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English Language Listening Teacher’s Paper / Form 4 Track 3 / 2017 Page 1 of 2

KULLEĠĠ SAN BENEDITTU

Secondary School, Kirkop

HALF YEARLY EXAMINATION – 2016/2017

TEACHER’S PAPER

Instructions for the conduct of the Listening Comprehension Examination

The teacher should instruct the candidates to answer the questions on the paper provided. The

following procedure for reading the Listening Comprehension passage is to be explained to

the candidates immediately before proceeding with the examination.

a. 3 minutes – Students read questions.

b. 3 minutes – Teacher reads passage aloud for the first time while students take notes.

c. 3 minutes – Students answer questions.

d. 3 minutes – Teacher reads passage for the second time. Students may answer more

questions.

e. 3 minutes – Students revise final answers.

FORM 4 Track 3 ENGLISH Listening Comprehension

TIME: 15 minutes

You have been given a sheet containing the Listening

Comprehension questions. You will be given three minutes to read

the questions based on the passage. The passage will be read at

normal reading speed. You may take notes during the reading.

After this reading there will be a pause of another three minutes to

allow you to answer some of the questions. I shall read the passage

a second time and you may take further notes and answer the rest

of the questions. After this second reading you will be given a

further three minutes for a final revision of the answers.

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Secondary School, Kirkop HALF YEARLY EXAMINATION – 2016/2017

TEACHER’S PAPER

Listen to a radio programme in which Rita McMahon, the director of the Wild Bird

Fund in the United States explains how to help an injured bird.

Good morning, everyone. Many of our listeners have noted that during the autumn migration

season a lot of birds are injured when they fly into closed windows. If you come across a bird

that is lying sideways on the ground, prod the bird’s legs: if they move freely, there’s a

chance of revival.

Keep the bird warm. The average body temperature of many migration birds in flight is 40

degrees, but they can end up concussed on a cold pavement where the temperature can be 20

or 15 degrees. They’d be in shock and the pavement leaches out their body temperatures.

You could put the bird in your pocket to warm it up. Don’t worry about disease. Generally

people can’t catch avian diseases. However, it is always safer to wash your hands after

handling a bird, and should you find a dead bird, dispose of the body using rubber gloves or a

plastic bag.

You could also place the injured bird in a little box or paper bag. When birds are placed in a

quiet, dark spot, they rest. A brown paper bag makes the perfect bird ambulance. Let the bird

rest for an hour. If, after that, the bird is fluffed up and has its beak tucked under a wing, it is

still trying to get warm.

Wait until it becomes alert, then take it to a park with a water source and let it go. Don’t

throw the bird in the air. Just let him leave.

If you follow these steps there’s a 50 percent chance you can save the bird. You should also

report the details on D-Bird.org, a database that tracks the location and frequency of window

strikes. They use the information to lobby for bird-friendly building design.

A third of all North American bird populations are at risk of becoming extinct. The New

York City Council estimates that 200,000 migration birds die each year from window strikes

in the city. New York is an ancient migration route, and we built this city in their way. We’re

a real obstacle course for birds.


TIME: 15 minutes

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Name: ________________________________________ Class: _________________

Put a tick () in the box to indicate whether the statement is TRUE (T) or False (F).

3 marks [ ]

T F

1. Rita McMahon is the president of Wild Bird Fund.

2. Birds migrate in autumn.

3. Birds should not be touched due to the diseases they might be carrying.

4. To keep warm, a bird tucks its beak under a wing.

5. Injured bird incidences should be reported on D-Bird.org.

6. A third of the North American bird population has become extinct.

A. What do these numbers refer to in the passage? 3 marks [ ]

1. 40

2. 20

3. 200,000

B. Rita McMahon describes the procedure one should follow when finding an injured

bird. Put the following steps in the right order. The first one has been done for you.

2 marks [ ] 1. Take it to an open space.

2. Poke the bird’s leg.

3. You see a motionless bird on the pavement. 1

4. Let the bird rest for some time.

5. Keep the bird warm and in a dark place.

C. What does McMahon say is the problem with New York? 2 marks [ ]

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TIME: 15 minutes

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Text A

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The memorial celebration was held in the great hall of the Natural History Museum in

London on a hot evening in June 1995. More than a thousand people, public and guests, Trust

members and fans, came to rejoice and give thanks for the life and work of Gerald Durrell.

The queue stretched up Exhibition Road and past the Science Museum, and the audience was

packed round the great dinosaur skeleton in the hall and on the galleries above.

Arranged and directed by one of Gerald’s closest friends at the Trust, the celebration

encompassed his entire life and work. There were speeches and photographs and clips of his

films on a giant screen and readings from his writings and renderings of songs and music from

Noel Coward and the Cameroons. Sir David Attenborough spoke of the Durrell magic that had

touched so many people’s lives on a personal level because he was a crusader. Gerald had

been a man before his time, he said, who had harboured a dream of owning a zoo – a special

zoo whose main role was the survival of species. Princess Anne read out the message Gerald

had addressed to future generations, encouraging them to treasure and honour the natural

world and to cherish the earth’s diversity of species – a message she herself had buried in the

time capsule in the zoo grounds. The voices and the music echoed among the arches and

cloisters and then died. Gerald had been given a big goodbye, and it was over.

Or was it? One morning in the early spring following Gerald’s death I had walked with

Lee, his widow, through the grounds of the zoo he had founded on a wing and a prayer all

those years ago. It was a beautiful morning. The zoo was a haven of peace, its leafy

tranquillity only broken by an occasional heart-arresting jungle shriek from the lemurs as they

defended their territory.

I was new to this world then. Everywhere I looked I observed seemingly contented

animals play. Only the female snow leopard looked grumpy. ‘It takes ten dumb animals to

make a fur coat,’ read the placard outside the creature’s enclosure, indicating the cause of its

endangered status, ‘but only one to wear it.’

I came to the enclosure for the lowland gorillas. The females and children were sitting

quietly together. The alpha male of the Jersey gorillas – the next big breeder – was pointed out

to me.

We passed another enclosure, and Lee called out as a keeper emerged from it.

“How’d it go?”

“Like a dream,” came the man’s enthusiastic reply. “She went into labour in the middle

of the night. Absolutely no problem. A perfect delivery. Piece of cake.”

“What did she have?” asked Lee.

“A boy and a girl,” replied the keeper, unable to conceal his joy and pride, adding

mysteriously and alarmingly, “with perfect markings.”

Perfect markings? I had assumed the keeper had been talking about his wife and was

delighting in the birth of twins, but I had a problem picturing them the way he had described

them.

“That was the spectacled-bear keeper,” Lee explained. “One of the bears has just had

babies.”

FORM 4 Track 3 READING COMPREHENSION


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The birth of two offspring from an endangered species was reason enough for rejoicing.

It was what Jersey Zoo and Trust were all about. Gerald Durrell the man was no more but his

work lived on, and the reason for it – the embattled kingdom of living things – remained. And

he had left behind an organisation and a team which continues to raise funds and is as

dedicated to the cause as he. There is no doubt that Gerald Durrell’s spirit lives on – in his

books, in his zoo, in his ongoing mission, in the natural world he has left behind.

Text B

+7,400%

Mauritius Kestrel Start population:4

Finish population:350 1974-2010

+4,900%

Echo Parakeet Start population: 10 Finish population:

500 1980-2010

+2,757%

Rodriguez Fruit bat Start population: 350

Finish population: 10,000

1982-2010

+2,400%

Pink Pigeon Start population: 16

Finish population: 400 1980-2010

+1,500%

St Lucia Parrot Start population: 125

Finish population: 2,000

1975-2009




NAME: ___________________________________ CLASS: _________________

Speaking Listening

Comprehension Language Paper TOTAL

A. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense. The first one (0) has been done for

you.

A 70-year-old Korean tourist (0) tried (try) to head-butt a flight assistant and

(1)_________________ (threaten) fellow passengers after being told he couldn’t do yoga

stretches on a plane. Hyongtae Pae and his wife (2) ___________________ (just spend) their

40th wedding anniversary in Hawaii and (3) ________________ (be) heading home on a

United States Airlines flight from Honolulu to Tokyo when the incident

(4)________________ (occur). As the crew served meals, Mr Pae (5) ________________

(retreat) to the rear of the plane to do yoga and meditate. When asked to return to his seat, he

refused, (6)________________ (become) angry with the crew members who spoke to him.

He also threatened (7)________________ (kill) other passengers and yelled obscene words.

The pilot turned the plane back to Honolulu where Mr Pae (8) ________________ (arrest).

According to the press, Mr Pae told authorities he (9) ________________ (not sleep) for 11

days. He pleaded guilty and (10)________________ (order) to pay $44,235 for the violent

nature of his offence.

(5 marks)

FORM 4 Track 3 ENGLISH TIME: 2 hours


B. Fill in the spaces with a word formed from the words in brackets. The first one (0)

has been done for you.

Working abroad

Going to work abroad can prove to be quite a (0) valuable (value) experience. Learning how

to adjust to (1) ________________ (foreigner) cultures is both character-building and

strengthening. Many people who give in to the (2) ________________ (tempt) of living

abroad, do so in search of a more (3) ________________ (adventure) life. However, the

whole concept of leaving your home country must be (4) ________________ (care) thought

out. Problems such as finding (5) ________________ (accommodate) and

(6)________________ (immigrate) procedures should be considered well in advance. For

the first few weeks abroad, you may feel terribly (7) ________________ (loneliness) and

homesick. (8) ________________ (communicate) problems may also lead to unnecessary

(9)________________ (understand), so it is always useful to (10) ________________

(familiar) yourself with both the language of the country and its customs before you go.

(5 marks)

C. Fill in the spaces with a suitable word. The first one (0) has been done for you.

Weather prediction

Predicting the weather has always been (0) important to our lives, since

(1)________________ change can seriously affect crops and therefore the

(2)________________ of food. Today, forecasters use modern technology in order to

increase their accuracy. Knowing what the weather will be like is not (3) ________________

interesting to farmers, it is also relevant (4) ________________ sports enthusiasts such as

skiers and people (5) ________________ live in mountainous areas. Despite improvements

in forecasting, the weather often remains (6) ________________ and this has given

forecasters a bad reputation. However, the climate is often so changeable that even experts

with the latest (7) ________________ find it impossible to make (8) ________________

forecasts. Until further (9) ________________ are made in this field, it is likely that

forecasters will not be (10) ________________ to be 100% certain of tomorrow’s weather.

(5 marks)


D. Fill in the blanks with a linking word from the box. Use each word only once.

and but despite furthermore so

when although however as therefore

Dear Mr Marshall,

I have been a loyal customer at Marshall’s Electronics for many years,

(1)________________ yesterday I was outraged by the terrible customer service I received.

Last week, I purchased a camera from your shop. (2)________________ I brought it home,

(3) ________________, I realised that the lens cover was missing. (4) ________________,

the lens had been scratched. I took it back to the shop (5) ________________ asked for a

replacement. The shop assistant refused to supply one, (6) ________________ the fact that I

had my receipt, (7)________________ I asked to speak to the manager. He was also

extremely rude to me. (8) ________________ he did exchange the camera for a new one, he

accused me of damaging the lens myself! (9)________________, I would appreciate it if you

could look into this matter further (10) ________________ I know you value your

customers’ opinions.

(5 marks)

E – READING COMPREHENSION 30 MARKS

Read TEXT A, which is on a separate sheet, and then answer the following questions.

1. Underline the correct answer.

This passage is taken from:

a. a biography

b. a fanzine

c. a novel

d. an encyclopedia (1 mark)

2. Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE? Underline the correct answer and give a

reason for your choice. (4 marks)

a. The celebration was held on a hot and sultry morning. True/False

Reason:_________________________________________________________________

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b. All the people present fit in the great hall of the Natural History Museum. True/False

Reason:_________________________________________________________________

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c. When the author visited the zoo he knew all there was to know about the life of Gerald

Durrell. True/False

Reason:_________________________________________________________________

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d. The snow leopard is endangered because it is hunted for its coat. True/False

Reason:_________________________________________________________________

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3. What do the following refer to in the text? (3 marks)`

a. his (line 8) ____________________________________________________

b. he (line 12) ____________________________________________________

c. she (line 15) ____________________________________________________

d. it (line 19) ____________________________________________________

e. It (line 23) ____________________________________________________

f. their (line 24) ____________________________________________________

4. Explain in your own words: (2 marks)

a. rejoice (line 3) _______________________________________________

b. treasure (line 13 ) _______________________________________________

c. founded (line 18) _______________________________________________

d. grumpy (line 23 ) _______________________________________________

5. Explain in your own words: ‘Gerald had been a man before his time’ (L. 11-12) (2 marks)

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6. From paragraph 3, quote the phrase that shows that: (2 marks)

a. It was not easy for Gerald Durrell to start his zoo.

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b. The author was startled by the loud animal calls.

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7. Mention the four ways Gerald Durrell’s spirit lives on. (2 marks)

a. __________________________________________________________________

b. __________________________________________________________________

c. __________________________________________________________________

d. __________________________________________________________________


8. The Jersey Zoo and Trust is not a traditional zoo. What is its special function? (2 mark)

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Read TEXT B and answer the following questions.

1. What year did the Mauritius Kestrel breeding programme start? ____________________

(1 mark)

2. How many Echo Parakeets were there originally? _______________________________

(1 mark)

3. How many years did it take the Pink Pigeon population to increase from 16 to 400

specimens? _____________________________________________________________

(1 mark)

4. When did the St Lucia Parrot breeding programme end? __________________________

(1 mark)

5. Which of these five breeding programme figures is the most impressive? Why?

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(2 marks)

Summary (6 marks)

In 50 - 60 words give an account of the work of the Jersey Wildlife Zoo and Trust.

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(30 marks)


F – COMPOSITION 30 MARKS

Write a composition of between 250 and 300 words on ONE of the following:

Do NOT write less than 250 or more than 300 words.

1. Write a story entitled “The moment when everything changed.”

2. Write an email to your local council on [email protected] where you complain

about a project that the council is proposing. Your address is [email protected].

Use the following format:

To:

From:

Subject:

3. Write a review of a film which you enjoyed watching.

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