmes on TV?
4. Match the words in the two lists:

Broad Man
Head Cast
Post seller
Best Line

5. Write the second sentence:

1/ a. The reporter asked the child how many hours he watched TV.
b. The reporter asked the child:“………………………....?”
2/ a. Mother ordered her son: “Don’t stay in front of TV”.
b. Mother………………………………….
6. Join each two sentences using the words between brackets.
a. The mosque is a place. Muslims pray in the mosque (where)
b.George Washington Carver was a slave. He could become a scientist (however)
c. She was well dressed in the party.Noone noticed her presence. (although)

7. Give the correct form of the verbs between brackets.

a. Leonardo da Vinci (to live) in the 15th century.
b. In the future, scientists (to invent) new machines for our benefit.
c. While she (to sing) no one was listening to her because of her bad voice.
 8. Mark stress on these words:
Civil- civilian- drama- dramatic- sociology- sociological

Part Two: writing

Choose one topic only
Topic one: Certainly you have a refrigerator at home. Using the following notes write a short
paragraph describing it
(Size- shape- length- depth- width- depth- gross and net capacity-compartment colour- price…)

Topic Two: Use the following notes .write a short biography about William Shakespeare

1564: Was born/ in Stratford-upon-Avon.

His father: a rich glove maker.
1582: married Anne Hathaway.
1583-1585: Birth of Susana and twins.
1589: wrote his first play Henry VI.
1599: In London/ build his theatre The Globe
1616: Died in Stratford-upon-Avon