METU SFL Department of Modern Languages

Summer 2015-16

ENG 101 Midterm Examination

Date: 28 July 2016
Time and Place: To be announced by class instructors and at MLD.
Students must go to the exam hall at least 15 minutes before the exam starts. If you
are late, you will NOT be allowed to take the listening part of the exam.
Total points: 20
Duration of the exam: 90 minutes
Objectives: The purpose of the exam is to assess students ability to:
listen for the main idea

listen for specific information

understand key ideas in a text
recognize the relationship between ideas in a text
deduce the underlying meaning in sentences or parts of a text
deduce the meaning of unknown vocabulary items
identify points of reference
infer implied main idea in a text
achieve unity and coherence in a text
Content:
Part I. While Listening: In this section, you will listen to a recording once and
answer several questions.
Part II. Reading Comprehension: In this section, you will read a text and answer
comprehension questions about it.
Part III. Implied Main Idea: In this section, you will infer and write down the main
idea of a short paragraph in a full sentence.
Part IV. Transitions: In this section, you will fill in the blanks of an excerpt with the
transitions in a box.

Part IV. Unity and Coherence: This section contains 2 parts. In part 1, you will
decide which of the alternative sentences fit best in the blanks in a text. In part 2, you
will be asked to find the sentence that disrupts the unity of a text.