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Using the bibliography of the course, something as this:
Concerns about how to ensure the valid and equitable assessment of English-language learners (ELLs) and other students from culturally non-mainstream backgrounds are longstanding. This article proposes that new paradigms in the research and practice related to ELL testing are needed to address the complexities of language and culture more effectively. Solano-Flores, G. y Trumbull, E. (2003) Examining language in context: The need for new research and practice paradigms in the testing of English-language learners.
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Listening Question 1 1. Listen the song: factory girl, by rolling stones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlZ1o1EIA9s&list=PL9tY0BWXOZFvtggESc2Thq6KmtSRUbZ_6&index=9 2. and get the lyrics https://www.google.com/search?q=factory+girl%2C+lyrics&oq=factory+girl%2C+lyrics&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.21527j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 - How many Bilabial consonants are there in the third line of the first verse?
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Question 2 The number of syllables in the first line of the first verse (Waiting for a girl who's got curlers in her hair) is:
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Question 3 What does it mean: waiting for a girl who's got curlers in her hair?
a
A- She is at work while he is waiting for her
b
B- She is at the bank
c
C- She is a blond girl
d
D- They are at her home
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Question 4 What does it mean the line: Waiting for a girl and she's got stains all down her dress?
a
A- She is so poor that she has to wear rags
b
B- She is at home wearing informal clothes
c
C- He is so stingy to give her money
d
D- She is in the church
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Question 5 Listen to the song once again Which of the next lines possess a word to break the rhyme?
a
1- Curlers in her hair, money anywhere
b
2- Much too fat, instead of hats
c
3- Into fights, Friday night 4- Down her dress, factory girl
d
4- Down her dress, factory girl
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Reading: Once upon a time when the spring of mental disease was unknown, hysterical women were burnt alive, to purify their possessed souls. Those were the dark ages when the kingdom of god reigned on earth absolutely. Any form of science or free thinking was chased and punished and only the bible was the pattern to answer the questions of universe. However after the French revolution, alienated Subjects were in straightjackets and treated with electricity discharges. By the end of nineteen century the psychiatrist Charcot discovered the suggestion power to cure the neurosis, plus something else: The symptoms disappeared when the ill ones talked about their sexuality. During the last decade of nineteen century Sigmund Freud invented the psychoanalytic therapy after losing his interest for Hypnosis. Later in the middle of twenty century, Jack Lacan re-read Freud´s work and separated the Fantasy for neurosis, and the symbolic for Paranoid. After then it is well known that the hysteria is the never said word, and the paranoid speech is a self-cure intent . Question 1. One can conclude without any doubt that Sigmund Freud discovered the spring of Neurosis
a
1. Verdadero
b
2. Falso
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We can conclude that mental diseases have been understood thanks to Medicine
a
1. Verdadero
b
2. Falso
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After the French revolution the treatment for alienated persons was
a
- Strait Jackets and Electrical discharges
b
B- Psychotropic drugs
c
C- Psychoanalytic therapy
d
D- Religious Method
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The Suggestion was discovered to be the original fundamental cause for Hysteria
a
1. Verdadero
b
2. Falso
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During the last decade of the nineteen century, Sigmund Freud invented the psychoanalytic therapy after he discovered Hypnosis immense power to cure
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Writing First question Having as a guide the CEFR Levels, if you were to write a B1 text, you should select one of the following lines:
a
1- They can write some simple isolated phrases and sentences.
b
2- Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors like ‘and’, ‘but’ and ‘because’.
c
3- They can write straightforward connected texts on a range of familiar subjects within his field of interest, by linking a series of shorter discrete elements into a linear sequence.
d
4- They can write some clear, detailed texts on a variety of subjects related to the field of interests and show an ability to use different registers within written texts.
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Second Question: Let us suppose you were in charge of writing the lyrics of the Rolling stones song, the order of the song would be:
a
1- who's got curlers in her hair…, and her kneels are much too fat… and she gets me into fights…. and she's got stains all down her dress
b
2- and she's got stains all down her dress who's got curlers in her hair…, and her knees are much too fat… who wears scarves instead of hats… and she gets me into fights….
c
3- who wears scarves instead of hats…who's got curlers in her hair…, and her knees are much too fat… and she gets me into fights…. and she's got stains all down her dress
d
4- Who’s got curlers in her hair…, who wears scarves instead of hats… and she gets me into fights…. and she's got stains all down her dress…. and her knees are much too fat…
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Third Question Imagine you have to write an essay counting as many words as the Rolling stones Factory Girl: Your writing words number would be
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Fourth question: You are supposed to write a poem following the sequence of the rhyme in Factory girl, (who's got curlers in her hair… her kneels are much too fat… and she gets me into fights…. she's got stains all down her dress)
a
1- /fæt/, /faɪt/, /dres/, /her/
b
2- /her/ , /faɪt/, /dres/, /fæt/,
c
3- /dres/, /her/ , /fæt/, /faɪt/
d
4-/her/ , /fæt/, /faɪt/, /dres/
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Fifth Question: You have to write a paper for a B1 English student’s public, so you choose one of the following lines as a guide for your writing:
a
1- Can write an essay or report, passing on information or giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view.
b
2- Can write straightforward connected text on topics, which are familiar, or of personal interest.
c
3- Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors like and, "but and “because“.
d
4- Can write simple isolated phrases and sentences.
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Speaking Considering a B1 speaker must have a basic criterion of English phonetics, they must be excellent speakers on time to produce utterances with accuracy; and it is found in the phonetic symbols drive. Question one Let us suppose you have to speak the line: “Waiting for a girl who's got curlers in her hair” This sentence possesses two words which are related as minimal pairs and for such a fact you must be very careful to pronounce them:
a
1- Waiting _ For
b
2- Girl _ Got
c
3- Whose _ curlers
d
4- Hair _ Her
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Question 2 In UK the word “her” is pronounced /hər/ and in US /hɝː/ We could say that the relation between the two words is:
a
1- Syntactic
b
2- Grammatical
c
3- Allophonic
d
4- Minimal pairs
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Question 3 Imaging you are speaking to some public. If you have two choose between two different sounds without producing a semantic change, you would be facing
a
1- One signification
b
2- One meaning
c
3- One allophonic sound
d
4- One minimal par relation
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Question 4 If you produce one utterance or another, but depending of chosen word the meaning does not remain the same, you face
a
1- One signification
b
2- One meaning
c
3- One allophonic sound
d
4- One minimal par relation
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Question 5 Which of the next lines breaks the sound rhyme?
a
1- /fæt/, /faɪt/, /hæt/
b
2- /dres/, /her/ /kɜːl/
c
3- /her/ , /dres/, / hər /
d
4- /fæt/, /faɪt/, /niː/
Explicación
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Many students should know that the sound /w/ begins its point of articulation as a bilabial consonant
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Any B1 student must be able to divide the words in syllables
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If she has got curlers in her hair, she is not shopping but at home
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A woman does not go out wearing stained clothes, she is at home
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A B1 student should be able to express his feelings using poetry
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It was not Freud but Charcot
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False, it was not the Medicine but the Psychology
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The alienated were not killed, instead they received electrical currents while immobilized
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The cause of Hysteria is repression not suggestion
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It was the Free Association, not the sugestion
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3- They can write straightforward connected texts on a range of familiar subjects within his field of interest, by linking a series of shorter discrete elements into a linear sequence.
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1- who's got curlers in her hair…, and her kneels are much too fat… and she gets me into fights…. and she's got stains all down her dress
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this is the sequence: 4- /her/ , /fæt/, /faɪt/, /dres/
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1- Can write an essay or report, passing on information or giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view.
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The relation is a minimal pair between 'Her' and 'hair'
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It is an allophonic relation because the meaning remains the same
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once again, it is an allophonic situation
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if there is a change in he semantic side, there it is minimal pair relation
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/ni:/ has nothing to do with the rhyme
Test your knowledge about the 5 seeing habits discussed in the text 'UPS 5 seeing habits'.