THE FIRST SEMESTER TEST

A.Objectives: - listineing: students be able to listen to and check True or Fals
- speaking: students be able to read the passage to describe about a past event
- writing: students be able to write about oneself using word cues.
- Language focus:students be able to choose the correct word to fill in the blanks
B. Matrix:
Chủ đề
Nhận
biết
Thông
hiểu
Vận
dụng
Tổng


KQ
TL
KQ
TL
KQ
TL


I litening


5
2.5




5
2.5

II.reading




5
2,5


5
2.5

III.writing






5
2,5
5
2.5

IV.language focus
10
2,5





10
2.5

Tổng
10


2,5
10

5.O
5

2,5
25
10



C. CONTENT
Name: ………………………….. THE FIRST SEMESTER TEST
Class: 8…………….
I. Listen and check True (T) or False ( F) (2,5m)
1. Ba is younger than Lan …………………………
2. Lan is shorter than her brother……………………………
3. Both Ba and Lan go to school in the morning………………..
4. They don’t like playing chess and going swimming……………….
5. Lan also loves playing soccer in her free time………………….
II. Fill in each gap with one word or phrase in brackets to complete each setence (2.5m)
1. I often play soccer _________ Sunday afternoon. ( in, at, on, after)
2. We should wait here _______ our teacher comes back. ( before, until, after, during)
3. Mr Brown is the same age _____ Mrs Brown. ( as, like, from, with)
4. The litte boy is not _________ to lift the suitcase.
( enough strong, strong enough, too strong, so strong)
5. Mr Smith _________ his car for 15 years, but it still looks very new.
( has, had, have had, has had)
6. I’ve lived in the this house _________1990. ( from, in, since, for)
7. Kate doesn’t like ___________ to classical music ( listen, listened, listening)
8. Hung is _________ student in my class ( better, most better, the best)
9.Mary was born in france. French is her………………….( mother tongue,foreign language, second language).
10.she is studying hard………….. pass the final exems.( for, in order to, so to,so that.)
III. Read the passage. Then answer the question (2,5m)
In the first year of lower scondary school I had some difficulties in learning English. My pronunciation of English words was really bad and my English grammar was wore. I did not know how to improve them. One afternoon after the lesson, my teacher of English told me to wait for her outside the classroom. She took me to the school library and showed me cassettes of pronunciation drills dictionary to improve my English grammar. “ now I think you know what you should do” said she. I make much progress and only one year later. I won the first prize in English speaking contest held for secondary school student in my hometown.
1. What difficulties did Nam have in learning English in the first year?
2. Who wanted to meet him one afternoon after the lesson?
3. Where did they go after that?
4. What did the teacher show him then?
5. What did he win one year later?
IV. Write a description of room in house using words cues(2,5)
This/ living room.
There/ coffee-table/ aimchair and couch.
There /two cushions/aimchair.
There/ bookself/ wall/ above/coffee-table.
Bookself/TV/cassette/ magazines/books and note-books.
Right/ bookself/ picture/under/picture/clock.
Left/ bookself/big calender.
Lighting fixture/above/ coffee-table.
Vase of the flowers/coffee table/ beneath/ lighting-fixture.

ANSWER KEYS: THE FIRST SEMESTER TEST
I. Listen and check (V) True or False (2,5m)

T (0.5)
T ( 0.5)
F (0.5)
F (0.5)
F (0.5)
II. Fill in each gap with one word or phrase in