SIMCE Reading task: Right, Wrong, Doesn’t Say
This part tests your ability to understand the main idea and some details of longer texts.
- To select ‘Right’, remember that the same information was presented in the text, probably in other words. The question will often paraphrase the text
- To select ‘Wrong’, the information presented in the alternative must be completely different to the one in the text.
- If there is not enough information to answer ‘Right’ or ‘Wrong’, choose ‘Doesn’t say’.
- Read the whole text before they try to answer the questions.
- Develop the ability of guessing the meaning of unknown words from context.
- The questions will be in the same order as the information in the text.
JU READING PART
Q3: 1
Q4: 2
Q8: 1
Q11: 2
Q12: 4
Q13: 7
Q14: 9
Q15: 3
Q16: 1
Q17: 2
Q18: 2
Q20: 1
Q21: 3
Q23: 2
Q24: 2
Q25: 1
Q26: 1
Q29: 1
Q30: 3
Q31: 1
Q32: 1
Q34: 1
Q35: 3
Q36: 1
Q37: 4
Q38: 2
Q39: 1
Q40: 4
Q41: 4
Q42: 2
Q43: 5
Q44: 10
Q45: 4
Q46: 7
Q47: 8
Q48: 6
Q49: 9
Q50: 7
VC READING PART
Q3: 1
Q4: 1
Q9: 5
Q10: 11
Q11: 1
Q12: 5
Q13: 2
Q14: 3
Q16: 2
Q17: 2
Q18: 6
Q19: 1
Q20: 2
Q21: 4
Q22: 1
Q23: 12
Q24: 4
Q25: 3
Q29: 1
Q31: 2
Q34: 3
Q36: 1
Q37: 2
Q38: 4
Q40: 5
Q44: 2
Q46: 3
Q47: 3
Q48: 2
Q49: 10
Integrated skills test, August 1st
Topics
- Grammar:
– Comparative and superlatives: My house is bigger than yours / My house is the biggest in the neighborhood – My house is more beautiful than yours / My house is the most beautiful in the neighborhood. (small, short, large, tall, rich, large, dangerous, deadly, high, scary, frightening, heavy, long)
As… as… comparatives: My house is as big as your house / My house isn’t as big as John’s house.
– Connective devices: However, Even though, Then, Indeed, Therefore, Moreover, Besides, In fact, First, Second, Third, Initially, What’s more, Likely, Although, On the other hand, To conclude, In conclusion, Similarly, Before, After, Since, As a result,
- Reading comprehension:
Activity related to the unit “Social Relationships” with “right”, “wrong”, “doesn’t say” alternatives
- Listening:
Activity related to the unit “Social relationships”: “Homeschooling”.
Comparatives “As as”
Click on the following video for an explanation of this grammar component and then, answer the exercises provided by your teacher
School: To go or not to go?
Many students around have woken up some days asking “WHY school exists?!” There are different answers for this question and even the same for the reasons children don’t like school or even coming to it.
In your case, what do you do when you do not want to come to classes? Are you forced by your parents to do so? Or you are free to decide when or when not to show up?
In your opinion:
What are the benefits of coming to school?
Are you happy at school or you are happier at home?
To avoid this problem, some parents (especially in the US and the UK) have decided to take their children out of schools and start a new system of education known as “Homeschooling”.
Home schooling occurs when parents take charge of their children’s education — organizing subjects, teaching lessons or arranging for tutors, evaluating progress, and supervising social contacts
Famous home-schoolers
- Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum educated all seven of his children at home and has mocked America’s schools as “factories”
- Denver Broncos star quarterback Tim Tebow took advantage of Florida law allowing home-schooled children to take part in school sport
- Inventor Thomas Edison was taken out of his public school by his mother and taught at home
- US presidents including Abraham Lincoln,George Washington and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were home-schooled
- Home-schooled showbiz figures include Charlie Chaplin, Whoopi Goldberg and Louis Armstrong
Answer these questions:
1. According to the US Departament of Education, how many kids are taught by their parents?
2. What reasons are given by parents to justify homeschooling?
3. What’s unnatural for the Sobral Family?
4. Why is homeschooling a 24/7 job?
5. What is the meaning of well rounder?
LET’S DISCUSS:
Do you believe that homeschooling weakens socialization skills?
Would it be practical to take the IB Diploma or some IB courses as a homeschooled kid?
Under what circumstances would you like to be homeschooled? Explain these scenarios.
Do you think traumatic incidents at school, such as bullying, lower academic performance, lower performance at sports, leave an everlasting impact on human relationships? How? Why?
COMPARE:
MAKE SENTENCES USING THE COMPARATIVES “GOOD”, “INTERESTING”, DEFYING”, “BAD” AND “ENTERTAINING”. GIVE YOUR REASONS. E.G.
“Home schooling is better than regular schooling because children are not taught by the same person and the same material in the same way”.
When 13 year-old Logan LaPlante grows up, he wants to be happy and healthy. He discusses how hacking his education is helping him achieve this goal.
How old was he when he dropped school? What did people say about this?
What is his main goal in life? How is he achieving it?
Would you have liked to do this when you were 13 years old? Why? Why not?
Connectives
Today, it is time for us to review the use of connectives. As you know there are many of them, but their usage is different. Have a look at types_of_connectives PPT and write down the type of connective they are in the worksheet provided by your teacher.
Here you have a hangman game where you can test your memory: GAME
Comparatives and Superlatives
Watch the following song for an explanation of this grammar topic:
IB Written assignment “most common mistakes”
- a lot of benefits like less economic impacts or don’t lose a lot of money
- but glass that is through away…
- in the country, there are making this through water-efficient product choice…
- in how many more years will disappear?
- I wan’t to transmit the message of…
- One of the things that the people contaminated in the lastest years the water.
- off course animals, like tigers…
- I used a optimistic tone…
- the naturals environments…
- According to scientifics…
- During the pass of the years…
- I felt impacting like how a biggest country like United State have this several problem.
- … that is the gases that come from cars and the problems that brings the pollution…
- the world loss species in biodiversity…
- when the industry start making…
- Finally, you must be conscients
- that situation in the uk is worried…
- that is one fact to considered because is a very necessary helps.
- I wrote my letter using some information dissaper from three sources
- the global warming are gonna increase…
- Australia have facts sheets of recycling, have many types for recycling for example
- this type of giant garbage is pass to a company that recycle all that things,
4M English B Standard Level 