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KEYNOTE ADVANCED MID-COURSE TEST | (Units 1–6)

Answer key

To score each test as a percentage, take the judgement when meeting someone for the first
student’s total mark (e.g. 60), divide by 80 and time.
multiply by 100 = 75%.
So, what are the ways in which we judge
people? You may have heard of something
VOCABULARY known as the ‘halo effect’, which is where we
1 assume that someone we consider to be
1C 2B 3D 4A 5B 6D 7C 8A attractive also scores highly on intelligence.
9 D 10 B We have a tendency to think they’re
2 successful, too. Sounds ridiculous, right? Well,
11 assumption 12 efficiently 13 objectives studies show that this ‘cognitive bias’, or error
14 possession 15 exceptional in thinking, means good-looking people are
16 motivational / motivating 17 technological more likely to get hired – and they also get
18 manageable 19 overcoming paid more.
20 inspirational / inspired
Facial features also lead us to draw
GRAMMAR conclusions about the people we see around
3 us. Participants of a study were asked to look
21 of 22 order 23 as 24 a 25 or 26 little at portraits of men and women and make an
27 at 28 What 29 will 30 Had evaluation of their height and leadership
4 abilities. Fascinatingly, things like gender and
31 as not 32 What makes you 33 (but) how long the subjects’ faces were led to
you’ve / you have lost 34 had practised more, participants making judgements about their
I would / I’d 35 I known 36 It is the 37 height. And the taller they estimated the
make a good impression 38 a (small) minority subjects to be, the better a leader they thought
of 39 on the condition that 40 at least they were, too.
twice/two times Something else that we make decisions about
READING when regarding a person’s facial structure is
how aggressive they are. One study
5
suggested that men who had wider faces with
41 C 42 D 43 A 44 B 45 C 46 B more prominent cheekbones had this element
47 C 48 D 49 B 50 D to their personality and were also more likely
LISTENING to be status driven. In other words, they
6 wanted to be viewed as having a high status in
society.
51 intelligence 52 gender 53 structure
54 trustworthy 55 stereotypical assumptions Continuing on the theme of faces, participants
56 nationality 57 tone 58 identity in another study were asked to look at photos
59 conventional 60 body language of people showing different expressions. They
were asked to comment on how friendly and
Transcript
trustworthy they were, based on what their
Track1_Keynote_Adv_Midcourse_test faces showed. It goes without saying that
people responded more positively to those
Good morning, my name’s Carl Magnusson who were smiling than those who looked sad
and I’ll be talking about how we form opinions or angry.
of people based on their appearance.
Let’s consider now how people speak. We
Appearances can be deceptive. We all know know that having a stronger local accent can
this, and yet the vast majority of us don’t fail to make people assume you aren’t as clever as
make assumptions when we meet someone. someone who speaks with a more standard
In fact, it takes a concerted effort not to judge pronunciation. Unfortunately, we also
someone based on what they’re wearing, how immediately connect the speaker with what we
they speak or the hairstyle they have. While on know about the region they come from.
some occasions our first impressions of Stereotypical assumptions about different
someone can be wildly incorrect, they’re more parts of a country colour our judgements about
often pretty accurate, which may come as a bit anyone we meet who comes from there,
of a surprise, since we’re often told to reserve

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regardless of their qualifications or other As they are speaking, monitor their English
personality traits. and award marks up to ten according to the
criteria in the table below. Give two marks if
The same goes for nationality. Interestingly,
the student meets each criterion well, one
we may have a positive view of the language
mark if their performance is satisfactory, and
someone speaks, but still hold negative beliefs
no marks if they do not meet the criterion at all.
about the people who come from the country
in which it is spoken. It’s an automatic Did the student ... Marks
response, unfortunately, so all we can do is complete the task, i.e. discuss
make sure we don’t act on our judgements, the question using all the
especially when it comes to ethnicity. prompts?
What else does the way we speak reveal speak intelligibly?
about ourselves? Or perhaps I should say know when to listen to their
what other people think it reveals about us. A partner and when to speak?
low voice commands respect, a high one is use correct grammar and
often associated with youth, and a soft one vocabulary?
may often lead to its owner being overlooked. use language presented in the
The speed of our speech may suggest we’re in units for talking about work?
a hurry, or lazy, whereas tone indicates how Total out of 10
we’re feeling, regardless of what we actually
say.
WRITING
8
Let’s turn to clothing now. What one person Use the following table to award ten marks.
finds inappropriate, another may think is Give two marks if the student’s writing meets
tasteful. One person’s scruffy is another each criterion well, one mark if their writing is
person’s glamorous. What we choose to wear satisfactory, and no marks if they do not meet
is directly linked to our identity – whether it’s the criterion at all.
our ‘true’ self or the one we want to portray.
Wear a smart suit to a conference and no one Did the text ... Marks
will look at you twice; wear it to a party and answer the question about what
people will make all kinds of assumptions helps form people’s identity?
about you. give the writer’s opinion about
whether people can have
Next up – hair. From colour to length to style, it several different identities?
all matters when it comes to making up your include accurate use of
mind about someone. Blondes have more fun, vocabulary for the topic of
they say, while darker-haired people are more identity?
likely to be taken seriously. If you have a include accurate use of
conventional haircut, you could be dull or expressions for giving opinions?
serious, whereas if you’ve got an eccentric
use an appropriate register for
style, you may be viewed as fun or having
emails?
increased confidence, with a desire to stand
Total out of 10
out from the crowd.
Last but not least, we can tell a lot about how
someone is feeling by looking at them closely.
In fact, this could well say more than any of the
things I’ve already talked about concerning
someone’s appearance. Body language
reveals a considerable amount about people’s
emotions if we pay close attention to it. Of
course, this doesn’t necessarily tell us
everything about their character – they could
be having an ‘off’ day – or conversely, a
particularly good one!
SPEAKING
7
Put students in pairs. Give them one minute to
look at the instructions and prompts and think
about what they want to say. They then work
in pairs to discuss the question.

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