Name: .Class: ..

Dream Holiday
By Richard Graham

Next week is my dream holiday. My dream holiday.

No work for a week. No worries for a week.
No problems for a week. Just paradise.
Im leaving next Monday. Ill take the plane for Hawaii.
Then on Tuesday, Ill spend all day at the beach.
On Wednesday, Ill go shopping. Ill spend all day at the
duty free.
On Thursday, Ill go clubbing.
Just dance, dance, dance, all night long.
Ill relax until Friday. Ill hire a car and go for a drive.
On Saturday, Ill spend all day in the sea.
On Sunday, I dont know, maybe Ill relax a little more.
And every day, Ill have great food and fun, fun, fun, fun.
Part One (14 points)
Reading Comprehension (07 points)
Activity One: Complete the table with information
from the text. (03 points)
Monday
Take
the
plane

Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday
Friday
1/ Go
2/ Go for

shopping

a drive

Saturday
3/.

..

Activity Two: Match the questions in column A with the appropriate answers in
column B. (02 points)

1/
2/
3/
4/

Column A
When is Richards holiday?
Where will he go?
How will he get there?
What will he eat?

Column B
a/
b/
c/
d/

By plane.
Great food.
Next week.
To Hawaii.

Activity Three: What do these words mean? (02 points)

1/ holiday: ......................................................................
a/ work
b/ vacation
c/ sleep
d/ study
2/ leaving: .......................................................................
a/ staying
b/ arriving
c/ going away
d/ getting up

Mastery of language (07 points)

Activity One: Find in the text four (04) verbs describing future actions.(02 points)
1/ ...............................2/ . 3/ 4/
Activity Two: Rewrite the following sentences using the future. (03 points)
1/ Today, I am in Hawaii.
Tomorrow, ...............................................................................................................................................
2/ I sleep in a hotel.
.....................................................................................................................................................................
3/ I dont work.
.....................................................................................................................................................................
Activity Three: Match the words that have the same rhyme. One word in column B
has no rhyming word in column A. (02 points)
Column A
Holiday
Beach
Go
drive

Column B
Know
Five
Say
Leave
Teach

Part Two: Situation of Integration (06 points)

Written Expression
Your teacher asked you about what you will do next week after the exams. Write
him/her about your different activities ( visit family/ friends, play games, go to the
beach/ swim, relax, not study/ not go to school ). Start like this:
Next week, school finishes. I will ......................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................................................................

Do your best!

Key Answers
Reading Comprehension
Activity One
1/ Spend all day at the beach.
2/ Go clubbing/ dance.
3/ Spend all day in the sea.
Activity Two
1/ : c
2/ : d
3/ : a
4/ : b
Activity Three
1/ Holiday: vacation
2/ Leaving: going away
Mastery of Language
Activity One
Possible answers: will take ; will spend ; will go ; will relax ; will hire ; will have
Activity Two
1/ Tomorrow, I will be in Hawaii.
2/ I will sleep in a hotel.
3/ I will not work.
Activity Three
Holiday : say
Beach : teach
Go : know
Drive : five
The word leave has no match.

Situation of Integration: Written Expression

Evaluation Grid
Relevance

Syntax

Semantic

Piece of writing
in accordance
with the given
situation of
communication:
Writing about
ones activities
for the coming
week using:
-simple future
with the first
person singular
- articles
-prepositions
-possessive
adjectives
-link words
-appropriate
vocabulary
02 points

Syntactic
coherence:
-suitable tense
-syntactic
order

02 points

Text

125 words

Excellence

Cohesion of
ideas:
-meaningful
sentences
-logical
transitional
elements

Mechanics and
Conventions
Learners:
-use
punctuation and
capital letters
-make not more
than 15 spelling
mistakes
-have a legible
handwriting

01 point

01 point

01 point

Good
presentation
and
organization of
the paper