ENGLISH LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT TEST

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TO BE COMPLETED BY STUDENT: TO BE COMPLETED BY OFFICE:

NAME: Lizeth Vega Required

DATE:
EMAIL: Required
AGENCY: Francisco Vargas, Mg.
ADDRESS: Lima Required
EMAIL: francisco.vargas@acreditar.ca
CITY: Lima Required
TELEPHONE: 250-886-3884
COUNTRY: Peru Required
COUNTRY: Canada
TELEPHONE: Required
STUDY DATES:
PROGRAM: Required

Where would you like to study?

Victoria REMEMBER:

Do not use any dictionaries

Do you have an agent? Yes
or textbooks during this test.
Have you registered at GV? No

SECTION 1 - Answer the questions using complete sentences.

1. Where are you from? I'm from Peru

2. What do you like to do in I like watch TV

your spare time?

3. Who is your favorite actor? My favorite actor is Frank Sinatra

4. What time do you usually go Usually I go to bed at 9 p.m.

to bed?

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SECTION 1 (Continued) - Answer the questions using complete sentences.

5. How often do you go out Usually I go out to eat one time per week
to eat?

6. What are you doing right now? I'm taking a English test

7. What did you eat for lunch I eat a chicken brasa

yesterday?

8. What were you doing at I was watching TV

10:00 p.m. last night?

9. How long have you studied I studied English by six months

English?

10. Have you ever been to Africa? No, I did'nt

11. What are you going to do I will be travelling to Latin America for my job
next year?

12. By the time you were sixteen, When I was sixteen, I did'nt study English
how long had you studied
English?

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SECTION 2 - Fill in the blanks with the correct verb forms.

A.
Right now Tom (1) is playing (play) soccer in the park. He (2) plays (play) soccer
every Saturday morning. Last weekend he (3) played (play) against a team from Brazil.
He (4) is (be) very excited to play against an international team. Tom says, “In the future,
I (5) will play (play) in the Olympic Games. That is my dream.”

B.
Tom (6) never was (never, be) to the Olympics before. However, he (7) is reading (read)
a lot about the history of the Games. For a long time he (8) had (have) dreams about competing
as a champion athlete. Tom (9) believes (believe) that it would be an honor to compete for his
country. All of his friends (10) wish (wish) him luck in fulfilling his dream.

SECTION 3 - Complete the sentences.

1. If it rains tomorrow I will have an umbrella to protect me

2. Maria can’t stand the cold

3. Living in another country I learn about its culture

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SECTION 3 (Continued) - Complete the sentences.

4. Joe made his sister a gift for her birthday

5. To learn a second language I need practice to much

6. I was given a gift for my birthday

7. The woman who is talking is my friend

8. You should study for your exam

9. By the time he graduates, Joe has plans to travelling abroad

10. If I won a million dollars I will invest in business

11. Karen, your boyfriend called if you will be at 10 pm in your house

and asked

12. Jerry didn’t eat his lunch as usual eat in his adequate time
so he must

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SECTION 4 - Read the passage and answer the questions (1 point each)
Some societies have nuclear families in which the mother, father and their children live together in the same house.
Other societies have extended families. In this kind of family, the nuclear family lives together with grandparents, uncles and other relatives.
In North American society, the nuclear family has been the traditional form of the family. Today, however, it is more of an ideal than a
reality. Although there has always been variety in the “traditional” North American family, there seems to be even more diversity today.
According to the most recent government reports, only about one third of all North American families are traditional with two
parents and their children, and another third are married couples with no children or no children still living at home. The final third are single
people, mostly women over sixty-five years old. There are also unmarried couples living together and single parents.
There are a number of reasons why the Western family is changing. One reason is that the size of the family is getting smaller.
Now more women are working, and they delay having children. Having fewer children allows a family to give more to a few children, so they
will have better lives. A smaller family can also move more easily to places where they can make more money. Moreover, there are more babies
born to unmarried women as well as more divorces. Some young couples don’t see their parents very often, and they don’t invite their parents
to live with them when the parents grow old. In fact, many of the parents don’t want to live with their grown children. Finally, many North
Americans have close friends who are like family. These friends play an important role in family life.

1. What is a nuclear family? A small family

Mother, father, and their children
■
Many relatives living together in the same house

2. How many American families Almost all

have a traditional form?
Two-thirds
■
One-third

3. One-third of American families I think that there are children not living at home because they prefer looking for their
consist of families with no children independence working and gaining their own experience. There are a group of oeple that
still living at home. Why do you living alone.
think these children aren’t living at
home?

5. Why do you think many women

Currently several women are working, then probably the first objectives its a personal
are delaying having children? development, and when they achieve this, they coming decide having children.

5. Why do you think many parents

I think that the society is changing, many parents want life new experiences with their
don’t want to live with their grown spouses or friends, in many cases they think that the children are independents.
children when they become old?

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SECTION 5 - Write a paragraph (at least 150 words) about the reasons why you chose to study abroad

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SEND YOUR COMPLETED TEST AS AN E-MAIL ATTACHMENT.

victoria@gvenglish.com

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to place you in the appropriate class or program. Please note that a second oral and written English Language Assessment Test | Pg. 6
exam may be required upon arrival at your school of choice.