SAT Grade 10 term 4

Summative Assessment for term 4 – 10 grade

Listening

Task 1. Listen to the recording and choose the correct answer according to what you hear.

1. The presenter finds Charles Foster’s book …

A) extraordinary.

B) trivial.

C) unbelievable. [1]

2. When describing the book, Jon’s voice creates the atmosphere of …

A) hesitation.

B) suspicion.

C) triumph. [1]

3. According to Jon, Foster …

A) conducted thorough investigation before going for a wild.

B) had no chance to prepare for his experiment properly.

C) was unable live the same life as animals in the wild. [1]

Task 2. Write no more than ONE word to complete the sentences.

4. According to Foster, children are better than adults at living like animals because they are more _________________________. [1]

5. A/an ___________ is a very small creature with no bones, arms or legs which lives in soil. [1]

6. Foster found it difficult to _______________ the otter’s reoccupation with food. [1]

Total [6]

Reading

Task 3. Read the article below and mark the statements YES / NO / NOT GIVEN.

Sustainable architecture – lessons from the ant

Termite mounds were the inspiration for an innovative design in sustainable living

The extraordinary Eastgate Building in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital city, is said to be the only one in the world to use the same cooling and heating principles as the termite mound.

This is all possible only because Harare is 1600 feet above sea level, has cloudless skies, little humidity and rapid temperature swings days as warm as 31C commonly drop to 14C at night. ‘You couldn’t do this in New York, with its fantastically hot summers and fantastically cold winters,’ architect Mick Pearce said. But then his eyes lit up at the challenge. ‘Perhaps you could store the summer’s heat in winter somehow.’

The engineering firm of Ove Amp & Partners, worked with him on the design, monitors daily temperatures outside, under the floors and at knee, desk and ceiling level. Ove Amp’s graphs show that the temperature of the building has generally stayed between 23C and 25C with the exception of the annual hot spell just before the summer rains in October, and three days in November, when a janitor accidentally switched off the fans at night.

Pearce, disdaining smooth glass skins as ‘igloos in the Sahara’, calls his building, with its exposed girders and pipes, ‘spiky’. The design of the entrances in based on the porcupine-quill headdresses of the local Shona tribe. Elevators are designed to look like the mineshaft cages used in Zimbabwe’s diamond mines. The shape of the fan covers, and the stone used in the construction, are echoes of Great Zimbabwe, the ruins that give the country its name.

Standing on a roof catwalk, peering down inside at people as small as termites below. Pearce said he hoped plants would grow wild in the atrium and pigeons and bats would move into it like that termite fungus, further extending the whole ‘organic machine’ metaphor.

1. Mick Pearce was a designer of Eastgate Building.

2. Mick does not see any perspectives of using the termite mound system of cooling and heating other parts of the world.

3. It is easier to build something similar to Eastgate in countries with warm climate rather than cold one.

4. Ove Amp's data suggest that Eastgate temperature control system functions well for most of the year.

5. Some elements of Eastgate Building reflect important features of Zimbabwe's history and culture.

Writing

Task 4. Read the beginning of the story and continue it. Open the brackets in the final sentence correctly.

It is the year 3034. We are on our way to visit unknown planet Bibblebop in a faraway galaxy. Our huge spaceship flies for months past planets, stars and galaxies. At last, we have arrived. We open a door and look out – this planet is very green. There is an alien behind the tree. He is very scary… (why he feels some terror, what happened next)

(Express your feelings to this planet and people, write the end of your story)

If we (decide) to make a living at this planet some years ago, we (have) so many problems now.

Total [6]

Speaking

Task 5. Choose ONE of the cards and answer the questions. You have 1 minute to prepare and 2-3 minutes to speak.

Card 1

1. Would you like to travel into space? Why or why not?

2. What do you think about space tourism?

3. How important is learning about space?

4. Which planet in our solar system is the smallest?

5. Which planet in our solar system is closest to the sun?

6. Which planet in our solar system is farthest from the sun?

Card 2

1. Will humans ever travel to different solar systems? Why or why not?

2. What is the most interesting thing you know about space?

3. Have you ever seen any of the following movies: ET, Alien, Star Wars? Which one is your favorite? Why?

4. Which planet in our solar system would you most want to visit?

5. How is the Earth unique in our solar system?

6. Do you think life exact on other solar systems?

Total [6]

Total marks____/24

Summative Assessment for term 4 – 10 grade

Follow the link below to listen to the audio (listen until 2.11).

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening-skills-practice/man-or-beast.

Transcript

Presenter: Good afternoon and welcome to 'Book Corner'. Our first review today is of an unusual book by Charles Foster which is a combination of nature writing, biology, philosophy, personal memoir … it’s not very definable, but it’s already being described as a modern classic. Jon, tell us about the book you’ve been reading.

Jon: You’re quite right, it’s not very easy to define. The title is Being a Beast and the book is about the author’s attempts to be a beast, that is, to live as an animal, or rather as several animals: a badger, an otter, a fox, a red deer and a bird. He says he wanted to really know what life was like for these animals and so he did the conventional research, the reading and so on. Then he actually tried to live in the same way as them, as far as possible. For example, when he’s being a badger, he goes to live in a hole in the ground and crawls around a wood, learning to identify different trees by their smell. He even experiments with eating earthworms. Eighty-five per cent of a badger’s diet is made up of earthworms – did you know that?

Presenter: Ugh! I didn’t know that. He took one of his children with him, didn’t he?

Jon: Yes, his eight-year-old son, Tom. Foster says that children make better animals than adults in many ways – they use their senses to understand the world more, and they think in a much less abstract way than adults. Another reason why he took his son is that badgers are social creatures and would never live alone. He says that Tom adapted quickly to being a badger, learning to smell mice, hear tiny forest sounds and get around on four feet.

Presenter: How did Foster tackle being the other animals?

Jon: In the same kind of way. As an otter, he spent a lot of time in the rivers and lakes and the sea, as an otter would – alone this time, since otters are solitary. The otter’s big problem is that it has to spend all its time hunting for food in order to survive, and that feeling of desperation was hard to recreate, but he did catch live fish in his mouth.