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![1.0 Present Simple ‘to be,’ in ‘I am, you are, he/she/it is’ used
with ‘from [a place]’ or ‘Where are you from? I am from X.’
1.1 Possessive adjectives, ‘my, your, his, her’ used with nouns, as
in ‘my name, your brother, his name.’
1.2 Contraction of ‘to be’ in ‘what’s, they’re, he’s, she’s’ and in
‘my name’s [x]’;
called ‘long’ and short’ forms in the text, i.e., ‘I am a student,’ and
‘I’m a student.’
1.3 Indefinite articles a/an for consonants and vowels, ‘a bag, an
ice-cream, a camera, an apple.’](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/4-8-13-135midtermexamdetails-130408025032-phpapp01/85/4-8-13-135-ksu-preparation-midterm-exam-details-6-320.jpg)
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4 8-13 - 135 ksu preparation midterm exam details
The final exam for ENG 135 (Humanities) consists of a computer-based test (CBT) worth 35% and a speaking exam worth 10%. The CBT includes listening, reading, grammar, and vocabulary sections with a total of 70 MCQs covering topics from units 1-6, while the speaking exam focuses on personal information and an information gap activity related to Tokyo. The exam duration is 100 minutes for the CBT and 10-15 minutes for the speaking exam.
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- 2. Final Exam ENG 135 (Humanities) The final exam is CBT and speaking exam. Final Exam CBT (35%) Item Marks Listening (2 dialogues & 1 monologue) 24 (4+10+10) Reading (three passages) 24 (4+10+10) Grammar & Vocabulary 22 (11+11) There are 70 questions and each question carries half a mark (1/2). The exam duration is 100 minutes. All the questions are MCQs with four options. The breakdown of the questions is as follows;
- 3. Exam Topics Source: Headway Plus (Elementary), Student’s Book, Workbook, CD Reading: 24 MCQs (1 short reading passage with 4 MCQs and 2 long reading passages with 10 MCQs each) The topics of the reading passages will be based on the themes which are covered in units 1-6.
- 4. Listening: • 24 MCQs (1 short listening with 4 MCQs and 2 long listenings with 10 MCQs each) • The topics of the listening will be based on the themes which are covered in units 1-6
- 5. Grammar: • 11 MCQs. •Most of the grammar questions will be based on all the grammar points from Units 1-6. • In addition to the above units, the following points also need to be covered for the exam.
- 6. 1.0 Present Simple‘to be,’ in ‘I am, you are, he/she/it is’ used with ‘from [a place]’ or ‘Where are you from? I am from X.’ 1.1 Possessive adjectives, ‘my, your, his, her’ used with nouns, as in ‘my name, your brother, his name.’ 1.2 Contraction of ‘to be’ in ‘what’s, they’re, he’s, she’s’ and in ‘my name’s [x]’; called ‘long’ and short’ forms in the text, i.e., ‘I am a student,’ and ‘I’m a student.’ 1.3 Indefinite articles a/an for consonants and vowels, ‘a bag, an ice-cream, a camera, an apple.’
- 7. 2.0 Present Simpleand questions using Wh- words, ‘What is your job,’ ‘Where are you from?’ ‘How old are you?’ 2.1 Negatives with questions, ‘Are you English?’ and ‘No, I’m not.’ as ‘short answers.’ 2.2 Long and short form answers: ‘I am not married’ and ‘I’m not married.’ 2.3 Possessive (genitive) form of ‘s, as in ‘John’s car is new’ versus the contracted form of the simple present.
- 8. 3.0 3rd Personsingular –s inflection, ‘he/she/it’ starts, goes, flies, used in simple sentences. 3.1 Basic verbs: ‘have, go, start, watch, leave, get,’ used in simple sentences with questions. 3.2 Wh-questions with ‘to do’ and negatives, as in ‘No, he doesn’t and ‘No, we don’t.’ 3.3 Yes and No answers in reply to questions, as in ‘My X is very clever, Where does he/she work?, He has one son.’
- 9. 4.0 Full inflectionof present simple, ‘I/you/we/they’ as in ‘I work, you work, we work, they work.’ 4.1 Adverbs of frequency, ‘never, sometimes, often, usually, always,’ used in a gradable way (i.e., 0% to 100% probability), either at beginning or elsewhere in sentences: ‘Usually I go home early,’ or ‘I usually go home early.’ 4.2 Prepositions of time, ‘in, on, at,’ used as ‘In winter, on Saturday, at 9:45.’
- 10. 5.0 Determiners andnegatives, ‘There is/there are,’ as in ‘There is a chair,’ or ‘There are no chairs,’ there is no chair.’ 5.1 Prepositions of location, ‘on, under, next to, in front of, with, near, opposite,’ used as in ‘A lamp on this table, A rug under the table, A cat next to the fire, A car in front of the house, A house near the school.’ 5.2 Negative, positive, and interrogative use of ‘some/any,’ as in ‘There aren’t/aren’t any apples, There are some apples,’ with ‘some’ in sense of number (partitive), and ‘any’ in sense of question. 5.3 Determiners of number and location, ‘this/that’ (proximal) and ‘these/those’ (distal), use in ‘This is my friend,’ ‘That is my friend,’ (singular) and ‘These are my friends,’ ‘Those are my friends’ (plural). 5.5 Basic conjunctions, ‘and, but, so, because’ that demonstrate contrast, result, and causality, as in ‘I like coffee and tea’ (conjoining), ‘I like coffee, but not tea,’ (contrast) ‘I like coffee, so I drink it often,’ (result), and ‘I like coffee because it tastes good,’ (causality). (W.B. P. 31 Ex 10)
- 11. 6.0 Modal ‘can’with ‘could,’ to express ‘ability or possibility, as in ‘I can walk (I have legs)’ or ‘I could walk (it is possible).’ 6.1 Present simple compared with past, ‘to be’ as in ‘I am/I was’ or ‘We were/I was’ 6.2 Present simple ‘to be’ in questions, as in ‘Is it Monday,’ ‘Are you here,’ ‘Was it hot?’ ‘Were you (sing/pl) hot?’ and ‘Were there people?’ 6.3 Prepositions of time and place, ‘in, at, to, for, of, with’ as in ‘I was born in 1923,’ ‘I was at home,’ ‘I went to the town centre,’ ‘I studied for two hours,’ ‘Of course, I can read,’ ‘I want half of the room,’ and ‘I live with my parents
- 12. Vocabulary: • 11 MCQs. •The vocabulary questions will be based on all the word lists from Units 1-6 • In addition to that the following vocabulary list also needs to be covered for the exam
- 13. S.No Vocabulary 1 a little 2 a lot 3 accident 4 accountant 5 accounts 6 active 7 address 8 address book 9 advertising 10 after
- 14. afternoon age agree alive alone always amaze amazing ambulance American
- 15. ancient anything else apartment Apple application appreciate architect armchair assistant at home at the moment attitude Aunt
- 16. Australia Autumn Bad Bag Baking Bank Baseball
- 17. basic bathroom be quiet because (conj) bedroom bedtime before (prep) best between (prep) big bike biology blinds block of flats boat
- 18. Burger Bus bus ticket business busy but (conj) buy café cake called camera camp Can I have…? Can I help…? Canada
- 19. bookshelf boring Both bottom Brazil breakfast briefcase brother brown bubble
- 20. can't stop car care career carefully cat CD centre charm chat
- 21. cheap check chef chess chicken children chips chocolate choose city clock coffee coffee shop coffee table coin
- 22. computer game conference confused considerate convenient conversation cook cooker correct country cup cupboard curtain custom dance
- 23. Cold collect college colour come comfortable company competition completely computer
- 24. cupboard curtain custom dance dangerous daughter day death degree deliver depressed design designer destroy
- 25. dictionary die different differently difficult difficulty dinner disagree dishonest distance dive do
- 26. effective Egg Egypt Electric Elephant Employee End England Enjoyable Entrepreneur Evening every day Everything Exactly exciting
- 27. Enjoyable Entrepreneur Evening every day Everything Exactly exciting
- 28. doctor don't worry door downstairs draw drink drive dyslexic early easy effect
- 29. Exciting excuse me Expensive Expert export department Extension ex-wife Eye Factory Fall fall in love
- 30. family famous fantastic Far Fast father favourite Feel Fine
- 31. French fridge friend friendly from (prep) front door furniture garage garden German
- 32. fireman fireplace First firstname fish flat
- 33. Germany gestures get hurt get up girl give directions
- 34. fish flat floor fly flying doctor food football fork fortunately France free time
- 35. girl give directions go go out go to bed gold good goodbye graduate grandfather grandma
- 36. grandmother greetings grey guest gym happy have headquarters hear hello help her here here you are hi his
- 37. house How many? Howmuch? How old? How? how's (Ann)? hurry up husband ice hockey ice-cream ice-skating identity card I'm sorry inactive inconvenient incorrect
- 38. hobby hole holiday holidays honest horrible hospital hot hour
- 39. ineffective inexpensive initial insect interest interesting international internet connection interpreter
- 40. Speaking Exam (10%) ItemMarks Speaking 20 (15+5) • The speaking exam is based on two parts i.e. personal information and information gap. • The assessor will award the marks out of 15. • The interlocutor will award the marks out of 5. • The Speaking exam will last for about 10 - 15 minutes for each pair of student. • The topic of the speaking will be based on the themes in units 1-6.
- 41. Part 1 –Personal Questions Your Hometown/City
- 42.
- 43. House – My houseis brown. Home – My home is large.
- 44. What type of homedo you live in? I live in a big house. I live in an apartment.
- 45. How many roomsdo you have? Living Room Bedroom I have 5 rooms in my house. Dining Room Bathroom Kitchen Toilet
- 46. Yes, my househas a garage. Does your home have a garage? No, my house does not have a garage. Garage – a place to park the car.
- 47. Does your househave a swimming pool? Swimming pool
- 48. Are the homesin your neighborhood similar? Neighborhood
- 49.
- 50. Home Home Different
- 51. How is yourhome different from other homes in your neighborhood?
- 52. Part 2 –Information Gap Card 1a Tokyo City • Tokyo has a population of 13 million people. • Tokyo is on the east coast of Japan. • Tokyo is the safest city in the world. • It has the busiest railway system in the world. 11 million people use it every day. • Tokyo was originally a small fishing village called Edo. • The name was changed to Tokyo in 1868.
- 53. Japan is acountry. Tokyo is one of it’s cities.
- 54. Tokyo is alarge, but safe city. It has old traditions It has a fast railway It has old customs. system. It is a modern city
- 55. Thirteen (13) million people live in Tokyo City. How many people live in Tokyo?
- 56. Tokyo was once asmall fishing village.
- 57. Tokyo is a verysafe city.
- 58. Eleven (11) million people use the train (rail way) every day.
- 59. Edo changed it’s name to Tokyo in the 1800’s. Edo Tokyo
- 60. Card 1b Tokyo City • Tokyo/many people? • Tokyo/where? • City/safe? • Many people/railway? • Name/before?
- 61. Activity – 1.Talk about Tokyo with your group. 2. What do you know about Tokyo? 3. Would you like to visit Tokyo?
- 62. Activity – talkabout Tokyo 1. What did you learn about Tokyo? 2. Where is Tokyo located? 3. Describe Tokyo. 4. How many people use the train.
- 63. Activity – 50 word essay Where is Tokyo? What was it’s name before? How many people use the railway train every day? Is Tokyo safe? What kind of work was in Tokyo before?