These test questions will help my ESL students learn English and prepare for the final exam. The exam will contain four parts to assess elements of fluency and language learning:
- critical thinking and persuasion
- cohesive story telling
- recall of vocabulary
- effective descriptions by making clear distinctions
Part 1 Agree or Disagree? (2-4 minutes)
Each student will be given one of these random quotes. The task will be to:
- define the meaning of the quote
- state clearly if you agree or disagree
- explain why with reasons and evidence
Respond to one of these quotes.
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus
- “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime…” Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
- “Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.”- Sylvia Plath
