Taller de Comprobación Número 5 – SESIONES 65 A 76 Nombre:__________________________Fecha:_______Grupo # ____ PART I GRAMMAR. SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER 1. Gabriel ____________ in the house this morning. A. is study B. studying C. is studying D. are studying 2. Alicia, __________ the door please. It's too hot in here. A. opens B. open c. opened D. will opened 3. The show was __________ the book. A. as B. as good D. as good as C. good as 4. Mr. Frank requests that someone _________ the package immediately. A. sent B. sends C. send D. to send 5. Who is ____________ , Martha or Jenny? A. tallest B. tall C. taller D. the tallest 6. The students ____________ since the last week. A. have been studying B. were studying C. has been studying D. been studying 7. The school will upgrade _________ book next month. A. there B. their C. it's D. its 8. Johanna likes sports, _________ she does not like movies. A. so B. for C. but D. or 9. I finish my contract next month, I _____________ working here for five years. A. will have been B. have been C. has been D. will have 10. Ms. Cecilia _________ cleaning the table when her husband arrived A. were B. could C. would D. was PART II. ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSION Date: May 16, 2013 To: Andy Owen From: Carlos Ayala Subject: Staff Meeting You were selected to give the main presentation about new business strategies to sell our most recent products. You need to make projections and possible options to export some of our old products too, considering that other companies are doing and how it affects us. Both new and old products have to increase their profits in the next three months. Be ready to teach new employees about our commercial department. Thank you 11. Who sent the letter? A Andy Owen B. Carlos Ayala C, The new employees 12. What is the instruction in the letter? A To explain new employees about products of the company. B To show new strategies to increase sales C. To assist to a meeting. 13. Who will assist to the presentation? A. People from other companies B. The company manager and his assistant C. Employees from the company FLOODS (From: National Geographic) There are few places on Earth where people need not be concerned about flooding. Any place where rain falls is vulnerable, although rain is not the only impetus for flood. A flood occurs when water overflows or inundates land that's normally dry. This can happen in a multitude of ways. Most common is when rivers or streams overflow their banks. Excessive rain, a ruptured dam or levee, rapid ice melting in the mountains, or even an unfortunately placed beaver dam can overwhelm a river and send it spreading over the adjacent land, called a floodplain. Coastal flooding occurs when a large storm or tsunami causes the sea to surge inland. Most floods take hours or even days to develop, giving residents ample time to prepare or evacuate. Others generate quickly and with little warning. These flash floods can be extremely dangerous, instantly turning a babbling brook into a thundering wall of water and sweeping everything in its path downstream. 14. Which of the following natural disaster is not related with flood? A. tsunami B. floodplain C. storm D. wildfire 15. How happen a flood? A. It occurs when land burns and extremely hot damages all around B. It occurs when water is so cold and freeze plants and animals C. It occurs when land is covered by water, sometimes because of rain. D. It occurs when water is so hot and killed plants around 16. What can we infer about flood? A. It happens suddenly, so people can’t do anything to be safe in that situation B. In most of the cases floods take long time to develop, so people can choose a way to be safe C. Most floods are big and dangerous, so people should live far away from this natural disaster D. There are many places on Earth where floods will never happen. PART III. GRAMMAR TOPICS. Match the examples with the correct verbal tense a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. k. . l. Simple Present Simple Past will-future going to-future Present Progressive Past Progressive will-future Progressive Present Perfect Past Perfect Future Perfect Present Perfect Progressive 17. We are watching an action movie 18. He often reads books, but he never writes letters. 19. Tomorrow the sun will shine. 20. I was listening to the radio yesterday evening. 21. We are going to fly to Paris in summer. 22. I have been waiting for Joe since 8 o'clock. 23. Last week he had an accident. 24. We had gone to the university library. 25. I will have phoed my sister by tomorrow evening. 26. Peggy and Sue will be going to the concert. 27. I have cleaned my car. 28. They had been going to church. 29. He will have been going home by 3 o'clock in the morning Past Perfect Progressive PART IV: WRITING 30 a 38: Write a small paragraph describing the most influential person in your life; make sure to start your paragraph describing the person’s basic information (name, gender, height, age, relationship, place of birth, marital status, and what the person does ) after that a brief description of what she/him did to become so influential in your life. (For this activity add an additional page) PART VI LISTENING AND SPEAKING Listen to the teacher; next give your own opinion about pros and cons of using technology in an specific activity as in the reading. Pros and Cons of Using Technology- Arguments Against the Importance of Technology From: http://www.useoftechnology.com/pros-cons-technology/ On a daily basis, both businesses and individuals use technology. I will not deny, technology has become part of our lives, at least every one of us has to use it either for communication, education, health purposes, job creation, travel or business growth. Lets take a simple look at communication. As humans, it is natural we have to communicate. In the past this could be done through letters and postage companies would take a while to deliver your message. But now each of us uses technology to communicate to our friends, business associates, consumers and loved ones. This simplicity of communication has been aided by the invention of mobile phones and internet. These two inventions have changed the way we communicate which is a good thing in our society and generation as humans. Below I have listed a few detailed pros and cons of technology in our society and business world. Pro: Today businesses which have embraced technology have gained competitive advantage in the market, technology can speed up production. Let’s take a simple example of a bakery using technology. If a bakery automates its production line and installs temperature sensors and cooling facilities, it will deliver quality products in time. These temperature sensors can be programmed and so that they can send information to the operator and they get to know when the room temperature drops or increases. This saves the operator of the bakery time and risks Cons: The use of automated systems in a bakery will mean that manual labor will be cut down which is a benefit to the business owner. But this will leave many people who would have done this task jobless. Also small bakeries which can’t afford this technology will be left out because deploying these automated temperature sensors might be expensive for these small businesses. Which means they will not be in position to compete relatively which might also led to the collapse of this small business and it will result into loss of Jobs.
