COLEGIO
DOMINICAS VISTABELLA
DEPARTAMENTO DE LENGUA INGLESA
RECOMENDACIONES PARA EL VERANO
2º ESO
Los alumnos que no aprobaron en Junio deben realizar los siguientes ejercicios de lectura
comprensiva, gramática y expresión escrita para practicar para el examen de recuperación de
septiembre. El examen de septiembre consta de una lectura comprensiva, uso de la gramática y
una redacción de los modelos estudiados.
Por otro lado, los alumnos que aprobaron con suficiente (5) deben aprovechar el verano para
afianzar las destrezas en las que han tenido más dificultades, realizando igualmente estos ejercicios
de repaso.
Les deseamos un feliz verano.
Practise reading through these texts and answer the questions in full answers.
School Night in South Korea
Every night at 10 o’clock, inspectors in Seoul, South Korea, drive through the streets looking for
open “hagwon” – special private schools. They don’t often see students in the streets, but
sometimes there is a light in a hagwon window. When they see this the inspectors enter the school.
Why do they do that? Because studying at a hagwon isn’t legal after 10.00 at night.
In South Korea, education is very important. At school, students study maths, science, history,
English and many other subjects. They work hard for years because they want to go to a good
university. Many Year 9 students begin their school day at 8.00 am. They study until 4.00 pm, go
home for dinner and go to a hagwon at 6.00 in the evening. They then often study until 10.00 pm.
Many students want to study until 12.00 am or 1.00 am. They know education is important for their
future. But schools in Seoul must close by 10.00 pm. So the students hide from the inspectors and
study, study, study… .
1. What do inspectors in Seoul look for every night?
2. Why is “hagwon” illegal?
3. Why do students study so much in South Korea?
The Whiteboard Artist
Every day during the lunch break, students leave their classrooms to eat, meet friends and play
games on their laptops or tablets. Everyone wants to relax between lessons – including teachers. But
what do teachers do during the break? Most of them have lunch too, but Gregory Euclide from
Minnesota, USA, uses his 25-minute break to draw pictures.
Euclide is an art teacher. He teaches classes of about 40 students for five hours a day, eight months
a year. Between lessons, he draws amazing pictures on the whiteboard in his classroom. He uses
special pens and paintbrushes. Then, at the end of the day, he cleans the whiteboard. How do his
students feel about this? They love Euclide’s pictures, so they don’t want the pictures to disappear.
Now copies of Euclide’s whiteboard art are in books and art galleries. There are even Internet sites
with information about him. Not bad for a lunch break artist!
1. What does Gregory Euclide do during the lunch break?
2. Do students like his pictures?
3. Is Euclide a famous artist?
The Real Stars
Doing sport isn’t just about winning. Sometimes it’s about helping others.
1 It’s 2006. The Greece Athena High School basketball team from Rochester, New York is
playing its last home game of the season. The team helper, an autistic student called Jason
McElwain, loves basketball. So coach Jim Johnson decides to make Jason happy and to let him
play for the first time. Jason amazes everyone and scores 20 points in four minutes. People are
smiling and shouting Jason’s name. It’s a magical moment.
2
It’s October 2011. Students James Konopka and Nick Mead from Philadelphia are in a boat
race. When two people in another boat fall in the 7ºC water, James and Nick decide to help
them. Then they continue the race. They finish last, but they are the real stars.
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It’s 2012. Iván Fernández Anaya from Vitoria is running in a race in Burlanda. He’s behind the
Kenyan runner Abel Mutai. Abel makes a mistake and stops before the finish line. It’s a chance
for Iván to win. But he shows Abel his mistake and lets him finish first. According to Iván, Abel
is the “rightful winner”.
1. Why does Jason amaze everybody?
2. Why are James and Nick the real winners of the race?
3. What mistake does Abel make?
4. How does Iván Fernández help Abel?
Star of the Week
This week’s star of the week is pop singer Jemma Pixie Hixon from Malvern, Worcestershire in the
UK. At the age of 13, Jemma won a singing competition. Her future looked brilliant, but there was
one big problem. Jemma developed agoraphobia, and she became frightened to leave the house.
Jemma left school at the age of 16. Now, she never goes outside. So how does Jemma perform?
She’s got a small music studio in her bedroom and she records her own versions of famous songs on
her computer. She also records original songs. Then, an outside studio adds instruments like
keyboards, drums and electric guitars.
Jemma started putting her videos on YouTube, and she became very popular in China and Japan.
Soon, people around the world heard about Jemma. There were even TV programmes about her.
Everyone thought she was amazing. Today, people are trying to help her conquer her agoraphobia
and return to the outside world. Jemma is optimistic. What does she say about her extraordinary
fame? “If you want to do something, fight for it and keep on dreaming.”
1. What is agoraphobia?
2. How does the phobia affect Jemma´s life?
3. How did people start to hear about her?
4. Does Jemma think she will someday overcome her agoraphobia?
Q&A.world
Question:
There’s a werewolf in Twilight and in the Harry Potter books and films. Did modern writers invent
this part human, part wolf creature?
Best answer:
No, they didn’t. The Roman writer Ovid wrote about werewolves in 1 AD. According to Ovid, King
Lycaon gave Jupiter meat for dinner – human meat. Jupiter was very angry about this, and he
transformed Lycaon into a werewolf – a creature with fur, paws and claws. In modern films and
books, people become werewolves at night. But Ovid’s werewolf didn’t wait for dark. He changed
at any time of day.
Question:
Where do zombies come from?
Best answer:
Zombies are creatures with human bodies and faces but they can’t speak or think. Stories about
zombies originated in Africa hundreds of years ago. Later, in the 17th and 18th centuries, people
from Africa were slaves on French plantations in Haiti. The African slaves had very difficult lives.
They didn’t have much food and they lived in terrible conditions. Many slaves decided to kill
themselves. The French didn’t want the slaves to die. They knew about the African fear of zombies,
so they invented new stories about the creatures. According to these stories, people became zombies
when they killed themselves.
1. According to Ovid, who was the first werewolf and why?
2. Where did the first zombies appear?
3. Why did the French make up stories about zombies?
Is That Film Healthy?
Before you choose the film channel on your TV or buy some cinema tickets, think about this:
The types of films you watch can affect your health!
Comedies
Have you got a headache? Is there stress in your life? Then you should watch a comedy. Comedies
aren’t just fun. Laughing for 15 minutes during a comedy affects your body like 15 minutes of
aerobic exercise. Your heart sends more blood through your body, your blood pressure goes down,
your headache disappears and you forget about your problems.
Horror Films
What have extreme sports and watching horror films got in common? Your body produces the
hormone adrenalin during these activities. Adrenalin helps you react to dangerous situations. It
makes you feel alert and ready to do anything. Some people love this feeling, and they must have
more and more excitement in their lives. But people with high blood pressure or heart problems
must be careful about watching horror films or doing extreme sports, because the adrenalin can be
dangerous for them.
3D Films
Some people love 3D films, but some people walk out of them saying, “I couldn’t see anything”.
This is because people with eye problems often can’t see the 3D effects. 3D films can be fun, but
they can also cause stomach aches or headaches.
1. How does laughing for 15 minutes affect your body?
2. How does adrenalin affect your body?
3. Can adrenalin be dangerous?
4. What are the negative effects of 3D films?
Orangutan Bad Habits
The Facts:
Orangutans are endangered animals from Indonesia. They are very intelligent animals and
they can think and solve problems. According to scientists, orangutans and humans share
97% of their genes.
An Interesting Story:
Orangutans have got some other similarities to humans. Sometimes, they share our bad habits.
Tori, an orangutan, and her partner Didik lived in a cage at a zoo in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia.
Many Indonesians smoke cigarettes, and visitors to the zoo often threw cigarettes into the
orangutans’ cage. Didik was cleverer than Tori, and he stepped on the cigarettes. But Tori started
smoking them. She became addicted, and she wanted cigarettes every day. She even learned to put
her fingers on her mouth to show people she wanted to smoke. When they didn’t give her cigarettes,
she became angry and threw things. This dangerous situation continued for ten years, and then the
zoo decided to move Didik and Tori. They put the orangutans on an island in the zoo. The island
was more exciting than the cage, and it had places to climb and play. People could see the
orangutans there, but they couldn’t give them anything. Soon, Tori forgot about the cigarettes. She
was healthier than before and she and Didik even had a baby. Tori, Didik and their baby still live
happily in their smoke-free home today.
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5.
Are orangutans very similar to humans? Why?
How did Tori become addicted to smoking?
Why did Tori get aggressive?
Where did the zoo decide to put Tori and Didik?
How did living in the island affect their lives?
Help Me, Computer!
The maths exercises are really hard. You don’t know how you’re going to do them and no one
can help you. You’re angry and you want to hit your computer keyboard. Suddenly, an avatar
appears on the screen.
I can see you’re very angry, but don’t worry. I’m going to help you. Let’s try again.
Does this sound like a scene from a science-fiction film? That’s because until recently, only
computers in films could understand people’s feelings. But Professor Beverly Woolf at the
University of Massachusetts in the USA recently developed a special computer program to detect
and respond to people’s emotions. Professor Woolf uses the program to help maths students.
Students solve maths problems online and a webcam takes pictures of their expressions and
movements. Sensors on a mouse give the computer more information: Is the student bored or
interested? Is he or she going to complete the task successfully? The computer knows the answer.
It tries different methods to help the student, such as reading out the question and using computer
animations to explain the solution. It also says things to make the student feel good. According to
Professor Woolf, students’ marks in maths improved by 20% after using her program. Their
feelings about maths also improved. Not bad!
1. What did Professor Woolf develop at the University of Massachusetts?
2. Who benefits from this program?
3. How does the computer detect the students´emotions?
Grammar
Unit 1
1. Write the Past Simple form of the verbs below.
1. stopped
stop
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2.
cry
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3.
travel
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4.
swim
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5.
lose
6.
make
7.
eat
8.
sit
2. Complete the text with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Simple.
died
Elvis Presley was the King of Rock and Roll. He 1……………………
(die) more than 30 years ago, but his
music is still popular today. When he was ten, Elvis 2…………………… (win) a singing competition. But his
singing career 3…………………… (not begin) until he was 18. In 1958, when the US military
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…………………… (want) him, he 5…………………… (not stay) at home. He 6……………………
(become) a soldier and 7…………………… (go) to Europe. While he was away, he 8……………………
(meet) his future wife, Priscilla. Priscilla and Elvis 9…………………… (not have) an easy life because Elvis
was often away on tours. Elvis was only 42 when he died. During his life, he 10…………………… (sing)
hundreds of songs and 11…………………… (act) in more than 31 films.
3. Write questions with the words below. Use the Past Simple.
1.
when / Elvis / die
When
did
Elvis die?
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where / he / meet / Priscilla
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3.
why / Elvis and Priscilla / have / problems
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Elvis / perform / in films
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4. Answer the questions in Exercise 3 according to the text in Exercise 2.
He died more than 30 years ago.
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5. Write questions with the words below. Use the Present Simple.
1.
when / you / get up / in the morning
When do you get up in the morning?
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you / study / English / every day
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your teacher / give / homework / every lesson
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what / you / do / after school
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5.
where / your best friend / live
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6. Answer the questions in Exercise 5. Make the answers true for you.
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7. Choose the correct adverbs of frequency. Don’t change the meaning of the sentence.
1. We don’t play football in bad weather.We never / often play football in bad weather.
2. Heather watches the news on TV twice a week. Heather sometimes / always watches the
news on TV.
3. My uncle plays golf once a year. My uncle rarely / usually plays golf.
4. Janine and Doris go shopping three or four times a week. Janine and Doris rarely / often
go shopping.
5. Kelly and her sister go to bed late every night. Kelly and her sister sometimes / always go
to bed late.
Unit 2
1. What were the people doing at 9.00 on Saturday morning? Complete the sentences
with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Continuous affirmative or negative.
9.00 on Saturday morning
Helen
Fred
Jane
Bill
Paul
were travelling
weren’t travelling on a helicopter.
1. The people ……………………
on a tram. They ……………………
(travel)
2. Paul and Jane …………………… backgammon. They …………………… a computer
game. (play)
3. Bill …………………… on his phone. He …………………… to Helen. (talk)
4. Fred …………………… tickets. He …………………… passports. (check)
5. Helen …………………… her dog. She …………………… her baby. (feed)
2. Write questions with the words below. Use the Past Continuous.
1.
you / sleep / at 12.00 last night
Were
you
sleeping at 12.00 last night?
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2.
your class / study / English / at 10.00 yesterday morning
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3.
your friends / have / lunch / at 2.00 yesterday
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4.
it / rain / at 4.00 yesterday afternoon
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3. Answer the questions in Exercise 2. Make the answers true for you.
1.
2.
3.
4.
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4. Look at the pictures of Carol and Tom. What are they doing? Complete the sentences with
the activities below.
taking a nap • taking photos • ordering a pizza • hanging out • buy tickets • getting a haircut
stay at home • going on a ride • go bowling • waiting in a queue
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3
Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
waiting in a queue
1.
It’s Monday. Carol and Tom are ……………………………….
They want to
buy
tickets
………………………………. for a film.
2.
It’s Tuesday. Carol and Tom are at the hairdresser’s. Carol is
………………………………. and
Tom is ………………………………. .
3.
It’s Wednesday. Carol and Tom are at the theme park. Carol is
………………………………. of
Tom. He is ………………………………. .
4.
It’s Thursday. Carol and Tom are at the bowling alley, but Tom doesn’t want to
………………………………. . He is hungry, so he is ………………………………. .
5.
It’s Friday. Carol isn’t going out tonight. She wants to
………………………………. . Tom is at
Carol’s house and they are ………………………………. .
5. Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the Present Simple or Present
Continuous.
is eating
1.
Harry ……………………
(eat) a hamburger now.
2.
Dean usually …………………… (go) to the bowling alley on Saturday.
3.
My friends …………………… (watch) the football game right now.
4.
My father never …………………… (drive) to work. He often ……………………
(take) the train.
5.
I’m at the hairdresser’s. I …………………… (get) a haircut at the moment.
6. Complete the text with the verbs in brackets. Use the Present Simple or Present
Continuous.
are waiting
Betty and I are at the concert hall right now. We 1……………………
(wait) in a long queue to see Beyoncé.
Betty 2…………………… usually …………………… (not go) to concerts with me, but she
3
…………………… (love) Beyoncé. There are thousands of teenagers here and many of them
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…………………… (sing) Beyoncé’s songs. I 5…………………… (not sing) because I 6……………………
(not know) the words to the songs. Betty 7…………………… (talk) on her mobile phone with our friend, Lisa.
Lisa 8…………………… (come) to the concert, too. I 9…………………… (hope) we can find her!
7. Complete the sentences with the verbs below. Use the Present Simple or Present
Continuous.
wait • not want • go • skate • hate • not listen • wear
doesn’t want to take the dog for a walk because he’s tired.
1.
John ……………………
2.
All the children …………………… at the ice rink now.
3.
Janet …………………… to the football game on the radio because she
…………………… football.
4.
…………………… you …………………… in the queue at the moment?
5.
I …………………… my new sweater today.
6.
…………………… Donny often …………………… to the zoo?
Unit 3
1. Complete the sentences with the verbs below. Use the affirmative or negative form of will.
go • not find • be • not win • change
will change
1.
In 20 years, the weather ……………………
all around the world.
2.
Jane is playing badly. She …………………… the match tomorrow.
3.
The birds …………………… any food in the snow.
4.
I don’t think it …………………… sunny tomorrow.
5.
Maybe we …………………… to Paris next year.
2. Write questions with the words below and will.
1.
Jake / score / a goal
Will Jake score a goal?
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2.
Bill and Lisa / reach / the finish line
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3.
Meg’s horse / win / the race
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4.
the children / remember / to walk the dogs
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3. Complete the sentences
with the verbs in brackets. Use be going to.
am not going to do
1. I ………………………………
(not do) sport tomorrow.
January, the boys won’t go skiing.
2. The students in my class ……………………………… (study) English next year.
3. Our teacher ……………………………… (not give) us a test next week.
4. ……………………………… your parents ……………………………… (watch) our
game tomorrow?
5. My friend and I ……………………………… (buy) clothes on Saturday.
6. My friends ……………………………… (not meet) me at the cinema tonight.
7. ……………………………… the coach ……………………………… (come) to the party
tonight?
Unit 4
Choose the correct answers.
1
How much / How many / Is there times have you called your dog, but it hasn’t responded? Maybe your dog
can’t hear properly. 2 There is / There are / Are there many dogs with hearing problems – and some dogs
can’t hear 3 any / a / much sounds at all. 4 A / Much / Some dogs are born with this problem, but 5 much /
many / any dogs lose their hearing when they are older. There are 6 some / much / any things you can do to
help a dog with hearing problems. 7 There are / There is / Is there classes for dog owners and 8 there / there
is / there are a special sign language for dogs.
Find the possessive pronoun in each puzzle. Then complete the sentences with the correct
possessive pronoun.
y o g
u f s
v r f
l h j
e w p
r s d
b m z
i k r
x n e
h o p
f i v
s a g
m o h
u a w
v r s
c
b
r
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
t
i
s
h
e
k
yours
Did you forget your keys? I think these keys are ……………………
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This CD isn’t …………………… . I haven’t got any Beatles CDs.
She has written many great songs, but this song isn’t …………………… .
That guitar is …………………… . He bought it last week.
We’ve got a blue car. The white one isn’t …………………… .
Mr and Mrs Lewis like classical music. These Mozart CDs must be ………………
WRITING
1. Read the fact file and write a paragraph about a beach in the Bahamas.
Pink Sands Beach
Name of beach:
Harbour Island, Bahamas
Location:
pink
Colour of sand:
microscopic animals from the coral reef
Origin of colour:
Other information:
• one of the best beaches in the Bahamas
• over 4.8 kilometres long
• great beach for swimming
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2. Write a paragraph about your favourite teacher. Describe your teacher and say why he / she is
special.
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Complete the fact file about a performance you enjoyed. Then write a paragraph about it.
Type of performance
Date
Place
Why it was special
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4.
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Look at the pictures of Greg’s holiday. Then write a paragraph about it.
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5. Look at the food in Tom’s fridge. Write a paragraph about the food he should or shouldn’t take
to school. Explain why.
Cola
noodles
tomatoes
ham
chocolate
cake
sausages
cucumbers
sandwiches
mayonnaise
yoghurt
oranges
apples
ketchup
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6. Answer the questions. Then write a paragraph with the information.
1. What is your favourite gadget? ............................................................
2. How much does it cost?
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3. What features has it got?
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4. How often do you use it?
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7.Read the opening sentence. Then tick ( ) five sentences that belong in the body of the paragraph.
Opening sentence: Next summer, I’m going to a technology summer camp.
Body of the paragraph:
...... 1. The camp is in Oxford, England.
...... 2. I love the beach in the summer.
...... 3. It’s starting on 6th July.
...... 4. I’m going to meet technology students from all over the world.
...... 6. My best friend is also coming.
...... 7. We are going to build a robot.
8.Write about how healthy is your life. Include food and free time.
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