Anforderungen im Fachbereich Englisch
für die Aufnahmeprüfung Kindergarten an die PHZH
Lernziele
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gute Grundkenntnisse der englischen Sprache, sowohl im Bereich der schriftlichen wie der
mündlichen Kommunikation
Auseinandersetzung mit gesprochenen und geschriebenen Texten
Interesse und Freude an der englischen Sprache und an den englischsprachigen Kulturen
Sprachniveau in etwa im Bereich des FCE (First Certificate) oder knapp darunter
Inhalte
Es wird geprüft: der Wortschatz und Themen der Grammatik, nämlich:
– Pronouns, adjectives and adverbs, modal auxiliaries, tenses
– Reported Speech
– Relative Clauses
– Conditionals: types I, II and III
– Passive Voice
– The most important verbs and expressions followed by infinitives and/or followed by gerunds
In den meisten Fällen handelt es sich um Einsetzübungen. Nur da, wo es sich besonders aufdrängt,
werden Transformationsaufgaben gestellt (z.B. im Bereich Reported Speech).
Empfohlene Literatur
Grund- und Aufbauwortschatz
Lehrmittel: z.B. Langenscheidt: Grund- und Aufbauwortschatz
Michael Vince: First Certificate Language Practice (with key) ISBN 1 405 00766 4
Grammatik
Michael Vince: First Certificate Language Practice (with key) ISBN 1 405 00766 4
Murphy: English Grammar in Use
New Headway Intermediate
Prüfungsmodalitäten
Schriftliche Prüfung: 120 Minuten
Reading Comprehension mit Vocabulary, Grammar
(Ohne Hilfsmittel)
Mündliche Prüfung: 20 Minuten (20 Minuten Vorbereitungszeit)
Diskussion anhand eines in der Vorbereitungszeit gelesenen Sachtextes
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Bewertung
Schriftliche Prüfung:
Die Bereiche Reading Comprehension und Vokabular und der Bereich Grammatik erhalten je
etwa die Hälfte der Gesamtpunktzahl.
In der Beantwortung der Fragen im Rahmen der Reading Comprehension werden Punkte sowohl
für den Inhalt wie für die sprachliche Gestaltung gegeben, d.h. von z.B. 48 möglichen Punkten je
24 für den Inhalt und die sprachliche Gestaltung
Die Prüfung gilt als genügend, wenn etwa 60 % der Gesamtpunktzahl erreicht worden ist.
Beurteilungskriterien für die mündliche Prüfung sind:
– Redefluss
– Umfang des zur Verfügung stehenden Vokabulars und der grammatikalischen Strukturen
– Korrektheit
– Aussprache
– Inhalt
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Musterprüfung
SCHRIFTLICHE AUFNAHMEPRÜFUNG
KINDERGARTEN
IM FACH ENGLISCH (2014)
Kandidatin / Kandidat
Name:
Punkte in Section A: __________
Punkte in Section B: __________
Gesamtpunktzahl: __________
Punkte:
Note: ___________
Section A : 52
Section B : 54
Gesamtpunktzahl: 106
Die schriftliche Aufnahmeprüfung gilt als bestanden, wenn etwa 60% der
Gesamtpunktzahl erreicht worden ist.
Hilfsmittel: keine
Fragen:
Bei Unklarheiten schreiben Sie bitte eine Bemerkung neben den betreffenden Punkt der
Prüfung. Die Aufsicht kann keine inhaltliche Auskunft geben.
GOOD LUCK!
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Section A: Reading Comprehension (52 points)
Read the following text and answer the comprehension questions.
Jamaica Kincaid: A Small Place
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If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If
you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird
International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime
Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who
would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport
named after him—why not a school, why not a hospital? You
are a tourist and you have not yet seen a school in Antigua,
you have not yet seen the hospital in Antigua.
As your plane descends to land, you might say, what a
beautiful island Antigua is — more beautiful than any of the
other islands you have seen, and they were very beautiful, in
their way, but they were much too green, much too lush with
vegetation, which indicated to you, the tourist, that they got
quite a bit of rainfall, and rain is the very thing that you, just
now, do not want, for you are thinking of the hard and cold
and dark and long days you spent working in North America
(or, worse, Europe), earning some money so that you could
stay in this place (Antigua) where the sun always shines and
where the climate is deliciously hot and dry for the four to ten
days you are going to be staying there; and since you are on
your holiday, since you are a tourist, the thought of what it
might be like for someone who had to live day in, day out in a
place that suffers constantly from drought, and so has to
watch carefully every drop of fresh water used (while at the
same time surrounded by a sea and an ocean — the Caribbean
Sea on one side, the Atlantic Ocean on the other), must never
cross your mind.
You disembark from your plane. You are driven to your hotel
by this taxi driver in his taxi, a brand-new Japanese-made
vehicle. The road on which you are travelling is a very bad
road, very much in need of repair. You are feeling wonderful,
so you say, "Oh, what a marvellous change these bad roads
are from the splendid highways I am used to in North
America." (Or, worse, Europe.) You are looking out the
window; you notice that all the cars you see are brand-new, or
almost brand-new, and that they are all Japanese-made. How
do they afford such a car? And do they live in a luxurious
house to match such a car? Well, no. You will be surprised,
then, to see that most likely the person driving this brand-new
car lives in a house that, in comparison, is far below the status
of the car; and if you were to ask why, you would be told that
the banks are encouraged by the government to make loans
available for cars, but loans for houses not so easily available;
and if you ask again why, you will be told that the two main
car dealerships in Antigua are owned by ministers in
government.
It's a good thing that you brought your own books with you,
for you couldn't just go to the library and borrow some.
Antigua used to have a splendid library, but in The
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drought = ‘Dürre’
disembark = leave
loan = money that a bank lends
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Earthquake (everyone talks about it that way — The
Earthquake) the library building was damaged. This was in
1974, and soon after that a sign was placed on the front of the
building saying, THIS BUILDING WAS DAMAGED IN
THE EARTHQUAKE OF 1974. REPAIRS ARE PENDING.
The sign hangs there, and hangs there more than a decade
later, with its unfulfilled promise of repair, and here it is many
years later. Not very long after The Earthquake Antigua got
its independence from Britain, making Antigua a state in its
own right, and Antiguans are so proud of this that each year,
to celebrate the day, they go to church and thank God, a
British God, for this. You have brought your own books with
you, and among them is one of those new books about
economic history, one of those books explaining how the
West (meaning Europe and North America) got rich: the West
got rich not from the free (free — in this case meaning gotfor-nothing) and then undervalued labour, for generations, of
the people like me you see walking around you in Antigua but
from the ingenuity of small shopkeepers in Sheffield and
Yorkshire and Lancashire, or wherever (isn't that the last
straw; for not only did we have to suffer the unspeakableness
of slavery, but the satisfaction to be had from "We made you
bastards rich" is taken away, too), and so you needn't let that
slightly funny feeling you have from time to time about
exploitation develop into unease; you could ruin your holiday.
They are not responsible for what you have; you owe them
nothing; in fact, you did them a big favour, and you can
provide one hundred examples. For here you are now, passing
by Government House. And here you are now, passing by the
Prime Minister's Office and the Parliament Building, and
overlooking these, with a splendid view of St. John's Harbour,
the American Embassy. Leading up to these houses is the best
paved road in all of Antigua—even better than the road that
was paved for the Queen's visit in 1985 (when the Queen
came, all the roads that she would travel on were paved anew,
so that the Queen might have been left with the impression
that riding in a car in Antigua was a pleasant experience). In
one of these mansions lives a woman sophisticated people in
Antigua call Evita. She's young and beautiful and the
girlfriend of somebody very high up in the government. Evita
is notorious because her relationship with this high
government official has made her the owner of boutiques and
property and given her a say in cabinet meetings, and all sorts
of other privileges such a relationship would bring a beautiful
young woman.
Oh, but by now you are tired of all this looking, and you want
to reach your destination — your hotel, your room. You long
to refresh yourself; you long to eat some nice lobster, some
nice local food. You take a bath, you brush your teeth. You
get dressed again; as you get dressed, you look out the
window. Oh, what beauty! Oh, what beauty! You have never
seen anything like this. You are so excited. Still standing,
looking out the window, you see yourself lying on the beach,
enjoying the amazing sun (a sun so powerful and yet so
beautiful, the way it is always overhead, ready to stamp out
any cloud that dares to darken and so empty rain on you and
ruin your holiday). You see yourself taking a walk on that
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pending = not yet started
decade = 10 years
ingenuity = ability to invent
things
exploitation = ‘Ausbeutung’
unease = feeling bad or guilty
sophisticated = stylish
notorious = ‘berüchtigt’
property = possessions
lobster = ‘Hummer’
stamp out = destroy
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beach. You see yourself eating some delicious, locally grown
food. When you sit down to eat your delicious meal, it's better
that you don't know that most of what you are eating came off
a plane from Miami. And before it got on a plane in Miami,
who knows where it came from? A good guess is that it came
from a place like Antigua first, where it was grown dirt-cheap,
went to Miami, and came back.
The thing you have always suspected about yourself the
minute you become a tourist is true: A tourist is an ugly
human being. You are not an ugly person all the time; you are
not an ugly person day to day. An ugly thing, that is what you
are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid
thing. They do not like you. They do not like me! That thought
never actually occurs to you. Still, you feel a little uneasy.
Still, you feel a little foolish. Still, you feel a little out of
place. But the banality of your own life is very real to you; it
drove you to this extreme, spending your days and your nights
in the company of people who despise you, people you do not
like really, people you would not want to have as your actual
neighbour. That the native does not like the tourist is not hard
to explain. For every native of every place is a potential
tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every
native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming banality and
boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed,
good and bad, is an attempt to forget this. But some natives —
most natives in the world — cannot go anywhere. They are
too poor. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives;
and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they
live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go — so
when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they
envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom,
they envy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom
into a source of pleasure for yourself.
potential = ‘potentiell’
overwhelming = immense
boredom = feeling bored
envy = ‘neidisch sein’
Comprehension Questions (32 points)
Answer the following questions. Use your own words and don’t write in keywords - make
whole sentences!
1. Why did the Prime Minister not want a school or a hospital named after him? (4 points)
2. Why does only a tourist like Antigua’s climate? (4 points)
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3. Why do – according to the author – tourists like the bad roads in Antigua? (4 points)
4. Why do Antiguans drive modern Japanese cars? (4 points)
5. Can you imagine what really happened during The Earthquake? (4 points)
6. What does Kincaid try to explain with the example of the lobster?
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7. Why do Antiguans not like tourists? (4 points)
8. Try to explain the last sentence of the text. Why can their (the Antiguans’) banality and
boredom become a source of pleasure for a tourist? (5 points)
Synonyms and Antonyms / Word Formation (20 points)
Find synonyms for the following words from the text. (5 points)
(Example: interesting – fascinating)
1)
surprised (l. 38)
2)
likely (l. 39)
3)
beautiful (l. 87)
4)
guess (l. 109)
5)
attempt (l. 129)
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Find antonyms (opposites) for the following words from the text. (5 points)
(Example: interesting – boring)
1)
long (l. 16)
2)
dry (l. 19)
3)
wonderful (l. 31)
4)
last (l. 68)
5)
stupid (l. 116)
Write down the noun that stems from the given verbs and adjectives. Don’t just add
an –ing or –er ending. (10 points)
(Example: wise – wisdom)
1)
explaining (l. 62)
2)
develop (l. 72)
3)
young (l. 87)
4)
high (l. 88)
5)
to long (l. 94)
6)
excited (l. 99)
7)
empty (l. 103)
8)
true (l. 113)
9)
ugly (l. 113)
10)
poor (l. 131)
Section B: Grammar (54 points)
I Mixed Tenses (20 points)
Put the verbs in brackets into the most appropriate form and tense.
1)
I (see) ____________________________ your problem. Sorry, I can’t help you.
2)
I must get to the travel agency before it (close) ______________________________.
3)
While I (have) _____________________________ dinner, the phone (ring)
_____________________________.
4)
When (you – buy) _____________________________ this beautiful dress?
5)
I (not – eat) _____________________________ all day. I’m really hungry now.
6)
They (repair) _____________________________ the road at the moment.
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After he (finish) ____________________________ the test last week, he (be)
____________________________ quite exhausted.
8)
My teacher (always – pick) _____________________________ on me!
9)
(you – often – play) _________________________________ golf?
10)
When it (stop) _____________________________ (rain)
_________________________, they (run) _____________________________ to the
next village.
11)
It’s about time we (leave) _____________________________.
12)
It (rain) ____________________________ soon. The sky is full of clouds.
13)
I (not – play) ______________________ tennis since I (lose)
_______________________
the final last year.
14)
When I arrived, the (already – wait) _____________________________ for more than
an hour.
15)
It’s so warm in here. I (open) ____________________________ the window.
II Active/Passive (6 points)
Change the following active sentences into the passive form.
Example
People speak English all over the world.
English is spoken all over the world.
1)
How did she spend the money?
______________________________________________________________________
2)
They aren’t repairing the library yet.
______________________________________________________________________
3)
They have offered her a cheap hotel. (2 versions)
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
4)
They transport lobsters from Miami to Antigua.
______________________________________________________________________
5)
Who drove him to the airport?
______________________________________________________________________
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III Reported Speech (6 points)
Put the following statements into reported speech. Make all necessary changes to time and
place.
Example
“I am sorry.”
She said that she was sorry.
1)
“How can Antiguans afford such a car?”
The tourist wondered ____________________________________________________
2)
“Must I really bring my own books with me?”
He asked himself ________________________________________________________
3)
“I will not come again next year.” (2 points)
The tourist said _________________________________________________________
4)
“As tourists you may feel out of place in Antigua.”
Jamaica Kincaid wrote ___________________________________________________
5)
“Be more aware of the political problems in Antigua.”
Kincaid advised tourists __________________________________________________
IV Relative Pronouns (5 points)
Fill in the correct relative pronoun. If it can be omitted, indicate this by ( / ).
Example
This is the microphone ____________ doesn’t work.
This is the microphone
that / which
doesn’t work.
1)
That was the time ________________ the Queen visited Antigua.
2)
The car ________________ owner had to ask for a big loan was Japanese.
3)
He knows that his life is banal, ________________ makes him feel depressed.
4)
The politicians ________________ are in power in Antigua are corrupt.
5)
The lobster ________________ the tourist is going to eat came off a plane from Miami.
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V Adjective or Adverb (5 points)
Fill in the correct form. Use the comparative or superlative form if necessary.
Example
He didn’t play golf as (elegant) ____________________ as his brother.
He didn’t play golf as elegantly as his brother.
1)
Europe is (far) __________________________ from Antigua than America.
2)
The tourist didn’t want to realise that people liked him far (little)
__________________________than he had expected.
3)
The climate is (extreme) _____________________________ hot.
4)
I think I’ll never come here again he said (slow) _____________________________.
5)
Antigua is (interesting) _____________________________ place he had ever been to.
VI Gerund (-ing form) or Infinitive (with or without ‘to’) (6 points)
Fill the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
Example
He did not want (play)
to play
golf.
1)
The Antiguans’ reaction made him (feel) _____________________________
depressed.
2)
She really looked forward to (spend) _____________________________ her holidays
on a beautiful island.
3)
She had problems (understand) ____________________________ the political
situation.
4)
She remembered (read) _____________________________ something about the
history of slavery in a book.
5)
Antigua’s politicians are said (be) _____________________________ corrupt.
6)
Jamaica Kincaid suggests (have) _____________________________ a closer look at
the political situation in Antigua.
VII Conditionals (6 points)
Complete these sentences by putting the verbs in brackets into the correct form. Use
conditional I, II, or III.
Example
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Why didn’t you phone? If I (know)
you at the airport.
1)
had known you were coming, I (meet) would have met
Antiguans (cannot) _________________________________ afford to buy new cars, if
they (not – get) ___________________________________ loans from banks.
2)
If the tourist (know) __________________________ more about life in Antigua before
he started his holiday, he (decide) ______________________________ not to go there.
3)
Oh, you don’t know A Small Place. If I (find) _________________________________
a copy of the book, I (give) _____________________________ it to you.
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Lösung zur Musterprüfung
SCHRIFTLICHE AUFNAHMEPRÜFUNG
KINDERGARTEN
IM FACH ENGLISCH (2014)
Kandidatin / Kandidat
Name:
Punkte in Section A: __________
Punkte in Section B: __________
Gesamtpunktzahl: __________
Punkte:
Note: ___________
Section A : 52
Section B : 54
Gesamtpunktzahl : 106
Die schriftliche Aufnahmeprüfung gilt als bestanden, wenn etwa 60% der
Gesamtpunktzahl erreicht worden ist.
Hilfsmittel: keine
Fragen:
Bei Unklarheiten schreiben Sie bitte eine Bemerkung neben den betreffenden Punkt der
Prüfung. Die Aufsicht kann keine inhaltliche Auskunft geben.
GOOD LUCK!
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Section A: Reading Comprehension (52 points)
Read the following text and answer the comprehension questions.
Jamaica Kincaid: A Small Place
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If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If
you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird
International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime
Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who
would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport
named after him—why not a school, why not a hospital? You
are a tourist and you have not yet seen a school in Antigua,
you have not yet seen the hospital in Antigua.
As your plane descends to land, you might say, what a
beautiful island Antigua is — more beautiful than any of the
other islands you have seen, and they were very beautiful, in
their way, but they were much too green, much too lush with
vegetation, which indicated to you, the tourist, that they got
quite a bit of rainfall, and rain is the very thing that you, just
now, do not want, for you are thinking of the hard and cold
and dark and long days you spent working in North America
(or, worse, Europe), earning some money so that you could
stay in this place (Antigua) where the sun always shines and
where the climate is deliciously hot and dry for the four to ten
days you are going to be staying there; and since you are on
your holiday, since you are a tourist, the thought of what it
might be like for someone who had to live day in, day out in a
place that suffers constantly from drought, and so has to
watch carefully every drop of fresh water used (while at the
same time surrounded by a sea and an ocean — the Caribbean
Sea on one side, the Atlantic Ocean on the other), must never
cross your mind.
You disembark from your plane. You are driven to your hotel
by this taxi driver in his taxi, a brand-new Japanese-made
vehicle. The road on which you are travelling is a very bad
road, very much in need of repair. You are feeling wonderful,
so you say, "Oh, what a marvellous change these bad roads
are from the splendid highways I am used to in North
America." (Or, worse, Europe.) You are looking out the
window; you notice that all the cars you see are brand-new, or
almost brand-new, and that they are all Japanese-made. How
do they afford such a car? And do they live in a luxurious
house to match such a car? Well, no. You will be surprised,
then, to see that most likely the person driving this brand-new
car lives in a house that, in comparison, is far below the status
of the car; and if you were to ask why, you would be told that
the banks are encouraged by the government to make loans
available for cars, but loans for houses not so easily available;
and if you ask again why, you will be told that the two main
car dealerships in Antigua are owned by ministers in
government.
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lush =’üppig’
drought = ‘Dürre’
disembark = leave
loan = money that a bank lends
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It's a good thing that you brought your own books with you,
for you couldn't just go to the library and borrow some.
Antigua used to have a splendid library, but in The
Earthquake (everyone talks about it that way — The
Earthquake) the library building was damaged. This was in
1974, and soon after that a sign was placed on the front of the
building saying, THIS BUILDING WAS DAMAGED IN
THE EARTHQUAKE OF 1974. REPAIRS ARE PENDING.
The sign hangs there, and hangs there more than a decade
later, with its unfulfilled promise of repair, and here it is many
years later. Not very long after The Earthquake Antigua got
its independence from Britain, making Antigua a state in its
own right, and Antiguans are so proud of this that each year,
to celebrate the day, they go to church and thank God, a
British God, for this. You have brought your own books with
you, and among them is one of those new books about
economic history, one of those books explaining how the
West (meaning Europe and North America) got rich: the West
got rich not from the free (free — in this case meaning gotfor-nothing) and then undervalued labour, for generations, of
the people like me you see walking around you in Antigua but
from the ingenuity of small shopkeepers in Sheffield and
Yorkshire and Lancashire, or wherever (isn't that the last
straw; for not only did we have to suffer the unspeakableness
of slavery, but the satisfaction to be had from "We made you
bastards rich" is taken away, too), and so you needn't let that
slightly funny feeling you have from time to time about
exploitation develop into unease; you could ruin your holiday.
They are not responsible for what you have; you owe them
nothing; in fact, you did them a big favour, and you can
provide one hundred examples. For here you are now, passing
by Government House. And here you are now, passing by the
Prime Minister's Office and the Parliament Building, and
overlooking these, with a splendid view of St. John's Harbour,
the American Embassy. Leading up to these houses is the best
paved road in all of Antigua—even better than the road that
was paved for the Queen's visit in 1985 (when the Queen
came, all the roads that she would travel on were paved anew,
so that the Queen might have been left with the impression
that riding in a car in Antigua was a pleasant experience). In
one of these mansions lives a woman sophisticated people in
Antigua call Evita. She's young and beautiful and the
girlfriend of somebody very high up in the government. Evita
is notorious because her relationship with this high
government official has made her the owner of boutiques and
property and given her a say in cabinet meetings, and all sorts
of other privileges such a relationship would bring a beautiful
young woman.
Oh, but by now you are tired of all this looking, and you want
to reach your destination — your hotel, your room. You long
to refresh yourself; you long to eat some nice lobster, some
nice local food. You take a bath, you brush your teeth. You
get dressed again; as you get dressed, you look out the
window. Oh, what beauty! Oh, what beauty! You have never
seen anything like this. You are so excited. Still standing,
looking out the window, you see yourself lying on the beach,
enjoying the amazing sun (a sun so powerful and yet so
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splendid = great
pending = not yet started
decade = 10 years
ingenuity = ability to invent
things
exploitation = ‘Ausbeutung’
unease = feeling bad or guilty
sophisticated = stylish
notorious = ‘berüchtigt’
property = possessions
lobster = ‘Hummer’
stamp out = destroy
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beautiful, the way it is always overhead, ready to stamp out
any cloud that dares to darken and so empty rain on you and
ruin your holiday). You see yourself taking a walk on that
beach. You see yourself eating some delicious, locally grown
food. When you sit down to eat your delicious meal, it's better
that you don't know that most of what you are eating came off
a plane from Miami. And before it got on a plane in Miami,
who knows where it came from? A good guess is that it came
from a place like Antigua first, where it was grown dirt-cheap,
went to Miami, and came back.
The thing you have always suspected about yourself the
minute you become a tourist is true: A tourist is an ugly
human being. You are not an ugly person all the time; you are
not an ugly person day to day. An ugly thing, that is what you
are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid
thing. They do not like you. They do not like me! That thought
never actually occurs to you. Still, you feel a little uneasy.
Still, you feel a little foolish. Still, you feel a little out of
place. But the banality of your own life is very real to you; it
drove you to this extreme, spending your days and your nights
in the company of people who despise you, people you do not
like really, people you would not want to have as your actual
neighbour. That the native does not like the tourist is not hard
to explain. For every native of every place is a potential
tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every
native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming banality and
boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed,
good and bad, is an attempt to forget this. But some natives —
most natives in the world — cannot go anywhere. They are
too poor. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives;
and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they
live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go — so
when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they
envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom,
they envy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom
into a source of pleasure for yourself.
potential = ‘potentiell’
overwhelming = immense
boredom = feeling bored
envy = ‘neidisch sein’
Comprehension Questions (32 points)
Answer the following questions. Use your own words and don’t write in keywords - make
whole sentences!
Answers should contain the following ideas:
1. Why did the Prime Minister not want a school or a hospital named after him? (4 points)
Schools and hospitals look so bad.
2. Why does only a tourist like Antigua’s climate? (4 points)
Very hot and dry. Water shortage.
3. Why do – according to the author – tourists like the bad roads in Antigua? (4 points)
Nice contrast to the highways in Europe or North America; adventure
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4. Why do Antiguans drive modern Japanese cars? (4 points)
Ministers own firms that sell cars; government wants banks to give cheap loans so
that even poor people can afford to buy cars.
5. Can you imagine what really happened during The Earthquake? (4 points)
Most likely: a rebellion; shortly afterwards Antigua became independent.
6. What does Kincaid try to explain with the example of the lobster?
(3 points)
Food is produced in Antigua, sold to America at a very cheap price, then imported to
Antigua again; then it is very expensive.
7. Why do Antiguans not like tourists? (4 points)
In a way, they are envious. Their everyday life is as boring as the tourists’. But
whereas the tourists can escape from the banality of their reality, native people do not
have the financial means to escape.
8. Try to explain the last sentence of the text. Why can their (the Antiguans’) banality and
boredom become a source of pleasure for a tourist? (5 points)
Various possible answers, among others: tourists may feel superior to the native
people; tourists may enjoy the idea that their own life seems to be so much better than
the natives’.
Synonyms and Antonyms / Word Formation (20 points)
(In some cases: more than 1 correct answer.)
Find synonyms for the following words from the text. (5 points)
(Example: interesting – fascinating)
1)
surprised (l. 38)
amazed (etc.)
2)
likely (l. 39)
probable (probably was accepted) etc.
3)
beautiful (l. 87)
pretty (etc.)
4)
guess (l. 109)
think, assume, (etc.)
5)
attempt (l. 129)
try
Find antonyms (opposites) for the following words from the text. (5 points)
(Example: interesting – boring)
1)
long (l. 16)
short
2)
dry (l. 19)
wet
3)
wonderful (l. 31)
awful (etc.)
4)
last (l. 68)
first
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5)
stupid (l. 116)
clever, smart (etc.)
Write down the noun that stems from the given verbs and adjectives. Don’t just add
an –ing or –er ending. (10 points)
(Example: wise – wisdom)
1)
explaining (l. 62)
explanation
2)
develop (l. 72)
development
3)
young (l. 87)
youth
4)
high (l. 88)
height
5)
to long (l. 94)
longing
6)
excited (l. 99)
excitement
7)
empty (l. 103)
emptiness
8)
true (l. 113)
truth
9)
ugly (l. 113)
ugliness
10)
poor (l. 131)
poverty
Section B: Grammar (54 points)
I Mixed Tenses (20 points)
Put the verbs in brackets into the most appropriate form and tense.
(In some cases: more than one correct answer.)
1)
I (see) see your problem. Sorry, I can’t help you.
2)
I must get to the travel agency before it (close) closes.
3)
While I (have) was having dinner, the phone (ring) rang.
4)
When (you – buy) did you buy this beautiful dress?
5)
I (not – eat) haven’t eaten all day. I’m really hungry now.
6)
They (repair) are repairing the road at the moment.
7)
After he (finish) had finished / finished the test last week, he (be) was quite exhaust
8)
My teacher (always – pick) is always picking on me!
9)
(you – often – play) Do you often play golf? (or: Did… )
10)
When it (stop) stopped / had stopped (rain) raining, they (run) ran to the next village.
11)
It’s about time we (leave) left.
12)
It (rain) is going to rain soon. The sky is full of clouds.
13)
I (not – play) have not played tennis since I (lose) lost the final last year.
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14)
When I arrived, the (already – wait) had already been waiting for more than an hour.
15)
It’s so warm in here. I (open) will open the window.
II Active/Passive (6 points)
Change the following active sentences into the passive form.
1)
How did she spend the money?
How was the money spent by her?
2)
They aren’t repairing the library yet.
The library isn’t being repaired yet.
3)
They have offered her a cheap hotel. (2 versions)
She has been offered a cheap hotel.
A cheap hotel has been offered to her.
4)
They transport lobsters from Miami to Antigua.
Lobsters are transported from Miami to Antigua.
5)
Who drove him to the airport?
By whom is he driven to the airport. OR: Who is he driven to the airport by?
III Reported Speech (6 points)
Put the following statements into reported speech. Make all necessary changes to time and
place.
1)
“How can Antiguans afford such a car?”
The tourist wondered how Antiguans could afford such a car.
2)
“Must I really bring my own books with me?”
He asked himself if he really had to bring his own books with him.
3)
“I will not come again next year.” (2 points)
The tourist said he would not come (=1 point) again the following/next (=1 point) year.
4)
“As tourists you may feel out of place in Antigua.”
Jamaica Kincaid wrote as tourists they might feel out of place in Antigua.
5)
“Be more aware of the political problems in Antigua.”
Kincaid advised tourists to be more aware of the political problems in Antigua.
IV Relative Pronouns (5 points)
Fill in the correct relative pronoun. If it can be omitted, indicate this by ( / ).
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
That was the time when the Queen visited Antigua.
The car whose owner had to ask for a big loan was Japanese.
He knows that his life is banal, which makes him feel depressed.
The politicians who / that are in power in Antigua are corrupt.
The lobster - / that / which the tourist is going to eat came off a plane from Miami.
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V Adjective or Adverb (5 points)
Fill in the correct form. Use the comparative or superlative form if necessary.
1)
Europe is (far) farther from Antigua than America.
2)
The tourist didn’t want to realise that people liked him far (little) less than he had
expected.
3)
The climate is (extreme) extremely hot.
4)
I think I’ll never come here again he said (slow) slowly.
5)
Antigua is (interesting) the most interesting place he had ever been to.
VI Gerund (-ing form) or Infinitive (with or without ‘to’) (6 points)
Fill the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
1)
The Antiguans’ reaction made him (feel) feel depressed.
2)
She really looked forward to (spend) spending her holidays on a beautiful island.
3)
She had problems (understand) understanding the political situation.
4)
She remembered (read) reading something about the history of slavery in a book.
5)
Antigua’s politicians are said (be) to be corrupt.
6)
Jamaica Kincaid suggests (have) having a closer look at the political situation in
Antigua.
VII Conditionals (6 points)
Complete these sentences by putting the verbs in brackets into the correct form. Use
conditional I, II, or III.
1)
Antiguans (cannot) could not afford to buy new cars, if they did not get loans from
banks.
2)
If the tourist (know) had known more about life in Antigua before he started his holiday,
he (decide) would have decided not to go there.
3)
Oh, you don’t know A Small Place. If I (find) find a copy of the book, I (give) will give
it to you.
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