Gap filling HW advanced 2

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LISTENING

UNIT 2: EDUCATION

THE PHYSICS OLYMPIAD IN IRAN

Questions 1-10

Complete the statement below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer

1 More than 300 secondary school students competed in ……… International Physics Olympiad last month in Iran

2 They came from ……… countries

3 Students from ……… had the top results: four gold medals and one silver

4 Russia was the second with ……… gold medals, one silver and one honourable mention

5 Both the United States and ……… brought home two gold medals and three silver medals

6 The teams from Iran and Japan had two gold medals, ……… silver and

……… bronze medal each

7 There were written examinations and ……… experiments as well as discussion meetings

8 Physics teachers in America nominated students and the committees chose about

……… of them

9 There were ……… students who were chosen to be the members of the team after some additional tests

10 The members attended the United States ……… Camp at the University of Maryland

Questions 11-14

Answer the following questions using NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each

11 How many days did the intensive training last?

12 How many members of the team were chosen to travel to the

Olympiad at the end of the camp?

………

………

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13 When did the first International Physics Olympiad take place?

14 Where did the International Physics Olympiad take place before

the early 1980s?

………

………

A FILL-IN-THE-BLANK TEST

Complete the summary below by using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in each space provided

A fill-in-the-blank test will require you to recall an answer from 1 ……… … or choose an answer from a list of options Choosing an answer from a list is 2 ……… than recalling an answer from memory The information in the incomplete statement may provide 3

……… that will help you decide what to write in the blanks First, you should decide what kind of answer the statement 4 ……… Knowing what the question asks will help you 5

……… the right answer Second, the way the statement is 6 ……… may help you decide how to complete it Your answer should complete the statement 7 ……… and grammatically

TEACHING SPEAKING AND LISTENING

Question 1-2

Circle the appropriate letter A, B, C, or D

1 This course is for ESL/EFL teachers who ………

A Haven’t got any teaching experience

B Have some teaching experience

C Don’t want to teach English

D Want to learn other languages

2 This course is intended to ………

A Collect teaching suggestions, ideas or activities

B Learn some methods of teaching grammar

C Explore further when we teach speaking and listening

D Collect some practical techniques of teaching speaking and listening

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3 The focus of this course is on teaching ……… of English

4 The course is only ……… of your teaching training

5 The course has been divided into ……… units

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6 Each units represents ……… hours of study

7 Learning activities will take ……… of time to complete depending on the individual student

8 The ……… provides a good starting place to research for materials

SEMINARS

Complete the statements below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in each space provided

1 Seminars are attended by ……… staff and senior students

2 The seminar’s focus is boarder and tends to allow more ……… among the students and teachers

3 You give a seminar to display to ……… the depth of your knowledge on a topic

4 You can present and discuss some of yours ……… for review

5 You have the right to bring the audience back ……… if the discussion wanders in seminars

6 The main purposes of a seminar are to hear a ……… presented and for

……… to add to the presenter’s knowledge by offering their ideas on the subject

7 You need to ……… before you go to the seminar

8 You should make notes of any points in ……… that you do not understand

9 During the talk, you should ……… which show what you agree or disagree with and what points you want to discuss

TRUE-FALSE TEST STRATEGIES

Choose the correct letter A, B, or C

1 What kind of test does Linda always have problems with?

A Subjective tests B Objective tests C Subjective and Objective tests

2 What is one of the strategies for true and false questions?

A Mark a statement true unless you know it is false

B Mark a statement false unless you know it is true

C Mark 50% if statements true

3 If the statement contains absolute words, mark it ………

4 “………” is an absolute word

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Complete the statement below using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer

5 True-false tests often contain ……… true answers than false one

6 Absolute words tend to make statements false because they do not allow for …………

7 Absolute words usually make statements ………, but not always

8 Mark a statement false if ……… of it is false

9 If part of a statement is ………., then the whole statement is untrue

10 Linda will use these ……… for her next test

MULTIPLE-CHOICE TESTS

Questions 1-6

Complete the statements below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in each space provided

1 The answer choices are called ……… in the multiple-choice test

2 The incorrect options are called ……… because they distract your attention away from the correct options

3 Your job is to ……… the one correct option in the multiple-choice test

4 First answer the question ………, and then read all the options and choose the correct one

5 If you cannot answer the question in your mind, you should eliminate those you know are

………., and choose the one from those remaining

6 Another way is to ……… If you cannot figure out the answer

Questions 7-10

Answer the following questions using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer

7 What kind of choices are most of the options that contain the phrases “all of the above” of

“none of the above”?

8 What is the word the option contains that may be a distractor or an incorrect answer? Give two examples

9 What type of words that an option contains may also be a distractor?

10 What numbers tend to be the correct answers if the list of options is a list of numbers?

FOREIGN STUDENTS INCREASED

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Questions 1-5

Complete the statement below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/A NUMBER in each space provided

1 The number of foreign students in colleges and universities in the United States increased

……… last year

2 In the fall of 2001, American schools had ……… foreign students

3 After 2002, the number of foreign students ………

4 Visa requirements became more ……… after the terrorist attacks in 2001

5 Now, the United States is making ……… to get more foreign students to study in their universities

Questions 6-10

Answer the following questions using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer

6 Which country sent the most international students last fall? ………

7 Which country’s number of foreign students to the US dropped

8 Which country doubled its number of foreign students to the US? ………

9 Which university had the most foreign students for a sixth year after

10 What field of study was chosen by 18% of foreign student last year? ………

WELCOME TO STUDY IN AUSTRALIA!

Complete the statement below Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER in each space provided

1 There are around ……… international students in Australia

2 The online guide can help you make the ………

3 The online guide provides ……… of the Australian education system

4 It also gives profiles of education institutions offering ……… at different levels

5 English language courses for overseas students are ……… study

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6 Tourists can study in colleges during their stay as long as the course is ……… 12 weeks long

7 When students apply to the Australian universities, they need to have completed

……… of full time study at their home institution

8 They need to satisfy ……… requirements if from a none-English speaking

country

9 Students are required to fulfil other application requirements such as providing

……… references and a financial statement

10 Admission requirements ……… among Australian institutions, so it is important

to check

A VOA SPECIAL ENGLISH EDUCATION REPORT

Complete the summary of the report below using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS in each space provided

American schools have made changes One idea is to extend the school year to 1 ……… a long summer break Another choice is to extend the 2 ……… Some schools have changed

to later start times because they found teenagers could learn 3 ……… that way Schools provide longer periods in the school day to teach 4 ……… subjects Secondary schools with traditional schedules had higher 5 ……… scores by comparison Schools with block scheduling did have higher score in 6 ……… Students feel better about their schools in systems with 7 ……… scheduling Education leaders should change the learning

8 ……… of a school when they make scheduling changes It is valuable to have 9

……… support when making changes School may need a lot of 10 ……… to pay for an extended day

THE WORLD’S OLDEST GRADUATE

Complete the statements below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER in each space provided

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1 Nancy graduated from Fort Hays State University in ………

2 Nola Ochs graduated from the university when she was ……… Years old

3 She makes herself the world’s oldest graduate for ……… Of the Guinness World Records

4 Nola Ochs’ major is ………

5 Nola Ochs’ ……… Graduated with her

LISTENING SKILLS

Complete the statements below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in each space provided

1 Passive listeners do more ……… than listening and they aren’t making sense of what people say

2 Passive listeners may expect instructors to ……… them and to interest them in the topic

3 Active listeners ……… to what they hear and try to make sense of it

4 Active listeners expect to find ……… for being interested in a lecture topic

5 To become an active listener, you should take an ……… instead of waiting

passively to receive information

HOW BABIES LEARN

Questions 1-10

Complete the statements below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER in each space provided

1 Babies begin learning on their ……… of life

2 A baby’s smiling shows how he or she learns to ……… …… with other human beings

3 The study involved more than ……… mother and children aged one month to 3 years

4 The researchers attempted to measure ……… of the mothers

5 The children of depressed women did ……… on the test of language skills and understand what they hear

6 These children also were less ……… and had more problems dealing with other people

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7 The researchers found that the sensitivity of the mothers was important to ………

of their children

8 The first three years of a child’s life is the time when ……… is developing

9 By the end of the first year, most children are able to say ……… words

10 By ………, most children are able to form simple statements

EXAM QUESTIONS

A-LEVEL REQUIREMENT

Questions 1-4

Choose the correct answer A, B, C, D

1 How did the student get the university prospectus?

A From the woman

B From the Internet

C From a friend

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D During a visit to the university

2 What is the A-level requirement for the course?

A BBB

B BBC

C BCC

D There is no clear requirement

3 What A-levels is the student taking?

A He doesn’t say

B He hasn’t started his A-levels yet

C Politics, a language and another subject

D Economics, geography and history

4 Who can use the language lab?

A Only students who have chosen to study a language

B Only students who are preparing for work abroad

C Students who have chosen one of the five languages offered on the course

D Any student

Questions 5-7

Answer the following questions using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS/NUMBERS for each

5 Who decides the country in which the student will work in year three?

6 Who many students went to work in either Singapore of Brunei this year?

7 What is the advantage of translating or checking translation?

Questions 8-10

Complete the following sentences using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap

8 The women points out that the student can teach English and together

9 First year students can study a language or do a project, but are on one

10 There are no department _ for first year students

UNIVERSITY GEOGRAPHY FIELD TRIP

Questions 1-7

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Complete the following notes by using A NUMBER or NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each

answer

Questions 8-10

Choose THREE letter, A-F

Which THREE things does Cesar recommend bringing?

TRACK: ENROLMENT FORM

University Geography Field Trip

Time: next week (a two-day trip) (Example)

Destination: the Warrangamba Dam and 1

Matching course: Environmental Science

Departing time of coach: at 2 next Monday

Length of journey there: 3 _ roughly and three hours back

First day’s activity: 4

Spending the night: in 5

Meals provided: in the form of 6

Sydney’s daily water consumption:

Equal to the water to fill 7 full-size

Olympic swimming pools Second day’s activity: go to the water plant to see how to purify the water for

drinking

A Binoculars

B Camera

C Penknife

D Map

E Raincoat

F Mobile phone

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Enrolment Form

Name: Peter 1 _

Course: BSc Economics

Faculty: 2 _

University address: Room 112, 3 Residence, Duke Street, Newcastle

Home Address: 56 Grove Street, Manchester, 4

TRACK ORIENTATION DAY 5 OCTOBER

Listen to a conversation and complete the table

Meeting at

International Office 9.30

International Office administration International Office

Greeting new students 10.00 –

Sponsor’s meeting 11.15 British Council

representative (3)

Departmental meeting 12.00 (4) _ Departmental office

(6) meeting

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FORM FILLING – 2

DEPARTMENT OF EXTRAMURAL STUDIES CENTRAL COURSE

APPLICATION FORM Course No: 1 _ Fee enclosed: 2 _

Course title: Drama & Theatre Studies

If there is an examination involved, do you intend sitting it? Yes/No

Surname: 3

First name: Jenny

Address: 4 _, Longford

Telephone No: daytime: No evening: 5 _

Occupation: 6 Age: 7

Educational qualifications: Degree in 8

Diploma in 9

Previous extramural courses attended 10 _

STUDENT’S UNION SERVICES

Note

3 main areas:

* Give advice and information

* Organize 1 events

* Campaign for student’s rights

6 advisors: specialists in 2 and travel

Location of 24-hour helpline number: 3 _