Tasks for the Summative Assessment for the Term 4.

Learning objectives:

10.2.5 Recognise the attitude or opinion of the speaker(s) in unsupported extended talk on a wide range of general and curricular topics, including talk on a limited range of unfamiliar topics

10.2.6 Deduce meaning from context in unsupported extended talk on a wide range of general and curricular topics, including talk on a limited range of unfamiliar topics
10.4.4 Read a wide range of extended fiction and non-fiction texts on familiar and unfamiliar general and curricular topics

10.4.6 Recognise the attitude or opinion of the writer in extended texts on a wide range of familiar general and curricular topics

10.5.5 Develop with support coherent arguments supported when necessary by examples and reasons for a wide range of written genres in familiar general and curricular topics

10.5.9 Punctuate written work at text level on a wide range of general and curricular topics with a good degree of accuracy

10.6.17 Use if / if only in third conditional structures, use a variety of relative clauses including with which [whole previous clause reference] on a wide range of familiar general and curricular topics

10.3.3 Explain and justify own and others’ point of view on a wide range of general and curricular topics

10.3.7 Use appropriate subject-specific vocabulary and syntax to talk about a range of general and curricular topics

10.6.8 Use a variety of future active and passive and future continuous forms on a wide range of familiar general and curricular topics

Duration of the summative assessment – 40 minutes

Listening – 10 minutes

Reading – 10 minutes

Writing – 20 minutes

Speaking task is conducted separately.

Total marks - 24

Name_______________________________ Grade_____

Tasks for the Summative Assessment for the Term 4.

LISTENING

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

1. What kind of book is being discussed? 1

1. a philosophy text book

2. a mixture of different genres

3. a fascinating novel

2. Charles Foster decided to try and live as different animals because … 1

1. he wanted to understand how they live.

2. he was doing research into animals.

3. he was tired of living as a human being.

3. According to Foster, children are better than adults at living like animals because … 1

1. they are more physically agile.

2. they are more sociable.

3. they rely on their senses of sight and smell more.

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Task 2. Listen to the recording and choose True or False

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READING.

Task 3. Read the text carefully. Then choose correct answer.

1. When children leave home to go to university, it's ___. 1

a. the moment they've been waiting for

b. a difficult experience

c. more difficult for parents than for children

d. more difficult for children than for parents

2. Kerry thinks students should ___. 1

a. do everything they can to avoid upsetting lonely parents

b. go home regularly while everyone gets used to the change

c. not feel bad about spending weekends in their university town

d. avoid visiting their parents too much during term time

3. Stuart says parents would like to ___. 1

a. stay for at least one night when they visit

b. meet their son or daughter's university friends

c. come and visit at least once a fortnight

d. visit every so often and go to a restaurant together

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Task 4. Read the article again and fill the gaps.

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WRITING.

Task 5. Choose ONE of the topics and write two body paragraphs of an essay.

Topic 1. Is it better to eat healthy or exercise to be healthy?

Topic 2. Should the government spend money on building sustainable cities?

• Support your ideas with arguments for and/or against;

• Give reasons or examples;

• Use appropriate punctuation marks;

• Follow the structure using appropriate linking devices.

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SPEAKING.

Task 6. Choose ONE of the cards and answer the questions. You have 1 minute to prepare and 2-3 minutes to speak.

CARD №__________

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Total: ___/24

Card 1

1. What springs to your mind when you hear the word “future”?

2. Do you think the future will be good?

3. What do you think future cities will be like?

4. Would you prefer to live in the future or in today’s world?

Card 2

1. How do you think cities will change in the future?

2. What do you think of the idea of underwater cities?

3. What questions would you like to ask an expert on the future?

4. What bad things do you think might be in the future?

Card 3

1. Do you lead a fast lifestyle? Explain.

2. Can you think of three things you can do to slow down and have happier life?

3. To what extent do you think technology makes people live their lives at full speed?

4. What kind of lifestyle people will have 50 years from now? How will the life change?

Card 4

1. Would you change your lifestyle if you could? How?

2. Would you enjoy working from home? Why? Why not?

3. What reasons make people travel and work abroad?

4. What types of things make you feel happy?

Card 5

1. Would you like to live in an eco-city? Why or why not?

2. How would your life change if you moved to an eco-city?

3. What habits would you abandon to live in it?

4. Who should be responsible for protecting our resources – government or individuals?

Card 6

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of living in a big city?

2. What changes have you observed in your city in past 5 years?

3. If you were the mayor of your city, what would you do to improve it?

4. Which is better, living in the countryside or in the city?

Card 7

1. Why did the phenomenon of downshifting appear?

2. How can we find work-life balance and work-family balance?

3. Is it possible to arrange your life so as to have enough time for yourself and your family

and enough money for a living at the same time?

4. What do you think about freelance?

Card 8

1. What would life be like without money?

2. How often do you think about money?

3. What does the expression “money does not grow on tree” mean? What would life be

like if money grew on trees?

4. To what extent are you good at saving money?

LISTENING

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