Class: 2nd year scientific stream
Diagnostic test
Dear Yasmine,
I have found your address on the internet this morning, and I am so pleased to correspond
with an Algerian keypal. I am eager to know more about you and your country. But I have
to introduce myself first. My name is Eliza. I am fifteen , going on sixteen. I am a first year
student at Nelson Mandela High School. I am quite tall. I look a bit like my father. I have got
his fair hair, dark brown eyes and small ears, but I have got my mother’s personality. I live
in Johannesburg, the richest city in South AfricaThe city is well-known for hosting the Earth
Summits 2002 and the FIFA World Cup 2010.
Yours Eliza
Part one
A/reading comprehension
1-read the text and answer the ollowing answers
a: who is the sender? To whom?
b:Why does Eliza want to correspond with Yasmine?
2- find in the text words that are close in meaning to
happy= wealthiest=
B/mastery of language
1-put the verbs between brackets in the correct form
Last spring My friends and I visited the Sahara. The first week we (to stay) ……………. at a
friend’s house in Ghardaia and the second week we (to go) ……………. to Djanet. Next year
, we (to visit ) …………… other fascinating places.
2- classify these words according to the pronounciation of the final/s/
Sports- eyes- summits- ears
/s/ /z/ /iz/