ENGLISH PROGRESS TEST

4th GRADE 1ST PERIOD

Overall
Score
100
Mediator’s name:________________________________ Date: ____________

Student’s name: _________________________________

C1: Linguistic Competence

C2: Socio Linguistic Competence
C3: Pragmatic Competence

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TASK No. 1: Read the story below. Choose A, B or C. Circle the correct answer. ( _______ / 10 points) C1
C2

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF COLOMBIA

It is the National Museum of Colombia, it houses collections on history, art and

culture. It is located in Bogotá downtown, is the biggest and oldest museum in
Colombia. The National Museum of Colombia is a dependency of
the Colombian Ministry of Culture.
The museum houses a collection of over 20,000 pieces including works of art
and objects representing different national history periods. Permanent
exhibitions present archeology and ethnography samples from Colombian
artefacts dating 10,000 years BC, up to twentieth century indigenous and afro-
Colombian art and culture. Founders and New Kingdom of Granada room
houses Liberators and other Spanish iconography; the round room exhibits a
series of oleos from Colombia painting history.
Comprehension

1. Where is the museum located?

a. Pereira b. Medellin c. Bogota

2. What kind of collections does the museum house?

a. history, art, music b. history, art, culture c. nature, history, pictures

3. What kind of exhibitions are permanent in the museum about Colombian artefacts?

a. musical exhibitions b. archeology and ethnography c. food and culture

4. Which dependence does the National Museum of Colombia belong to?

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a. Colombian Ministry of Culture b. Colombian Ministry of agriculture c. Colombian Ministry of

education

5. How many pieces does the National Museum of Colombia have?

a. 500,000 b. 100 c. over 20,000

( taken and modified from http://bogotaturismo.gov.co/node/13200)

TASK No. 2: Read the following article about cooking bread and choose the correct answer (a, b c, or d )
for the questions below. (___________ / 10 points) C1 C2

The bread
My grandpa likes to tell me stories about when he was young. We live in the city, but when my grandpa was a
boy, he lived on a farm high up in the mountains. When my grandpa went shopping, he walked down the
mountain, then he bought things in a small store in a small town. He put them in his backpack, and then he
walked back to the farm again. He did not buy very much, just the things that they did not have at the farm, such
as flour, oil, and salt. On the farm they baked their own bread. One day my grandpa took me to a museum.
There they showed us how to bake bread.my grandpa said, “That is how we baked our bread on the farm”. We
tasted the bread in the museum and it was really good. Last winter I went skiing with my family, and we stayed
in a hut in the mountains. For the first few days, there was a lot of sun and we skied, but then it snowed for three
days. It was too dangerous to leave the hut, and soon we had no more bread. Then I remembered my grandpa.” I
can bake bread,” I said to my parents, but they did not believe me. We had water, oil, and salt, and luckily we
found some flour in a cabinet. I remembered what my grandpa told me and baked some bread. It wasn`t really
very good, but everybody liked it because they were hungry.

1. What is the text about?

a. meals b. a story about bread

c. old stories d. a grandpa and his granddaughter

2. Where did the child live?

a. he lived in a city b. he lived in a small town

c. he lived in a big farm d. he lived in Colombia

3. What did the child cook taking into account the advice given by the grandpa?

a. he cooked cakes b. he cooked beans

c. he cooked bread d. he cooked pizza

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4. Where did the grandfather cook bread?

a. he cooked bread in a farm b. he cooked bread in a bakery

c. he cooked bread in a museum d. he did not cook bread

5. What did the grandpa buy in the town store?

a. he bought sugar and eggs b. he bought water, beans and salt

c. he bought flour, oil, and salt d. he bought book

(Taken and modified from superminds workbook 4)

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USE OF ENGLISH

TASK No. 1: Choose the correct form of the following verbs (___________/10 points) C1

practice(s) up - open(s) - speak(s) - happen(s) - do(es) - cause(s) - live(s) - play(s) -

close(s) - live(s) - drink(s)

1. Ann__________ volleyball very well.

2. I never ___________ coffee.
3. The swimming pool __________at 7:00 in the morning.
4. The swimming pool _____________at 9:00 at night.
5. Bad driving ___________many accidents.
6. My parents __________in a very small apartment.
7. The Olympic Games ___________ every four years.
8. They are good students. They always ____________ their homework.
9. My students ____________ a little English.
10. She always ___________ gymnastics in the morning.

TASK No. 2: Look at the words below. Put them into the correct order. (________/ 10 points) C1

1. went / She / to / San Andres / vacation. / on

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2. did / they / Where /? / travel / year / last

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3. students / did / homework. / do / not / The /their

4. do / did / What / your mother / yesterday /?

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5. last / rained / It / a lot / night.

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WRITING

Task No. 1. You are chatting online with a new friend. He/she wants to know more
about the things you are interested the most. So, think about your favorite sport or hobby. Write a short
composition about it. Write minimum 8 sentences. (Between 70 to 90 words). (_____________ /10 points)
C1 C2 C3

Use the following questions to organise your ideas in order to write a well-structured paragraph. What’s
your favorite sport? Why do you like it? When do you play? Who do you play it with? Where do you play
it? Make sure you include (Topic sentence, supporting details and conclusion)

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Task No. 2. Write an email to your best friend telling him/her what you did on your last vacations Use
the following questions to organise your ideas in order to write a well-structured paragraph. Where did
you go? Who did you go with? What activities did you do? What did you eat? When did you go?
(between 70 to 90 words). (_____________ /10 points) C1 C2 C3

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RUBRIC FOR ASSESSING WRITING TASK 1 AND 2

The following rubric is a construction from different formats that were taken from Authentic Assessment for
English Language learners.It intends to measure students’ abilities in writing according to the CEF.for the
examiners the descriptor signifies that specific feature that has to be visible in the piece of writing and the score
ranges from 0.0 to 2.5 each where the examiner defines a criterion that is then averaged in the overall
achievement to generate the task result.

SCORE
DESCRIPTOR 0.0-2.0
EACH
A. USE OF WORDS THAT HELPED ME MAKE MY POINT

B. USE OF CORRECT GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURES (CONCORD-TENSE)

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C. CORRECT PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE (TOPIC SENTENCE-

DEVELOPING IDEAS-CONCLUSION)
D. SPELLING AND PUNCTUATION
Overall achievement (A+B+C+D)
TASK 1

Teacher's comments:
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TASK 2

SCORE
DESCRIPTOR 0.0-2.0
EACH
A. USE OF WORDS THAT HELPED ME MAKE MY POINT

B. USE OF CORRECT GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURES (CONCORD-TENSE)

C. CORRECT PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE (TOPIC SENTENCE-

DEVELOPING IDEAS-CONCLUSION)
D. SPELLING AND PUNCTUATION
Overall achievement (A+B+C+D)

Teacher's comments:
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LISTENING

Task No. 1: Listen to the audio and choose the correct answer, TRUE, FALSE or DS (Doesn´t say)
(_______/ 10 points) C2

True, False or DS (Doesn´t say)

1. Diane and Doug want to go to the park because it's a beautiful day. True false DS

2. The couple will bring their dog. True false DS

3. They will make some fried chicken. True false DS

4. They will go fishing in the park. True false DS

5. Doug will take a tablecloth and some games. True false DS

6. Doug is joking about a storm coming. True false DS

Taken from: http://www.5minuteenglish.com/apr23.htm

http://www.5minuteenglish.com/may12.htm

Task No.2: Listen to the audio and choose the correct answer a, b, c or d. (_____ /10 points) C1 C2

1. What is the name of the store?

a. Arby's b. Angie's c. Angelo's d. Sheri's

2. How many racks of clothes are on sale?

a. One b. Two c. Three d. Four

3. When Marianne sees the sweater, she likes it. But she would prefer ___.

a. a smaller size b. a larger size c. a green one d. a red one

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4. A fitting room is a place where you...

a. buy clothes b. make clothes c. try on clothes d. hide clothes

5. Marianne says she "will take it." It means she will...

a. buy nothing b. try on the sweater c. use her credit card d. buy the sweater

Taken from: http://www.5minuteenglish.com/feb26.htm

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5 SPEAKING

Task No.1: Personal Interview. (_________ /20 points). C1 C2 C3

Students will be told to form groups of 4. Every group will wait for their turn to go into the classroom.
Students will be asked a set of personal information questions in which the expected grammatical forms
will be checked and assessed. Either the teacher or the students will ask questions in a dynamic and fun
way to make them feel little anxious and eager to speak.

Topics could go from personal information questions to focused grammatical forms and language
functions such as the use of present simple, progressive, past simple, past progressive or retell past events,
express likes, dislikes and opinions.

RUBRIC FOR ASSESSING SPEAKING

The following rubric is a construction from different formats that were taken from Authentic Assessment for
English Language learners. It intends to measure students’ abilities in Speaking according to the CEF. For the
examiners the explanation signifies that specific feature that has to be visible in the Speaking Task and the score
ranges from 1.0 to 10 where the examiner defines a criterion that is then averaged in the total to generate the
task result.

Oral Production
Points Explanations You got Comments
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From 1 Content
to 10
Conveys meaning clearly and effectively.

From 1 Language Functions

to 10 Has clearly articulated the language functions involved in
the speaking situation.
Functions addressed: (Adapted according to the examiner’s
needs/intentions)

_Manage Conversations and participate in discussions__

__ Express time, relations and sequence._

From 1 Structure
to 10 Uses a variety of grammatical structures in the situation
assigned.
From 1 Content
to 10 Speaks in the given setting with sustained and connected
discourse where any error does not intervene with meaning.
From 1 Use of English
to 10 Uses varied vocabulary.

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