TEST for the Second Semester (Listening. Reading. Use of English)

Watch the video about elephants and do the tasks.

https://youtu.be/8PQfW2P0bTA

Choose True or False for these sentences.

There are three types of elephants in the world.  

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https://youtu.be/8PQfW2P0bTA

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Female Asian elephants don't have trunks. 

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A newborn elephant weighs about the same as thirty human babies.

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Elephants don't have eyelashes. 

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Adult elephants can't jump! 

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The trunk of an elephant has more muscles than the whole human body put together. 

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Elephants use sand or mud to stop getting sunburnt.

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A female elephant is pregnant for more than two years. 

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A very long, large tooth that sticks out of the mouth of an animal.

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An elephant's nose.

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Hairs that grow along the top of an eyelid

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When you have spent too long out in the sun so your skin is sore and red.

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CELEBRITY PROFILE: Jennifer Lawrence

We all know Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, but who is the actress who plays her, Jennifer Lawrence?

Fact Facts

Name: Jennifer Shrader Lawrence

Place of birth: Kentucky, USA

Date of birth: August 15, 1990

Profession: TV and film actress

           Jen’s family

Mother: Karen Lawrence

Father: Gary Lawrence

Brothers: Ben and Blaine Lawrence

                                         Did you know?

Jennifer has never had acting classes.

When she was a child Jennifer liked sports and she played hockey and basketball for an all-boys team. She also worked as a model. At the age of 14 she knew she wanted to be an actress, so she went to New York City to look for work. She appeared in advertisements for MTV and the fashion company H&M and got work as an actress on TV. Her family moved to Los Angeles so that Jennifer could work on TV and in films. In 2010 she acted in the film Winter’s Bone and she was nominated for many awards including an Oscar. In 2012 she starred in the film The Hunger Games as Katniss Everdeen. When she isn’t working, Jen likes painting, surfing and playing the guitar.

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Jennifer is American.

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Jennifer was born in July.

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She has two brothers. 

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Jennifer took acting classes at school.

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Jennifer has done some modelling.

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Jennifer was nominated for an Oscar in 2010.

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She likes playing the piano. 

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Jennifer's family supported her dreams to be an actress.

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What sports did Jennifer play at school?

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What films has Jennifer Lawrence starred in?

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What jobs has she done?

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What does Jennifer do in her free time? 

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Linda isn't happy ___________ her new French teacher.

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Guy Fawkes tried to blow ____________ the Houses of Parliament in 1605.

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My cousin started university ___________ the age of 17.

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I'd like to stay in the house __________ the sea.

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We are in Switzeland. We _____________ in a nice hotel.

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It __________ every day here.

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_______________ the programme about Leonardo da Vinci on TV last night?

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Right now I am sitting in a cafe and I __________ coffee.

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She always ___________ her home work in the afternoon.

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Steve Jobs _____________ a technology legend.

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Beethoven _____________ the piano when he was a child.

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Ancient Inca ____________ books made of paper.