Summative assessment for the unit «Daily Life and Shopping> Learning objectives
8.4.2.1(8.R2) Understand specific information and detail in texts on a growing range of familiar general and curricular topics, including some extended texts
8.5.1.1 (8.W1) Plan, write, edit and proofread work at text level with
little support on a range of general and curricular topics 8.5.6.1(8.W6) Link, independently, sentences into coherent paragraphs using a variety of basic connectors on a range of familiar general topics
and some curricular topics
Assessment criteria
. Realize particular facts and parts in reading passage
Make a clear plan of writing: Write a text: Check the written draft Connect sentences into paragraphs with basic connectors and linking words
Level of thinking
Knowledge and comprehension
skills
Application
Duration
20 minutes
Reading
Task 1. Read the text carefully. Select if the statements are TRUE or FALSE, put a tick in an appropriate column and EXPLAIN your choice.
No.
Statements
True
False
Explanation
1. The British Prime Minister goes shopping to M&S.
2. Michael Marks sold things
at a very high price. 3. If M&S employees have health problems, they can consult medical specialists from their company.
Britain's favourite store
Marks & Spencer is Britain's favourite store in London. It attracts a great variety of customers. The Duchess of York and the British Prime Minister are just a few of its famous customers. Last year it made a profit of £929 million, which is more than £18 million a week.
Only at $M&S
It all started 122 years ago, when a young Polish immigrant, Michael Marks, had a stall in Leeds market. He did not have many things to sell: some cotton, a little wool, many buttons and a few shoelaces. Above his stall he put the now famous notice: DON'T ASK HOW MUCH-IT IS A PENNY. For many years, the philosophy of M&S didn't change to sell goods at a moderate price.
Ten years later, he met Tom Spencer and together they started Penny Stalls in many towns of England. Today there are over 1300 branches of M&S all over the world in Britain, America, Canada, Spain, France, Belgium, Egypt, Russia, Greece,
