DIRECTORATE FOR QUALITY AND STANDARDS IN EDUCATION LEVEL Department of Curriculum Management Educational Assessment Unit 5 - 6 - 7
Annual Examinations for Secondary Schools 2016 ______FORM 2 ENGLISH TIME: 15 minutes LISTENING COMPREHENSION ______
TEACHER’S PAPER
Instructions for the conduct of the Listening Comprehension Examination
The teacher should instruct the candidates to answer the questions on the paper provided. The following procedure for reading the Listening Comprehension passage is to be explained to the candidates immediately before proceeding with the examination.
You have been given a sheet containing the Listening Comprehension questions. You will be given three minutes to read the questions based on the passage. The passage will be read at normal reading speed. You may take notes during the reading. After this reading there will be a pause of another three minutes to allow you to answer some of the questions. I shall read the passage a second time and you may take further notes and answer the rest of the questions. After this second reading you will be given a further three minutes for a final revision of the answers.
a. 3 minutes – Students read questions. b. 3 minutes – Teacher reads passage aloud for the first time while students take notes. c. 3 minutes – Students answer questions. d. 3 minutes – Teacher reads passage for the second time. Students may answer more questions. e. 3 minutes – Students revise final answers.
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Annual Examinations for Secondary Schools 2016 ______FORM 2 ENGLISH TIME: 15 minutes LISTENING COMPREHENSION ______
TEACHER’S PAPER
You are going to listen to a tourist guide.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are now in Baker Street. According to the stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Watson lived at 221B Baker Street between 1881 and 1904. In fact, you can now find The Sherlock Holmes Museum at number 221B Baker Street.
The Sherlock Holmes Museum is a privately-run museum which opened in 1990 and is found in Baker Street, bearing the number 221B although it lies between numbers 237 and 241. It is in central London close to Regent's Park.
The town house which the museum occupies, was formerly used as a boarding house from 1860 to 1936, while Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson were reported to have resided there as tenants of Mrs Hudson between 1881 and 1904. The museum is run by the Sherlock Holmes Society of England.
Since the 1930s, the Royal Mail used to have letters addressed to Sherlock Holmes and it would deliver them to 221B which unfortunately was the National Bank. The museum protested that such mail should be delivered to the museum rather than to the bank. The problem was finally resolved in 2002 when the National Bank left its headquarters after seventy years, and the mail is nowadays delivered to the museum.
Jean Conan Doyle, the writer’s daughter, was very much against the idea of the museum as it suggested that her father's fictional character was a real person and she knew that the museum would make people believe that Holmes had really existed. The museum wanted to create a room in the museum dedicated to her father, but this offer was refused, and since then the last remaining possessions of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were sold off at an auction in 2015.
So step back in time, and visit the world's most famous address – 221B Baker Street - the Official Home of Sherlock Holmes!
It’s open every day of the year except Christmas Day from 9.30 am to 6 pm. It’s 10 pounds for adults, children under 16 pay 8 pounds, while students can go in for free.
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