Iferhounene New Middle School November 2010 First Term English Exam for MS4 IPOD NANO The iPod nano is Apple's fourth digital audio player It was introduced on September 7, 2005, replacing the iPod mini, which discontinued on the same day It is only 1.6 inches wide, 3.5 inches long, 0.27 inches thick and weighs 42 grams Its stated battery life is 14 hours The screen is 176x132 pixels, 1.5 inches diagonal, and can display 65,536 colours The iPod nano was launched in two colours (black and white) with two available sizes: 2GB (roughly 500 songs) for $199 and 4GB (1000 songs) for $249 Apple also released some accessories, including armbands and silicone tubes (possibly a play on nanotubes) designed to bring colour to the nano and protect it from scratches, as well as a combination lanyard-earphone accessory that hangs around the neck The iPod nano uses flash memory instead of a hard disk As a result, it has no moving parts, making it immune to skipping and far more durable than diskbased players Testing by technology-enthusiast website Ars Technica has shown that even after being driven over twice by a car, the unit's screen was damaged but that it could still play music The unit finally stopped playing music after being thrown 40 feet into the air The initial consumer response to the iPod nano was overwhelmingly positive and sales were heavy The iPod nano sold its first million units in only 17 days and has driven Apply to a record billion-dollar profit for 2005 Englishexercises.org makeagametechnology Part One (14 points) Reading Comprehension (07 points) Activity One: Match each idea with the corresponding paragraph (02 points) Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph A.iPod nano’s capacity of music playing B iPod’s consumer feedback C iPod nano’s appearance D iPod nano’s variety Activity Two: Read the following statements and write “true”, “false”, or “not mentioned” (03 points) 1/ The iPod nano was manufactured by Apple 2/ A disc-based player can be used for a longer time than a flash-based player 3/ The iPod nano can be used under the water Activity Three: Find in the text four (04) words related to technology (02 points) Mastery of language (07 points) Activity One: Supply the punctuation and capital letters where necessary (02 points) my digital audio player can store my songs my audio lessons and can display thousands of colours Activity Two: Rewrite the following sentences using “can”, “could”, “be able to” (02 points) 1/ Yesterday I dropped my iPod but it was capable of playing music 2/ I use it every day as it has the capacity of storing all my favourite songs 3/ Perhaps Apple will know how to ameliorate its functions and applications in the future Activity Three: Find in the text four (04) words that have the following sounds (02 points) / / can / / play Part Two: Situation of Integration (06 points) Written Expression Your mobile phone connects you to the world but this didn’t use to be so in the past And mobile phones will probably become more sophisticated in the future Write a short article in which you retrace the progresses of telephony throughout the last years, its performances nowadays, and what you think your mobile phone will be like in the future Key Answers Reading Comprehension Activity One §1 : C §2 : D §3 : A §4 : B Activity Two 1/ True 2/ False 3/ Not mentioned Activity Three Possible answers: iPod, digital, audio, screen, armbands, tubes, lanyard-earphones, flash, players, unit … Mastery of Language Activity One My digital audio player can store my songs, my audio lessons, and can display thousands of colours Activity Two 1/ Yesterday I dropped my iPod but it could/ was able to play music 2/ I use it every day as it can/ is able to store all my favourite songs 3/ Perhaps Apple will be able to ameliorate its functions and applications in the future Activity Three Possible answers: / / as in “can”: nano, apple, grams, scratches, as, hangs, has, flash, that, than, damaged, and / / as in “play”: replacing, same, weighs, stated, display, available, combination, sales Situation of Integration: Written Expression Evaluation Grid: Relevance Syntax Semantic Piece of writing in accordance with the given situation of communicatio n: Description of Syntactic coherence: -suitable tense -syntactic order Cohesion of ideas: -meaningful sentences -logical transitional elements the progresses of telephony using: -the modals can and could Mechanics and Conventions Learners: -use punctuation and capital letters -make not more than spelling mistakes -have a legible handwriting Excellence Good presentation and organization of the paper -the verb idiom be able to (past, present and future ) -conjunctions -prepositions -time indicators -appropriate vocabulary 02 points 02 points 01 point 01 point 01 point