QUIZ UNIT 6

A. GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY

I. Complete the sentences with the simple past form of a verb from the box. There are two extra
verbs. (8 points / 1 each)

buy – do – try – fly – go – pack – rent – see – stay - take

took
1. We photos of the Roman Colosseum.
tried
2. I the local food in Vietnam and I liked it!
saw
3. They so many famous places on their trip to Europe.
rented
4. My parents a car when they came here.
bought
5. Rose souvenirs at the market.
stayed
6. He with a friend in Kyoto.
packed
7. Miranda one small suitcase for the weekend.
flied
8. My mother with British Airways.
II. Match the questions to the correct answers. There is an extra answer. (3 points / 0.5 each)

NUMBER REFERENCE
1. How was your vacation? (b) a. No, it wasn’t.
2. Were the historical sites crowded? (e) b. It was OK, but we had some problems.
3. Were the seats on the bus comfortable? (f) c. He wasn’t very good. He didn’t know
anything about history.
4. How was your tour guide? (c) d. No, it was exhausting.
5. Was your bed comfortable? (a) e. Yes, there were thousands of other
tourists.
6. Were the rooms clean? (g) f. No, they weren’t. They were too small.
g. No, they were filthy.

III. Unscramble the sentences. (10 points / 1 each)

E.g. your / how / be / trip / camping?

* How was your camping trip?
1. expensive / the / be / tours / guided?
* The tours guided was expensive?
2. good / food / hotel / not be / very / the / our / in
* The food in our hotel wasn’t very good
3. museum / the / be / huge / art
* The art museum was huge
4. too / car / the / rental / expensive / not be
* The rental car wasn’t expensive too
 5. favorite / park / attraction / what / your / be / theme / the / of
* What was your favorite attraction of the theme park
6. the / born / same / their / year / parents / be / in /
* Their parents were born in the same year
7. awful / be / trip / It / an / day
* It trip was an awful day
8. sister / where / be / born / your?
* Where your sister was born?
9. they / concert / late / the / be / for?
* They were late for the concert?
10. after / nephew / match / tired / be / the / my
* My nephew was tired after the match

IV. Complete the dialogues with the past simple of the verbs in brackets. (7 points / 0.5 each)

Police officer Tourist

stole
B: Somebody (steal) my clothes and my bag
A: What’s the problem?
was
while I (be) in the sea!

did happen arrived

A: When this (happen)? B: Well, I (arrive) at the beach at 9.00
went
o’clock this morning and I (go) for a swim at
about 10.00.
came
B: No, when I (come) out of the sea, my bag
Did see
A: you (see) the person wasn´t
(not be) there.
take your bag?

Did have had

A: you (have) anything B: Yes, I (have) my cellphone, my credit
valuable in your bag? cards…
wrote
A: I already (write) everything you told
me. Come with me to the police station.

B. LISTENING SECTION

I. Listen to some information about Jane Goodall and put the events in the order you hear them. (3
points / 0.5 each)

a. (2) Goodall got close to the chimpanzees.

b. (6) Goodall started the Jane Goodall Institute.
 c. (1) Goodall arrived at the Gombe Stream Game Reserve in Tanzania.
d. (5) Goodall made a movie about the chimpanzees.
e. (3) Goodall gave the chimpanzees names.
f. (4) Goodall learned a lot about chimpanzees.

II. Listen again and correct the statements below. (6 points / 1 each)

STATEMENT CORRECTION
1. Goodall studied science in college. Goodall didn´t know anything about science in
the college
2. She was 26 years old when she first went to Masai Mara She was 26 years old when she arrived at the
Natural Reserve.
Gombe Stream Game Reserve in Tanzania
3. A biologist sent her to the mountains of Tanzania. An anthropologist sent her to the mountains of
Tanzania
4. Four chimpanzees were special to her during her time in the Three chimpanzees were special to Jane, she
wild.
gave them names
5. She never worked with National Geographic. She made a movie with National Geographic
6. National Geographic showed her movie after fifteen years. National Geographic showed her movie after
five years

C. READING SECTION
Read the following article and do the exercises below.

GIANTS ON A SMALL ISLAND

Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is a small island in the Researchers say the statues probably honor the
Pacific Ocean. This little island is famous for some ancestors of the Polynesian settlers. Rapanui legend
very old and very large statues. These statues, called says the statues have their ancestors’ spirits inside
moai, are hundreds of years old. They are them. There were many different ideas about how
enormous. The largest is 33 feet tall and weighs 80 the statues came to be standing up.
tons. Even the smallest statue is big – it’s 4 feet tall.
The statues are located all over the island, usually
About a thousand years ago, people sailed from close to the water. The rock used to make the
Polynesia to Rapa Nui. They settled on the island statues came from miles away from where they
and made the statues from volcanic rock. They stand. How did people move huge, heavy statues
made eyes from white coral and used a black or red hundreds of years ago? Rapanui legend says they
stone for the pupil. Some statues have headpieces, walked, and that the spirits of powerful ancestors
which could be hair or hats, made from red volcanic inside the statues made it happen.
rock.
 Researchers have different ideas about how the teams have tried to recreate moving artificial
statues moved. Some think that people rolled statues to test their ideas. They were able to
the statues using cut wood. Other researchers move the statues, but they were exhausted from
think that people pulled and rolled the statues the hard work.
on to their rounded front sides. In fact, research

I. Read the following the questions and answer them by writing complete sentences.
(6 points / 1 each)

QUESTIONS ANSWERS
1. What does the word moai refer to? The word moai refers to huge old statues
2. What do the moai statues look like? The statues are huge and old
3. Where did the people on Rapa Nui come from? From polynesia
4. What were the statues eyes made of? They made eyes from white coral and used a black
or red stone for the pupil.
5. How did the statues come to stand up? Some think that people rolled the statues using cut
(mention two ideas)?
wood.

Other researchers believe that people pulled and

rolled the statues on their rounded front sides.

II. Read the following sentences and decide if they are True (T) or False (F). Correct the false ones. (7
points / 1 each)

STATEMENTS CORRECTION
1. Most of the statues are taller than a person. (T)
2. The statues are more than 1,000 years old. (T)
3. The settlers probably carved the statues to honor people who
lived before them. (T)
4. Researchers say the statues have spirits inside them. (F) because the rapanui legend says the statues
have their ancestors’ spirits inside them
5. All the statues are close to the water. (T)
6. The statues were rolled down a mountain to the beaches. (F) Because no one knew how they got to
that place.
7. Researchers disagree about how people moved the statues. Researchers have different ideas about how the
(F)
statues moved. but they didn't disagreeD

Integrantes:
 Vanesa Florez
 Laura Pacheco
 Samuel Blanco
 Valeria Gonzalez