UNIVERSITY OF CARABOBO EDUCATION SCHOOL MODERN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT SUBJECT: COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCES V SEMESTER 7TH

Section 11 Students name: WUISTON MEDINA A) Paraphrase each sentence. (8 points)

1. Traffic lights show a driver or a walker when to start and when to stop. Traffic lights indicate drivers and walkers to stop and to continue. 2. The best-known author of mystery stories may be Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is probable that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is the most famous mystery stories writer. 3. Fables are short stories that try to explain why people act in certain ways. The short stories called fables try to illustrate some of peoples attitudes. 4. One way you can always know a fable is by looking at the last line which usually states a proverb.

We can recognize a fable by the proverb we can find at the last line.

B) Read the following paragraphs and paraphrase them. (12 points)

I. Imagine living in a world where there are no people, places or things. There would be no lawyers, no kings no kitchens, no zoos, no ballparks, no money, no kites. The world would be a dull place. But the real world does have lots of people, places, and things. We call words that name people, places, and things nouns. If we lived in a world without people or things, we wouldnt have lawyers, kings, kitchens, zoos, ball parks, money or kites; as a result, this world would be a worrying place, however, the actual world is full of people, places, and things whose terms to mention them are called nouns for us.

II. Early English, also called Old English, does not sound like the English we speak today. It sounds almost like a foreign language. It was made up of the languages used by groups of people called the Jutes, Angles and Saxons who moved to England starting in 499 A.D. England was called Angle-land for a long time. In 1066 A.D., Old English started to change into Middle English. At that time a French duke named William conquered England. Many French people then moved to England. French words replace some Old English words. The England language changed a great deal. Early or Old English pronunciation is totally different from the current one we speak. Its sounds seem to be similar to a foreign language. Its origin comes from the languages that people such as Jutes, Angles and Saxons used to speak when they got to England in 499 B.C. For many years, England was known as the land of Angles. In 1066 B.C., old English became the Middle English when William (a French Duke) took possession of England, this all made many French people

move to England, and some Old English words were replaced by French words changing considerably the England language.