Unit 5 Achievement Test
Unit 5 Achievement Test name ___________________ General Test Part 1 Listen to the conversation. Then circle the answer
Views 265 Downloads 3 File size 218KB
Recommend stories
- Author / Uploaded
- Akron
Citation preview
Unit 5 Achievement Test name ___________________
General Test Part 1 Listen to the conversation. Then circle the answer that correctly completes each sentence. 1. Tina and Leo have different jobs, but they take a ( Spanish / English / photography ) class together.
2. Tina feels like she ( made everyone laugh / made a fool of herself / embarrassed Leo ) when she told a joke in class.
3. Leo thought Tina’s joke was ( confusing / offensive / hilarious ), unlike the other people in the class.
4. Tina made a ( verbal / political / practical ) joke that didn’t get the reaction she had wanted.
5. Leo thinks that Tina’s joke ( was too personal / went over their classmates’ heads / was ridiculous ).
6. Leo claims that it takes a long time to ( read jokes / tell jokes / get jokes ) in another culture.
7. Leo thinks Tina ( will never have a sense of humor in Spanish / will get a better feel for humor in Quito / takes funny pictures in their photography class ).
8. Tina insists she has a good sense of humor in ( English / Spanish / photography class ).
Level 2—Unit 5 Achievement Test Copyright © 2017 by Pearson Education, Inc. Duplication for classroom use is permitted.
1
Part 2 Circle the answer that correctly completes each sentence. 9. Victor can’t ( take / make / be ) a joke even though he loves playing practical jokes on other people.
10. I usually think Julie is hilarious, but that joke she told yesterday at the party was offensive and in really ( sexist / poor / dirty ) taste.
11. There’s a lot in the news these days about the presidential elections, but where I work we avoid telling political jokes, even though in some other offices, they ( are easier said than done / are par for the course / just aren’t done ).
12. Ray’s joke about his wife’s cooking was ( hysterical / ethnic / sexist ) and offended both the men and women in class.
13. Mindy really ( was a good sport / went over my head / crossed the line ) with that dirty joke she told. Everyone at the meeting thought it was offensive.
14. My grandfather used to tell ( ethnic / dirty / practical ) jokes until I told him it bothered me when he made fun of different groups of people.
Level 2—Unit 5 Achievement Test Copyright © 2017 by Pearson Education, Inc. Duplication for classroom use is permitted.
2
Part 3 Read the sentences in reported speech with backshifting. Rewrite the sentences in direct speech. Example: Sam said that he needed to get ready for his soccer game. Sam said, “I need to get ready for my soccer game.”
15. My mother admitted that she hadn’t understood the joke. , “
.”
16. Mr. Moreno told me that I had to hand in the signed contract on Friday. , “
.”
17. Larry said his uncle couldn’t tell a funny joke. , “
.”
18. I insisted that I had told Carl about the party! , “
!”
19. Ms. Lee complained that it might rain in the evening. , “
.”
20. Joe claimed he would tell dirty jokes at the party. , “
.”
21. Dana stated that she wasn’t listening to Joe’s jokes. Level 2—Unit 5 Achievement Test Copyright © 2017 by Pearson Education, Inc. Duplication for classroom use is permitted.
3
, “
Level 2—Unit 5 Achievement Test Copyright © 2017 by Pearson Education, Inc. Duplication for classroom use is permitted.
.”
4
Part 4 Read the direct questions. Then circle the correct indirect questions. 22. Gina asked, “Can you explain that joke to me?” a. Gina asked whether I had explained that joke to her. b. Gina said I could explain that joke to her. c. Gina asked if I could explain that joke to her.
23. Todd asked me, “Where did you go yesterday?” a. Todd asked me where I would go tomorrow. b. Todd asked me where I had gone the day before. c. Todd asked me whether I had gone anywhere the day before.
24. Ms. Clark asked her employees, “Will you finish your reports on time?” a. Ms. Clark asked her employees if we could finish our reports on time. b. Ms. Clark asked her employees when they would finish their reports. c. Ms. Clark asked her employees whether they would finish their reports on time.
25. I asked my sister, “What time did your plane land?” a. I asked my sister what time her plane had landed. b. I asked my sister whether her plane landed on time. c. I asked my sister what time her plane lands.
26. Felipe asked me, “Why were you telling an offensive joke in class?” a. Felipe asked me why I told an offensive joke in class. b. Felipe asked me why I had been telling an offensive joke in class. c. Felipe asked me whether I had told an offensive joke in class.
Level 2—Unit 5 Achievement Test Copyright © 2017 by Pearson Education, Inc. Duplication for classroom use is permitted.
5
27. Peya asked us, “Have you been watching that new show about practical jokes?” a. Peya asked us whether we had been watching that new show about practical jokes. b. Peya asked us if we would watch that new show about practical jokes. c. Peya asked us why we had been watching that new show about practical jokes.
Level 2—Unit 5 Achievement Test Copyright © 2017 by Pearson Education, Inc. Duplication for classroom use is permitted.
6
Part 5 Read the article. Then type the phrases in the correct categories in the chart.
Hilariously Successful
J
osh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen started the website CollegeHumor in 1999. At the time, they were freshmen in college. Abramson said that he had heard about another humor website that had been making $20,000 a month from ads. He wondered if he and his friend could make money from a humor website. It turns out they could.
Abramson and Van Veen thought about what kind of website they wanted to start and decided to create a site with content that college students would find funny. Abramson stated that it was easy to get college students to look at funny pictures and videos, so he and Van Veen thought it would be fairly easy to build an audience for their website. At first, they posted pictures of silly things that they and their roommates were doing. Abramson’s brother worked for an ad company and explained that they could make a lot of money with ads if they could get thousands of people to look at the CollegeHumor site. Abramson and Van Veen made flyers with jokes and funny pictures telling students about the site. Abramson drove to several universities and posted the flyers on campuses. Then he started mailing flyers to people at other universities, and he included a free T-shirt in each package. He told people to keep the T-shirt and asked them if they would post the flyers on their campuses.
The website started to get visitors, and other people started sending photos and videos for the site. After a few months, 60,000 people a month were looking at Abramson and Van Veen’s website, and they were making about $8,000 a month on ads. The website continued to grow in popularity, so the friends decided to keep working on the website even after college. They also started selling T-shirts on the site. By 2005, the site had millions of viewers each month, and in 2006, Abramson and Van Veen made about $6 million from ads and T-shirt sales.
Van Veen said that they had intended for many of the jokes on the site to be stupid jokes for smart people. He also said that it was important to keep the humor of the site relevant to college students. So, after graduating from college, Van Veen and Abramson continued to hire college-age students to write for the site. The website expanded to contain comics, articles, interviews, games, and web series, in addition to photos and videos.
In 2006, Abramson and Van Veen sold 51% of their company, so they no longer control the website. However, the website is still going strong. For example, over 100 million people view CollegeHumor videos each month.
Level 2—Unit 5 Achievement Test Copyright © 2017 by Pearson Education, Inc. Duplication for classroom use is permitted.
7
The website’s humor isn’t for everyone. The site is meant to appeal to young people in their late teens and early 20s, and it is more popular with men than it is with women. A lot of the jokes can be offensive. For example, in some of the videos, people are getting hurt in ridiculous ways. Some may find the humor in poor taste, or they just don’t get the jokes. On the other hand, CollegeHumor does make millions of people laugh.
• continued with the website after graduating
• made a lot of money from clothing sales
• first had the idea to create a website for profit
• put up ads at several universities
• had a brother who worked in advertising
• said the site’s stupid jokes were for intelligent people
ONLY JOSH ABRAMSON 28.
ONLY RICKY VAN VEEN 31.
29.
BOTH ABRAMSON AND VAN VEEN 32.
33.
30.
Level 2—Unit 5 Achievement Test Copyright © 2017 by Pearson Education, Inc. Duplication for classroom use is permitted.
8
Writing Test Part 1 Write a story about something funny. Use dialogue in your story and pay attention to punctuation. Use one of the ideas below or your own idea to plan your response. Write two to three paragraphs. •
Something funny that happened to you or someone you know
•
Something funny that you or someone you know did
•
Something funny that you saw
•
Something funny that you read about
Level 2—Unit 5 Achievement Test Copyright © 2017 by Pearson Education, Inc. Duplication for classroom use is permitted.
9
Level 2—Unit 5 Achievement Test Copyright © 2017 by Pearson Education, Inc. Duplication for classroom use is permitted.
10
Part 2 How would you describe your sense of humor? What kind of jokes do you like or dislike? What kind of jokes do you tell? Write a six- to eight-sentence paragraph for your response.
Level 2—Unit 5 Achievement Test Copyright © 2017 by Pearson Education, Inc. Duplication for classroom use is permitted.
11
Speaking Test Part 1 Talk about the funniest thing you’ve ever seen. Use the questions to help you plan your response. Speak on this topic for two to three minutes. •
What did you see? What happened?
•
What did you do? How did you feel?
•
Who else was there? What did they say? What did they do?
Part 2 Read the joke. Make up a conversation in which you and a friend discuss it. Did you get the joke? Did your friend? Explain the joke or the reasons you didn’t get it. Include your friend’s responses. Your conversation should be two to three minutes. JOKE Q: Why did the cookie go to the doctor? A: Because he was feeling crumby.
Level 2—Unit 5 Achievement Test Copyright © 2017 by Pearson Education, Inc. Duplication for classroom use is permitted.
12