FINAL EXAM

Course: ADVANCED 03(AD03)

Name: Lucia Mercedes Balarezo Benites Date: 11/13/2021
Schedule: Satuday-morning Teacher: Lic. Renato Rojas C.

VACABULARY
 Circle the correct answer
1. TIDY UP
a. Cut something into several 4. OUT OF REACH
smaller pieces a. Impossible to have, get or
b. Make a place neat. accomplish
c. Make a tie knot. b. In the course of a journey.
c. Broken, not working, not
2. MAKE OUT functioning properly.
a. Manage to see, hear or
understand sth (with 5. ARISE
difficulty). a. Happening most often in a
b. Confuse people or things. particular situation.
c. Go to a place. b. Begin to exist or become
known to people.
3. BEHAVE YOURSELF! c. Move upwards, stand up.

a. Spend time at a place

b. Make yourself confortable
c. Be good

 Circle the word which does not fit.

Mine Yours His Hers Us

Easy peasy Tough Hard Demanding rough

In On Do About from

Get Have Want Make fly

Antique Brand new Ancient Worn out old

GRAMMAR:

 Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs. Use would + have +
past participle in the main clause and the past perfect in the if-clause.
1. We would call you last night if we ……had had…… your number. (call)
(have)
2. Gary would enjoy himself if he had come with us.
(enjoy) (come)
3. If you had not were so careless, you wouldn’t lose your bag.
(not-be) (not-lose)
4. I wouldn’t be late for work if I had got up earlier.
(not-be) (get up)
5. If Janice have seen him, she would recognized him at once.
(see) (recognize)
6. I would pay you yesterday if I had had the money.
(pay) (have)
7. We would arrive on time if we had taken a taxi.
(arrive) (take)
8. If it hadn’t was so late, we would go to the show.
(not-be) (go)
9. I would tell you if I had heard from them.
(tell) (hear)
10. Hans would graduate last year if he hadn’t failed that test.
(graduate) (not-fail)

 Report the following commands and requests from direct into

reported speech.

1. “Turn off the lights right away.”

He told his son to turn off the lights immediately.

2. “Don’t be late for the ceremony, please.”

She’ll ask him not to be late for the ceremony.

3. “Try the food before serving it.”

We advise you to taste the food before serving it.

4. “Call me tomorrow morning.”

Luke is telling Jenny to call him tomorrow morning.

5. “Don’t forget to take the dog out.”

He ordered me not to forget to take the dog out.

 Write wish clauses expressing present unreality.

1. (I don’t know their intentions.)
I wish to know your intentions

2. (It is so cold in the mountains.)

We wish it wasn’t so cold in the mountains.

3. (I can’t speak Italian.)

I wish to can speak Italian

4. (She has so many problems.)

She wishes she didn't have so many problems anymore

5. (He doesn’t remember her address.)

He wishes to remember his address.

 Write wish clauses expressing annoyance, discomfort, or possibility.

1. (I’d like my neighbors to stop arguing.)
I wish that my neighbors would stop arguing

2. (We hope that he comes to the gathering.)

We wish that they would come to the meeting

3. (She never listens to him.)

He wishes that she would listen to him

4. (You always drive so fast.)

I wish that he would drive a little slower

5. (She wants somebody to give her a hand.)

She wishes that someone would lend her a hand

 Complete the sentences using: –’s … or –’ … , or the … of … 5 points

1. That’s …. Peter’s car........................(the car / Peter)

2. I prefer……. Carmen’s computer …………. (computer / Carmen)
3. Do you know……. the name of this city ………? (name / this city)
4. Is…. it your brother’s birthday ……next week? (birthday / your brother)
5. Are…... the sleeves of this jacket ……...too long. (sleeves / this jacket)
6. What is……... the capital of Norway? (capital / Norway)
7. I don’t have……. Dave's phone number ……… (phone number / Dave)
8. Where’s…… your parents' house? (house / your parents)
9. My dad’s girlfriend……Is very nice. (father / my girlfriend)
 10. Sign at……… the bottom of the page (bottom / the page)

READING: Read and answer the questions (X)

Don’t put it Off: Procrastination

We all procrastinate. Whether it’s hitting the snooze button again, not wanting to go to the dentist, or putting
off an unpleasant task awaiting you (you know, that one …), we all have things we love to do and things we
hate to do. We do them — eventually; the question is, what will it take to get us to do them? That sage of the
early 20thcentury, Robert Benchley, may have put it best (as he usually did) in 1930 when he wrote, “Anyone
can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.”
When assigned an article on procrastination, I (of course) put it off for various reasons (some of them were
even legitimate): not enough time, laziness, or just a chance to tell people we were supposed to be writing an
article about procrastinating but kept putting it off.
Faced with the choice of actually working and the ignominy of not turning in an assignment, once I started, I
found that the topic of procrastination is quite interesting and gives us an insight into human psychology.
While there are probably as many reasons for putting things off as there are people who procrastinate, they
all seem to share common roots. Five of them stood out: Fear, Perfectionism, Difficulty getting started, Lack
of motivation, Distractions.
Fear
This is a large category, with many sub-categories: Fear of Failure, Fear of Success, Fear of
Incompetence, and Fear of the Outcome.
The first of these — fear of failure — may be the most common. We’ve probably all been faced with
something that seems beyond our capabilities: preparing an event, writing a research paper,
passing a test — so much so that the task itself takes on greater importance and increases the
need for alibis: “I don’t know enough about that!”, “Why did I agree to do this?!”,“I’m going to screw
this up!”
The upshot is that when we don’t have enough confidence in our abilities, we build up scenarios
about what could happen if we were to inevitably fail — getting fired, getting kicked out of school,
losing status.
Perfectionism
Anyone who’s ever created anything, whether it’s building a bookshelf or baking a pie, has in their
heads a Platonic ideal (an absolutely flawless version) of it. That image often bears little
resemblance to the final product, though. Sometimes it’s better, sometimes it’s worse, but it rarely
ends up becoming what we envisioned.
That disconnect can stop us from starting a task. It’s a fear that the final product, no matter how
much effort we put into it, won’t end up as perfect as we want. We might believe that we don’t have
the skills or tenacity to pull it off. Instead, we can just keep planning or thinking or researching or
putting it off. Procrastination can be comforting — while the idea is in your head, it will remain
perfect and immune from criticism. Everyone wants to do something great, and no one wants to
show off something miserable. If you never actually have a final product, how can people criticize it?
In cases like this, we owe it to ourselves to acknowledge that while we may fall short, we shouldn’t
give into the temptation of thinking that we don’t have to give it our best. How many times have we
either seen something that was obviously slap-dash and thought “Well, they didn’t put much work
into that”? How much better to put just a little more effort into something and get a result that far
exceeds what we envisioned? It’s important to realize — and acknowledge — that we can only do
our best and give it our best effort. Nothing in this world — not the Eiffel Tower, not the Mona Lisa,
not the Taj Mahal — is perfect, and if we give ourselves some leeway, we can accept that our
creations have merit and are of interest.
“ANYONE CAN DO ANY AMOUNT OF WORK, PROVIDED IT ISN’T THE WORK HE IS
SUPPOSED TO BE DOING AT THAT MOMENT.” — ROBERT BENCHLEY

Difficulty Getting Started

How easy is it to make excuses? “I haven’t done enough research,” “I just need to do one more
thing before I start”, or “I’ve got plenty of time.”
Those excuses — especially the last one — are fatal. There may be external factors preventing us
from starting projects — having to wait for a response, inability to get information, lack of physical
proximity, or an official starting date. More often than not, those restrictions are self-imposed
rationalizations. You’re only fooling yourself. The deadline, goal, or final product is still looming over
you no matter how long you try to deny it. Even if you’re waiting for something that is truly out of
your control, are there parts of the project you can still pursue? Sections you can write? Research
that isn’t dependent on external factors? There’s always some part of a project that you can get out
of the way. It’s possible that working on something other than what you need to be working on may
point you toward something new you hadn’t considered before. If nothing else, getting started
means you might finish early and could avoid having the whole thing hanging over your head in the
first place.
Lack of Motivation
This one is sort of a combination of the others. Unless it’s a topic or project that you’re extremely
interested in, there’s probably going to be a cooling-off point before you’ve completed it. (If it’s
something that really interests you, you’re much likelier to pursue it rather than procrastinate.)
Whether that pause comes from the fears listed above or you’re just plain putting it off out of lack of
interest, or outside factors, you need to overcome them.
A study by Carnegie Mellon University’s Eberly Center showed that students lacked motivation
when they had trouble understanding the personal relevance of their classes or the work they were
doing in them. To find motivation, figure out why you’re doing a task and what meaning it has to
you, and to your life. Things as simple as paying the bills or preparing dinner can be onerous, but
when you realize that it’s less desirable to get calls from collection agencies or starve, the
motivation will appear — as if by magic. On a practical level, writing a report or tackling that job no
one else wants will make you the go-to person on that topic and more valuable on the job. Cleaning
up your apartment will make it a more pleasant place to live. Preparing an assignment for a class
may let you learn something new. The trick is to find your personal way into the subject or task. If
you have to find something out to let someone else know about it, that information will be much
more interesting because it has your unique spin on it. If your task is personal, realize how it’s going
to improve your life. If nothing else, getting started on it — and finishing it — gets it done, out of the
way, and either out of your life or a much richer part of it. And that in itself should be motivation
enough.
Distractions
Distraction is both the most common symptom — and the easiest — to get around.
It’s hard to get away from distractions. It’s easy when reading or writing something to have a
television or music on in the background, your phone next to you, and the internet calling. There
might be loud conversations near you, noise outside, or coffee shop employees calling out orders
— anything that keeps you from concentrating fully on the task at hand.
Obviously, if we’re doing something we’re not totally invested in, we’ll be looking for something —
anything — to keep up our interest while working, but those distractions aren’t good for you or your
task. Content, for example, could be compromised by spelling errors, lack of fact checking, or
shallow research. A physical job, like painting a room or fixing a car, might be missing details or
important steps. Despite all of our protesting, studies have shown over and over again that people
cannot multi-task.
The best — though potentially most painful — advice is to focus solely on the thing you need to do
or should be doing. Shut off your phone (whether physically or by using one of the many apps that
will limit your time to use it), go to a quiet space — or at least one with minimal distractions. The
price may seem high at first, but the payoff of a really successful result will be more than worth it.

1. Which are the roots of procrastination?

Perfectionism, difficulty getting started, fear, lack of motivation and distractions.
2. What are the outcome when we don’t have enough confidence in our abilities?
We start to create different scenarios of what might happen if we fail such as being
fired, being expelled from school, losing status, etc.
3. What is the motto that Robert Benchley wrote?
 He said "Anybody can do any job, as long as it is not the job they are supposed to be
doing at that moment". - Robert Benchley
4. When students lack motivation?
When they had trouble understanding the personal relevance of their classes or the
work, they were doing in them.

5. Are you a procrastinator?

I honestly consider myself a very indecisive person, and this has led me to have certain
problems in my life, both physically and psychologically. Because there is a point in
which being indecisive seems to be an extra help to meditate well the possible actions
and make a good decision, however, there comes a point in which all that becomes
something continuous making you extremely perfectionist and not allowing you to enjoy
the moment.

WRITING: write between 150 and 250 words

 Look at this living room in the photo on the right

side. Write things that you would need to get
done before you could live in it, then decide
which things you would do yourself and which
things you would get professional help to do. 5
points

I would make several changes. I had the room painted

again. This I would do without the need to ask help.
Also, I get the room clean, first I sweeping, then I would mop the floor.

I would also change several things such as the closet, the window and other things. For
this I would need the help of a professional.

Another thing I would do, would get the lamp checked and if necessary, change it and
buy a new one. Although I could do this myself, I would prefer to call a technician so
that he can connect the electrical wires and that there is no need to do anything
convenient, besides not putting myself in danger by doing something in which I am not
an expert.

NOTE: use the

causetive HAVE
and GET