Summative assessment for the unit « Our World »

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Speaking

Task 1. Answer the questions while speaking. Provide explanation to your answer. You should speak at least 2 minutes.       

Learners talk in pairs on such topics as environment and pollution. Firstly, one learner provides explanation then they swap the roles.

Card 1

1.  What do you think when you hear the words ‘environmental problem’?

2.  What is the biggest environmental problem? Why do you think so?

3.  Do you think that the environmental situation will improve in the nearest future?

Card 2

1. Who is most responsible for creating environmental problems?

2. Is it possible for everyone to change their lifestyle to help the Earth?

3. What can you do every day to help the environment?

Card 3

1. Do people in your country protect the environment?

2. What do you think is the best form of alternate energy?

3. Have you ever participated in any environmental events?

Card 4

1. People throw away tons of garbage every day. How can we reduce the amount of garbage?

2. Do you drink bottled water? Why or why not? What is its effect on the environment?

3. How eco-friendly is your country?

Card 5

1. What kinds of pollution do you know? Which is the worst?

2. Think of a place where there is no pollution at all.

What is it? Where is it?

3. Big cities are often very noisy places. How can we reduce noise pollution?

Listening

Task 2. Listen to two BBC reporters discuss plastic pollution and complete the gaps in sentences 1-8 with up to three words. Numbers count as one word. 0 is an example. You will listen to the recording twice.

Link for listening: http://mythatsenglish.blogspot.com/2015/10/listening-test-plastic-pollution.html

Example:

0) At the beginning of the programme Dan asks Kate whether she has heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

1) The patch was discovered in 1997 and basically consists of a big …………………….. of plastic garbage.

2) The patch is 600,000 ……………………...

3) Every year, pollution kills a million sea birds and …………………….. mammals and turtles.

4) According to Jan van Franeker, what biologists are finding in the stomachs of sea birds is …………………….. and parts from fishing nets and ropes.

5) It seems that 80% of all the plastic litter in the sea has been …………………….. on land originally.

6) According to marine ecologist Richard Thompson, 40% of the plastic products made every year are …………………….. that we then discard.

7) The three R’s Dan mentions stand for …………………….., …………………….. and ……………………...

8) Kate thinks she’s very lucky because she has all her plastics and glass collected ……………………...

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Assessment criteria

Task

Mark

Support a talk with peers while agree, disagree and discuss the order of actions and plans to fulfil the tasks

Apply topic related vocabulary in speech appropriately arranging words and phrases into well-formed sentences

1

Identify the main ideas in extended talks.

2

Total marks