UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE EL SALVADOR

ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEPARTAMENT

VIRTUAL EVENING PROGRAM- from 6:00 p.m to 7:50 p.m
WRITTEN TEST- 20% LEVEL VII

Teacher: Jennifer Salazar

Objective: Through this written exam, SWBAT test their comprehension in written,
and reading by completing the text in the chat with a similar answer.

Directions: Read the following e-mail from the teacher to you. Write back a message to the
teacher by narrating your best, funniest or worst memory from your childhood. DON’T
FORGET TO INCLUDE PAST PROGRESSIVE & SIMPLE PAST and
SUPERLATIVES. The chat is just an example as you have to be more explicit in your
experience…

Dear __________,

I write this text to you because I want to tell you about my funniest moment or experience
when I was a child. I studied in a Christian private school, so every Monday and Friday,
we were accustomed to develop like devotionals after classes. I remember that it was our
turn, and I had to pass to the front and read a vesicle from the bible and a short reflection,
but I was so sick; I had the flu. Despite that, I decided to pass and read the bible in front
of all the students in the afternoon. Suddenly, I saw my best friend and she made me
laugh. I started laughing a lot when unfortunately, my snoots came out of my noise, so I
covered myself with the bible, and everyoneyour was laughing at me so hard. I felt very
embarrassed that the. I missed 3 days of school as I felt the dumbest and the most stupid
person ever. After 3 days, I decided to go back to school and my classmates and other
students from different levels shown me their support, so they were the best with me.
Now I would like to know about your experience.

With love, Teacher Jennifer.

Write a message…
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__dear teacher, I am writing this email to you because I want to tell you about my
funniest moment when I was a child. When I was ten years old my mom bought me a
Nintendo wii I really liked to play video games; sometimes, I did not want to go to the
school because I was playing video games, one day I told my mom that I was not going
to go to the school because I was sick, I let her know that I had stomachache and It
was the worst pain I have ever felt; my mom gave a pill and she said that I was going
to feel better, but she also mentioned that even if I was sick I had to go to school
because she had to work. (my mom knew that I was lying) The funniest thing about
this story is that I told my mom that I was going to go to the school, but I did not go,
instead I went to my grandmother’s house; when I arrived at my grandma’s house,
she asked me why I did not go to the school, I let her know that my teacher was sick
and the principal let me go out earlier, my grandmother believed me, so I was the
happiest boy in the world because my grandmother prepared some food for breakfast,
and I played outside with some guys that did not have the opportunity to go to the
school. It was lunch time, when my mom appeared at my grandma’s house, my face
changed color as my mom believed that I had gone to school; I ran behind a tree, and
I thought that my mom did not see me. However, she knew that I was there. It was 1
o’clock in the afternoon and I was still behind the three, I was hungry at that time, but
I couldn’t move because my mom was going to see me. Even though, I was feeling like
going to the bathroom I couldn’t go. At the end, I thought “ I can not be here, I need
to go to the bathroom” so I was going to run and get the bathroom, but when I was
running my mom threw a sandal on me, and I saw my mom, she was coming behind
me; I made a desition to stop and accept my mistake. My mom was really angry, we
were going to our house, my mom was telling that I don’t have to do the same again
because she was working when the principal phoned her asking about me, she was
really worried, when she went to the house and I was not there. My mom also
mentioned that she asked for permission in her job, so she was extremely mad.

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The lesson about this experience is that I did not miss classes again, as my mom
scolded me so bad, also she did not let me to use my Nintendo wii for almost 2 months.
The experience was the funniest because I did not want to go to school because I
wanted to play video games, but at the end I could not play Nintendo for more time.

Rubric
2 Points
Criteria 4 6 8
(Needs
Score (Regular) (Very good) (Outstanding)
improvement)
The paragraph is The paragraph is
The paragraph is logical
The paragraph is not kind of logical in completely logical and has
ORGANIZATION, and ideas are acceptably
logical and there is no certain parts but not strong coherence and
AND UNITY connected between one
connection of ideas. very coherent as a unity from beginning to
and another.
whole unit. end.
Several grammar The paragraph has a few The paragraph is almost
Many grammar
GRAMMAR AND errors and uses grammar errors and with no grammar errors
errors and uses only
SENTENCE simple sentences there is an acceptable and there is an excellent
simple sentences. (16
STRUCTURE most of the time. amount of sentences sentence variety. (0-5
or more)
(11- 15 mistakes) variety. (6- 10 mistakes) mistakes)
Simple and basic There is a good variety of
Simple words are vocabulary is used. There is an acceptable vocabulary. The
WORD CHOICE used with minimal The paragraph has a variety of vocabulary in paragraph contains good
vocabulary. little word choice the paragraph. word choice from the
variety. beginning to the end.
Ideas of the Few ideas of the
Ideas of the composition Ideas of the composition
COHERENCE OF composition aren’t composition are
are somehow related to are completely related to
IDEAS related to the related to the
the content. the content.
content. content.
TOTAL: / 32