Correction - Death Penalty Tests

19.11.2009

You will find in this post the documents that were used for your tests last Friday and the corrections that come along with them.

I have finally succeeded in taking two papers from students of your class to elaborate a correction for the essays! Yahoo! That's a start! I hope I will at the end of the year be able to take ANY copy as an example for a correction. These essays are not perfect. I had to modify some things, add some ideas, and correct some grammar but they were outstanding.

Essay:
Choose either subject 1 or 2 (150 - 200 words)
1- Write a letter to Arnold Schwarzenegger to ask him to stop the executions in California. Give him your reasons.
2- Are you for or against death penalty ? why or why not ?

Download the correction here (Nicolas and Elvire's corrected papers):

Written Comprehension:

Download the assignment here:

And the correction here:

Finally, here is your oral comprehension exercise. As there was a problem with the recording of track n°6, you didn't have to complete the last question:

You can listen to the document here:

You had to spot if the speakers were in favour or against death penalty and give their main arguments.

Here is a possible correction:

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