ENGLISH MID TERM TEST JULY 2022 – SAGRADO CORAZÓN TEACHER: CINTHYA DOGLIO
NAME: ____________________________________ SCORE:_________________
LISTENING. Listen to 5 speakers. Look at the sentences and choose from A-E to say what each speaker says.
A- It´s more enjoyable watching a film at the cinema than at home.
B- It´s not always necessary to watch the whole programme to enjoy it.
C- It allows me to watch up-to-date programmes at any time.
D- I appreciate the way television can bring people together.
E- I plan to continue watching films in this way.
Speaker 1: __________
Speaker 2: __________
Speaker 3: __________
Speaker 4: __________
Speaker 5: __________ /15.
READING. Read the text and do the following exercises please.
What do you think about online video sites?
It’s more than 10 years since the first video was uploaded to YouTube. The first clip, called ‘Me at the zoo’ was not very original but
it represented a new way of watching videos. Now, nearly five billion videos are viewed every day – and that’s just on YouTube.
We’ve asked some of our readers: what do you think about online video sites?
A - Gabby.
I’m not sure what to think. You can find interesting things like educational programmes or ‘how to’ guides and that’s what I usually
use them for. However, there are also a lot of videos of people playing silly jokes and making fun of animals. I really don’t
understand why people want to upload that sort of thing. If I want to see something funny, I can just watch a sitcom on TV.
Another thing which annoys me is the number of adverts – a few years ago, there weren’t any and now you might have to watch
30 seconds of adverts before the video starts.’
B – Neil.
I really like them! I don’t often post my own videos but I enjoy watching ones that other people have uploaded, especially funny
home videos. My favourite is called ‘Charlie bit my finger’ and it’s had more than 800 million views. It shows a little boy and his
baby brother called Charlie, and basically the boy keeps putting his finger in Charlie’s mouth and Charlie keeps biting it. When the
brother finally gets upset, Charlie just laughs at him. I keep watching it again and again! It’s simple and funny and, most
importantly, everyone can identify with it. I think the inventors of YouTube thought that people would upload exactly this type of
video.
C – Megan.
I think it’s great that people can share their videos online. It means that anyone can have their 15 minutes of fame. For example,
lots of pop stars spend thousands of dollars on making videos so that they go viral, but some of the most popular ones are made by
ordinary people. ‘Evolution of dance’ is a great example of this. It shows a man dancing to different types of music in a school
concert. He’s a good dancer but he also dances in an amusing way so viewers love it. It’s clearly not a professional video but it’s
very popular, it’s had more than 290 million views!
D- Justin.
I used to spend hours online watching short videos but I hardly ever do this now. The problem for me is that it’s hard to tell if they
are real or not. For example, some of the vlogs (video logs) want you to think that the presenter is an ordinary young person
talking in their bedroom about beauty products or video games. However, the reality is that they are often paid huge sums by big
companies to advertise their products. I don’t have a problem with advertising but it’s important to know if the video is real or not.
1 – Read the text and choose the correct option.
The text is…
a- an essay showing pros and cons regarding online video sites.
b- an article exposing different views on the topic.
c- a survey answered by four contestants. /5
2 – Read the text again. For each question, choose from people A-D. The people may be chosen more than once.
Which person
1- says some of the videos are not well-made? __________
2- has a weakness for a particular video? __________
3- doesn´t think it´s easy to know which videos are the real thing? __________
4- has a negative opinion of advertising on online video sites? __________
5- believes that online videos should be easy for people to understand? __________ /20
LANGUAGE AWARENEESS. Write the correct form of the word in capitals in each gap.
Nowadays we have a huge (1) _____________of videos to watch online, especially if you CHOOSE
like videos of people in dangerous situations. Two popular videos in recent years show a
woman nearly being hit by lightning and a man fighting off a shark in the sea.
HARM
However, it seems that these videos were just a bit of (2) _____________fun because an
Australian company has admitted that there wasn’t any (3) _____________in them. TRUE
They say that their (4) ______________were part of an experiment to see how many CREATE
downloads they could achieve. They thought that people would watch their videos even
if they were completely (5)______________ . They were right because the shark video alone BELIEVE
got more than 30 million hits, and although people now know that it’s not authentic,
they still keep watching it.
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VOCABULARY AND PRE WRITING.
1- Complete the chart with the words below. Be careful there are two extra words. /9
COLLOCATIONS NOUNS TV WORDS
POPULARITY – ORIGINAL – MAKE FUN OF – YOUTHFUL – SITCOM – ACTIVITY – CHAT SHOW – TELL A JOKE – HAPPINESS –
GO ONLINE – WEATHER FORECAST
2- Now complete these sentences with some of the words from the chart and your own ideas.
a- Are you amazed by ___________________________________________________________________?
b- I don´t understand people who __________________________________________________________
c- There is a very entertaining _____________________________________________________________
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WRITING. Choose one of the options and write between 120 – 160 words.
1- Think of your favourite website and write a review about the positive and negative aspects of it.
2- Write an email to a friend telling him/her about your favourite Youtube channel.
Don´t forget to mention: name of the channel – content of the channel – presenter of the channel.
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