Name: _____________________ Grade: 10th INITIAL TEST PAPER 10 p granted I.

Read the text and answer the questions: Nasreddin's Visitors (Story courtesy of John and Muriel Higgins) One day a visitor came to Nasreddin's house. "I am your cousin from Konya," he said, "and I have brought you a duck to celebrate the visit." Nasreddin was delighted. He asked his wife to cook the duck, and served the visitor a fine dinner. The next day another visitor arrived. "I am the friend of the man who brought you the duck," he said. Nasreddin invited him in and gave him a good meal. The next day another visitor arrived, and said he was the friend of the friend of the man who had brought the duck. Again Nasreddin invited him in for a meal. However, he was getting annoyed. Visitors seemed to be using his house as a restaurant. Then another visitor came, and said he was the friend of the friend of the friend of the man who had brought the duck. Nasreddin invited him to eat dinner with him. His wife brought some soup to the table and the visitor tasted it. "What kind of soup is this?" asked the visitor. "It tastes just like warm water." "Ah!" said Nasreddin, "That is the soup of the soup of the soup of the duck." 1. How many visitors came to see Nasreddin? 2. How many of the visitors brought a duck? 3. Did Nasreddin know the first visitor?A 4. Why did Nasreddin get angry? 5. How did Nasreddin solve the problem? II. Put the verbs in brackets in the right tense: 1. My father often (watch) _____________ horror movies. 2. We (go) __________ to the seaside every summer. 3. What are you doing? I (make) _______________ a model pane. 4. Tom (clean) ______________ his bike at the moment. 5. Some dinosaurs (fly) _________ in the air and some (swim) ____________ in the sea. 6. Mammoths (live) ___________ a long time ago. 7. The children (play) ____________ tennis when their grandmother (come) __________ to visit them. 8. I (write) ____________ letters at this time yesterday. 9. They (go) __________ to the cinema tomorrow. 10. Take your umbrella with you. It (rain) _________________ . 11. Debbie (just buy) _______________ a new bike. 12. They ( already arrive) ___________________ in Germany. 13. My sister (eat) ___________ all the cookies before our parents (come) _________ home. 14. If you paid him well, ______he (come) ________ ? 15. What will you do if you (lose) ______ the way? (30p)

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III. Send a letter to your friend inviting him/her to your birthday party. (25-30 words) (30p)

Key to the test I. Reading comprehension (5x6p=30p) 1. four visitors 2. one visitor 3. no 4. The first visitor brought a duck, but the others didn't bring anything. 5. He served soup which tasted of nothing, so that no more visitors would want to come to his house II. grammar check (15x2p=30p) 1. watches 2. go 3. am making 4. is cleaning 5. flew , swam 6. lived 7. were playing , came 8. was writing 9. will go 10. is going to 11. has just bought 12. have already arrived 13. had eaten, came 14. would he come? 15. lose III. writing (30p) 1. task achievement - relevance of ideas to topic - coverage of task points 2. language accuracy - correct grammar structures - range of grammar structures 3. organization - clear organization 4. register (content) and vocabulary - appropriate register, varied and appropriate vocabulary 5.delivery - fluent presentation