Toets kijk- en luistervaardigheid 3H

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

Test watching and listening

3 havo

Content of the test

This test consists of two parts.

1) listening fragments with questions.

2) three video clips with questions.

START LISTENING PART

Listening (WITH PAUSES)

First, you are going to listen to a conversation about people who live to be a hundred years old.

Click on the red audio indicator          to listen to the fragment. 

It might need some time to load up, so don't worry if it doesn't start right away.

In this part, each fragment has one question. So there are pauses.

Listening exercise 1. (5 questions)

Let op: Bij sleepvragen kan het zijn dat de tekst over elkaar komt te staan. Maar als je de tekst in het juiste vakje hebt gesleept komt dit met nakijken op de plek te staan die jij hebt uitgekozen.

Aidan’s presentation will be about locations where …

Fragment 1

1. a lot of people want to live when they grow old.
2. old people who are ill are being kept alive longer.
3. many people grow old without becoming ill.
4. there is a problem of an aging population.

According to Aidan, heart disease is one of the illnesses which often occurs in America.
Which other illness does he mention? Name one illness. Use keywords or a short phrase (in English)

Fragment 2

Which statements about people who lived in the mountains of Sardinia are true and which are false?

Put them in the right column.

True

False

Fragment 3

They lived outside a blue zone.

They were always busy.

They wished they had more friends.

They spent a lot of time outside.

They ate many vegetables but no meat.

Aidan talks about reasons why the old people in blue zones …

Fragment 4

1. found their mental state more important than their physical state.
2. lead very happy lives.
3. wanted to retire at an older age.
4. were respected by younger people.

What is so special about the people who live on Okinawa?
Use keywords or a short phrase. (In English)

Fragment 5

What did Mary Seacole
learn from her mother?

1. how to fight for her civil rights
2. how to run a hotel for army officers
3. how to take care of sick people

Listening exercise 2. (5 questions)

Which statement is true?

1. A Jamaican doctor taught Mary everything she knows.
2. Mary had all the necessary diplomas.
3. Mary learned everything in practice.

In the Crimean war,
8.000 soldiers...

1. became seriously ill.
2. died from war injuries.
3. were sent to Turkey.

What was the biggest
difference between Mary
Seacole and Florence Nightengale?

1. Florence Nightengale could move around more freely because she was sent by the government.
2. Mary Seacole could move around more freely because she went to the Crimea all by herself.
3. Florence Nightengale could do more for injured soldiers because she had nurses and a hospital.

What is true about Mary
Seacole's autobiography?

1. She always wanted to write it.
2. She never got a chance to write it.
3. She had no choice but to write it.

END LISTENING PART

START WATCHING PART

Watching

The first fragment you are going to watch is an interactive video quiz. You can start the video in the next slide and you will get questions about what you have seen along the way.

If you want to re-do a question, you can always head back to the previous slide.

Watching

The second fragment is also an interactive video quiz.

If you want to re-do a question, you can always head back to the previous slide.

Answer all questions in English.

01:46

What is the forgetting curve?

02:07

What does the hyppocampus do, according to this video?

03:41

What happens to memories formed in times of stress or other strong feelings?

05:13

What does it mean when someone tells you to "sleep on it"?

Watching

The third fragment you are going to watch is a video after which you get statements. You need to indicate whether these statements are true or false.

For this exercise, you are allowed to open the YouTube clip on a separate tab and to split your screen to have the questions and the video in your screen.

The statements will follow after the video clip. You can always head back to a previous slide.

Abuna Yemata Guh is the only church built in the rocks in the Tigray Region in Ethiopia.

1. true
2. false

From the bottom of the cliff, there is only one path that leads to the church.

1. true
2. false

It was built more than 500 years ago.

1. true
2. false

People say Father Yemata chose this location for the chruch to test the faith of the churchgoers.

1. true
2. false

The church was discovered 47 years ago by the priest.

1. true
2. false

Visitors must take off their shoes at the top of the cliff, before entering the church.

1. true
2. false

The most dangerous point of the climb is just before the entrance to the church.

1. true
2. false

00:14

Thomas ...

1. is a 15 year old billionaire
2. sells mobile apps
3. is designing a space rocket.
4. films videos for Youtube

00:37

This summer Thomas ...

1. has plans to go somewhere
2. wants to set up his own business.
3. wants to improve 3D printing
4. wants to use a 3D printer to create a new product

00:59

The main objective of the school in the video is to teach the students .....

1. how to create their own business
2. how to advertise their a product
3. how to use social media
4. how to inspire others.

01:37

One of the three twelve-year-old children says that children can be better at creating things because ...

1. they can be more original.
2. they work faster.
3. they are less boring.
4. they know a lot about technology.

02:27

Kiowa ...

1. wants to be a zoologist in the future
2. wants to become a veterinarian.
3. has animals at home
4. likes zoos

End test