ENGLISH PLUS 3

EXAM PROJECT
8.1 HAS FEAR EVER HELD YOU BACK?
First, watch this music video: Michael Jackson - Thriller (Official Video). https://youtu.be/sOnqjkJTMaA
____16______ / 20 points
PART I: GRAMMAR BOX: Describing past ability. Talk about obligation, permission and advice
1. Check your grammar boxes in lessons 8.2 & 8.4 (SB p.85 & 89.)
2. Write a paragraph about the girl in the video, what were her options in the past and what any person should do in a scary situation. About 80 words.
3. Use these vocabulary expressing physical symptoms of fear:
a. I get really dizzy.
b. I can’t breathe.
c. I start to sweat.
d. I burst into tears.
e. I almost pass out.
f. My heart starts to race.
g. I get butterflies in my stomach.
First she was in the car with Michael, then both of them go out of the car and start to walk slowly so that Michael asks her to married with him, because it seems that she is getting butterflies in her
stomach, I guess everyone who hears that kind of question is going to feel butterflies in her or his stomach, after that Michael tells her that he was different from the others, and started to turn into a
werewolf whereas the girl began to scream because of the fear, her heart started to race, for later after that, she runs for her life and in a part of the video we can see than the girl seems that is getting
really dizzy
____16______ / 20
points
PART II: MUSIC VIDEO: Answer the questions after having viewed the music video.
Write about 80 words per response.

1) Do you know what this song is about?

It began in the cinema and the song is about monsters In at the night, and the song talks about the
monsters that will come for her at midnight and that you are hoping that it is only a nightmare, and
you heard sounds that make you get freeze frozen and that your heart starts to race, while you
hear the creature Creeping up behind, so that the girl hugs Michael, because in the end said that
this is a mystery movie
2) Describe the video. (Try to use conjunctions to express purpose and reason. SB p.75)
It began with a horror movie that is about a men man who turns into a werewolf and follows his
girlfriend to bite her so that in the real life the girl hugs Michael because she is scared, then the girl
went and Michael went to follow, after that Michael started to sing and dance although she were
was angry, later zombies came out from the cemetery, and follow them so that Michael get into a
dancer zombie, finally the girl wakes up of the nightmare and went with Michael
3) Can you give examples of a) real fears, b) fears we love, b) exaggerated or even irrational
fears.
A) a real fear that I think everyone have is not becoming successful or good at something in life, or
get fired of your job. B) this in my case it doesn’t apply to me, for example the roller coaster is a
The Institute Orizaba 607558521.docx 1 of 3
game that almost all the people like it, because they feel fear but one that they love, c) finally I have a fear that I think a lot of people have, the height, here it is included the fear to fly, I think everyone has a little bit of
fear of height because you can die in you fall, but in my case as more people we have an exaggerated fear or the height
4) What is a fear you love? Explain. Use these expressions:
a. I get really dizzy.
b. I can’t breathe.
c. I start to sweat.
d. I burst into tears.
e. I almost pass out.
f. My heart starts to race.
g. I get butterflies in my stomach.

I like to watch scary movies because when a scream comes out my heart starts to race and I like the feeling, I have never passed out in my life, but I’ve heard stories about people who have passed out seeing a scary
movie and I think if a kid watched this kind of movies will probably burst into tears another fear that I love it that can be similar but It’s not the same, I am talking about playing video games of horror, i like this kind of
games because you are in constantly suspense in some cases where I am playing, I have started to sweat

The Institute Orizaba 607558521.docx 2 of 3

 ___16_______ / 20 points
9.5 WHAT DO YOU SPEND THE MOST MONEY ON?
Think about this question: What’s the biggest problem facing society today? (Some examples: social unrest, overpopulation, lack of respect for nature, diseases, crime, overreliance on technology, and obesity.)
1) Write an essay in about 180 words.
2) Use at least four conjunctions: in order to, so that, while, unlike, although, despite, as, due to, as opposed to, since, because of, so, even though, to, in spite of, whereas.

DEFINE THE PROBLEM There are many problems that the society is facing today, for example the crime whereas the police is resting in their cars, there are thieves and murderers In the street although the
government give them cars, if you call the police and for a pizza, the pizza will arrive earlier than the police, that’s a problem unlike other countries they don’t have this problem , we have it because of the government __

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

EXPLAIN ITS NEGATIVE IMPACT ON SOCIETY so that the society lives in fear everyday, if before went out in the night, with this problem the people don’t dare because of the insecurity, unlike before the girls cant
go out without fear of something so that they need to go out with someone to feel more secure safer _____________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
OFFER SOLUTIONS we can see what other countries do and apply some of their techniques and rules to control insecurity, but to do that we need to change all the government for honest people because almost all
politicians are corrupt____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
CONCLUSION the crime and the insecurity are something that happens in all the word, but that is not a reason to let it spread more although it seems common, because if we don't deal with problems like this we will
never progress_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Institute Orizaba 607558521.docx 3 of 3