Date: Class: Name: Test paper The teenage Brain Teenagers have big brains Scientists used to believe

that our brains were fully developed by early childhood. New research shows that the brain grows very quickly between the ages of 10 and 12, when it is at its biggest. During the teenage years your brain shrinks bit by bit until it is the size of an average adult's. Explaining Teenage Behaviour The frontal and parietal lobes are the last to finish developing. The frontal and parietal lobes manage judgement, reasoning, planning for the future and visual/spatial \ability. This may explain why teenagers are sometimes more impulsive, emotional and clumsy than adults. It's not your fault, your brain's too big! Building a better brain The teenage years are an important time in your brain's development and you can build a better brain. The activities of the teenager influence which cells disappear and which cells remain as they get older. Dr Giedd, a psychiatrist, says, "If you're lying on the sofa or playing video games your brain gets programmed for that." His advice: Test your brain. "If you exercise a muscle, you make it stronger. The brain works like that. Try a foreign language, music, games - anything that makes the brain work hard." How you're using your brain now, influences the kind of brain you have when you're an adult. Don't say we didn't warn you! I. Word formation 40 points 1. ldiomatic expressions (words and phrases with 'brain') The words and phrases below all include the word brain! Match each word or phrase with its definition. 1. to pick someone's brains 2. brainy 3. a brainwave 4. to have something on the brain 5. to rack your brains a) a sudden, clever idea b) very intelligent c) to be obsessed with something d) to get information by asking someone who knows a lot about the subject e) to try very hard to think of or remember something 2. Change these verbs into nouns. Verb Noun 1. to speak Sh 2. to think t t 3. to move m.t 4. to see S . t 5. to remember / memorise m y

3. Comprehension. Read the article and decide if the following sentences are true or false. 1. Scientists believe that young children have fully-developed brains. 2. The teenage brain is bigger than the adult brain. 3. The brain stops developing during the teenage years. 4. The number of cells in your brain never changes. II. Grammar 30 points 1.Decide which of the sentences below is conditional type 1, 2 & 3 : a.If I were rich, I would travel around the world. b.She wouldn't have missed the train if she had woken up earlier. c. Ill call you if I come back early. 2.Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense a) If I (finish) early, I will call you. b) I (catch) .. the 9:00 train if I hurry up . c) She will know the answer, if she (try.. to understand. d) If I (be) a star, I would help the needy. e) He (buy) . a house if he had a job. f) She (be) happy, if she married him . g) If I (be) .. a star, I would help the needy. h) He (buy) a house if he had a job. i) She (be) .. happy, if she married him . j) If I were a star, I (help) the poor. 3.Complete with the sentences with the appropriate modal verb. a) I'm sure he is at home He.. be at home. b) There is a slight chance that she is absent. = She.. be absent. c) It's impossible, he is not cheating. = He.. be cheating. d) He is very peculiar, maybe he doesn't like chocolate. = He not like chocolate. e) As I know her, logically she is sleeping now.= She .. be sleeping. f) He didn't get the job, I guess he arrived late at the interview.He .. have arrived late at the interview. g) It was his first rehearsal, he was certainly stressed. = He have been stressed. h) He doesn't answer his mobile, perhaps he is at the cinema. = He be at the cinema. All the bookmakers bet on this team. They.. win the match. i) He broke her leg during the game, she surely hates him.= She hate him. III.Writing 20 points What would you do in these situation?(Choose one situation to debate): 1 A classmate tells the teacher that you copied your last assignment off the internet. 2. Your parents ground you because you arrived at 3 oclock in the morning .