TEST 2 - POST-INSTRUCTION + KEY

Name: _________________________________________
Level of English Language Proficiency B1 B2 C1 C2 _____________
ID number: __________________________________________________
Section: ______A-Ko____________________________________________
Academic Year: 2015-16________________________________________________
Course: _GENRES IN ENGLISH________________

Please follow the instructions to complete each one of the ten questions in Part I.

After completing the tasks, please answer the two questions that follow in Part II.

PART I

A. Identify the familiar concept that helps understand the new concept, that is,
what the utterance is actually about concerning the expressions in bold.
Note that the expressions in bold rely on a similarity between two
concepts or situations.

B. dentify a feature of the familiar concept which maps onto the new concept.

Example: A. Syrias grinding civil war

B. FAMILIAR CONCEPT: grinding (e.g. millstone grinding wheat turning it to dusty

flour)
NEW CONCEPT: Syrias civil war
FEATURE shared: grounding to dust, devastating, destroying, ruining, breaking to
pieces

6. It is essential that the response to the election results at the EU level should
comprehend and reflect the shock to the system that the voters have delivered. [Yet there is
a clear danger, already manifested in the unthinking wish in Brussels to make Jean-
Claude Juncker the new European commission president,] (3)

FAMILIAR or CONCRETE concept: ___not-thinking individuals_______________

NEW or ABSTRACT concept: ___(parliament/politicians in) Brussels_______________

FEATURE shared: ____thoughtlessness, recklessness____________________________

7. The lesson of the last week is that Europe is crying out for more voices who
can tell that sort of story and be believed when they do. (3)
 FAMILIAR (or CONCRETE) concept: ____crying individuals______________

NEW (or ABSTRACT) concept: ____Europe______________

FEATURE shared:_____desperate need____________________________________ _

8. The election was, however, still a historically important one it will make
waves in domestic politics in some member states and rock the current situation. (4)

FAMILIAR (or CONCRETE) concept: ____sea waves______________

NEW (or ABSTRACT) concept: ______election____________

FEATURE shared:_______fluctuation, lack of stability_____________________

9. But it could also lead to disaster, if the crumbling regime is replaced by the
jihadist forces of the Islamic State or al-Qaeda, as already occurred in eastern Syria.

FAMILIAR (or CONCRETE) concept: _______crumbling___________

NEW (or ABSTRACT) concept: _____replacement of regime_____________

FEATURE shared:______collapsing, weakness________________

10. The immigrants plight paints a horrific picture of a regionwide network of human
trafficking. (4)

FAMILIAR (or CONCRETE) concept: ___painting unpleasant scenes_____

NEW (or ABSTRACT) concept: ___________immigrants plight

FEATURE shared:__________________fear, darkness, difficulties___

PART II
1. Which words, if any, were unknown to you, and as a result, created comprehension
problems?
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2. For the unknown words, provide the meaning you managed to retrieve (if any) with
the aid of context.
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