Iferhounene New Middle School November 2010

First Term English

Exam for MS4
IPOD NANO
      The iPod nano is Apple's
fourth  digital audio player. It
was introduced  on September
7, 2005, replacing the iPod
mini, which discontinued on
the same day. It is only 1.6
inches wide, 3.5  inches long,
0.27 inches thick and weighs
42 grams. Its stated battery life
is 14 hours. The screen is
176x132 pixels, 1.5 inches
diagonal, and can display
65,536 colours.
     

The iPod nano was launched in two colours (black and white) with two available
sizes: 2GB (roughly 500 songs) for $199  and 4GB (1000 songs) for $249.
Apple also released some accessories, including armbands and silicone tubes
(possibly a play on nanotubes) designed to bring colour to the nano and protect it
from scratches, as well as a combination lanyard-earphone accessory that hangs
around the neck.
      The iPod nano uses flash memory instead of a hard disk. As a result, it has no
moving parts, making it immune to skipping and far more durable than disk-based
players. Testing by technology-enthusiast website Ars Technica has shown that
even after being driven over twice by a car, the unit's screen was damaged but that
it could still play music. The unit finally stopped playing music after being thrown
40 feet into the air.
      The initial consumer response to the iPod nano was overwhelmingly positive
and sales  were heavy. The iPod nano sold its  first 1 million units in only 17 days
and has driven Apply to a record billion-dollar profit for 2005.
Englishexercises.org makeagametechnology
 Part One (14 points)
Reading Comprehension (07 points)

Activity One: Match each idea with the corresponding paragraph. (02 points)

Paragraph 1      A.iPod nano’s capacity of music

Paragraph 2     playing
Paragraph 3       B. iPod’s consumer  feedback
Paragraph 4    C. iPod nano’s appearance
    D. iPod nano’s  variety

Activity Two: Read the following statements and write “true”, “false”, or “not
mentioned”. (03 points)

1/ The iPod nano was manufactured by Apple.

2/ A disc-based player can be used for a longer time than a flash-based player.

3/ The iPod nano can be used under the water.

Activity Three: Find in the text four (04) words related to technology . (02 points)

Mastery of language (07 points)

Activity One: Supply the punctuation and capital letters where necessary. (02 points)

my digital audio player can store my songs my audio lessons and can display
thousands of colours

Activity Two: Rewrite the following sentences using “can”, “could”, “be able to”. (02
points)

1/ Yesterday I dropped my iPod but it was capable of playing music.

2/ I use it every day as it has the capacity of storing all my favourite songs.
3/ Perhaps Apple will know how to ameliorate its functions and applications in the future.

Activity Three: Find in the text four (04) words that have the following sounds. (02
points)

/ / can / / play

Part Two: Situation of Integration (06 points)

Written Expression

Your mobile phone connects you to the world but this didn’t use to be so in the past. And
mobile phones will probably become more sophisticated in the future.
Write a short article in which you retrace the progresses of telephony throughout the last
years, its performances nowadays, and what you think your mobile phone will be like in the
future.
 Key Answers
Reading Comprehension
Activity One
§1 : C
§2 : D
§3 : A
§4 : B

Activity Two
1/ True
2/ False
3/ Not mentioned

Activity Three
Possible answers: iPod, digital, audio, screen, armbands, tubes, lanyard-earphones, flash,
players, unit …
Mastery of Language
Activity One
My digital audio player can store my songs, my audio lessons, and can display thousands of
colours.

Activity Two
1/ Yesterday I dropped my iPod but it could/ was able to play music.
2/ I use it every day as it can/ is able to store all my favourite songs.
3/ Perhaps Apple will be able to ameliorate its functions and applications in the future.

Activity Three
Possible answers:
/ / as in “can”: nano, apple, grams, scratches, as, hangs, has, flash, that, than, damaged,
and .
/ / as in “play”: replacing, same, weighs, stated, display, available, combination, sales.

Situation of Integration: Written Expression

Evaluation Grid:
Relevance Syntax Semantic Mechanics and Excellence
Conventions
Piece of writing Syntactic Cohesion of Learners: Good
in accordance coherence: ideas: -use punctuation presentation and
with the given -suitable tense -meaningful and capital organization of
situation of -syntactic order sentences letters the paper
communication: -logical -make not more
Description of transitional than 3 spelling
mistakes
-have a legible
the progresses of elements handwriting
telephony using:
-the modals can
and could
-the verb idiom
be able to (past,
present and
future )
-conjunctions
-prepositions
-time indicators
-appropriate
vocabulary
02 points 02 points 01 point 01 point 01 point