TERM 1 67% EXAM CONTENT 11C (IN COORDINATION WITH 11A AND 11B
Criterion B 67%
- Reading section (estimated 45 minutes time)
- C1 level Cambridge/IB reading tasks
- Use your 33% Crit B exam to revise for this – ask me about any doubts you may have.
- You should prepare for this by reading regularly and noting down phrases/expressions or vocabulary that you have not understood. You can email me or speak to me in class for explanations.
- You should be reading regularly anyway.
Criterion C 67%
Three parts, equally weighted
Grammar (33%)
- Passive voice exercises like in class and on the class exam. Use this to revise active – passive transformations. More examples online here.
- Some common past participles from the sporcle that we used for the class exam.
- Modal verbs – practise here. For the exam you will have to complete sentences using modal verbs. Only modal verbs from this page and their uses will be included.
Vocabulary (33%)
- Vocabulary – from everything we have read so far on technology (you should have lots in your notes):
- Technology articles / videos
- Mobile phone article
- Rebekah Vardy’s account story
- Black Mirror episode that we watched.
- QUIZLET LIST HERE – learn all of them, some will be on the exam in a matching or gap-fill exercise. You need to know what they mean and be able to use them in a sentence.
Writing section (33%)
- You will be asked to to respond with 200-220 words on a topic. You will be given two options of tasks: Blog OR Essay
- You should revise both text type conventions as the task may be more accessible.
- Sample writing tasks:
- Write a blog post about your use of social media, and young people’s attitudes to social media in general. (200-220 words)
- Write an essay discussing the following quote: “The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” (200-220 words)
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to speak to me in class or via email.