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Unit Yesterday
Assessment
Assessment Activity 1
a) Read the text
Mimar Sinan or Koca Mi'mâr Sinân was an Ottoman architect and civil
engineer. He was born in 1489 in Agirnas, Karaman.
He worked for sultans Suleiman the Magnificent,
Selim II, and Murad III.
He worked about fifty years for Ottoman Empire.
Although his masterpiece is the Selimiye Mosque in
Edirne, his most famous work is, perhaps, the
Suleiman Mosque in Istanbul.
During his long life he did not only design more than
a hundred mosques, but also 57 colleges, 48 bath-
houses, 35 palaces, eight bridges, six aqueducts or three hospitals.
He died in 1588, aged 98, and is buried
in a tomb of his own design in Istanbul,
in the cemetery just outside the walls of
the Süleymaniye Mosque. He was buried
near the tombs of his greatest patrons:
Sultan Suleiman I and Sultana Haseki
Hürrem, Suleiman's wife.
Selimiye Mosque, Edirne, Turkey.
Many years later his name was given to a Turkish state university, the Mimar
Sinan University of Fine Arts in Istanbul and, even, to a crater on the planet
Mercury.
b) Answer the following questions:
1. What was Mimar Sinan’s job?
2. What kind of buildings did he design?
3. Why is he buried near Sultan Suleiman and his wife?
4. Where is the furthest place where you can find his name out of Turkey?

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Assessment Activity 2
Complete the following text about a Romanian gymnast filling the gaps
with a past simple of the following verbs:
help, have, become, be born, get, win, watch,
take part, go, retire, begin
Nadia Elena Comăneci is a former Romanian gymnast. She _________ famous for
scoring the first ever perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics history in the 1976 Summer
Olympics in Montreal. She is one of the best-known gymnasts in the world. In 2000
Comăneci was named as one of the Athletes of the Century by the Laureus World
Sports Academy.
She ___________ in 1961 in Onești. Her mother was inspired to
call her Nadia by a Russian film she _____________ while
pregnant, whose heroine was called Nadya. Comăneci began
gymnastics in kindergarten with a local team. At age 6 she was
chosen to attend Béla Károlyi's experimental gymnastics school
and in 1970, she _______ competing as a member of her
hometown team and became the youngest gymnast ever to win
the Romanian Nationals.
At the age of 14, Comăneci became one of the stars of the 1976 Summer Olympics in
Montréal. Nadia was the first gymnast to get a 10 in a gymnastics event and she also
__________three gold medals, a silver one and a bronze one. Four years later, he
_______ two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. During her career
Nadia Comaneci _____ two coaches: Béla Károlyi and Marta Károly. Nadia _________
in 1981 when she was only 20, She also _________ in two World Championships
where she won four medals and in several European Championships.
In Romania, between 1984 and 1989, Comăneci was a member of the Romanian
Gymnastics Federation and ________ coach the Romanian junior gymnasts. In 1989
she ________to live to the USA and in 1999 she became the first athlete to be invited
to speak at the United Nations to launch the Year 2000 International Year of
Volunteers.

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Assessment Activity 3
STUDENT A
a) Looking at the following pictures discover with your partner what Peter
did yesterday after work. Your partner has the missing cartoons.
b) Together with your partner, elicit how the story ended.

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STUDENT B
a) Looking at the following pictures discover with your partner what Peter
did yesterday after work. Your partner has the missing cartoons.
b) Together with your partner, elicit how the story ended.

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Assessment activity 4
Following one of the previous models write, with the following
information, a short biography of this famous Catalan architect.
Name
Job
Style
Born
Antoni Gaudí
Architect
Modernism and organic style
inspired by nature
25 June 1852
Reus, Catalonia, Spain
Died 10 June 1926 (aged 73, hit by a
trolley) in Barcelona,
Nationality Spanish
Buildings Sagrada Família, Casa Milà,
Casa Batlló
Projects Park Güell, Church of Colònia
Güell
(All texts adopted from Simple English Wikipedia. Images from Wikipedia)