Key Skills - Communication Level 3

KEY SKILLS - COMMUNICATION LEVEL 3

DIAGNOSTIC TEST

Time allowed: 50 minutes

Answer all questions on the answer sheet provided. Write your name on your answer sheet.

Dictionaries and spellcheckers may NOT be used.

You should spend about 20 minutes on sections 1-3 and 30 minutes on section 4

DIAGNOSTIC TEST: COMMUNICATION LEVEL 3

Answer all questions in sections 1-3 by selecting the correct answer (a, b, c or d) and recording it on the answer sheet provided. You are advised to spend about 20 minutes on these sections.

Section 1: Spelling

For each question, choose the correct spelling of the word.

Question 1

(a) beleive

(b) beleeve

(d) belive

Question 2

(a) definate

(b) definite

(d) defanate

Question 3

(a) description

(b) discription

(d) deiscription

Question 4

(a) ocasional

(b) ocassional

(d) occassional

Question 5

(a) government

(b) goverment

(d) govement

Question 6

(a) paralel

(b) parrallel

(d) parellel

Question 7

(a) imediately

(b) immedaitely

(d) immediately

Question 8

(a) pschyology

(b) psychology

(d) psycholegy

Question 9

(a) exacerbate

(b) exaserbate

(d) exacabate

Question 10

(a) hurredly

(b) huredly

(d) hurriedly

Question 11

(a) humerous

(b) hummerus

(d) humorous

Question 12

(a) rhythm

(b) rhythme

(d) rhythmn

Question 13

(a) begining

(b) beggining

(d) biginning

Question 14

(a) accomodation

(b) acommodation

(d) acomodation

Question 15

(a) changable

(b) changeble

(d) changeable

Question 16

(a) embarrass

(b) embarass

(d) embarres

Question 17

(a) exagerate

(b) exagerrate

(d) exaggerrate

Question 18

(a) miscelaneous

(b) misscellaneous

(d) misscelaneous

Question 19

(a) corespondence

(b) correspondance

(d) correspondence

Question 20

(a) achieve

(b) acheive

(d) achive

Question 21

(a) scarfs

(b) scarves

(d) scarvs

Question 22

(a) sissors

(b) sisors

(d) scissors

Question 23

(a) sincerely

(b) sincerley

(d) sincirely

Question 24

(a) apaling

(b) appaling

(d) apalling

Question 25

(a) tragedy

(b) tradgedy

(d) tradgidy

Question 26

(a) neccesary

(b) necessary

(d) neccessary

Question 27

(a) separate

(b) seperate

(d) separrate

Section 2: Punctuation

Each question contains four versions of the same sentence. Choose the most accurate version and record the corresponding letter on your answer sheet.

Question 1

(a) i hope uncle john will give me that nice set of china he brought back from his trip to the east.

(b) I hope uncle John will give me that nice set of China he brought back from his trip to the east.

(d) I hope Uncle John will give me that nice set of China he brought back from his trip to the East.

Question 2

(a) His pro-British stance was a strange combination of sophisticated loyalism and run of the mill selfinterest.

(b) His proBritish stance was a strange combination of sophisticated loyalism and run of the mill selfinterest.

(d) His pro-British stance was a strange combination of sophisticated loyalism and run-of-the-mill self-interest.

Question 3

(a) Tamsin was badly injured because that driver was drunk, he got off scott free, where’s the justice in that?

(b) Tamsin was badly injured because that driver was drunk. He got off scott free. Where’s the justice in that?

justice in that.

(d) Tamsin was badly injured because, that driver was drunk. He got off scott free. Where’s the justice in that?

Question 4

(a) I hate Christmas. It’s always the same. There’s cheap commercialism in the shops and soppy insincerity at home.

(b) I hate Christmas, it’s always the same. There’s cheap commercialism in the Shops and soppy insincerity at home.

(d) I hate Christmas, it’s always the same, there’s cheap-commercialism in the shops and soppy insincerity at home.

Question 5

(a) I did not go out, in the rain since I had no umbrella.

(b) I did not go out in the rain since I had no umbrella.

(d) I did not go out in the rain. Since I had no umbrella.

Question 6

(a) He leapt out of the car jumped over the fence scaled the outer wall and fled to freedom.

(b) He leapt out of the car, jumped over the fence scaled the outer wall and fled to freedom.

(d) He leapt out of the car, jumped over the fence scaled the outer wall, and fled to freedom.

Question 7

(a) Worst of all Manisha Claire Faisal and Phil had got lost in the house ignoring the warning they were given.

(b) Worst of all Manisha, Claire, Faisal and Phil had got lost in the house ignoring the warning they were given.

(d) Worst of all, Manisha, Claire, Faisal and Phil had got lost in the house, ignoring the warning they were given.

Question 8

(a) Manchester, which is so beautiful in the spring, is far too hot in the summer.

(b) Manchester, which is so beautiful in the spring is far too hot in the summer.

(d) Manchester which is so beautiful in the spring is far too hot in the summer.

Question 9

(a) The man’s crime was stealing the woman’s bag.

(b) The mans’ crime was stealing the womans’ bag.

(d) The mans crime was stealing the womans bag.

Question 10

(a) Johns coat was left at one of the girl’s houses.

(b) John’s coat was left at one of the girls houses.

(d) John’s coat was left at one of the girls’ houses.

Question 11

(a) The cat wants its’ supper.

(b) The cat wants its supper.

(d) The cat want’s its supper.

Question 12

(a) Youll have to cross your t’s, otherwise the examiner wont’ know what youre writing.

(b) You’ll have to cross your t’s, otherwise the examiner won’t know what youre writing.

(d) You’ll have to cross your t’s, otherwise the examiner won’t know what you’re writing.

Question 13

(a) I can answer quiz questions on most topics, sport, tv, history and music.

(b) I can answer quiz questions on most topics: sport tv history and music.

(d) I can answer quiz questions on most topics sport, tv, history and music.

Question 14

(a) I crept quietly into the cave the ritual had begun

(b) I crept quietly into the cave, the ritual had begun.

(d) I crept quietly into the cave the ritual had begun.

Question 15

(a) William Shakespeare 1564-1616 is still the nation’s favourite playwright.

(b) William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is still the nation’s favourite playwright.

(d) William Shakespeare 1564-1616, is still the nation’s favourite playwright.

Question 16

(a) Hello said Preena.

(b) ‘Hello’ said Preena.

(d) ‘Hello,’ said Preena.

Question 17

(a) I’ll get you next time, he threatened, and it won’t be pleasant!

(b) ‘I’ll get you next time,’ he threatened, ‘and it won’t be pleasant!’

(d) ‘I’ll get you next time’ he threatened ‘And it won’t be pleasant!’

Section 3: Grammar

Read the following sentences and the options which follow. For each question, state which option names the sentence or sentences which are grammatically INCORRECT.

Question 1

1. You and John enjoys the country life.

2. Some people hate chips.

3. A big range of beds are available.

4. The motive and the means are readily apparent.

(a) 1 and 3

(b) 1 and 4

(d) 2 and 3

Question 2

1. The others have gone home.

2. A selection of weapons was in evidence.

3. Up in the hills is several hundred troops.

4. They was delighted by the news.

(a) 2 and 4

(b) 3 and 4

(d) 2 and 3

Question 3

1. I wish you would use fewer swear words.

2. There was plenty of indignation, but fewer than I thought.

3. Less soldiers came home than I had expected.

4. There were fewer people than before.

(a) 1 and 2

(b) 1 and 4

(d) 2 and 3

Question 4

1. Cars are a drain on your finances, but you cannot do without them.

2. Rashes are commonplace; you cannot avoid it.

3. The three brothers celebrated when they were re-united.

4. Mother Nature is a great healer, but she needs time.

(a) 3 and 4

(b) 1 and 4

(d) 2 only

Question 5

1. I don’t have nothing to live for now that Sammy has gone.

2. There isn’t nothing I wouldn’t do for her.

3. He doesn’t owe me anything.

4. It hasn’t anything to do with him.

(a) 1 and 2

(b) 1 only

(d) 1 and 4

SECTION 4: COMPREHENSION

Read the article ‘Ditch your man and be happy’ and study the chart ‘Household objects owned by single people’. Answer all the questions which follow. You are advised to spend 30 minutes on this section.

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3913290,00.html

Ditch your man and be happy

Women thrive on their own but single men are sad, a new survey claims. Richard Reeves reports

Observer

Sunday October 17, 1999

It is the study which proves the point of a thousand conversations between women every day: they really are better off without men.

With the decline of the traditional family, post-2000 is set to be the singles' century - but while live-alone women are thriving, enjoying a rich social life and new opportunities for learning and self-development, single men are sinking into a life of lonely takeaways, videos and computer games.

A project by the Economic and Social Research Council, 'Britain Towards 2010', published tomorrow, explodes the myth of the 'new ladette' mimicking male behaviour, and shows that the lifestyles of single men and women are heading in opposite directions. Single-person households will be predominant in Britain by 2010, but starkly split along gender lines.

'There is a growing segregation between the lives of single men and women,' said Richard Scase, visiting professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex, author of the report. 'Thirty and forty-something single women have well-developed social networks, and are involved in a wide range of social and other activities,' he said. 'Men, on the other hand, appear to be sad, isolated, lonely cases. The hard truth seems to be that living alone is good for women, but bad for men.'

The different lifestyles of single men and women is highlighted by the research into ownership of consumer durables and use of spare time, said Scase. 'Home alone' men are much more likely than single women to own a video recorder, a computer and a hi-fi.

The new, confident single woman is more likely to have been to the theatre or cinema in the past month, visited or been visited by friends - and much more likely to have attended an evening class or local group. Single women are also in the forefront of a new movement towards greater self-awareness or spirituality, said Scase, which will continue to build up a flourishing 'psychotherapy industry'.

Alex McKie, a social forecaster, said the female-dominated growth of spiritual awareness books and classes reflected the growing choices available to women. 'It is socially acceptable for women to pursue this kind of interest,' she said. 'Women have a huge range of choices now about how they live their lives and the roles they play.

'It is very different for men, whose role is ambivalent. The chivalrous gentleman is a laughing stock and the whole 'lager lad' fad, which I think is just an unfortunate playing out of Thatcherism, is just a peculiarly British phase.'

She said the differing attitudes of men and women to paid work explained the growing separation of the singletons. 'Men have always been taught to define themselves in terms of their job, rather than other activities,' she said. 'Women are better at relationships and activities outside the work sphere.' For single men, the typical pattern is becoming a long and stressful working week, followed by a weekend of bingeing on food, drink and drugs, the research paper says.

'The way that gender is constructed has left men much more dependent on a wife for emotional and psychological support - a wife who is no longer there in many cases,' Scase said. 'Women have always been less dependent on one person in the emotional sphere.'

As a result, affluent women are ditching the traditional role of wife and mother and replacing it with chosen childlessness and serial monogamy, the report suggests. 'Living alone will not pre-suppose the absence of emotional relationships,' said Scase.

'Personal relationships will figure in the lives of managerial, professional and entrepreneurial women living in urban areas.' Introduction agencies will see booming demand for their services. But he added that, for lower-paid women, switching partners at will would be harder because of the economic consequences.