ENGLISH TEST 8TH FORM / LEVEL 4 I Pre-reading question (4 points) What is your favourite activity during holidays? ____________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________

II Text comprehension (37 points) Read Marguerite letter to her Irish pen friend, Nora.

A. TRUE or FALSE? Quote from the text to justify if they are true and correct the false ones. 1. When Noras postcard arrived, Marguerite was away on holidays. ___________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 2. Marguerite came to Portugal with some of her friends. ____________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 3. She thinks the classes at the international school were uninteresting. ________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

B. Answer the following questions about the text. 1. When did Marguerite write her letter? _________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 2. Why did Marguerite go to Bradfield? __________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 3. What activities did they do in the evening at the international school? ________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 4. Which British cities really impressed her? ______________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

A. Complete the sentences below with ideas from the text.

1. Marguerite and her cousins always have a great time together because ______ _______________________________________________________________ 2. In her opinion the boat trip to the caves along the coast ___________________ _______________________________________________________________

A. Fill in the blanks with a reflexive pronoun. 1. Noras brother enjoyed ___________________ very much at the party. 2. I did all the work by ___________________. 3. Look at the cat. Its washing ___________________. 4. We are going to make ___________________ a cup of tea.

B. Complete the sentences below with the Present Simple, Present Continuous or Past Simple of the verbs in brackets. 1. Noras mother usually ___________________ (drive) her to school but now Nora ___________________ (wait) for the school bus. 2. Her friend Mary ___________________ (not / go) on holiday last August; she ___________________ (stay) at home, because she ___________________ (be) ill. 3. Marguerite ___________________ (catch) the school bus every morning. 4. In 2005 they ___________________ (spend) a week in Spain. They ___________________ (stay) in a hotel near the beach.

C. Now complete the sentences by using the Past Continuous. 1. While she _______________________ (prepare) dinner, her brother _______________________ (read) the newspaper.

2. Yesterday at 5 oclock, I _______________________ (watch) TV, but my parents _______________________ (clean) the house.

D. Order the words to build correct sentences. 1. cottage / in / lives / Nora / beautiful / a/. __________________________________________________________________ 2. car / buying / he / new / a / is /. __________________________________________________________________ 3. interesting / subject / new / sounds / the /. __________________________________________________________________

IV Vocabulary (6 points) A. Write the plural of the nouns below. 1. class ______________ 4. sheep ______________ 5. knife ______________ 6. foot ______________

2. woman ______________ 3. city ______________

V Composition (19 points)

Write a text about your last summer holidays. (What did you do? What were your days like? Did you do anything special? Did you visit any particular place / town / city? If you did, why did you go there? How long did you stay there? Who did you go with? What did you see? Did you enjoy yourself? What did you like the most?)

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GOOD LUCK!