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Liceo Nº: MARKSGroup: Written Test: /55Name: Oral Exam:Date: Final Mark:

SECTION A

1. Read the whole passage thoroughly and answer these questions, supporting your ideas.

TV series

Why are TV series so well-loved by TV audiences? Pamela Douglas, the author of the book “How to succeed as a professional writer in TV” explains.Pamela Douglas is a very famous scriptwriter who writes the stories and the scenes for the actors who appear in the most popular TV series. She has won prestigious prizes like The Humanitas Prize, an Emmy and The Writers Guild of America. In her opinion, the secret of writing successful series is that in the plot there should be many different stories that are developed from one story, so that each viewer can find his hero.“ Also according to Pamela, “A series should put up the shutters when the viewers start imagining what is going to happen.” She also believes that it is important to change the set of the series so that the public does not get bored. No series could last for years thanks to just one star. It is important that all the characters, even the minor ones, are interesting.Since its premiere in 2000, CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) has been a smash hit, often topping the television ratings. It is so popular that it has led to the creation of two additional CSI programmes, one set in New York, the other in Miami, and the series is still going strong after 200 episodes. In this series the police almost seem irrelevant. They have little to do other than arrest the suspects that the forensics experts implicate. The show leaves the impression that analysis of DNA samples and hair follicles, rather than the testimony of witnesses, solves every crime and that the most important police work occurs in the laboratory or the morgue.

0. What does Pamela Douglas write? She writes books and scripts for TV series.

1. What can turn a TV series into a real success?2. According to Pamela, should a series go on forever?3. Which two other elements make a series interesting for viewers?4. How has CSI expanded since it started? 5. In CSI, what seems to be the police’s main role?

/ 10 marks (2 each)

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2. Read this passage very carefully and fill each blank with only ONE word.

THE ART OF LOVE

Love is one of the best things (0)__about___ being human.Our ability to create works (1)__________ art is another; and since earliest times, (2)__________ and writers have been using art to try and (3)__________ what love is. Now, as (4)__________ celebrate Valentine’s Day, we recall some of (5)__________ world’s best-loved works of art on love (6)__________ all its forms. For instance, Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”, (7)__________ performed in 1595, is still (8)__________ of the most popular love stories. Another example (9)__________ Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake”, which has (10)__________ a favourite ballet ever since its first performance in the 19th Century.

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3. Look into this bubble for words which belong to the same topic and write them below the corresponding heading. The words in bold type are examples. There are three words you will not use.

CINEMA SCULPTURE MUSICactor model melody

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actor chapter stone scene

marble notes melody

lyrics screen composer canvas

shape plot subtitles model

exhibit rhythm atlas

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4. Write a short article for your school magazine describing an artistic event you have recently attended. Use 80 - 100 words. It must be ONE of the three types mentioned in the previous activity.You must use at least THREE of the words included in that particular category. / 9 marks

SECTION B

1. Read the text and complete the following sentences.

The Young Designers Competition encourages students aged from 13 to 16 to design new, exciting things.

The competition started in 2008 and more than 4,000 teenagers enter it every year. Rose Steadman organizes the competition, “I have a fantastic job. Every year, I meet a lot of very clever teenagers with great ideas. For example, last year, a girl in Norfolk made a solar powered cold bag for food. The year before, a boy from Devon designed a recycled wood toy box for young children.”Lola Bennett was the winner in 2010. She wanted to practice speaking Spanish but she was worried about just looking on the Internet and using social networking sites. Her answer to the problem? She designed a language exchange website for students all over the world. Lola says, “I started the website when I was fourteen and there are 750,000 members. I designed it for students aged thirteen to sixteen and it’s a safe social networking site”.Brother and sister Leanne and Jacob Nelson also invented something to solve a problem. Their great-grandmother could not use a computer mouse because her hands were too old. “The mouse was very uncomfortable for her. It was too small. We designed a cover so she could use it easily. We made it with some foam from an old bed. A computer company bought the idea from us a year ago, Now we’re thinking about what we can do next to help her and other old people use technology”.

There is a Young Designers competition ________ every year _________.

Rose Steadman likes _________________________________________________ .

0 Lola designed her website because ______________________________________ .

1 Lola’s site is for ______________________________________________________ .

2 Leanne and Jacob’s great-grandmother wasn’t able _________________________ .

3 Leanne and Jacob want ________________________________________________.

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2. Match both columns to form meaningful expressions. There is an extra one on the left column.

0. take ____C____

1. join a. excercise2. go on b. a club3. cut out c. medication4. look into d. anything sweet5. put on e. weight 6. do f. a diet

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3. You have just received an e mail from a friend of yours including this comment:

“If I buy a new pair of jeans, they don´t fit me after a few months. So now, I buy all my jeans one size too big. That way they last twice as long.”

Write an email back to your friend giving her/him advice to solve that problem. Use between 80 and 100 words and include no less than THREE of the expressions you have matched in the previous task.

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