Licenciatura en Bilinguismo con Enfasis en Inglés

Basic English

Part 1: Read the passage below and then develop exercises A & B.

A. Read the article and match the sentence to its final part

1. Ewart Grogan was a. all the way through Africa.

2.He wanted to walk b. using compass.
3. He didn’t need to use c. two meters tall.
4. He found his way by d. a student at Cambridge.
5. The Dinka people can be e. all the way through Africa.

Just going out for a walk!

Ewart Grogan, a 24- year old Cambridge university student, took a break from his studies
earlier in 1898 and left England on a walking holiday. But this was no ordinary holiday. He
didn’t return until almost two years later. Grogan wanted to do something really amazing to
impress the father of this fiancée, Gertrude. He planned to walk all the way through Africa,
from south to north, with his friend, Arthur Sharp.

Other famous explorers in Africa used guns and violence on local people. Grogan carried
his white umbrella and a charming smile. He and his small group paid for the food they ate
with gifts, and they only had real trouble on one or two occasions.
At the Dinka swampland in South Sudan, his friend Sharp turned back. He thought it was
impossible to get through 650 km of thick vegetation and unknown danger. But Grogan
continued.

Sharp was almost correct. There were no maps; all Grogan had was a compass to tell him
which way was north. He became very ill from mosquito bites and some of his men died
from fever. Finally, with the help of Dinka people (who are often two meters tall), and
twenty months and eleven thousand kilometers after leaving Cape Town in South Africa,
Grogan walked on into Cairo, Egypt.

Back in England, Grogan married Gertrude and returned to Africa to do more remarkable
things. He even became the first person to fly from Cairo to Cape Town, his return trip.

B. Write true (T) or false (F) or does not say (DS) next to the corresponding statement.

1. Ewart Grogan went on Holiday to Cambridge for two years.___

2. He walked to through Africa to impress his future father-in-law___
3. Grogan’s group killed a lot of people for food___
4. Grogan was at the hospital for some days when he was in South Sudan._
5. The Dinka took Grogan the rest of the way to Cairo._
Part 2. Read the next passage about the Statue of Liberty and then select the best
answer A, B, C, or D.

Statue of Liberty: A Famous Gift By: Peter Winkler

On July 4, 1884 France gave the United States an amazing birthday gift: The Statue of
Liberty! Without the base at the bottom, it is as tall as a 15-story building. She is a symbol
of the United States. France built the world-famous Statue of Liberty which is in New York
Harbor. The statue travelled across the Atlantic Ocean in crates, and rebuilt in the U.S. It
was France’s gift to the American people. It all started at dinner one night near Paris in
1865. A group of Frenchmen were talking about their dictator and the democratic
government of the U.S. They wanted to build a monument to support American freedom
because the French people wanted to have a democracy in their own country. At that dinner
was the sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (bar- TOLE-dee). He imagined a statue of a
woman holding a torch burning with the light of freedom. It took 21 years for this idea to
become a reality. French supporters donated money to build the statue, and Americans paid
for the base it was going to stand on. Finally, in 1886, France dedicated the statue to the
Americans.

Fun Facts

* Engineer Gustave Eiffel, who created the Eiffel Tower in Paris, designed Liberty’s
“spine.” Inside the statue, four huge iron columns support a metal framework that holds the
thin copper skin.

* The statue - 151 feet, 1-inch-tall - was the tallest structure in the U.S. at that time. Do you
know what the tallest structure in the U.S. is today?
* The arm holding the torch measures 46 feet; the index finger, 8 feet; the nose, nearly 5
feet. That is a big nose! (Be careful, if it gets cold, she may sneeze!)

* Visitors climb 354 steps (22 stories) to look out from 25 windows in the top. * Seven rays
in the top represent the Earth’s seven seas.
Source: http://files.havefunteaching.com/worksheets. Adapted by Castro Claudia

1. Where does the statue of liberty come from?

A. France. B. New York. C. New Jersey. D. Germany.

2. How did France send the Statue of Liberty to America?

A.On an airplane. B. In crates. C. On a train. D. In trucks.

3. Why did France want to build this monument?

A. America wanted to give France a birthday present. B. France wanted to give their
dictator to America. C. America wanted to become a democracy. D. To support American
freedom.
4. Who sculpted the Statue of Liberty?
A. Gustave Eiffel. B. Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi. C. Bill Gates. D. Lady Liberty.

5. What makes up the Statue of Liberty’s “spine”?

A. Four iron columns. B. 206 Bones. C. Five copper wires. D. 40 pounds of stone.

6. How tall is the statue?

A. it is as tall as 20-story building. B. it is as tall as a 15-story building. c. It is as tall as 17-
story building. D. it is as tall as 10-story building.

7.Where is the statue of liberty?

A. in Paris. B. in Rome. C. In Spain. D. In new York.

8. Who was in control of France in 1865?

A. a dictator. B. a king. C. a president.

9. When did France give the statue to the Americans?

A. July 8th 1484. B. July 4th 1884. C. July 14th 1865.

10.Who paid for the statue?

A. French government. B. USA government. C. USA citizens. D. French supporter