Exam Preparation

FINAL EXAM PREPARATION

PART 1. ACADEMIC READING

Reading Passage 1

Read an article. Then circle T (true) or F (false).

Reading Passage 2

Read an article. Then circle the correct answers.

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D (circle correct letter):  

A)

B)

C)

D)

PART 2. ACADEMIC WRITING

THIS IS AN EXAMPLE ONLY! (Other academic vocabulary may also be included into the exam):

Use the following words in your own sentences (explain meanings of the following words and give your own sentences with them):

1.     attention …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

2.     attentive …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3.     the center of attention ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

4.     eye contact ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

5.     a bore …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

6.     boring ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

7.     boredom ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

8.     to hurt one’s feelings …………………………………………………………………………………………………………

9.     agree with somebody. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

10.  disagree …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

11.  disagreement ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

12.  research ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

13.  researcher ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

14.  researchable ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

15.  weakness ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

16.  weak …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….  

17.  professional …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

18.  professionally …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

19.  professionalism ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

20.  punctual …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………           

21.  punctuality ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

22.  exaggerate ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

23.  exaggeration …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

24.  considers ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

25.  consideration ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

26.  strangers ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

27.  appreciated …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

28.  appreciation ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

29.  maintain ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

30.  maintenance …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

31.  selected ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

32.  selection ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

33.  selective ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

34.  demonstrate ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

35.  demonstration ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

36.  demonstrative ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

37.  accomplished …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

38.  accomplish ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

39.  accomplishment ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

40.  considerably …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

41.  consider ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

42.  considerable ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

43.  considerably ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

44.  confide ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

45.  confidence ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

46.  confident ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

47.  confidentiality …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

48.  confidently ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

49.  confidentially ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

50.  confidential ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Change the following statements to questions:                                             

Students will take exams next month.

…………………………………………………………………………………………………

She is writing a letter.

………………………………………………………………………………………………….

The book was written by Charles Dickens.

…………………………………………………………………………………………………

Turn the following questions into statements: 

                                         

Did she read two books last month?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………

Has she written a letter to her mother?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………

Will she go to college tomorrow?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………

Choose the right answer for each of the following questions:

a) formal language     

b) informal language         

Paraphrasing (Questions about paraphrasing).

Paraphrase the following sentences: 

 All the visitors liked the official lunch very much.

…………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Referencing  

Use the following information to write bibliographic details in APA style:

"Hard Times" is a novel written in 1899 by the famous British writer Charles Dickens. Everybody likes this novel. It reflects the historical reality of Great Britain.  It tells us about harsh reality of the past.  The book was published in London in 1901 by the famous publisher Longman.

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Creative Writing    (16 points)

Write a paragraph on one of the following topics (about 110 words):

Topic 1.

Topic 2. 

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Creative Writing Topics (EXAMPLES ONLY!)

Write a letter to yourself that you will open in six months. Include your current accomplishments and concerns, and remind yourself of one thing from today that you want to make sure “future you” does not forget.

You’ve recently purchased a new house. Upon your first full night there, you begin to hear noises but think nothing of it—until you see something that convinces you the house is haunted.

It’s your 30th birthday and, upon it, your parents deliver some pretty shocking news: You’re not really human. They admit that they’ve been covering up the fact that you are actually a (fill in the blank). After hearing the news you still decide to go to school, but this school day is different than all your school days past, especially when it’s revealed to others what you truly are.

You wake up one morning to find that you are your three year old self, with your parents again, with all of the memories and experiences of your current life. Write this scene and express the emotion and frustration your character undergoes as you internally try to sort this out.

You receive a mysterious email and the subject line reads "Everything you know is a lie." You open the email and read further: "Act calm as to not alert anyone, but everyone around you is not who they say they are.

You’re awoken from your midnight sleep in your favorite chair to your dog barking wildly in the living room. Pulling her aside, you look out the window, only to see a face staring right back at you. Whose is it? Why are they there?

You are having the worst day of your life when someone calls and changes it for the better. Who calls, what's it about and what series of events follow that call to help brighten your day?

Pick an event from your childhood that you wish would have gone differently. Write it as though it had happened ideally.

You often hear people say, “You’ll never understand another person until you’ve walked a day in his or her shoes.” Choose a fictional character and walk a day in his or her shoes. Now write about it.

Write about your favorite childhood memory of playing in the snow. If you’ve never been around snow, write about what you dream it’d be like.

Daydreaming on your way to work, you get into a car accident. Frustrated because you will be late for an important meeting, you curse and yell as you get out of the car. When you go to confront the other drive, you find out it is your boss. Write this scene.

A knock at the door catches you off-guard. Upon answering it, you’re greeted by a man who says he’s from the future—and he can prove it. More important, he says he has information that will save your life.

More topics: http://www.writersdigest.com/prompts