Handout N°2: Unit 0

Segundo Medio
Nombre: Curso:

Fecha: Puntaje ideal: 36 Puntaje obtenido:

pts.
Objetivo de Aprendizaje:
OA8: Demostrar conocimiento y uso del lenguaje en conversaciones, discusiones y
exposiciones por medio de las siguientes funciones: Presente simple y continuo.
OA9: Demostrar comprensió n de ideas generales e informació n explícita en textos adaptados y
auténticos simples, en formato impreso o digital, acerca de temas variados (como experiencias
personales, temas de otras asignaturas, del contexto inmediato, de actualidad e interés global o
de otras culturas) y que contienen las funciones del añ o.
Instrucciones:
● Cuenta con 60 minutos para realizar la evaluació n.

● Leer detenidamente cada pregunta, reflexiona y luego contesta.

● No olvides poner tu nombre y curso.

● Marca con un círculo la alternativa correcta.

● Solo debes marcar una alternativa para cada pregunta.

I. Reading Comprehension
A. Read the poem by Maya Angelou and answer the following questions. (6 points)

1. You may write me down in history 6. You may shoot me with your words,
With your bitter, twisted lies, You may cut me with your eyes,
You may trod me in the very dirt You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like dust, I'll rise. But still, like air, I’ll rise.

2. Does my sassiness upset you? 7. Does my sexiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom? Does it come as a surprise
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells That I dance like I've got diamonds
Pumping in my living room. At the meeting of my thighs?

3. Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
4. Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
5. Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.
8. Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
9. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

1.What is the poem
mainly about?
a) It’s about a lady still
rising.
b) It’s about a lady who
is falling.
c) It’s about a lady who
is experiencing
segregation.
d) None of the above.
2. What is the poet implying
with the stanza 6?
a. She’s saying that, even
though she’s facing
discrimination, she will
overcome it.
b. She says that words
won’t kill her.
c. She won’t rise because
of discrimination.
d. I don’t know.
3. Why did she face
discrimination?
a) Because she was
dense.
b) Because she lived
during segregation.
c) Because she was
African American.
d) Because she was
American.
 II. Use of English.
A. Past Simple. Write something about your childhood using 6 times the Past Simple. (12
points).

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B. Present & Past Continuous. Write the following verbs adding -ing correctly. Then, use these
verbs to write sentences using the Present & Past Continuous (affirmative, negative and
questions). (18 points).

Example: Sell (infinitive form) = selling

I am selling cookies/I was selling cookies

Verbs: (1 point each).

1. Cry: ____________________________ 4. Write: _________________________

2. Buy: ___________________________ 5. Kiss: _________________________
3. Play: ___________________________ 6. Forget: ________________________

Sentences: (2 points each)

1. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

2. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________