ESL 2 FINAL EXAMTest Review

1. Familiar1. Something is

familiar if you know it well

2. Ancestors2. Ancestors are

family members who lived before you

3. Improve3. When you

improve, you do better

Part 1: Vocabulary4. Accept

4. To accept is to like the way things are

5. Remove5. To remove is to take

away

6. Supplies6. Supplies are

materials people need.

7. Effect7.An effect is what

happens

8. Figure out8. When you figure out something, you learn how to do

it

9. Dangerous9. Something dangerous can harm people

10. Believable10 .Something believable can happen

11. Homeless11. A homeless person has no place to live

12. Entire12. Something is entire if it is complete

Part 1: Vocabulary

Part 2: Match the Meaning Some words have more than one

meaning. To find the correct definition, you have

to read the entire sentence in context. Example: In which of these sentences

does miss mean “to feel sad because something is not there”?

It’s easy to miss a fastball. Hurry, or we will miss the movie. When I’m away, I miss my family.

Part 3: Reading Comprehension

This section involves reading a story and being able to explain parts of it.

It also involves making guesses about what the characters were thinking.

You will have to make predictions about what will happen after the story ends.

Part 3: Reading Comprehension

Read “When Disaster Strikes” (pp.243-249) and “Unwinding the Magic Thread” (pp.309-317) again for more help with this section.

Part 4: Grammar Subject/verb agreement: (ex: The student is failing. / The students are failing.)

Capitalization: (ex: are you going to the mall after work? / Are you going to the mall after work?)

Missing words: (ex: How old you? / How old are you?)

If you were going to write about someone in your family, what would you need to do?

How can you describe someone to your reader if the reader has never met him/her? (HINT: Be Descriptive!)

To describe someone or something, you need to answer the 5Ws (who, what, where, when, why)

Colorful words are descriptive.

Part 5: Writing

Write a paragraph about a character in a story you have read, who would you choose? Why? How would you describe this character? What did the

character do in the story?

Part 6: Essay