Speaking Comprehension Test for 10th Form Students

Speaking Comprehension Test for 10^th Form Students

In this Test you will select three task slips from those before you. After selecting three choose one you feel you are most capable to speak about and return the other two to the table face down. Then take about a minute to collect your thoughts before you begin to speak on the topic. You may refer to the topic as needed.

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  How do you cope with the problem?
  

2. In your opinion what are the most serious problems associated with modern city life?

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  How, do you think, they should be solved?
  

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  Why or why not?
  

3. Develop a fitness programme for yourself.

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  Describe the type of foods you eat, and the type of health programme you like to follow.
  

4. What role does tourism play in your country’s economy?

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  Give the reasons to support your answer.
  

5. Imagine that you are designing the metro.

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  What new stations should be opened in your city?
  
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  Where and how should they be connected?
  
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  Name three things you like and you don't like about the metro.
  
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  Do you think that metro stations are comfortable enough?
  
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  Would you like to add something to the underground halls?
  

6. How do you think the Internet will change entertainment in the future?

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  Can you give some details on how it will be done?
  
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  Will this affect traditional movie theatres?
  
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  What will happen to traditional movie theatres in the future?
  

7. Describe a musical performance you have seen and heard.

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  What instruments where played?
  
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  Were there any particular attributes of the performers that you admired?
  
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  How did the audience respond to the performance?
  

8. If you were given an opportunity to create your own TV-show

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  What kind of show would it be? Why?
  
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  Whom would you ask to become an anchorman of the show?
  
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  What traits of character do you think this person should have?
  
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  What problems would you illustrate in your show?
  

9. Imagine that your greatest dream has finally come true. But this will last for only one day.

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  What would you like to get?
  
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  What's your dream?
  
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  How would you like to spend this unique day?
  

10. You are at a cafe in your home city, and you notice a person at a neighboring table who obviously doesn't speak Ukrainian, and therefore is struggling with the waitress and the menu. You guess this person is from Great Britain.

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  Introduce yourself to the person and indicate that you are willing to help if he/ she needs help.
  
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  Explain what on the menu is, and describe things that wouldn't be on a menu in his native country.
  
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  Make a recommendation.
  
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  Offer this person some advice or some places to visit while he/ she is in your town.
  

11. Imagine that it is the year 3000. The mayor has asked you to design the perfect city.

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  What will you do first?
  
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  What will it look like?
  
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  What kinds of buildings will you design?
  
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  How will the people in the city live, work, travel?
  

12. You meet up with a friend whom you haven't seen for several years.

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  Tell him/her about the events in your family and in your school that have happened since you last saw him/her.
  
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  Tell your friend how your goals have changed; what do you want to become?
  

13. If you could become a character from any book or play that you have read.

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  Who would that character be?
  
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  What does this character do that you consider so good?
  
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  What time period, does this character live in?
  
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  How would you adjust to living in this time period?
  

14. Your mother comes home and finds that several of your friends are in the apartment. She has told you that you shouldn't have people there when she is out.

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  Explain why your friends are there.
  
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  Convince your mother not to punish you.
  
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  Explain your friends how they should act so that your mother doesn't get angry.
  

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  What product will you sell?
  
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  What types of people would be interested in your product?
  
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  How will you advertise this product?
  
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  Give a simple advertising motto.
  

16. What stereotypes do you think the foreigners have about Ukraine?

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  Do you feel that these stereotypes are correct?
  
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  What stereotypes do you feel are particularly harmful for the Ukrainian people?
  
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  What can you do to change these stereotypes?
  

17. Advertisements are very much a feature of modern life. To create an effective advertisement takes some imagination, time, effort and creativity.

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  Design an advertisement for a new shopping centre
  

18. Say if you agree with this statement :

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  "The love of money is the root of all evil, but the possession of it is an opportunity for much good."
  

19. Do you agree that "some of the best lessons are learned from mistakes and failures."

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  Choose three jobs you would like to do and find pros and cons.
  

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   Financial education should be a mandatory component of the school program.
   

3. 
   The ease of international travel and the spread of various kinds of mass media all over the world have made it more possible than ever for people to know how other people live in other countries.
   

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   You will hear an interview about “hobby shopping”. Decide which of these statements are true (T), which are false (F).
   

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   Adam Cole is going to discuss the emergence of the term “hobby shopping”.
   
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   The media don’t cotton on the fact that men are shopping for themselves.
   
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   According to Government statistics some men would rather prefer to browse round the shops at weekend.
   
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   The change of attitude was caused by one very important thing.
   
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   Most men have been forced into change by a lot of useful ads.
   
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   Women now are allowed to “play” on men’s territory.
   
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   Great amount of men’s style magazines has helped to increase their interest in browsing around the shops.
   
8. 
   Now retailers at last understood that men are shopping for themselves.
   
9. 
   Men follow women’s shopping pattern nowadays.
   
10. 
    There appeared new gadgetry appealing to a man’s machismo.
    

2. 
   Decide which answer (a, b, c or d) best fits the text and circle it.
   

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   Men are out in force for
   

B St. Valentine sales

C January sales

D Independence Day sales

A They like non-traditional male pursuits.

B They need more hobbies.

C They have nothing better to do at the weekends.

D They only have time to shop at weekends.

3. Why does Adam think men have changed their shopping habits?

A Women have forced them to shop for themselves.

B Women have to work on Friday nights.

C Women now have different priorities.

D Women prefer to go out on Friday nights rather than shop.

4. 
   The blurring of gender roles has played a major part in
   

B arousing men’s interest in shopping

C. doing sports

D. changing men’s shopping preferences

A They have become interested in female pursuits.

D They have become more interested in sport.

A. placing men’s gear by the door

B. placing men’s gear far from the centre of the store

C. arranging exhibitions of men’s gear

D. becoming wise to the fact that men are shopping for themselves

7. What Adam says about men's shopping habits in the past?

A They rarely shopped alone.

B They rarely tried on clothes before buying.

C They rarely browsed before buying.

D They rarely bought clothes the right size.

8. According to Adam, how have menswear shops changed?
A Their sales staff have become more friendly.

B There is a wider range of clothing to choose from.

C They have learnt how to keep customers there as long as possible.

D They have begun to see other products.

A. hectic shoppers

B. a leisure pursuit

C. a tedious necessity

D. a hilarious adventure

10. Adam concludes that men

A like shopping as much as women.

B can no longer afford cars and motorcycles.

C never grow up.

D haven't changed very much.

Reading Comprehension Test for 11^th Form Students 42 tasks
Directions:

In this Test you will read five texts. Each text is followed by 6 – 12 tasks. You should do the tasks following a text on the basis of what is stated or implied in that text. For each task you will choose the best possible answer and mark your choice on the Answer Sheet.

TEXT 1
Decide which of the statements (items 1 -6) are True or False .

Multiple Intelligences by Thomas Armstrong

Howard Gardner distinguishes between seven human intelligences. These are:

Many people look at the above categories – particularly musical, spatial, and bodily-kinesthetic – and wonder why Howard Gardner insists on calling them intelligences, not talents or aptitudes. Gardner realized that many people are used to hearing expressions like “He is not very intelligent, but he has a wonderful aptitude for music”; thus he was quite conscious of his use of the word intelligence to describe each category. He said in an interview that he wanted to make people think and talk about the idea of intelligences. If he had said that there are seven kinds of competences, people would have yawned and said, “Yeah”. But by calling them ‘intelligences’ he was saying that we have tended to put on a pedestal one variety called intelligence, and there are actually several of them, and some are things we have never thought of as ‘intelligence’ at all.

Gardner set up certain basic ‘tests’ that each intelligence had to meet to be considered a full-fledged intelligence and not simply a talent, skill, or aptitude. The first test is related to work he did in hospitals. At the Boston Veteran Administration he worked with individuals who had suffered accidents or illnesses that affected only specific areas of the brain. For example, a person with a wound or a cut in the left frontal lobe might have a substantial portion of his linguistic intelligence damaged, and thus experience great difficulty speaking, reading and writing. Yet, he might still be able to sing, do math, dance, reflect on feelings, and relate to others. In these cases, brain lesions seemed to have selectively affected one intelligence and not others.
1. T F Giving students opportunity to write is the only way to develop their linguistic intelligence.

2. T F To have musical intelligence, a person has to be able to play an instrument.

3. T F It is implied that a person with good interpersonal intelligence makes a good team member.

4. T F People with strong intrapersonal intelligence know themselves but cannot change.

5. T F Studying what people can and can’t do after they suffer a head injury is one test Gardner used to show that there are separate intelligences.

6. T F Gardner found that when a part of the brain is damaged, certain intelligences are affected but not others.