KOÇ UNIVERSITY – ELC
MIDTERM INFO SHEET
MIDTERM DATE: April 27, 2023
SECTION EXAM TIMES: TO BE ANNOUNCED
READING
Skills to be tested:
 Identifying the main ideas
 Identifying specific
information
 Inferring meaning
 Referencing
 Guessing the meaning of
unknown words from the
context
 Recognizing the
organizational structure of a
text
 Identifying the use of
cohesive devices (pronouns,
prepositions, lexis,
conjunctions, connectors) to
link ideas within and between
paragraphs
-Skillful 3 R&W Units 1-2-3-4-5
-All supplementary materials
SPRING 2023
MIDTERM CONTENT INFORMATION
LISTENING LANGUAGE USE VOCABULARY WRITING POSSIBLE
TASK TYPES
Skills to be tested: Main objectives: Skillful 3 Skills to be tested:  Gap fill –
 Understanding the main  Present continuous for changing situations L&S and R&W  building a well-developed sentence
ideas and supporting details  Action & Non-action verbs Units 1, 2, 3, 4, essay (introductory-body- level
 Identifying relationship  Would 5 and extra conclusion paragraphs  Gap fill – text
level
between ideas in a talk  Get/be used to words of each including a thesis
 Multiple
 Distinguishing facts from  Present Perfect: repetition, first/second of unit statement, topic
two actions sentences) choice
opinion
 Present Perfect Continuous: recent activity  essay focusing on cause &  Short answer
 Identifying purpose, tone,
 Past Perfect effect or advantage &  Word
speaker’s attitude, speaker’s
 Past Perfect Continuous disadvantage formation
intended audience
 Inferring meaning by using  Present simple with future meaning
contextual, grammatical and (timetables) Word count: About 350
lexical cues  Future continuous words
 Taking notes under given  Future in the past: Was/were going to
headings  had better
 should(n’t) have + past participle -Skillful 3 R& W and L&S all
 be supposed to (all tenses) related parts covered in
 be to (all tenses) class
 be allowed to -All supplementary
 Modals of deduction: present and past materials
- Skillful 3 L&S Units 1-2-3-4-5  Modals of suggestions (present): could,
-All supplementary materials might
 Modals of suggestions (past): Could/Might
have + past participle
 The passive (all the tenses covered so far)
 The passive: present modals
 Passive with two objects
 have/get sth done
 have/get (with an agent)
 Relative pronouns: who, whom, which, that,
whose, where, when, why
 Omission
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 ‘which’ referring to a whole clause

 So…that/ such...that
 Impersonal pronouns
 Indefinite pronouns
 Discourse markers

Revised objectives:
 Present Simple
 Present Continuous
 Past Simple
 Past Continuous
 Used to
 Present Perfect: past experiences and
present results
 Present Perfect Continuous
 Future: Going to, Present continuous, and
Will
 Modals of advice: should, ought to, must
 must, mustn’t, have (got) to
 need, don’t have to/need to

-MyGrammarLab Intermediate (B1/B2)

-All supplementary materials

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