GRADE

20
UNIVERSITY OF CUENCA
LANGUAGE INSTITUTE- CREDIT COURSES
MIDTERM EXAM- EXAM 2

NAME: ____Adrian Ortiz Sibri______ CLASS: LEVEL III, GROUP 15

Instructor: ELINA DE LOURDES TROYA SÁNCHEZ. Date: 28/05/2020

1. PART ONE: LISTENING.

Audio script 2.10. ( 1 each)
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Listen and answer these questions.

1. Was the man anxious at this situation?

2. What did he decide to do?
3. How did this activity look at the beginning?
4. Where was he?
5. Could he see many things at his direction?

2. PART TWO: READING

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Read about an important event that has changed Colombia and answer the questions below.

The Colombian government and the leftist FARC rebel group have reached a historic peace deal to
end five decades of fighting that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

After nearly four years of arduous negotiations in Cuba, the two sides announced a final
agreement under which the rebels would lay down weapons and reintegrate into civilian life.

The Colombian government and the FARC announced that they have reached a final, full and
definitive accord on ending the conflict and building a stable and enduring peace. The two sides
said in a joint statement read out in Havana by Cuban diplomat Rodolfo Benitez, they wouldn't
want one more victim in Colombia.
More than 220,000 people were killed in the conflict, tens of thousands disappeared and millions
fled their homes because of the violence. The FARC took up arms in 1964 to fight against deep
economic and social inequalities and, funded by the cocaine trade and kidnappings for ransom,
swelled to as many as 17,000 fighters at the end of the 1990s.

Colombians said the decision was in their hands. Never before have their citizens had within their
reach the key to their future. Santos, who was re-elected in 2014 on the promise of a peace
deal, said in a televised address that today he could say - from the bottom of his heart - that he
has fulfilled the mandate that Colombians have given to him.

They sent the text to Colombia's Congress and would be available on the internet and social
media, he said. They have won the most beautiful of all battles. The FARC negotiator Ivan Marquez
said after the announcement in Havana on that the war with arms was over and they started to
begin the debate of ideas.

A.Look at the bold and cursive words. According to the reading what do they mean? Write a
synonym.

1.Enduring =…Lasting……duradera……(it will be for a long time)…….

2.joint statement =……joint proclamation………declaracion en conjuto…(decision of something to
follow)….
3.address=……conference……discurso……(ideas expressed orally or in writing)….
4.Text =…letter……Texto…(written document)……….
5.debate……discussion…debate…(express ideas to other people to gree)..

3. PART THREE: USE OF LANGUAGE. Time: 20 min.

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Part A. Grammar. Complete in this conversation. Use Simple past vs present perfect.

Ms. Tanya. Have you ever (1. write)……written…………….an important article?

Lcuy. No, I (2)……haven not……………, but I (3. do)……have did…………………things to get information
for my articles.
Ms. Tanya. Tell me about one of them
Lucy. Well, once I (4. want) ……wanted …………. to report in prisons, so I (5. steal)…stole……………..
something from a store.

Part B. Vocabulary.
Choose five appropriate words from the box to complete in this paragraph.

LATER PRISON ARTICLES UPSET ABOUT

NEWSPAPERS DESIRE
Well. This was my (1)……articles……………, so I took something from that department store. I spent
five days in (2)………prision……………….., it was horrible, but (3)…later……………I wrote my article (4)
……about………………..my experiences there. When the public read the article, they were (5)…
Upset…………………… and complained

4. PART FOUR: WRITING.

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Write about a Historical Event that has changed the world. Use correct punctuation, connectors,
similarities and differences.

Industrial and technological revolution

The industrial revolution was something historic because it came with new production and
marketing systems, as well as the manufacturing system, the cotton industry. Increased worker
productivity.
Technology and the creation of new machines totally changed the system, from the steam engine
to the hydraulic press.
Incentive to new social relationships, new ideas based on science, logic, the environment.
I improve medical care with the creation of hospitals, transportation and technology.
Thanks to the industrial revolution, today we enjoy many benefits, especially technology that is
updated every time and that helps companies, commerce, production, education and medicine
and makes people's lives easier with the new products that they manufacture. That very hard or
heavy work is much easier, the Internet is also a product of the industrial revolution and helps a
lot in communication, the interaction of people in different parts of the world for negotiations,
socialization has completely revolutionized the world and it facilitates life, work and interaction.

WRITING RUBRICS

Name: ______________________________________
Writing Rubric - A1 - A2
(Levels 1-2)
Criteria Very Fair
Good Good
Excellent
May display
Uses accurate Uses mostly accurate but Displays a
Langua and accurate and limited range limited range of
ge Use appropriate appropriate of syntactic syntactic
(Gram grammatical grammatical structures and structures and
mar & structures and structures and vocabulary for vocabulary
Vocab vocabulary vocabulary the level (problems with
ulary) related to the related to the (problems basic grammar
task for the task for the with basic structures and
level with level with grammar spelling errors)
minimum some errors; structures and for the level.
errors that do however, they spelling Errors interfere
not interfere do not with text
 with text interfere with errors). Errors comprehension
comprehension text may interfere .
. comprehensio with text
n. comprehensio
n.
Effective and Many errors It doesn’t
Punctu Few errors in
appropriate in the use of show use of
ation the use of
use of punctuation punctuation
punctuation,
punctuation, and and
capitalization.
capitalization. capitalization. capitalizatio
n rules.

Organiz Effectively The text is The text is Limited

ation develops a mostly well somewhat development
(Develo text. The organized and organized but (vague ideas,
pment, text is well developed lacks some lack of unity,
unity, organized according to elements of irrelevant
and has the level but the text as information,
and
cohesion. shows some reviewed in and confusing
cohere
lack of unity class. information).
nce)
and cohesion.

Task Address the Somewhat Limited

Effectively task well, addresses the development in
Develop
address the although some topic and task response to the
ment
topic and task. points may not with some topic and task.
Number of be fully unclear The number of
words elaborated. points. The words is less
according to Does not reach number of than 50% of
the task the number of words reaches what was
assigned. words about 50% of assigned for
according to what was the task.
the task assigned for
assigned. the task.
TO 1.25 1.00 0.75 0.5
TAL
A grade of 0 (zero) is assigned when the student doesn’t write anything or when the
text presented has been plagiarized (copied).

Writing topic: ____________________________ Grade: ______5