Hencha English Language School year:

High School Mid-Term Test n°1 2019/2020

Teacher: Duration: Date:
Nouri Chakroun 1 hour October 25th, 2019
Student's name: .............................................. Class: 1st year ....... n°: ......

Listening comprehension: (8 marks)

1) Listen and circle the correct answer: (2 marks)
a) James Brown is the Godfather of:
- Pop music
- Jazz Music
- Soul music
b) James Brown was born in:
- 1943
- 1933
- 1923

2) Listen and correct these FALSE statements with reference to the passage: (3 marks)
A) The boy's mother left the family when he was nine years old.
.......................................................................................................................................................
B) James Brown`s fans are mainly black listeners.
.......................................................................................................................................................
B) James' Brown's father was wealthy.
.......................................................................................................................................................

3) What are the musical instruments that James Brown played? (1mark)
.......................................................................................................................................................
.......................................................................................................................................................

4) Circle the right function: (1mark)

"He became a famous and wealthy singer, songwriter and performer. But this huge success
was very different from the poverty of his early life." expresses:
a- Contrast b- Addition c- Consequence

5) Listen and complete the missing words: (1mark)

He loved it when the church's religious ............................... would sing this music and  drop to
his knees with emotional ............................... and screams
Language: (12 marks)
1) Fill in the gaps with words from the box. There are two extra words: (4 marks)

driver / solo / awards / in / musicians / enormous / second / quickly / amateur / dreams

Amy Jade Winehouse was an English singer and songwriter. She was born on September 14,
1983, in London, England. Her father was a cab ...................................., while mother Janis
was employed as a pharmacist. In her early years, Winehouse was immersed in music; many
of her uncles were professional .................................... . At the age of 10, she founded an
.................................... rap group called Sweet 'n Sour. In 2003, She debuted her
.................................... career with the album ‘Frank’. Winehouse’s ....................................
album “Back To Black” made her an acclaimed international singer. She won dozens of
...................................., including five at the 2008 Grammy’s. Despite her musical success,
Winehouse's health and personal life began to .................................... deteriorate.  Sadly, at
the end of her life, Winehouse's .................................... talent was overshadowed by her
addiction to drugs and alcohol. The singer died tragically on July 23, 2011, at the age of 27
from accidental alcohol poisoning.

2) Circle the correct alternative: (4 marks)

Do you get pocket money from your parents or do you work to (earn / save / spend) money? Most
teenagers in Britain receive pocket money from their parents. A report by the Bank of Scotland
interviewed over 1,000 young people and (find / founded / found) that 77 per cent get pocket money.
They might (have / has / had) to do chores to get their pocket money. Different (family / family's /
families) give different amounts. Children (in / on / at) Scotland receive more than the national
average and Londoners get the most. (Logic / Logical / Logically), teenagers get more money than
younger children. Some fifteen- to nineteen-year-olds receive more than £100 a month. It is worth
noting that many children save at (least / little / less) a quarter of their weekly pocket money and that
more boys than girls save their money. A part-time job is an option for teenagers (who / which /
whose) don’t have pocket money or who want to earn extra money. 

3) Put the words between parentheses in the right form or tense: (4 marks)

Career progression is a high priority for many professionals .Finding strategies to realise your
(ambitious) ................................... is key to achieving long term career success. Anna Barsby,
former Chief Information Officer at Halfords, gives three tips for professionals wanting to
propel (they) ................................... careers:"You must identify your strengths and
(weak) ................................... and take steps to work on areas where you feel your skills could
be stronger. By acknowledging the areas you may not be as good in, you can focus on
developing them and (change) ................................... those traits in a positive way. Moreover,
you have to be open to taking risks so that you can discover opportunities you wouldn’t
otherwise have been (awareness) ................................... of. Developing
(confident) ................................... in yourself and the work you produce is an important step
to achieving career progression. This (not/mean) ................................... avoiding asking for
help and guidance from your manager and colleagues. Make your
(choose) ................................... and decisions confidently will help you to take more risks. It
is a positive cycle." 
 The script
I'm Steve Ember. And I'm Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special
English.  Today we tell about James Brown, the musician called "The Godfather of Soul."

That was James Brown singing his famous hit song from nineteen sixty-five, "I Got You (I
Feel Good.)"    With this song, Brown went from a rhythm and blues singer to a pop music
star.  It helped him gain a huge number of white fans as well as black ones. He became a
famous and wealthy singer, songwriter and performer.   But this huge success was very
different from the poverty of his early life.

James Brown was born in nineteen thirty-three in a one-room house near Barnwell, South
Carolina. His father, Joe Brown, had a job removing fluids from pine trees in the surrounding
woods.  He sold the sap for making turpentine.  The boy's mother left the family when he was
seven years old.  James and his father moved to Augusta, Georgia.

Young James had musical abilities.  He learned to play the guitar, piano and drums.  He did
this while picking crops in the fields and shining people's shoes to earn money to survive.

James loved the African-American church music called gospel.  He loved it when the church's
religious leader would sing this music and  drop to his knees with emotional shouts and
screams.  Brown later used this kind of emotional singing in his own performances.

He also liked the sound of the jazz and rhythm and blues performer Louis Jordan.  Jordan had
recorded a song called "Caldonia" and other popular songs in the late nineteen forties and
nineteen fifties.

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