Family name: ____________________________ First name: _______________________ Class: _________

Si Lakhdar School. School year: 2013/14

Level: 1as Duration: 55m

Mark:
 Read the following passage carefully then do the tasks below: 20

Dear Salim,
I’ve found your address on the internet; so I quickly began to type you these few words.
My name’s Mary Thompson. I am a 17 year old Polish girl. I am average height with very long fair
hair, and green eyes.
I go to a high school. I am a junior student in the literary stream. In Poland, school usually begins at 8
o’clock except Saturdays and Sundays because everybody is on weekend. My friends and I often practice
tennis and rarely go to cinema on weekends. But I never forget to revise my lessons.
My family and I live in Warsaw. It is the capital city of Poland. Dad is a carpenter and my mother is a
teacher. She is excellent in her job. I have two brothers; Ted is 14 years old. He is a pupil too. John is 5
years old. He does not go to school yet. My mother takes him to the nursery.
Finally, this is all I can tell you now. I will tell you more about Poland in my next e-mail. Please tell
me about yourself, your family and your life in Algeria.
Sincerely yours,
Mary

I. TEXT INTERPRETATION: (08pts)

1. The text above is: ______________________.
a- An e-mail b- a report c- a letter.
2. Say whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE according to the text:
a. Mary has three brothers. →______________
b. Warsaw is the capital city of Poland. →______________
c. John goes to school. →______________
3. Complete the following table about Mary with information from the text above:
Family name Thompson Country . .
Age . . Study stream . .
Father’s job . . Eyes . .
Mother’s job . . Hair fair
4. Say to what or to who do the underlined words in the text refer:
a- You (§1) → _________________________ b- She (§4) → _________________________

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II. TEXT EXPLORATION: (12pts)
1. Find in the text words that are opposite in meaning to the following:
a- Slowly (§1) ≠ ____________________ b- Remember (§3) ≠ ____________________
2. Pick out from the text:
a. Two (02) frequency adverbs:
 1- ______________________ 2- ____________________
b. One (01) degree adverb:
 _____________________
c. One (01) extreme (non-gradable) adjective:
 _____________________
3. Reorder the following words to get a coherent sentence:
helps - math - Mary - in - brother - always - Ted - her
 _________________________________________________________________________

4. Match the words with their vowel sounds:

Words Vowel sounds
First /a: /
Disk /I: /
Move /3:/
Board /υ /
Book /u: /
Screen /‫כ‬: /
star /I/
5. Fill in the gaps with: educates – best – facilitates – search for
Internet is the ______________ invention that man has ever made. It allows people to
______________ information easily. Also, it ________________ communication between people.
Moreover, it ______________ children because it shows them documentaries with different topics.

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Your teacher!

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