1. Respond to each of the following situations:
1. Afriend from England calls and asks about the best place to visit in Egypt.
1. I think you should visit the Pyramids.
2. Your friend looks like he / she hasn’t been sleeping for days, Advise him / her.
2. You should have enough sleep.
3. You don’t understand what distance learning is. Ask a friend.
3. Can you tell me what the distance learning is?
4. Someone is speaking to you but you don’t hear his voice. What would you say?
4. Execuse me can you speak more aloud?
2. Mention the place, the speakers and the language function in each of the following two mini-dialogues:
1. Place: Company.
Speaker A: Interviewer. Speaker B: Applicant
Function: Giving information.
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2. Place: University.
Speaker A: Professor/Interviewer. Speaker B: Student
Function: Making interview questions.
3. Choose the correct answer from a, b, c or d:
1. We should reach our ................... before midnight. a) location b) destination c) holiday d) journey
destination
2. My father is ................... He speaks two languages. a) bilingual b) monolingual c) trilingual d) language
bilingual
3. What ................... if you succeeded? a) will you do b) you would do c) you would have d) would you do.
would you do
4. ................... power is generated by Aswan High Dam. a) Hydroelectric b) Solar c) Lunar d) Atomic
Hydroelectric
5. My brother .................. for a good job. a) supplied b) provided c) applied d) developed
supplied
6. The surgeon operated ................... her at his private hospital. a) in b) out c) for d) on
on
7. Highly ................... staff will be needed for the company. a) qualify b) qualified c) qualifying d) qualifies
qualified
8. Stuntmen and women must be ................... to do any action. a) fit b) tall c) fat d) risky
fit
9. We knew a lot about space and planets from ............. who landed on them. a) pilots b) astronauts c) astrologers d) asteroids
astronauts
10. He was ................... to pass the exam easily. He got the full marks. a) too clever b) so clever c) clever enough d) such a clever
clever enough
11. They felt they were being unfairly treated, so they ........... a demonstration in the capital city. a) held b) made c) did d) gave
held
12. We persuaded our father ................... us go to the party. a) let b) letting c) to let d) in letting
to let
13. She ................... me where I had met her friend. a) told b) asked c) said d) advised
asked
14. If I ................... hard, I would have a lot of money. a) worked b) would work c) have worked d) had worked
would work
15. My friend advised me to see a doctor. I wish I ................... her advice. a) took b) take c) had taken d) have taken
had taken
16. He was hanged because he was found ................... . a) innocent b) gentle c) smart d) guilty
guilty
4. Find the mistake in each of the following sentences, then write it correctly:
1. If you leave now, you catch your train.
1. wedding funeral
2. The Great Wall of China is 6400 kilometres length.
2. boring bored
3. Is Robert Louis Stevenson born in England?
3. reinvent recycle
4. Scientists are not sure what causes volcanoes erupt.
4. who’s whose
5. He started making research into human nature.
Despite Although
6. I asked him what was his name.
impress impressive
5. Read the following passage, then answer the questions: The Metro is the name of the underground railway system in Paris, the capital of France. The system has 16 lines and over 300 stations. Together, the lines are about 200 kilometres long. The Paris Metro is the second busiest underground system in Europe after Moscow, and carries about five million passengers every day. It is said that in the centre of Paris, you are never more than 500 metres from a Metro station. The first line on the Metro was opened on July 19, 1900. The system grew quickly, but stopped in 1914, at the beginning of the First World War. By the early 1920s, the central part of the system was finished, although in the 1930s some of the lines were made longer to carry commuters to and from the outskirts of Paris.
1. Which city has the busiest underground railway system in Europe?
1. It means he was a person who firstly developed medicine.
2. Why did work on the Metro stop in 1914?
2. To hide from enemies.
3. Why were some of the lines made longer in the 1930 s?
3. It is another place related to the main bank for practising its activities.
4. In what year were the first journeys made on the Paris Metro? a) 1930 b) 1920 c) 1914 d) a 1900
1914
5. Who or what are commuters? a) Electrical goods. b) School children. c) People who regularly travel to work. d) University students.
Electrical goods
6. Read the following passage, then answer the questions: Anne Glass was very happy this week when she found out she had been awarded a BA degree in History. At 84, she was London University’s oldest student; her professors said she was also one of the most enthusiastic students they had ever taught. “I had to leave school when I was 14”. Anne said. “My father died suddenly and I had to go out to work to help my mother pay the bills. I had four brothers and sisters younger than me and my father left us very little money. Later, when I had my own children, there was never enough time to continue my education, but when my children left home, I thought, ‘Why not?’. I enrolled on evening classes and worked for the qualifications that all my school friends got at school. After that, my teacher suggested I should go to university and take a degree course. So that’s what I did”.
1. How old was the writer when she was awarded her degree?
To Brazil.
2. Why did she leave school when she was 14?
Over a jungle.
3. Where did she get her first qualifications?
She found a small town
4. What did Anne’s university teachers think about her? a) She was too old to study. b) She was a very sociable person. c) She was very interested in studying. d) She was not very intelligent.
She was a very sociable person
5. Why did Anne not study for a degree when she was younger? a) She had to wait until her children were order. b) She did not feel confident about studying again. c) She did not want to study in the evening. d) She could not decide what subject to study.
She did not want to study in the evening
7. The Reader (The Prisoner of Zenda). A) Answer the following questions:
1. What was Rassendyll’s offer to Johans?
1. She noticed that he had changed a lot.
2. What did Antoinette tell Rassendyll in her letter!
2. They saw Duke Michael and his men.
3. Why was Rassendyll lucky while examining the bottom of pipe?
3. He said his finger was hurt.
4. How did Rassendyll put an end to Max Holf’s life?
4. After he killed Degutate, he took the keys from him.
B) Read the following quotation, then answer the questions: “It would be very useful for Michael if you disappeared. And if you disappear, the game’s over”.
1. Who said this? To whom?
1. Rassendyll to Michael.
2. Why did the speaker say this?
2. The route to the king’s palace.
3. What game would be over if the person disappeared? Explain.
3. The route through the old part of the capital.
C) Find the mistake in each of the following sentences and correct it:
1. Detchard killed Michael in the fight that followed Antoinette’s cry.
1. Rassendyll Flavia.
2. One of Michael’s men shot Rassendyll in the leg.
2. The British ambassador George Featherly.
8. Write a paragraph of about 100 words about: “The new cities are a successful solution to overpopulation problem”.
See Al-adwaa Booklet Page 12.
2. One of Michael’s men shot Rassendyll in the leg.
هناك الكثير من الأشياء يمكن قولها فى صالح التقدم التكنولوچى فقد جعل حياة الناس أكثر راحة وبدون
الفوائد التى تجلبها التقدم التكنولوچى لأصبح العالم مكان أصعب للعيش فيه
14. Every Egyptian citizen should ................... in the election. a) veto b) vote c) vet d) vomit
vote
15. Bringing up children and working everyday is a ................... matter. a) hard b) hardly c) easily d) laughing
hardly
16. Two weeks ago, I ......... on an evening course. I started the course yesterday. a) enrolled b) joined c) called d) wrote
wrote
4. Find the mistake in each of the following sentences, then write it correctly:
1. How many water is there in the bottle?
catch will catch
2. Oil and gas are find under the ground.
length high
3. We moved to this house two years ago today, so we lived here for exactly two years.
born was born
4. Let’s try to find them. They can’t have went very far.
erupt to erupt
5. Doctors and nurses belong to the medical confession.
making doing
6. She asked me if I have seen her book
was his name his name was
5. Read the following passage, then answer the questions: People suddenly started seeing the strange plants in their gardens last spring. No one had ever seen anything like them before, and no one knew where they had come from. At first, some people pulled them out and burned them because they thought they looked horrible. But most people left them where they were, without touching them. The next summer, people enjoyed the big purple-coloured flowers that plants produced. It was not until August that people read in their newpapers the first reports that the plants could walk and run and even catch people and kill them. There is never much interesting news in August, so people thought that journalists had made up these stories about walking plants to sell a few more newpapers and make money. Then in September, there was terrible news. It was true.
1. Why did some people destroy the plants?
Moscow
2. How were the plants dangerous to people?
Because of the first would war.
3. What did people think when they read the newspaper stories for the first time?
To carry commuters to and from outskirts of paris.
4. Where is this text from? a) a newspaper. b) a science fiction story. c) a detective story. d) a book on gardening.
a science fiction story
5. What does them refer to in the plants could walk and run and even catch people and kill them? a) the plants. b) the journalists. c) the new papers. d) the people.
the new papers
6. Read the following passage, then answer the questions: Charlie Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889 in London. He was born to Charles Chaplin. And Hannah Harriette Hill, both were Music Hall entertainers. His parents separated soon after his birth, leaving him in the care of his increasingly unstable mother. In 1896, Chaplin’s mother was unable to find work; Charlie and his older half-brother Sydney Chaplin had to be left in the workhouse at Lambeth, moving after several weeks to Hanwell School for Orphans and Destitute Children. His father died when Charlie was 12, and his mother suffered a mental breakdown, and died in 1928 in the United States, two years after coming to the States to live with Chaplin. In 1900, aged 11, his brother helped get him the role of a comic act in the pantomime Cinderella at the London Hippodrome. He became a clown in Fred Karno’s ‘Fun Factory’ slapstick comedy company. According to immigration records, he arrived in the United States on October 2, 1912. Chaplin remained in the United States. Chaplin’s act was seen by film producer Mack Sennett, who hired him for his studio, the Keystone Film Company. A) Give short answers to the following questions:
1. How did Charlie Chaplin’s sufferings begin at a very early age?
She was 84
2. What was Chaplin’s mother suffering from?
Because her father suddenly died and she went out to work to help her mother pay the bill.
3. At what age did Chaplin become a clown?
on evening classes.
B) Choose the correct answer from a, b, c or d:
4. Mack Sennett had hired Chaplin for his studio, that means that he .............. him. a) employed b) punished c) lent d) blamed
lent
5. Chaplin went to the United States when he was .............. . a) twenty four b) twenty one c) twenty three d) twenty five
twenty four
7. The Reader (The Prisoner of Zenda). A) Answer the following questions:
1. What was the news sent to Flavia in Tarlenheim’s house ?
1. He offered him 50.000 pieces of gold if he did what he asked him to do next night.
2. What was the problem with the real king on the morning of the coronation? Why?
2. The Duke discovered that she had helped him that night at the summer house.
3. How did Rassendyll escape from signing the document? Why?
3. Because the guard with a gun in the boat was sleeping.
4. What are the only two ways to save the King according to Rassendyll?
4. He stopped him to his death.
B) Read the following quotation, then answer the questions: “If you let your prisoner go free, I can help you”.
1. Who said this? To whom?
Spat to Rassendyll.
2. Who do the underlined words refer to?
2. Because Rassendyll didn’t want to continue in pretending as a king.
3. What was the speaker trying to do by saying this?
3. Rassendyll taking the place of the real king. If he disappears Michael will kill his brother and make himself a king.
C) Find the mistake in each of the following sentences and correct it:
1. The letter from Antoinette told the king to come to the summer house with a friend.
1. Detchard Rupert.
2. People were old that the rescued prisoner was an enemy of the king.
2. in leg in finger .
8. Write a paragraph of about 100 words about: “The advantages and disadvantages of computers”.
See Al-adwaa Booklet Page 12.
9. A) Translate into Arabic:
he world has become a small village thanks to globalization. Symposia, lectures, meetings and conferences are held from time to time to warn our youth against the possible side effects of that.
إن شبابنا هم أملنا فى مستقبل مشرف لأن لديهم الواجب الوطنى تجاه مجتمعهم فعليهم أن يشاركوا فى تطوير
الخطط مثل غزو الصحراء أو محو الأمية ولهذا تولى الحكومة اهتمامًا بالغًا لهم من أجل خلق مواطنين صالحين
يفيدون بلدهم.
B) Translate into English:
1 - يجب أن تشجع الحكومة رجال الأعمال على إقامة مشروعات بالمدن الجديدة لخلق فرص عمل للشباب.
1. What kind of activities do you like to practise at the weekend?
2 - عفوًا، هل يمكن أن ترشدنى إلى أحسن طريق للوصول إلى المحطة؟
2. If you are worried about something you should ask your parents’ advice.