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MID TERM ENGLISH EXAM

A group of 6th grade students is organizing a special class about past

and future inventions. They divided themselves into 3 groups to
complete the different activities and they invite you to work with them
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The first group is charge of …

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Read the text and work on the different activities

Just a few hundred years ago, life was far

different than it is today. When people wanted to travel
or communicate, 1 they had to go on foot or horseback. A
journey of just a few miles by this method could be a
long, arduous process. Whatever people owned—from
clothing to tools—had to be made by hand. Work was
manual, laborious, and often tedious. Illness was a
constant threat; diseases rapidly spread through
unhealthy conditions and were difficult to treat with the
rudimentary medicines available.
Life has been transformed over the years through
the efforts of the men and women who had the brilliant
creativity to develop new and better ways of doing things.
Alexander Graham Bell’s fascination with the idea of sending sound using a wire from the speaker to the
listener gave birth to the telephone, which led to the cell phone, a more modern and faster
communication system that now links the entire globe.
These inventions, like many others, have clearly improved life by keeping people healthier,
helping them to communicate and work more efficiently, and allowing 2 them to travel farther. X-rays
allowed doctors to look inside the human body to treat disease and injury. The electric light illuminated
the darkness so people could work at night. Braille made it possible for blind people to read.
Other inventions were controversial because of their potential for destruction. Edward Teller,
father of the hydrogen bomb, was described by one scientist as being one of the “most thoughtful
statesmen of science.” However, another scientist referred to Teller as “a danger to all that’s
important,” and claimed that the world would have been better off without 3 him.
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Even the most world-changing inventions were not always recognized as such when they were
introduced to the public. When Rutherford B. Hayes saw a demonstration of Alexander Graham Bell’s
telephone in 1876, the president’s response was less than enthusiastic. “That’s an amazing invention,
but who wants to use one of 4 them?” he said.
Sometimes it was the inventor’s own necessity that gave birth to invention. The old saying,
“Necessity is the mother of invention,” couldn’t be more true

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Give a title to the text

a) INVENTIONS THROUGHOUT TIME. 2

b) INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE MODERN WORLD

c) LIFE BACK AND NOW

2. Read these statements and write: True or False o doesn’t say. Correct the false ones

a) Alexander Graham Bell invented The Braille System 8

b) X-rays helped doctors to operate inside the human body........

c) Some inventions are considered dangerous for people.......
d) When first demonstrated to the public, Alexander Graham Bell’s was highly praised.......
e) The electric light makes life easier

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a) What inventions are mentioned in the text?
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b) How does the writer describe the inventors?

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c) Are all the inventions good for people? Explain

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d) How does the author describe the men and women who changed our lives?
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e) What was Rutherford B. Hayes reaction to Bell’s invention?

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English Exam: Listening Comprehension 15

The second group of students is now

about a very strange race in https://www.englishlistening.rocks/practice-

english-listening-drone-racing/

A) Tick the words you listen to

Sport ……
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Competition…..

Drones…………

Play station…….

Mobile phones………

Cameras ……….

Technology …………….

B) Complete the phrase

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1) The drone racing combines virtual reality with ……………………… ………………………….

2) Drone racing started in ………………………

3) Some drones can fly up to …………….. kph

4) Drone flyers have to wear …………………..…that cost between ………………….

5) The racing is ……………………………

6) They are held in USA, Canada ,……………………………….and …………………………………

7) This sport is furious and …………………….

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English Exam : Writing
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The last group has to write a

WHO WAS
Read the

information ALEXANDER
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GRAHAN BELL?
Organize it

into paragraphs to write about him

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SPELLING: ________/10

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ALEXANDER GRAHAN BELL scientist and inventor

work on the development of the telephone.

born / 3 March 1847 / Edinburgh

1871 His family/move/Canada

Live / USA

Work/ system called visible speech, developed by his father, to

teach deaf-mute children.

Found/ school / Boston to train teachers of the deaf

1873 Work/ professor of vocal physiology

Live /fascinated by the idea of transmitting speech.

1882 Become / American citizen

1875 Turn/electricity into sound using a simple receiver

7 March 1876 Invent/the telephone

1877 Bell Telephone company / be /created

Become rich/ continue/ working on communication / new

techniques for teaching speech to the deaf people.

1888 Found/ National Geographic Society/

2 August 1922 Die/ home / Nova Scotia

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English Exam

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FLUENCY: ________/5

ACCURACY ________/5