Baaziz Med High School. Family name:..............................................

School year:
2011/2012.
First name:..................................................
Level: 2AS L.E. Duration: 1 hour.

Diagnostic Assessment
Read the text carefully then do the activities below.

A star at 15
Lorna Want is from Coventry, in England. She goes to the Heart of England School. She’s a typical girl of
fifteen. She likes the TV show Friends, she loves spending money, and she adores shopping, in her bedroom,
there are posters of Jennifer Aniston.
But Lorna’s real passion is for performing onstage. At the moment, she’s living in London, and she isn’t
in school. Why? Because she’s playing Juliet in a rock-opera version of Romeo and Juliet.
Lorna isn’t alone in London. “My mom, Christine is here”, she says. “So is my brother, James.
Unfortunately my dad, Tony isn’t here. He is at home, but we see him on weekends. He is so proud of me. This
is my first big part. Every young girl wants to play Juliet. It’s very romantic”.
Unlike Juliet, Lorna doesn’t have a boyfriend. But as she plays onstage, she loves Romeo as if he were
real.
What about her school work while she is busy with the play? Well, she does this only when she has free
time in her schedule. She’s taking exams in nine subjects next year, so she can’t miss classes!

Interpretive Reading: (A B C D )

1. How many sentences are there in the first paragraph of the above text?
There are…………………………………………………………………........
2. Are these statements true or false?
a. Lorna Want is from Italy.............
b. Lorna is out of school now because she goes to the movies............
c. Lorna Want doesn’t have a boyfriend..............

3. Find in the text appropriate synonyms to the following words:

a. Loves=……………………… b. timetable=…………………………
4. Find in the text appropriate opposites to the following words:
a. Small≠……………………… b. free≠……………………………

Mastery of language (A B C D )

1. Add punctuation and capitalization so that the sentence makes sense

every young girl in london wants to play juliet it’s very romantic
 2. Rewrite the third paragraph in the direct speech starting like this:

She says that her Mom, Christine....................................................................................................................

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
...…………….……………………………………………….It’s very romantic.

3. Put the verbs between brackets in the correct form.

a. Yesterday, Lorna Want (spend).................... all night rehearsing Juliet.
b. Unfortunately, her father (not to be).................................. home today.
c. If she does well today, she (to play) ....................................at the National Theater.

Pronunciation. (A B C D )

1. Classify the following words according to the pronunciation of their final ”s”.

Goes – bridges - likes – posters – classes – weekends - wants

/s/ /z/ /ɪz/

................................ ............................... ..................................
............................... ................................. ..................................
posters

2. Classify these words according to the number of their syllables:

Coventry - money - home - school - brother - romantic

1syllable 2syllables 3syllable

...................... Money .......................
....................... ...................... ......................