English Examination s1

ENGLISH EXAMINATION MAJOR: GEOGRAPHY OF TOURISM, IInd academic year, IInd semester, May 2011.

- WRITING (2 points). a. Under the form of a structured essay (thesis-antithesis-synthesis), sum up this semester English course and develop a topic you have most liked. Speculate on the course good/bad points. b. Would you like to have the same English teacher next year or would you rather like to have a new experience? Explain your choice briefly. Note that the accuracy of your English will be marked and not the content of your ideas!

- READING (4 points). Give SHORT answers to these specific questions from texts and course information. The task will test both your general culture and your particular knowledge:

1. What and where is Sidi Bou Said? 2. Who is Count Almasy? 3. Which is the main ‘incident’ in the film ‘Babel’? 4. What country is home to an elephant orphanage and a giraffe centre? 5. What is the specificity of Bardo museum? 6. Name four chapters from the novel The English Patient and his author. 7. What and where is Mbuyu tree? 8. What is the characteristic of the tribe Murzi in Ethiopia? 9. What is the title and the topic of Bernardo Bertolucci’s film played in the English class? 10. Where is the national park Masai Mara? 11. What is the name of the river dividing the two parts of Istambul? 12. Give examples of three legendary winds in the desert. 13. Where are the Blue Nile Falls? 14. What places united together created the State of Tanzania? 15. Name five major cities on the Nile in Egypt. 16. Where are these three famous lakes, Nakuru, Naivasha and Baringo? 17. What and where is Carthage? 18. What famous temples are found in Abu Simbel? 19. Which is the fourth city of pilgrimage in the Islamic world? 20. Where is the greatest east/west market in the world to be found? 21. Name three major cities in South Africa. 22. What is Nabeul in Tunisia famous for? 23. Which film deals with mapping the Sahara desert? 24. Name two bazaars in Istambul. 25. What and where is Douz? 26. Give the name of a famous personality born in South Africa. 27. What city is home to the Roman Colosseum in Tunisia? 28. Name two important cities in Kenya. 29. What is the title of the book of essays by Elias Canetti? Give the English translation of an essay you should have read and say why you have liked it. 30. What and where are the Princes Islands? 31. Give example of a seaside resort in Tunisia. 32. What and where is Serengeti? 33. Focus on the most important highlights in Egypt. 34. Name an airport in Tunisia whose initial letter is M…… 35. Which city was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire? 36. To what country does Sinai belong? 37. Name the country linked to the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara. 38. What does ‘cave dwellings’ mean? 39. What city in Egypt is home to the famous Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens? 40. Where is Aya Sofya? 41. The highest dam in Egypt along with the Temple of Philae are found in this city: …. 42. What are the ‘Jealousy shutters’? 43. Name a famous tomb in Egypt and the museum where you can find its ‘beautiful furnishings’. 44. Which is the country the legend says people have discovered coffee and what is it about? 45. Where is Moses’ Mountain? 46. Give the titles of the films we have played this semester mentioning their directors and some of their actors/actresses. 47. Name five singers/songs we played this semester. 48. Highlight, in a logical chain (according to the map of this continent), all the African countries we have dealt with this semester (in factfiles, presentations, itineraries, safari trips, other data) and write down their capital cities. 49. Name the Portuguese folk music played in Mozambique. 50. What site in the Sahara has “the shape of a woman’s back”? Whose are the quoted words?

- GRAMMAR and VOCABULARY (3 points):

- LEXIS: Make your own dictionary. a. Find definitions or synonyms for the following words taken from your reading texts: - amenities - peer round - balk at - pile up - boost - prospective - engulfed - quarry - feel hassled - riveting - haggle - seething - hop on - smother - hub - sun-soaked - jumping-off point - sybaritic - lavish - thrive on - mooch about - vie with - ooze - whirlwind b. Find definitions or synonyms for the following phrases taken from your reading texts:

- to be in a slump - to seek asylum - to leave smb. in a lurch - to mingle amongst - to be at stake - to head out of - to have the cheek - to overlook a place - to blow a fuse - to hug the walls c. Explain these specialised words: - hookah pipes - studded doors - mosque - cobbled street - pilgrimage - sand drifts - lattice-shuttered windows - muezzin - twin-bedded rooms - half board/full board/all inclusive d. Give the word family of ‘cheek’ and explain your examples.

- GRAMMAR. Use academic language to make up complex sentences expressing: - likes (Use so /so much THAT……CAN HARDLY) - dislikes (Use so /so much THAT……CAN HARDLY) - comparisons (HALF AS MUCH AS) INFO: - 0,50 for Course Attendance, 0,50 for Course Activity (1 point altogether) - 1 extra point for Presentations.