LICEO POLIVALENTE BICENTENARIO “MARIANO LATORRE “ CURANILAHUE LPBML ENGLISH DEPARTMENT SCORE: ______/ 38 PROGRESS TEST - Listening- Reading – Grammar – Writing I.- LISTENING: Samsung Shows Off Foldable Phone 1.- LISTEN TO THE RECORDING AND COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH THE WORDS FROM THE BOX. (5 points) Experience – mobile – device –revolutionary – designed – tablet – flexible a.- The pone is ____________________ to fold open to make the __________________ the size of a small tablet. b.- “Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the future of __________________ display. c.- “…when it´s open, it´s a ________________________, offering a big screen________________. d.- He said one of the biggest difficulties was finding a material that was ____________________. e.- Technology experts see the new foldable design as a wy to get users to buy a new device seen as ________________________. 2.- TRUE OR FALSE EXERCISES. (4 points) a.- __________The phone can also perform some operations of a tablet. b.- __________ Justin Denison is Samsung´s senior president of mobile product marketing. c.- __________ Denison said the design and development of the foldable device was very easy. d.- __________ Denison said that the device will permit users to keep up to three apps open at one time. II.- READING TEXT: Did you know that apart from Roger Ebert and Stanley Kubrick there was another man who predicted the future through stories? That man was the French writer Jules Verne. His famous stories like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon showed different devices that exist today. In Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Verne described an electric submarine. In his famous science fiction classic novel From the Earth to the Moon, the visionary writer described three devices used by NASA: one of them is the solar sail which is a method of spacecraft propulsion. Another device imagined by Verne is the lunar module, or rocket, that takes astronauts to the moon. Finally, he predicted what we call now a splashdown, which is a method of landing a spacecraft in the ocean by parachute. His legacy has had a big influence on literature and science. The most curious thing is that Jules Verne lived between 1828 and 1905, and he was able to foresee the future through his unique creations. 3.- ANSWER: (2 points) The text is: a.- ______ an interview b.- ______ an article c.- ______ a leaflet d.- ______ an advertisement The purpose of this article is: a.- ______ to give information. b.- ______ to classify information. c.- ______ to express opinión. d.- ______ to give instructions. 4.- READ AGAIN. Write the names of the ítems that Jules Verne imagined under the corresponding picture. (3 points) a.- b.- c.- 5.- ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ARTICLE. (6 points) a.- Who was Jules Verne? b.- What are the two novels mentioned n the text? c.- What is a splashdown? d.- When did Verne live? e.- What is special about Verne? f.- Did you like this text? Why / why not? III.- GRAMMAR (8 points) 6.- Complete wit will or won´t a) In the future, people _____________ use cars, they´ll teleport to different places. b) Climate change _______________ have an important effect in our daily lives. c) Traveling to s pace _____________________ be as expensive as it is now. d) I think in the future, robots will be made of cheaper materials, so they ________________ be expensive. 7.- Complete the statements with predictions about the future (Answers may vary) a) Cell phones will ____________________________________________________ b) Climate change will _________________________________________________ c) Diseases won´t _____________________________________________________ d) Space vacations won´t _______________________________________________ IV.- WRITING Write a your opinion about global warming and give solutions to cope with it. (60 – 85 words). (10 points).
