INSTITUTO CAMBRIDGE de Cultura Inglesa – Noviembre-Diciembre 2017

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TEENS 4
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1 TIME: 2 hours

A B FINAL MARK SET

PART A

WRITE THE WORDS USING THESE CLUES 5 x 0.2 = 1 mark

1 S 1- Piece of informal thick clothing with long sleeves.

2 T 2- Two-wheeled vehicle with an engine.
3 Y 3- Musical instrument like a piano.
4 L 4- A machine to know how heavy an object or person is.
5 E 5- Area with no vegetation and very little water.

CIRCLE THE CORRECT OPTION a, b or c TO COMPLETE THE BLANKS. 5 x 0.3 = 1.5 marks

1- You should _____ your clothes in the wardrobe. a) look up b) put away c) get away

2- Ann ______ that it was too cold in the office. a) asked b) told c) complained

3- You _____ to make coffee for us if you don´t want to. a) don´t have b) mustn´t c) ought

4- She worked in the local zoo _____ two years. a) during b) since c) for

5- _____ it was raining, they had dinner outdoors. a) Although b) However c) By

EXCHANGES Match a line from A with a line from B to make short exchanges.
4 x 0.2 = 0.8 mark
Write the corresponding number from B in the box. There are two extra phrases in B.

A B B
a Are you sure you didn´t get hurt? 1 Yes, I could do with a cup.
b Do you fancy a coffee? 2 Yes, no problem. I´m OK.
c I´ve just got my driving license 3 Hard luck.
d What are you after? 4 Good for you!
5 A light blue jacket.
6 How sad is that.

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 REWRITE THESE SENTENCES. Use the words in brackets without changing them. 8 x 0.4 = 3.2 marks

1- ‘Why don´t we go to the cinema tonight?’, he said. (SUGGESTED)

2- I will help you with your homework. But you must make an effort. (AS LONG AS)

3- She speaks very good French. I’m sure she is from France. (MUST)

4- They usually let the children play in the garden in winter. (ALLOWED)

5- This is the student. Her father works in the school as a teacher. (WHOSE)

6- He had dinner and after that, he started working on the project. (HAVING)

7- They are building a new bridge in the area (BEING)

8- John won’t travel to London because he doesn’t have the money. (IF)

COMPLETE THE TEXT ABOUT JOHN LE CARRE WITH THE CORRECT

TENSE OR VOICE OF THE VERBS IN BRACKETS. Use the Present Simple or 10 x 0.25=2.5 marks
Continuous, the Past Simple or Continuous, the Present Perfect Simple or Continuous, the Past
Perfect, the ‘Going to’ or the Simple Future.
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JOHN LE CARRÉ is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell and he is one of UK´s most respected espionage

writers. Born in Dorset, he 1) (grow up) _________________ in the area where he 2) (attend) ______________

several local schools. After a university education in Oxford, he 3) (get) ____________ into contact with secret

service agencies where he 4) (always want) __________________________ to work. While he 5) (work)

_____________________ at the agencies, he started writing spy stories. Up to now, Le Carré

6) (write) ___________________over twenty novels, many of which 7) (make) ____________________ into

successful films.

At the moment, Le Carré 8) (write) ____________________ a book about his political views. He thinks he

9) (publish) _________________________ it next year. The fact is that since he started his career as a writer, he

10) (work) _________________________ non-stop on wonderful novels and best sellers.

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READING . Read this text and do Task A and B 5 x 0.2= 1 mark

A
Another explanation has been offered by scientists in Spain who have found a possible link between the
number of hours a child watches TV and how many accidents they may have. The research suggests that the
more time a child spends watching TV, the less they are developing their physical coordination skills. If a
child doesn’t run around a lot, they don’t begin to understand that the world is full of physical risk.

B
What makes one person have more accidents than another? Some experts believe that whether or not you take
risks in life has a lot to do with your upbringing and, some believe, with your birth order. Parents are often
stricter and more careful with their first child. Parents are often more relaxed with a second or third child, so
these children tend to take more risks.

C
So, what about adults? Some studies have shown that left-handed people will probably have more accidents
than right-handed people. Why the difference? One theory is that we live in a right-handed world. Everything
from cars to toys is made by right-handed people for right-handed people. So, both left-handed children and
adults are more likely to have accidents because the modern world is not designed for them.

D
But why do children tend to have more accidents than adults? During childhood and adolescence, the body
grows very quickly. There seem to be periods in these years when our brain or body are at different stages of
development. Our arms are longer than the brain thinks they are, so we knock things over or trip over.

Task A: Number the paragraphs in the correct order

A 2

Task B Circle T for true and F for false. Correct the false statement/s on the blank line/s below.

4 The brain and the body grow in the same way. T F

5 Watching TV for many hours helps children have fewer chances of having accidents. T F

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 PART B

WRITING 10 marks

Write one composition using 110 to 140 words.

Choose either option A or option B and circle the letter corresponding to your choice.

A- You´ve been in Buenos Aires for some time working and studying. Write an INFORMAL EMAIL
to a friend of yours in an English speaking country about your experience. (job, friends, the city, etc.)

B- Write a STORY beginning: ‘It was Friday night and Jane was particularly happy….’

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