GUIAS DE ESTUDIO DEL SEGUNDO PERIODO CICLO ESCOLAR 2014-2015 CUARTO GRADO Estas guías tienen como objetivo ser un reforzamiento para la preparación de los exámenes del período; no contienen el 100% de los temas que se abarcan en éstos, el alumno debe resolverlas en casa, consultando dudas con su maestro y debe basarse para su estudio en el trabajo en clase realizado en su libreta y libro. INLGES IV 1407 I.Fill in the correct form of the words in brackets (comparative or superlative). 1. My house is (big)__________ than yours. 2. This flower is (beautiful)_________than that one. 3. This is the (interesting)__________book I have ever read. 4. Non-smokers usually live (long)_________than smokers. 5. Which is the (dangerous)__________animal in the world? 6. A holiday by the sea is (good)__________ than a holiday in the mountains. 7. It is strange but often a coke is (expensive)__________than a beer. 8. Who is the (rich)__________woman on earth? 9. The weather this summer is even (bad)__________than last summer. 10. He was the (clever)___________thief of all. II. Choose the correct time expression 1.Do not forget to phone John... 'I have__________ phoned him'. (yet, already, ever) 2. Have you seen him anywhere? 'I have__________ seen him in the kitchen'. (just, already, never) 3. I have _________been to Japan... What about you? (yet, never, ever) 4. Has Ann just phoned? 'Yes, she has__________phoned'. (ever, yet, just) 5.Why don't you read that paper? 'I have __________read it'. (yet, already, just) 6. Has it stopped snowing? 'No, it hasn't stopped snowing___________. (just, yet, already) 7. Have you __________travelled to space? 'Of course not' (never, already, ever) 8. Poor lady...She has ___________had a boyfriend in her life! (ever, never, yet) 9. I haven't told my parents about my failure__________ . (ever, just, yet) 10.Would you like a sandwich? 'No, thanks. I have __________had lunch.' (just, yet, ever) GU4P2 1/5 GUIAS DE ESTUDIO DEL SEGUNDO PERIODO CICLO ESCOLAR 2014-2015 CUARTO GRADO Estas guías tienen como objetivo ser un reforzamiento para la preparación de los exámenes del período; no contienen el 100% de los temas que se abarcan en éstos, el alumno debe resolverlas en casa, consultando dudas con su maestro y debe basarse para su estudio en el trabajo en clase realizado en su libreta y libro. III. Present Perfect Simple and Continuous For each sentence, choose the best form, either Present Perfect Simple or Present Perfect Continuous. 1.I've been cleaning/cleaned this room all morning and now I'm exhausted! 2. Hurry up Jane! You've only finished/been finishing two questions and we have to write the answers to five. 3. Tony has lived/been living with his uncle recently while he looks for a new apartment. 4. I've been learning/learnt English for over twelve years now. 5. That's a really nice watch you have Greg. How long have you had it/been having it? 6. My local hockey team are an embarrassment to everyone. The season finishes in two weeks and they haven't won/haven't been winning a single game!! 7. Ouch! I've cut/been cutting my finger with that terrible knife again! 8. Sorry to arrive looking so untidy. I've been running/run as I missed the bus. 9. You know your dinner is in half an hour. How many of those chocolates have you eaten/been eating? 10. I've been finishing/finished writing my first novel at last. It should be published in the summer. 11. John has been phoning/phoned all morning. He really must need to speak to you! 12. I've visited/been visiting Russia every year since I was six. It's such a beautiful country. GU4P2 2/5 GUIAS DE ESTUDIO DEL SEGUNDO PERIODO CICLO ESCOLAR 2014-2015 CUARTO GRADO Estas guías tienen como objetivo ser un reforzamiento para la preparación de los exámenes del período; no contienen el 100% de los temas que se abarcan en éstos, el alumno debe resolverlas en casa, consultando dudas con su maestro y debe basarse para su estudio en el trabajo en clase realizado en su libreta y libro. IV. VOCABULARY (NEGATIVE PREFIXES) (UN, IN, IM, MIS,IL, DIS, IR) _____Happy _____ patient ____ polite _____ legal ______Correct _____ regular _____ visible _____ possible ______Legible _____ friendly _____ employed _____ honest ______Pack ______ lock _____ agree _____like V. ADJECTIVES OF FEELING ( -ED, -ING) Underline the correct form of the adjective in these opinions. a) I‟ve just read a very | amusing | amused | book b) The basketball game was very | excited | exciting | because both teams played well. c) I couldn‟t find the way to your house because your map was very | confused | confusing |. d) I was | amazed | amazing | that your daughter did so well in her exam. e) Please go away. You are very | annoyed | annoying |. f) I was | shocked | shocking | when I saw the bill! It was £54.25! g) Are you | interested | interesting | in politics? h) I was very | embarrassed | embarrassing | because I didn‟t understand Spanish. i) Everybody was | amused | amusing | by her imitations of her teachers. j) The walk to the top of the hill was | exhausted | exhausting |. Correct mistakes a) I didn‟t enjoy the party. It was very bored. b) The ghost story was very frightening. c) I was shocking by what she told me. d) The children were over-excited and noisy. e) Your holiday in South America sounds very exciting. f) I was embarrassing when they asked me to sing. g) It was very depressing to hear about your problems. h) I thought the story was very confusing. i) I was very tiring so I went to bed. VI. HOUSEHOLD CHORES OPEN CLOZE Complete the blanks with an appropriate word First, I get up early at 6 o'clock in the ___________. Next, I ___________ my teeth and wash my ______________. Then, I put on my ___________ and comb my _________. After that, I eat _____________. Next I go to ____________. At school we __________ different subjects. I also ____________with my friends at school. After school, I go _________. At home, I________________ the room and do my ____________. Later, I ________ dinner with my family. After dinner, I _____________TV. Finally, I go to _____________ GU4P2 3/5 GUIAS DE ESTUDIO DEL SEGUNDO PERIODO CICLO ESCOLAR 2014-2015 CUARTO GRADO Estas guías tienen como objetivo ser un reforzamiento para la preparación de los exámenes del período; no contienen el 100% de los temas que se abarcan en éstos, el alumno debe resolverlas en casa, consultando dudas con su maestro y debe basarse para su estudio en el trabajo en clase realizado en su libreta y libro. Complete missing information. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. I sweep ____________________________________ I wash______________________________________ I do ________________________________________ I make _____________________________________ I water _____________________________________ ____________________________ the carpet ____________________________ the clothes ____________________________ the furniture VII. READING. Multiple choice You are going to read a magazine article about people who collect things. For questions 1 to 14 , choose from the people (A – D). The people may be chosen more than once. A. Ron Barton shares his home with about 200 sewing machines. His passion began when he was searching for bits of second-hand furniture and kept seeing „beautiful old sewing machines that were next to nothing to buy‟. He couldn‟t resist them. Then a friend had a machine that wouldn‟t work, so she asked Barton to look at it for her. At that stage he was not an authority on the subject, but he worked on it for three days and eventually got it going. Later he opened up a small stand in a London market. „Most people seemed uninterested. Then a dealer came and bought everything I‟d taken along. I thought, “Great! This is my future life.” But after that I never sold another one there and ended up with a stall in another market which was only moderately successful.‟ Nowadays, he concentrates on domestic machines in their original box containers with their handbooks. He is often asked if he does any sewing with them. The answer is that, apart from making sure that they work, he rarely touches them. B. As a boy, Chris Peters collected hundreds of vintage cameras, mostly from jumble sales and dustbins. Later, when the time came to buy his first house, he had to sell his valuable collection in order to put down a deposit. A few years after, he took up the interest again and now has over a thousand cameras, the earliest dating from 1860. Now Peters „just cannot stop collecting‟ and hopes to open his own photographic museum where members of the public will be able to touch and fiddle around with the cameras. Whilst acknowledging that the Royal Camera Collection in Bath is probably more extensive than his own, he points out that „so few of the items are on show there at the same time that I think my own personal collection will easily rival it.‟ C. Sylvia King is one of the foremost authorities on plastics in Britain. She has, in every corner of her house, a striking collection of plastic objects of every kind, dating from the middle of the last century and illustrating the complex uses of plastic over the years. King‟s interest started when she was commissioned to write her first book. In order to do this, she had to start from scratch; so she attended a course on work machinery, maintaining that if she didn‟t understand plastics manufacture then nobody else would. As she gathered information for her book, she also began to collect pieces of plastic from every imaginable source: junk shops, arcades, and the cupboards of friends. She also collects „because it is vital to keep examples. We live in an age of throw-away items: tape recorders, cassettes, hair dryers – they are all replaced so quickly.‟ King‟s second book, Classic Plastics: from Bakelite to High Tech, is the first published guide to plastics collecting. It describes collections that can be visited and gives simple and safe home tests for identification. King admits that „plastic is a mysterious substance and many people are frightened of it. Even so, the band of collectors is constantly expanding.‟ GU4P2 4/5 GUIAS DE ESTUDIO DEL SEGUNDO PERIODO CICLO ESCOLAR 2014-2015 CUARTO GRADO Estas guías tienen como objetivo ser un reforzamiento para la preparación de los exámenes del período; no contienen el 100% de los temas que se abarcan en éstos, el alumno debe resolverlas en casa, consultando dudas con su maestro y debe basarse para su estudio en el trabajo en clase realizado en su libreta y libro. D. Janet Pontin already had twenty years of collecting one thing or another behind her when she started collecting „art deco‟ fans in 1966. It happened when she went to an auction sale and saw a shoe-box filled with them. Someone else got them by offering a higher price and she was very cross. Later, to her astonishment, he went round to her flat and presented them to her. „That was how it all started.‟ There were about five fans in the shoe-box and since then they‟ve been exhibited in the first really big exhibition of „art deco‟ in America. The fans are not normally on show, however, but are kept behind glass. They are extremely fragile and people are tempted to handle them. The idea is to have, one day, a black-lacquered room where they can be more easily seen. Pontin doesn‟t restrict herself to fans of a particular period, but she will only buy a fan if it is in excellent condition. The same rule applies to everything in her house. 1.- had to re-start their collection? _____ 2.- has provided useful advice on their subject? _____ 3.- received an unexpected gift?_____ 4.- admits to making little practical use of their collection? ____ 5.- regrets the rapid disappearance of certain items? _____ 6.- is aware that a fuller collection of items exists elsewhere? ______ 7.- has a history of collecting different items? ______ 8.- performed a favour for someone they knew? ______ 9.- is a national expert on their subject? ______ 10.- is aware that they form part of growing group?_____ 11.- insists on purchasing top-quality items? _____ 12.- noticed items while looking for something else? 13.- has to protect their collection from damage? _____ 14.- would like to create a hands-on display of their collection? _____ GU4P2 5/5