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Final Exam Level PRE-INTERMEDIATE

STUDENT´S NAME: _______________________________ CODE: _______________DATE: _____________

LISTENING: _____ READING:_____ WRITING: _____ LANGUAGE: _____ FINAL

SCORE: 4.4 __________

LISTENING SECTION (8 marks, 1 each)
The purpose of this section is to evaluate your abilities to listen and understand spoken English in a
given situation. You will hear each recording twice.
A girl is answering questions in an interview about her last vacation; you will listen 3 times carefully and
answer the question bellow. (8 marks, 1 for each) 4p.

1. How much money did she spend there? They spent 1,500 dollars
2. Where was she? He was in Vietnam
3. Who did she meet? They met many families and children, also many people who were farmers
4. What did she eat? He ate a lot of salad and Vietnamese food
5. What did she do there? He went swimming in the ocean to the mountains and on a hike
6. How long did she stay there? They were there three weeks
7. How does she describe the place? He describes it as a beautiful country with beautiful landscapes
8. Who did she go with? He went with a friend

READING SECTION (10 marks, 1 each)

The purpose of this section is to evaluate your abilities to understand written reports and texts in
English
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

Once upon a time there was a boy called Jack. He lived with his mother .They were very poor .All they had was a
cow. One morning, Jack’s mother told him to take the cow to the market and sell her. On the way Jack met a man.
He gave Jack some magic beans for the cow. Jack took the beans and went back home. When Jack’s mother saw the
beans she was very angry. She threw the beans out of the window. The next morning, Jack looked out of the
window. There was a giant beanstalk .He went outside and started to climb the beanstalk. He climbed up to the sky
through the clouds. Jack saw a beautiful castle. He went inside. Jack heard a voice “Fee,fi,fo,fum!” and ran into a
cupboard. An enormous giant came into the room and sat down. On the table there was a hen and a golden
harp.”Lay” said the giant. The hen laid an egg-it was made of gold.”Sing” said the giant. The harp began to sing.
Soon the giant was asleep. Jack jumped out of the cupboard. He took the hen and the harp. Suddenly the harp sang
“Help,master!”. The giant shouted, “Fee,fi,fo,fum!”.Jack ran and started to climb down the beanstalk.The giant came
down after him. Jack shouted “Mother, help!”. Jack’s mother took an axe and chopped down the beanstalk. The
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giant fell and crashed to the ground. Nobody ever saw him again. With the golden eggs and the magic harp Jack and
his mother lived happily ever after.

NOW, READ THE SENTENCES BELOW AND WRITE “TRUE” or “FALSE” for the FALSE sentences write
the correct answer.

1. Jack’s mother told him to take the cow for a walk. ( F ) the mother told him to sell the cow at market
2. Jack met a man on the way to the market and sold the cow to him. (F) they made a change. He gave Jack
some magic beans for the cow
3. Jack sold the cow for a hen and a magic harp. (F) he made a change the cow for the beans
4. When his mother saw the beans, she cooked the dinner with them. (F) She threw the beans out of the
window.
5. He hid under the table when he heard the voice of giant. (F) He hid in the closet
6. The giant had a hen that laid golden eggs. ( T )

NOW, READ THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWER THEM.

7. What happened to the beans? Jack took the beans and went home

8. What did Jack see when he looked out of the window? jack looked out the Window and there would be a
giant bean stalk
9. What did Jack do when he saw the giant plant? jack got out and started climbing up the bean stalk
10. Where did he go? And what did he see there? jack ascended to he’s en through the clouds , jack saw there a
beautiful castle

WRITING SECTION (15 marks)

The purpose of this section is to evaluate your abilities to communicate ideas by writing a specific text.
The main criteria are organization, word choice, syntax, spelling and agreement between parts of
speech.
TASK: Your son can’t sleep, so you decide to tell him a story about a trip you once had. Do not forget to describe
the full situation: How did it happen? Where did it happen? What did you do? Which interesting places did you
know? Do not forget to conjugate irregular and regular verbs correctly and use simple and continuous past
appropriately. (150 words minimum)

 Narrate the whole trip in order to make it interesting.

 Compare the city where you live with that place (people, weather, buildings, constructions, etc)
 Use different ways to compare (the ones we worked in class)
 Try to connect sentences and create a logic narration.
 Remember this is a story you tell your son, so be creative and feel free to make up some things.

Once upon a time, I was in Santa Marta visiting my family since I have not seen her for eight years, they were very
happy when they saw me and I was very happy, they killed chickens as soon as we arrived we went to the river, the
next day they killed a pig all very happy together In families eating chicharronadas, blood sausages, roast meat, at
night I have a bingo where $ 200 thousand is raffled and the table cost $ 1,000 thousand. A week after I arrived
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where my family went to the sea, we made stew, my aunt was the one who cooked with the help of her daughter,
since the daughter wanted to bathe with me because we had not seen each other for a long time, reaching the extreme
that her mother had to scold her to help her, I observing that she wanted to be by my side decided to help me make
the sancocho.

LANGUAGE STRUCTURE (17 marks)15p.

TASK: Read the following daily routine description and correct the errors, use simple past. (10 marks)

IT’S ALL IN PAST

I woke up yesterday morning and got out of bed. It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining and the wind was
blowing. I decide that I would go for a walk. I start walking down the road. I opened the door and closed it behind
me. . I walk miles and miles along a country road. I even visited my aunt. On the way I passed a young man who
was selling fruit. 'How much are the apples?' I ask. "For a bag," he says. I paid the man and kept walking. I ate all
the apples except one, which I dropped on the ground, they were delicious. After a while I meet another man, this
man had a camel. The camel was a special camel, it had no humps...

TASK: Make comparisons with the following pictures using adjectives like: big, interesting, beautiful …

a) b) c) d)
Medellin Bogotá Cartagena Santa Marta

1 (Medellin is bigger than Santa Marta

2(Cartagena is more interesting than

3(the beaches of Santa Marta are more beautiful than than those of Cartagena

4(Santa Marta is more touristy and Beautiful than Bogota

5(Cartagena is more interesting than Bogotá for its beaches

6(Medellin is more beautiful than Bogotá for its metro and its people

7(Bogotá is more interesting than Santa Marta for its reliefs and its stories

SOURCES:

LISTENING: Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v5AlmrqEug

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Format: Retrieved from LANGUAGE: http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/past-simple-tense-
find-all-mistakes
Format: Retrieved from: ( READING COMPREHENSIONhttp://www.englishwsheets.com/irregular-
verbs-1.html

Adapted by Alcides Paternina Zuñiga