Konkurs przeznaczony jest dla uczniów szkoły średniej. Test konkursowy weryfikuje nie tylko sprawność ortograficzną uczniów, ale także wiedzę z zakresu słowotwórstwa i umiejętność rozumienia ze słuchu. Polecam jako materiał do wykorzystania na lekcji.

SPELLING COMPETITION

Szkolny Konkurs Poprawnej Pisowni

w Języku Angielskim

Imię i nazwisko: _________________________________                

Klasa: __________                                                                                                         

Wynik: _____ / 44

Zadanie 1. Posłuchaj nagrania i uzupełnij luki w tekście. (12 pkt.)

A few years ago, my wife in one of her weaker moments allowed me to (1)__________________ her to go on a family vacation without planning. «Let's just put the kids in the car and head off».

 Kay looked at me (2)__________________ and asked, «But where are we going to go?» I told her I didn't know, but we'd find out together. It would be an (3)__________________! She said, «Why in the world would you want to do that?» «Almost every minute of my day is planned», I said. «I need a vacation from planning».

Filled with (4)_________________, I put kids in our van and we all headed out across California (5)_________________ with no idea at all where we were going and what we would do.

Night one: arrived in Durango, Colorado, slept in the car, because there were no motel (6)_______________.

Night two: made it to Denver and discovered that there wasn't a single motel room (7)_________________, either. How was I supposed to know the annual rodeo was in town? Every room had been booked for weeks. Once again we slept in the car.

Night three: found a vacant motel room near Nowheresville, Utah. Our luxury (8)_________________ had a screen door hanging by one hinge, but it didn't matter, because the screen was punched out and the bugs were getting through freely. From sheer (9)____________________, we all flopped down on beds. Looking up, we noticed dozens of little cockroaches crawling across the (10)___________________. Within a minute we were all back sleeping in the car again…

These episodes continued every night of our vacation. Last night when I was sitting in a loud and (11)__________________ Las Vegas hotel lobby at one in the morning, waiting for someone – anyone – to check out I thought, «Boy, what a big mistake this was, what a total failure». Then I remembered what Thomas Edison said: «Don't call it a failure. Call it education». From this point of view, the vacation was (12)_________________ educational.

Zadanie 2.Uzupełnij zdania wpisując literę a, b lub c w luki. Tylko jedna odpowiedź jest poprawna. (10 pkt.)

1. It's hard to say ­­­­_____­____ to people you love.

(a)     buy                        

(b)     bye                        

(c)      by

2. Bus _________ are going up again.

(a)     fairs                      

(b)     farres    

(c)     fares

3. Couples planning their weddings can get ____________ from married friends.

(a)     advice   

(b)     advise  

(c)     advises

4. When you buy a product, remember to take a _______________ .

(a)     recipe   

(b)     receipt  

(c)     recept

5.The bird ­­­__________ out of the window.

(a)     flu                                         

(b)     flew                                      

(c)     flue

6.She worries too much about her ____________ line.

(a)     waist                                    

(b)     waste                   

(c)     waiste

7.I remember when I was so broke, I didn't have a ___________ to my name.

(a)     sent                                      

(b)     scent                    

(c)     cent

8. When the ______________ is warm, people spend more time outside.

(a)     weather               

(b)     whether                               

(c)     wheather

9. Mars is _______________ cold to permit liquid water to remain on the surface.

(a)     to                                          

(b)     two                                       

(c)     too

10. Dolphins can recognize themselves in a mirror, a shiny __________ of glass.

(a)     peace                   

(b)     piece                                    

(c)     pies

Zadanie 3.Wykorzystaj wyrazy podane w nawiasach, aby stworzyć słowa, które będą poprawnie uzupełniać tekst. Pierwsze zdanie zawiera przykład. (8 pkt.)

WHERE DOES MOTIVATION COME FROM?

Most of us are ___reasonably___ [REASON] motivated to do well in life. But there’s a big difference between those _____________________ [AMBITION] people who push themselves to be more and more _____________________ [SUCCESS],and the people who have lower ______________________ [EXPECT]. Some experts claim that an adult’s level of motivation is fixed in their early ____________________ [CHILD] and that highly motivated people have often had to cope with some sort of _____________________ [PLEASE] experiences or with a problem such as an _____________________ [ILL] or a physical disability.

They say this inspires people to show that they can overcome even the ______________________ [GREAT] difficulties. But psychologists ______________________ [BELIEF] that this is not the full story and that for both children and adults, encouragement and reward are essential.

Zadanie 4.Wybierz poprawną wersję słowa. Zaznacz  literę A, B, C lub D. (8 pkt.)

1.       znajomy / znajomość

Aacquintance    

Bacquaintance  

Cacqueintance  

Daquientence    

2.       ogłoszenie / reklama

Aadvertesement               

Badvertisment   

Cadvertisement 

Dadvertasement               

3.       środowisko

4.       chusteczka

5.       zakwaterowanie

A accomodation 

B acomodation   

Cacommodation               

D accommodation

6.       kwestionariusz / ankieta

7.       odkurzać

Ato vaccum                        

Bto vacumm       

C to vaccuum      

D to vacuum        

8.       otrzymać

Ato receive                         

Bto recieve         

Cto receve          

Dto recive            

Zadanie 5. Poniższy tekst zawiera 6 błędów ortograficznych lub leksykalnych. W każdym wersie znajduje się co najwyżej jeden błąd. Podkreśl niepoprawne słowa i napisz ich poprawną wersję z prawej strony. (6 pkt.)

The potato crisp was the invension of George Crum, in 1853.               invention_______

He worked as a chief at a popular restaurant in the USA. One ______________

day a customer decided that he didn’t like the thikness of his ______________

 fried potatoes, and sent them back to the kitchen. Crum made______________

same more, but the man returned these as well, making the ______________

same complaint. Crum got angry, and hopeing to annoy the ______________

man, he made a third batch which were much thiner  and ______________

could not be eaten with a fork. To his amazement, the man______________

loved them – and so potato crisps were invented. Since ______________

then, their popullarity has increased, and they are eaten all ______________

over the world.______________

Good Luck!

Zadanie 1.

1.persuade

2.blankly

3 adventure

4 excitement

5 desert

6vacancies

7 available

8 suite

9 exhaustion

10 ceiling

11smoky

12extremely

Zadanie 2.

1.b

2.c

3.a

4.b

5.b

6.a

7.c

8.a

9.c

10.b

Zadanie 3.

1.       ambitious

2.       successful

3.       expectations

4.       childhood

5.       unpleasant

6.       illness

7.       greatest

8.       believe

Zadanie 4.

1.b

2.c

3.a

4.b

5.d

6.c

7.d

8.a

Zadanie 5.

1.       chef

2.       thickness

3.       some

4.       thinner

5.       popularity

Opracowała: Beata Gruse