UNIVERSITY OF CUENCA

INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGES - PASLE GRADE

DIAGNOSTIC TEST ________
A1 LEVEL 20

Name: _____________________________
Date: ______________________________

PART ONE: LISTENING

Listen to the audio and then write down the answers. There is one example. _____/4points

Name: Mary Smith

1) How old: ________

2) Hair color: ________

3) Eye color: ________

4) How many brothers: ________

PART TWO: READING

Read the text. Are the sentences 1-8 true (T) or false (F)? (0,5 each) _____/4points

About my family

Dear Marta,

I want to tell you about my family. I live with my little sister, mum, and dad. We live in
London, a beautiful city in the North of England.

My dad’s name is Pierre. He’s from France, and he speaks English and French. He works as
a French teacher. He’s very tall and athletic. He has short blonde hair and blue eyes.
 My mum’s name is Anna. She’s English. She’s quite short, and she has long curly brown hair
and brown eyes. She works at a chemist’s. She can speak French too!

My sister Julia is 18 years old, and she has the same color of hair and eyes as my father. She
loves playing the piano and dancing. She’s very talented.

I have blonde hair like my dad, but brown eyes like my mom. We love playing board games
on Friday evenings, and we always order pizza. Our favorite game is Monopoly. We have a
pet cat, Snowball. She’s all white and she likes sleeping.

Write back soon. Please, tell me about your family too.

Love,

Jonathan

1. Jonathan lives in England. TRUE FALSE

2. His parents speak two languages. TRUE FALSE
3. Julia can play the piano and dance. TRUE FALSE
4. Julia has brown eyes. TRUE FALSE
5. Jonathan’s hair isn’t brown. TRUE FALSE
6. Jonathan's family like pizza. TRUE FALSE
7. Jonathan likes sleeping. TRUE FALSE
8. Marta’s cat is Snowball. TRUE FALSE

3. PART THREE: USE OF LANGUAGE

Read and complete each number with the most suitable word. (05 each)
_____/4points

Peter Baker 1._____from Manchester, but Paul and John 2. ____ from London. Manchester
and London are cities 3._____ England. Hamburg 4._____ a city in Germany. Sandra is
5.____ school today. Jack and Peter are 6.___ friends. They are in the same class. Mr. and
Mrs. Baker are on a trip to the USA to visit 7.____ cousin Anne. She is a nice girl. Peter says:
"My grandfather is in hospital. I am at home with my grandmother." What time is it? It is 8
o'clock. 8._____ you tired? No, I am not.
 1. A. is B. are C. isn´t
2. A. is B. are C. aren’t
3. A. in B. on C. at
4. A. is B. on C. isn’t
5. A. in B. on C. at
6. A. his B. her C. its
7. A. our B. your C. their
8. A. am B. is C. are

4. PART FOUR: WRITING

Write a text about your personal profile. (50-80 words) ___/4 points

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WRITING RUBRIC

Writing Rubric

Criteria Excellent Good Fair Poor

Uses mostly accurate May display accurate

Uses accurate and
and appropriate but limited range of Displays a limited range of
appropriate grammatical
Language Use grammatical structures syntactic structures and syntactic structures and
structures and
(Grammar & and vocabulary related vocabulary for the level vocabulary (problems with basic
vocabulary related to
Vocabulary) to the task for the level (problems with basic grammar structures and spelling
the task for the level
with some errors; grammar structures and errors) for the level. Errors
with minimum errors
however, they do not spelling errors). Errors interfere with text
that do not interfere with
interfere with text may interfere with text comprehension.
text comprehension.
comprehension. comprehension.

Few errors in the use of Many errors in the use It doesn’t show use of
Punctuation Effective and punctuation, of punctuation and punctuation and capitalization
appropriate use of capitalization. capitalization. rules.
 punctuation,
capitalization.

The text is mostly well

The text is somewhat
Organization Effectively develops a organized and Limited development (vague
organized but lacks
(Development, text. The text is well developed according to ideas, lack of unity, irrelevant
some elements of the
unity, and organized and has the level but shows information, and confusing
text as reviewed in
coherence) cohesion. some lack of unity and information).
class.
cohesion.

Addresses the task well, Somewhat addresses

Effectively addresses although some points the topic and task with
Task Limited development in response
the topic and task. may not be fully some unclear points.
Development to the topic and task. The number
Number of words elaborated. Does not The number of words
of words is less than 50% of what
according to the task reach the number of reaches about 50% of
was assigned for the task.
assigned. words according to the what was assigned for
task assigned. the task.

TOTAL 1 0.75 0.50 0.25 – 0.10

A grade of 0 (zero) is assigned when the student doesn’t write anything or when the text presented has been plagiarized
(copied).

Grade: _________/4

SPEAKING RUBRIC
Excellent
Criteria
4-3.75
Fully completes the given
Coherence and tasks. The answer is
Task Completion relevant to the topic and
coherent.
Accurate use of vocabulary
Vocabulary according to the level with
a few minor mistakes.
Accurate use of grammar
Grammatical
according to the level with
Accuracy
a few minor mistakes.
Accurate pronunciation
according to the level with
Pronunciation minor mistakes that do
not impede
comprehension.
Generally natural delivery,
only occasional stopping
Fluency when searching for
appropriate words or
expressions.
TOTAL
A grade of 0 (zero) is assigned when the student doesn’t say anything.
Speaking Rubric
Good
3.5– 2
Mostly completes the given tasks.
The answer is mostly relevant to
the topic and coherent.
Mostly accurate use of vocabulary
according to the level with some
minor mistakes that do not
interfere with comprehensibility.
Mostly accurate use of grammar
according to the level with some
mistakes that do not interfere with
comprehensibility.
Mostly accurate pronunciation
according to the level with some
mistakes that may sometimes
interfere with communication.
The student hesitates with
occasional repetition, but can
generally maintain a flow of
speech.
/4
Fair Poor
1.5– 1 0.50 – 0.25
Somewhat completes the
Partially completes the given task
given tasks. The answer is
The answer is partially coherent a
somewhat coherent and
relevant to the topic.
relevant to the topic.
Inappropriate use of vocabulary w
Limited use of vocabulary with
mistakes that interfere with
frequent mistakes.
comprehensibility.
Speech is broken and distorted b
Limited use of grammar with
frequent errors there interfere wi
frequency mistakes.
comprehensibility.
Several pronunciation
Frequent pronunciation mistakes t
mistakes that often interfere
interfere with communication.
with communication.
Speech is slow and hesitant The speech is so little that it is
and the student partially difficult for the student to convey
conveys the message. message.