Fiji National University
College of Humanities and Education
School of Communication & Creative Arts
Department of Communication, Language and Literature
FINAL EXAMINATION
Programs: Certificate IV in Carpentry & Joinery
Foundation Science
LNG401 – FOUNDATION ENGLISH 1
Franchise
Trimester 2 2015
Date:
Instructions to Students:
Time:
1. You are allowed 10 minutes extra reading time during which you are not allowed to
write.
2. Write all your answers in the answer booklet provided.
3. Begin each question on a new page and use both sides of the answer sheet.
4. Write your student identity number at the top of each sheet used.
5. Insert any foolscap that you might have used in their correct sequence and secure with a
string.
6. All questions are compulsory.
Question
Guidelines
Marks
Suggested Time
1
Academic Essay
15
80 minutes
2
Comprehension
15
40 minutes
3
Language
15
30 minutes
4
Work Place Documents
15
30 minutes
Total
60
180 minutes
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QUESTION 1
ACADEMIC ESSAY
(15 MARKS)
Instructions:
Read these carefully.
1. The theme for this question is Effective Communication Skills
2. Write ONE essay of 250-300 words.
3. You are given one prompt and it offers TWO questions.
Choose ONE question from the given prompt. Do NOT write more than one essay.
4. You must write your PLAN. Prepare a THOROUGH plan.
Your essay will be assessed on:
1. Content (quality of ideas)
2. Relevance of argument
3. Structure (Introduction, Body, Conclusion, Paragraph Linking)
4. Appropriate Academic Style and Grammar
5. Consistent point of view
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Prompt
At the core of any good dialogue is not the ability to talk louder than another person but rather
the ability to listen calmly to diverse perspectives. You can always learn more by listening to
other points of view, especially those you disagree with. Spend as much time as possible
listening to what other people have to say, even when you are sure of your position.
Understanding and appreciating others' positions is the first step in persuading people to accept
yours.
Adapted from Libuse Binder, Ten Ways to Change the World in Your Twenties
Adapted from Libuse Binder, Ten Ways to Change the World in Your Twenties
QUESTIONS:
Choose ONE from the options (a) – (b) below.
Assignment: Is listening more important than speaking when you are trying to persuade
Either
others? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support
a) Listening is more important than speaking when you are trying to persuade others.
your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or
Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue.
observations.
Support
your
position
with the
reasoning
examples
from
the prompt
Natural
disasters
happen
all over
world and they
can betaken
utterly
devastating
forand
people’s
observations.
lives and the environments in which they live. Although natural disasters are caused by nature
OR
and there is nothing that can be done to prevent them happening, there are many different
b) Comment on the role of good communication skills in schools and the workplace.
natural causes that lead to natural disasters, and being aware of these causes enables one to be
better prepared when such disasters do arrive.
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QUESTION 2
COMPREHENSION PASSAGE
(15 MARKS)
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart
to be trusted with the care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple
techniques. She learns to weave firm square balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of
palm leaves or frangipani blossoms, to climb a coconut tree by walking up the trunk on
5 flexible little feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games and sing the songs which go with
them, to tidy the house by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from
the sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help gather it in when rain threatens, to go to
a neighboring house and bring back a lighted faggot for the chief's pipe or the cook-house
10 fire.
But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main
business of baby-tending. Very small boys also have some care of the younger children,
but at eight or nine years of age they are usually relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have
15 not been smoothed off by this responsibility for younger children are worn off by their
contact with older boys. For little boys are admitted to interesting and important
activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect and helpful. Where small girls are
brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be patiently tolerated and they become adept at
making themselves useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the
20important, business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a
highly efficient working team; one boy holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others
poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey, while still another tucks the
captured eels into his lavalava.
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25 The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to
adventure on the reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones,
have little opportunity for learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little
boys first undergo the chastening effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn
effective cooperation under the supervision of older boys, the girls' education is less
30comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but the community
provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another. This is particularly apparent in the
activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours in bickering, innocent
of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation.
Adapted from: Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead (1928)
Part A Multiple Choice
Write the letter (A, B, C or D) of the correct answer in your Answer Book.
1. The primary purpose of the passage with reference to the society under discussion is to
A. explain some differences in the
C. give a comprehensive account of a day in
upbringing of girls and boys
the life of an average young girl
B. criticize the deficiencies in the education
D. delineate the role of young girls
of girls
2. The word 'brusquely' (line 18) most nearly means
A. quickly
C. nonchalantly
B. gently
D. abruptly
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3. The list of techniques in paragraph one could best be described as
A. household duties
C. important responsibilities
B. rudimentary physical skills
D. useful social skills
4. It can be inferred that the 'high standard of individual responsibility' (line 30) is
A. developed mainly through child-care
C. taught to the girl before she is entrusted
duties
with babies
B. only present in girls
D. actually counterproductive
5. The expression 'innocent of' (lines 32-33) is best taken to mean
A. not guilty of
C. unsuited for
B. unskilled in
D. uninvolved in
6. It can be inferred that in the community under discussion all of the following are important
except
A. domestic handicrafts
C. fishing skills
B. well-defined social structure
D. formal education
7. Which of the following if true would weaken the author's contention about 'lessons in
cooperation' (line 31)?
I Group games played by younger girls involve cooperation
II Girls can learn from watching boys cooperating
III Individual girls cooperate with their mothers in looking after babies
A. I only
C. III only
B. II only
D. I and II only
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8. Which of the following is the best description of the author's technique in handling her
material?
A. Both description and interpretation of
C. Description of evidence to support a
observations.
theory.
B. Presentation of facts without comment.
D. Generalization from a particular
viewpoint.
Part B Completion
Answer the following questions in complete sentences using your own words.
1. Read the given excerpt and answer the questions that follow:
‘…..all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.’ (lines 1213)
a) Identify and write only two examples of ‘….all these tasks…’ from the passage.
1mark
b) Rewrite the excerpt given above in your own words.
2 marks
2. Give an example of how boys of 8-9 years are ‘…adept at making themselves useful…’
(lines 18-19)
2 marks
3. Explain how the girls’ education is ‘less comprehensive’ (lines 29-30) compared to the boys’
education.
2 marks
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QUESTION 3
LANGUAGE USAGE
(15 MARKS)
Answer all the parts of this question.
(2 ½ marks)
(a) Rewriting
Write the following sentences correctly putting the words in the brackets in their correct forms.
One week’s work under (he) supervision is enough.
i.
ii.
(Sanaila) exam got a better mark than Leone’s.
iii.
The (children) temperaments are not like (she); they are like (they) father’s.
(2 ½ marks)
(b) Word Manipulation
Write the correct answer by following the instruction given for each question.
i.
The plural of sheep
_______________________
ii.
The past participle of write
_______________________
iii.
The antonym of alive
_______________________
iv.
The comparative of good
_______________________
v.
The collective noun for fish
________________________
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(c) Parts of Speech
(3 marks)
Identify the underlined part of speech in each of the sentences below.
i.
Jalesi steered the boat away from the treacherous reef with caution.
ii.
“Cunning people will be judged according to their deeds,” said Litia.
iii.
The FNU Hibiscus Festival contestant answered the questions competently.
iv.
Carpenters build and repair a variety of structures made of wood.
v.
“What was the score in the Fiji – Samoa PNC finals?” asked Sereima.
(d) Completion
(3 marks)
Complete each sentence below in any sensible and grammatically correct way by using 6-8
words each.
i.
I see myself working ______________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
ii.
The rising sea level _______________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
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(e) Joining sentences
(4 marks)
Rewrite the following sentences using the instructions in the brackets.
i.
The electric circular saw was not cheap. It was not very useful. (Join using neither and
nor).
ii.
I went to the co-op store. I didn’t buy anything. (Join using but)
iii.
He was surprised. He was pleased. (Join using both and and.)
iv.
My friend won the best all round carpenter award in 2014. Her name is Karolina. (Join
the two sentences using whose)
QUESTION 4
WORK PLACE DOCUMENTS
(15 MARKS)
This question has two parts, attempt both.
Part I Meetings
(7 ½ marks)
(a) Fill in the blanks
(2 ½ marks)
Use the following word bank to help you fill in the correct words in the blank spaces.
Word bank: constitution, consensus, lobbying, secret, convene, adjourn, agenda, partisan,
proxy,
i.
The chairman had to ________________________ an extra-ordinary meeting to discuss
some pressing issues.
ii.
The _______________________ is usually sent out a week or few days in advance for
members perusal.
iii.
Voting on behalf of someone else is known as a ______________ vote.
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iv.
A __________________ ballot is carried out so that voters are not influenced by any
other individual, and at the time of voting no one else knows who the voters chose.
v.
The general _________________ was for the class to go on a picnic.
(b) Matching
(5 marks)
Match the items in Column A with items in Column B
Write the numbers 1-5 in your Answer Booklet and beside each one write the letter of the
correct answer in Column B.
Column A
1. Constitution
Column B
A.
a group of people usually elected or appointed who meet
to conduct agreed business and report to a senior body
2. Chairman
B.
Annual General Meeting: all members are usually
eligible to attend
3. Committee
C.
leader or person given authority to conduct a meeting
4. Motion
D.
given powers or rights by reason of office
5. AGM
E.
set of rules governing activities of voluntary bodies
F.
the name given to a 'proposal' when it is being discussed
at a meeting
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(7 ½ marks)
Part II Memorandum
In your capacity as the Principal of Tosocake Carpentry & Joinery School write a memorandum
to the students in Certificate IV in Carpentry & Joinery program reminding them of three
Occupational Health & Safety Standard rules that have to be adhered to while working in the
workshop.
Set out your memorandum correctly and include all necessary information. Keep the content
very brief and to the point.
THE END
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