Quiz level 21

1. Talk about your favorite holiday. My favorite holiday is Christmas. During

this holiday, everyone starts giving presents to all their friends and
relatives. Our family is used to decorating the house with lightbulbs and
Christmas trees. We also love to eat hayacas and ham. Everyone is so
happy for buying new presents and even the kids are happier than ever.
It is the most beautiful holiday of all year!
2. Talk about holidays and traditions in your country. We have different
holidays in our country. One of them is the Carnival Days. During this
holiday we use to fill up balloons with water and throw them to either
closest relatives or friends. We’re also used to looking forward to
parades. On the streets, you’ll see different parades where carts will be
decorated with different pop culture references (including characters from
well-known movies and Brazillian-esque carts) and there are also all
kinds of female dancers with amazing choreographies. Many of our
traditions include dancing in reference to biblical events. One of which
are recalled as Dancing Devils from Yare, where different dancers make
a choreography symbolizing the triumph of the good above all evil. This
type of dance is done during the Day of the Corpus Christi.
3. Talk about one of the cheapest countries to visit. One of the cheapest
countries to visit is Vietnam. With only $2300 you’re able to pay for a 14-
day stay at a hotel ($500) and be spending up to $20 per day on food
and drinks. One of the many attractions for you to get on Vietnam can be
visiting: The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh city really is a must
and is only a couple of dollars; the Hai Van Pass from Hoi An to Hue is
an incredibly scenic drive and can be done by motorbike (you can rent or
use an easy rider program) or you can hire a private car; the tombs in
Hue are very impressive and are worth taking a day trip to see a few. It is
definitely recommended to do the full cost when doing the airplane trip to
Vietnam since companies take a good look at tourists who try to do a
short trip and then go to the actual destination. It could actually get you
banned. But either way it’s one of the best looking countries for excellent
cuisine in every corner of every street you may find.
4. Explain the wedding traditions in Venezuela. There are different things
that happen during a Venezuelan marriage. It first starts with the fiancé
asking for the hand of their female counterpart. From that moment on, it’s
a process of getting everything and everyone ready for the Old School
type of marriage party, where the soon-to-be husband gets ready to put
the marriage ring on his soon-to-be-bride. This party can be at a very
expensive restaurant. Before that, there will be a period of time as usual
called the Compromise, where both fiancés prove their loyalty up until
the time they get their wedding night. Venezuelans are used to having a
Civil ceremony, where they legally get the Status of Married. Later on,
the reception starts. This is perhaps one of the favorite parts for
 Venezuelans when it comes to weddings, the party! It Receptions in
Venezuela are held after the ecclesiastical ceremony (although even a
small gathering is always held after the civil wedding), and it is
recommended that a place near the temple where the mass was
celebrated be chosen as the location for the ceremony. party, mostly
because the traffic in Caracas, and in many cities in Venezuela, can be
really chaotic. Afterwards, the honeymoon starts and it is as usual as
ever, where both husband and wife get to have a moment together that
can last up to a week.
5. Talk about 5 inventions or discoveries and how they solve our problems.
Wheel: the wheel is primarily used for transportation and thus saves us
the trouble of having to walk around all the time when we can just use it
(in a car, bike, wheel and axle,…) in order to save energy.
Internet: the internet is used for interconnection between two different
people for getting the same information. It is used for a plethora of things,
including sharing videos, documents, information, photos, data, music
and much more, thus solving the issue of having to physically share
something to someone who could be at a very far-away distance.
Television: the television is mainly used for getting information on news
and having entertainment. It solves the issue of not having anything to
watch on a boring day and it serves for killing time and escapism.
Telephone: The telephone is used for getting two people to talk to each
other despite any sort of distance with one another. It solves the problem
of having the urgency of wanting to talk to someone and not being able
to since they are too far apart.
Electricity: The electricity is used for powering all sorts of machines. It
solves the problem of needing way too many resources for lighting a dark
place and it also solves the problem of needing a lot of manpower in
order to produce a significant amount of force for industrial porpoises.

 Read each sentence. If the sentence is correct, write (C). If the

sentence is incorrect, write (I) and correct it.
1. Babootie is a traditional food from South Africa who is originally from
Malaysia. _I_
Babootie is a traditional food from South Africa that is originally from
Malaysia.
2. Japan is a country who has a lot of festivals. _I_
Japan is a country that has a lot of festivals.
3. The most expensive trip that I took was to travel to Dubai. _C_
4. My best friend is a woman who lives in Brazil. _C_
5. The grand hotel is a seaside hotel who everyone likes. _I_
The grand hotel is a seaside hotel that everyone likes.
 Complete the past unreal conditional sentences.
1. Mark is a great student who was chosen to represent the school. If he
weren’t such a good student, he wouldn’t be chosen to represent the
school.
2. The house wasn’t damaged by the hurricane, so we didn’t get any
insurance money. But if the house had been damaged, we would have
gotten insurance money.
3. The guests aren’t dancing because the DJ left. If the DJ hadn’t left, the
guests would have been dancing.
4. People aren’t looking for the treasure anymore because it’s already been
discovered. If it hadn’t yet been discovered, people would have been
looking for the treasure.
5. They're still thinking of a name for the baby because she hasn’t been
given one yet. If the baby had a name already, they wouldn’t be thinking
of one.
6. Marcia isn’t working for hunter corporation because she moved out of the
country. If she hadn’t moved out of the country, Marcia would have been
working for hunter corporation.