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Progress Test CURSO 5

Programa de Adultos

Name: Veronica Mendoza Date: 30/09/2021

Grade:

This workshop is intended to revise your progress in different aspects of the language: Grammar &
vocabulary, listening and reading comprehension. Read instructions carefully and give answers to each
of the proposed activities. Points assigned are described for each component.

Vocabulary c. I didn’t use to eat junk food with my boyfriend

Choose the word that best completes each when I was an
statement (0.1/each).
adolescent. I thought it wasn’t a good habit.
1. The word used to describe a period of 100 is
called a century .
d. I know that 100 years ago, people didn’t use to
a. generation b. millenialls c. century getting away from family
2. I was born two decades ago; in 2000 to be like they do nowadays.
more precise.
a. years b. decades c. generations e. Children from older generations didn’t use to
play whit the cellphone all day
3. Generation Z children grew up surrounded by like
technology.However , they can use
cellphones better than many adults. children in the present generation do.

a. However b. Therefore c. on the contrary 2. Choose one of the following set of items and
4. Brazil is write five complete sentences comparing them
United States. from China than it is from the
You can add your own objects to compare in
the empty boxes at the bottom (0.2/each
a. closer b. more far c. further correct sentence).

5. Life in the city is . You have lots of things being a celebrity being a politician
to do even on a weekday. every
a. dangerous b. dull c. exciting a big city
Christmas. a small
It was a wonderful town
tradition for us.

Language Structure a movie theater a nightclub

1. Complete the sentences with suitable verbs a married person a single person
to talk about past habit (0.2/each complete
and correct idea).

a. When I was a little child I used to play in the

park with my friends
after I

came home from school.

b. My famiy used to have dinner and give gifts

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A married person A single person

Your Idea:

a. The married people share with their partner, the single

person with their friends .

b. Married people have more responsibilities at home than

single people .

c. Single people tend to have more free time than married

people .

d. Married people tend to want children, singles enjoy

being alone more .

e. Single people go to discos more often than married

people.

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Listening
among cultures when it comes to celebrating in family:
Listen to Anja and Fred talk about a Christmas We would always get together, and that’s what people
memory. Choose T for True and F for false do here in Switzerland. Some things look a little
different, though: the decorations, the lights, the taste
statments. (0.25/each). of food.
T F However, in essence, it is all the same. I really miss what
a. Anja is originally from Switzerland. I had for so long and became so usual to me on Christmas
time: The things we believed in, the smell coming from
b. Her Christmas memory is related to T F our kitchen, the sounds that came from our neighbors’
the food they served this day. homes and the simple fact of sitting together in the living
c. They had a special place for the tree. T F room, waiting for the clock strike 12:00 at midnight to
yell, “Merry Christmas!” and hug each other again.
d. They got the tree beginning December T F Now I realize that, in the end, that’s what tradition
every year. is all about. It is not where you are or what you do. It’s
about what you are willing to give and do for those you
e. She used to decorate the tree herself. T F love what makes memories last a lifetime in your heart.
Adapted from: Rojas, P., & Gonzales, B (2005). In In Focus. Uceda International,
2. Listen again. What did her father used to do Paterson, NJ.

that made this a special memory for her? a. According to Fred, is Christmas celebrated
very differently where he is living now?
her father did not go to church with her and her
although the decorations, lights and
mother, he stayedfoods
home are different,
to organize thethey
tree have
so the
same essence.
that she would find it
ready
b. In paragraph one he
says. “Those are
Audio Source: Christmas tree [ELLLO
the and
Podcast]. Retrieved from: to hugs, kisses, things we take
meals he
http://www.elllo.org/
english/0801/T840-Anja-Tree.htm for granted...”
enjoyed on special occasions
_What does he
mean?
Reading Comprehension

Fred is far from his

country on Christmas c. Do you think Fred
time. Read about his is having a good
feelings and answer the time where he is
questions below (0.2 now? Justify your
each correct answer).
answer.
T
He is nothhaving a good time because although
e the same essence, he misses the
they have
traditions
lau he had with his family
ght
er
of
our
lov
ed
one
s in
a family reunion, the extra hugs and
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kisses they are willing to give us, and
the
home wondered what it would be Writing
cooke like to spend the New Year
d far, far away in a totally
meals new place being Read the following
we surrounded by people sentences. Fill in the
enjoy other than my relatives, blanks with a
on doing different stuff and suitable connector
specia getting to know other (0.1 each).
l cultural traditions.
occasi This is the year 2019, and However Therefore Besides For example
ons. here I am: miles and miles
Those away from home spending 1. Children are more
are Christmas on my own in a innocent than
the foreign country for the first adults.
things time. Am I as happy as I
we all used to be in t Beside, they are
take more honest.
for the past? “homesick”,
grante would be a better word. I 2. I couldn’t get to the
d and used to believe that different interview on time.
simply was better, but not many
, let go things change Therefore ,I
by lost the job
witho opportunity.
ut
much 3. My hometown is
appre safer than the
ciatio
n until city.However
we there are less places
don’t to have fun.
have
them 4. There are may
so things you can do
often to be in shape. For
anymo
re... example , you can
change bad eating
I have vivid memories in
my head, like pictures of habits.
all the things we used to
do for Christmas in my
hometown. It is not that
every year we would
celebrate in a different
way: “variety” was not a
word in grandpa’s
vocabulary. In fact, for
many years we did the
same on Christmas’ Eve:
We used to get together at
his house, light some
fireworks, sing some
Christmas songs, eat roast
pork, listen to Uncle
Ronnie tell his funny jokes,
and open presents after
midnight. In my teens, I
almost felt tired of so
much repetition and
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