UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN CARLOS DE GUATEMALA

LICENCIATURA EN PEDAGOGÍA Y ADMINISTRACIÓN EDUCATIVA

IDI V IDIOMA EXTRANJERO 5

SECOND MIDDTERM (Value: 20 Points)

NAME:__________________________________________________________

Carnet No. _________________ DATE:_______________________________

Exercise No. 1. Instructions: Underline the correct form of the adjective,

according to the context. Value: 5 Points.

1. This book could be _____.

interested
interesting

2. This movie could be _____.

boring
bored

3. Your father’s death is _____.

sad
sadding

4. My cat might be _____ because of that noisy fires.

scaring
scared

5. The nature environment could be _____.

surprised
surprising
Exercise No. 2. Instructions: Translate the following sentences from Spanish
to English, and then identify if they are in Present perfect continuous or in
Present perfect tense. Value: 5 Points.

Example:

0. Ellos ya han estado corriendo hoy.

They have been running today.

Present perfect continuous

1. Ustedes ya han escrito varias oraciones.

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2. Ellos han estado estudiando desde la semana pasada.

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3. Juana y Pedro han planificado hacer una ensalada.

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4. El perro ha estado ladrando toda la noche.

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5. Nosotros hemos decidido quedarnos por cinco horas.

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Exercise No. 3. Instructions: Answer the following questions about
speculations or wishes, using modal auxiliary verbs or wish + could / might, or
any past form of a verb. Value: 5 Points.

EXAMPLE:

0.What could you do today, if the world’s end was tomorrow?

I could spend all my savings and I might buy a new car._______

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1.What could they do if they might be late for their flight next Monday?

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2.What you wish were better our society up to now?

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3.How might you wear, if tomorrow rains?

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4.What you wish did different this new year in your life?
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5.How could they be, if the dog ate their shoes?

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Exercise No. 4. Instructions: Read the whole paragraph and then
answer the questions about it, using correctly the time prepositions
“since, in, for”. Value: 5 Points.

Thomas Alva Edison was an inventor who lived in the 19 th. century. He
created many electronic inventions since he was a kid, but the most
known was the light bulb. Although, he showed it to the world in 1910,
he was trying to improve it since approximately five years ago. And the
first city that was illuminated completely with light bulbs for all night,
was Las Vegas, Nevada in the U. S. A.

1. When was alive Thomas Alva Edison?

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2. When he created the light bulb?

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3. How many years he tried approximately to improve the light bulb,

before showing it to the world?

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4. When he started to create electronic inventions?

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5. How much time has Las Vegas, Nevada been illuminated with light
bulbs, since 1910 up to now?

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