STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL EXAM

PRINT THIS STUDY GUIDE TO BE ANSWER TOGETHER IN CLASS NEXT MONDAY JUNE, 14TH. AND THURSDAY JUNE, 15TH. IT COUNTS 20% OF YOUR FINAL GRADE!!!

ORAL PROFICIENCY FINAL EXAM: MONDAY, JUNE 14TH. (TALK ONE MINUTE ABOUT A TOPIC SELECTED FROM A BOX AT THAT MOMENT.

GRAMMAR

I. Choose the missing tense to conjugate each verb.

1. EAT, ATE, _______
a)eating b) eatten c) eaten
2. SWIM, __________, SWUM
a)Swimed b) swam c) swamed
3. __________, TOOK, TAKEN
a)tooks b) take c) taked
4. JUMP ________, JUMPED
a)jumps b) jumped c) jumping
5. GET, GOT, _________
a)goten b) getten c) gotten
6. BREAK, _______, BROKEN
a)breaks b) broke c) breaking

II. Circle the correct tense of the verb for each sentence.

7. Usually, we _________ a)go b) went c) are going to the doctor every month.
8. Yesterday, I _______ a)have b) had c)am having trouble to find the address of your house.
9. I _________ a)watch b) watched c) am watching a great TV serie at this moment.
10. They ________ a)arrive b) arrived c) have arrived to the airport an hour ago.
11. I love the way she ________ a) looks b) looked c)is looking at me everytime I see her.

III. Choose the correct CONJUNCTION to complete the sentences:
a) BEFORE B) BECAUSE C) BUT D) AND E) IF

12. I had looked for you _______ you werent home.
13. Let’s go to John's, Sarah's, ______ James' party tonight.
14. She was here _________ you came.
15. I couldn’t pick you up ________ I didn’t had any gasoline for the car.
16. ______ you don't clean your room, you won't go to the party.

IV. Complete the sentences using the correct modals of possibility.

17. Jessica _________ stayed in the party, but instead she left!
a) Could b) could have c) may

18. This place _________ be the coldest place in the world!
b) Could b) could have c) might have

19. She ________ come because her daughter is sick.
c) May not b) may c) may have

20. I __________ be warm enough wearing only this jacket in the snow. It’s very cold today!
d) might not b) might have c) could have

21. They _________ come if they have had a car.
e) Could b) could have c) couldn’t

V. PASSIVE VERB FORM. Choose the correct passive voice form for each sentence.

22. The newspapers A) ARE PRINTED / B) PRINT every day at night.
23. The mixture A) POUR / B) IS POURED into the container before it is put into the oven.
24. The shoes A) ARE BOUGHT / B) ARE BUY at the shopping center.
25. The car A) IS WASHED / B) IS WASHING by my father.
26. The piñata A) IS being hit/ B) hits by the kids at the party.

VI. Choose the best option to form REAL CONDITIONALS.

27. If she dances well she _______ the final dance competition.
a) will win b) would win c) won’t win
28. If he fails the test, he _______ to repeat the course.
a) will have b) had c) would have

VI. Report over the next speeches.

28. "Let's find a nice hotel to stay in", said Joanna.
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29. "I think you don't understand my point of view!", Stepan argue.
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30. "There must be a misunderstanding!, my mother claimed.
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VOCABULARY

I. Choose the best option that completes each sentence:

a) IMPACT b) DEMANDING c) OPPORTUNITY d) ALTHOUGH e) ASSASSINATED
f) ANGLES g) CAST h) REVEAL i)SICK OF j) HAVING A BLAST

1. He's job is very ___________ he works all day!
2. Don't waste the __________ of studying in a great school.
3. I'm _____________ waiting for you all the time. Buy a car!
4. _______ he is handsome, he doesn't have any girlfriend.
5. Princess Lady Di was _____________ but it looked like a car accident.
6. I'm _____________ being here at Disneyland!
7. Her father's dead had a big __________ in her artistic influence.
8. Check the best ________ to shoot the movie scenes.
9. The _______ was carefully selected to guarantee a great movie production.
10. The Egypcians scripts_______ pretty much the way the Egyptians lived.

II.Write a sentence using the next words:

11. SIGNIFICANT:
12. INSPIRE:
13. PREMONITION:
14. GUIDANCE:

READING COMPREHENSION 1
Read the next story carefully and answer the following questions:

The book that made Sigmund Freud's reputation in the medical profession was "The Interpretation of Dreams" (1900) — part dream analysis, part autobiography, part theory of the mind, and part history of contemporary Vienna. The principle that underlay this work was that mental experiences, like physical ones, are part of nature. The most nonsensical notion, the most casual slip of the tongue, and the most fantastic dream must have a meaning and can be used to unriddle the often incomprehensible maneuvers we call thinking.

1. The word origin of "analysis" is
A. psychological investigation.
B. interpreting dreams.
C. a breaking up.
D. chemical investigation.

2. In essence, Freud was investigating
A. thinking.
B. physical experiences.
C. medicine.
D. nonsensical notions.

3. The word origin of "fantastic" is
A. dream life.
B. able to imagine.
C. fairy stories.
D. imaginative drama.

4. The word origin of "maneuver" is
A. military operation.
B. clever manipulation.
C. man's work.
D. work with the hands.


READING COMPREHENSION 2
Read the next story carefully and answer the following questions:

In 1947 life in America was segregation. It was two worlds that were afraid of each other. There were separate schools for blacks and whites, separate restaurants, separate hotels, separate drinking fountains, and separate baseball leagues. Life was unkind to black people who tried to bring those worlds together. It could be hateful. But Jackie Robinson was bigger than all of that.

He had to be. He had to be bigger than the Brooklyn teammates who got up a petition to keep him off the ball club, bigger than the pitchers who threw at him or the base runners who dug their spikes into his shin, bigger than the bench jockeys who hollered for him to carry their bags and shine their shoes, bigger than the so-called fans who mocked him with mops on their heads and wrote him death threats.

1. The Latin word origin of segregate means
A. unmixed.
B. grieving.
C. harming.
D. apart from the flock.

2. A bench jockey is
A. someone always on the bench.
B. someone from another baseball team.
C. someone with a big mouth.
D. someone on the team who verbally annoys the other team.

3. Jackie Robinson had to have great
A. courage.
B. rudeness.
C. sarcasm.
D. anger.

4. The small people in this story succeeded in
A. making themselves look good.
B. defeating Jackie Robinson.
C. making themselves look bad.
D. reducing prejudice.

WRITING PROCESS
Choose one of the past topics (reading 1 or 2) and write your opinion and your conclusion about it. REMEMBER TO WRITE AT LEAST 80 WORDS TO 120.

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