Summative assessment for the 1st term Variant 2
READING
Hello, I am Adam. I am 15 years old. I don’t use many means of communications, just some of them. I have never talked on a landline because we didn’t have any. Only my grandmother has. She used to talk on a landline when I was five. My mother didn’t use to chat on Skype. She started using it because my elder sister moved to another country. I often chat on social media, but recently, I have read an article about how social networking influenced our lives.
With the growth of popularity of social networking, less and less people invite friends to their homes to talk face to face and build a closer relationship with each other. Spending more time chatting on social media inevitably reduces our time spent with families and friends. Even when family members are together, we usually read our phones instead of talking to each other. Social media created three fantasies for us: We will receive attention in any situation; We will always be heard; We will never be alone.
It is important to have more meaningful interactions with friends instead of just liking each other’s posts on social media. We need to go offline and meet friends. The more people interact with each other face to face, the less those people feel lonely. When I begin to feel lonely, I call my closest friends, and we go for a walk. I think It is the best way to communicate.
Task 1. Read the text and mark the sentences TRUE/FALSE. Correct FALSE sentences
1) Adam’s grandmother talks on a landline nowadays. [1]
2) When family members are together, they talk to each other [1]
3) People feel lonely when they chat on social media [1]
Total [3]
Task 2. Answer the questions. Give full answer.
1) What article has Adam read recently about? [1]
2) How many fantasies did social media create for us? [1]
3) What is the best way to communicate for Adam? [1]
Total [3]
USE OF ENGLISH
Task 3. Choose the right variant from two options.
1) He was terrifying / terrified when he saw the film. [0.5]
2) My textbook is very bored / boring but I have to read it. [0.5]
3) The film was amazing / amazed [0.5]
4) My dad can / could run very quickly when he was young [0.5]
5) Tony is clever. He can / will be able to use a computer perfectly. [0.5]
6) Next lesson I could / will be able to translate it. [0.5]
Total [3]
WRITING
Task 4. Describe the following means of communication, using adverbs of frequency and adjectives (comparative and superlative forms)
Adverbs of frequencyAdjectives
Usuallygood - bad
Oftenfast - slow
Sometimescheap – expensive
Rarelyconvenient – inconvenient
Hardly ever easy – difficult
Never
Total [2]
Task 5. Write about yourself, friends and your family members. What you, your friend, your mother, father, sister or brother used to/ didn’t use to do. Use words and phrases from the Unit 1 and Unit 2
Assessment criteria
1)Write 5 sentences using used to construction [1]
2)Use new lexis from Unit 1 and Unit 2 (at least 3phrases) [1]
3) Spelling the words correctly [1]
4) Use used to construction correctly [1]
Total [4]
