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Robert Bosch Comprehensive Language Department Year 2013/14 Grade 8 A
Unit 2: California - the ‘Golden State’?
Part WRITING Growing up in two cultures
20 points
Here is a letter to the editor about growing up in two cultures.
Read it and write a formal letter (about 100 words) to the editor about it.
Start and finish your letter correctly and say
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who you are and where you live
what nationality you are
what language(s) you speak
what language(s) you are learning
what you think about Lian’s life
why you agree or disagree with Lian
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Result Ergebnis
Part
1
Ability
Listening + Hören + SprachMediation
mittlung
/18
Bewertungsschlüssel
lt.Gesamtkonferenz
points
Lernziel
2
Reading
Lesen
/10
n
0-49%
0-23
3
Writing
Schreiben
/20
t
50-62%
24-29,5
/48
e
63-100%
30+
Total
1
Fertigkeit
Gesamt
Part LISTENING & MEDIATION A visit to a museum
10, 11,
12,
13
18 points
Imagine you are visiting a museum in San Francisco together with your aunt. You are
looking at pictures of the town and there is an audio guide you can listen to.
Your aunt’s English isn’t good so you must tell her the most important things after you
have listened to the texts. You will hear the recording twice.
Wann wurde San Francisco gegründet?
Tante
Du
Wie viele Einwohner hat San Francisco und was wurde da
Tante
über sie gesagt?
Du
Wann wurde die Golden-Gate-Brücke gebaut?
Tante
Du
Tante
MU
Ist die Brücke wirklich nur 67 m lang?
Du
Tante
Du
Tante
ST
Wer darf denn die Brücke überqueren?
ER
Oh ja, von dem Erdbeben 1906 habe ich gehört. Wie viele
Menschen sind denn da gestorben?
Du
Tante
Gibt es immer noch Erdbeben hier? Was war 1989?
Du
Tante
Seit wann gibt es denn diese Straßenbahnen?
Du
Tante
Du
2
Beim Erdbeben 1906 wurden sie zerstört und dann?
Part READING
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San Francisco earthquakes, 1906 and today
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At 5:12 am on April 18th, 1906, as the sun was rising over the San Francisco hills,
people still asleep in their beds were thrown to the floor by a strong earthquake. The
earthquake lasted 42 seconds and was felt all along the Pacific coast: to the north all
the way to the state of Oregon and to the south in Los Angeles.
The earthquake caused gas lines1 to break below the city’s streets starting one of the
worst fires in US history. Water pipes2 that usually transported water through the city
also broke. Firefighters couldn’t get enough water to put out the fires. The fires travelled from one wooden building to the next. In the end, 500 downtown city blocks burned
to the ground before firefighters were able to stop the huge fire.
San Francisco’s mayor3 called in 4,000 soldiers4 to stop people from stealing and to
give food and clothes to people made homeless by the quake. Over 3,000 people died
in the earthquake and more than 200,000 people lost their homes. The soldiers also
helped build 5,610 houses for the homeless people of San Francisco. A family only
had to pay two dollars a month to stay in these small homes until they were able to
repair their old houses or build a new one. Building the city again started at once and it
was finished very quickly.
There is a 62 % chance that another big earthquake will hit California before the year
2032. Is the state of California prepared? Californian Senator Barbara Boxer is very
worried. She thinks that the US government doesn’t have a good plan to help Californians quickly if there is another earthquake.
What would be the biggest problems?
In 1906, the San Francisco Bay Area had a population of 650,000. Today there are
seven million people living in the Bay Area. Experts say that probably 40 % of San
Francisco’s buildings would fall down and large fires would again burn down a lot of the
city. Many more people would become homeless after a strong earthquake. The water
pipes that bring Californians their drinking water are old and could break, which would
mean that a lot of people wouldn’t get clean drinking water.
Making sure that people made homeless get help fast after an earthquake is very
important. After the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, 55,000 Californians asked for
help from the government. Money and help came too slowly. Six weeks after the earthquake, many families were still homeless.
But some lessons have been learned since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and
1994 Northridge quake in Los Angeles.
For example, the rules for building new houses have been changed. An earthquake
makes the ground shake violently. This makes buildings fall down especially in areas
where they are built on top of sand. All new buildings must pass special tests to show
that they will stay standing even if the ground shakes a lot.
For Senator Barbara Boxer, much more work still needs to be done to make sure that
California and most importantly the San Francisco Bay Area are prepared for another
big earthquake.
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3
gas line Gasleitung
2
water pipe Wasserrohr
3
mayor Bürgermeister/in
4
soldier ] Soldat/in
Read the text carefully and complete the fact sheet with the correct information. Write in 1–7 words or
numbers.
1 First earthquake mentioned in the text:
Where:
Date:
Time:
How long?
2 What was destroyed?
By the earthquake:
(2 facts)
By the fires:
(1 fact)
3 How many victims?
People killed:
People homeless:
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4 Who helped?
How did they help?
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(3 facts)
5 What would be the biggest problems in a future earthquake? Name three.
6 Other earthquakes mentioned in the text:
4
Where?
When?
Where?
When?
Erwartungen Unit two California
Part Writing Growing up in two cultures
formale Anforderungen: Beachtung SF Writing formal letters p 156
o =
p =
Gr =
T =
W =
con =
✓ =
=
orthography (spelling/Rechtschreibung)
punctuation (Zeichensetzung)
grammar (Grammatik)
tense
(Zeitform) (Vergangenheit-Gegenwart-Zukunft)
word
(falsches Wort)
construction (Satzbau)
missing word (fehlendes Wort)
paragraph (Absatz)
A visit to a museum
Part Listening and Mediation 13
1
2
3
4
1776
760,000
Manche sind sehr reich, aber es gibt auch Obdachlose
von 1933 bis 1937 Nein, sie ist 2,7 km lang. Lastwagen, Autos und Fußgänger
Ungefähr 3000
Ja
1989 auch ein starkes Erdbeben;
viele Häuser wurden zerstört;
57 Menschen starben
Seit 1873
System wieder aufgebaut, aber viele Linien wieder geschlossen
Jetzt nur noch drei Linien
Part Reading
1
2
3
4
5
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5
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San Francisco earthquakes, 1906 and today
ER
San Francisco
April 18, 1906
5:12 am
42 seconds
gas lines
water pipes
500 downtown city blocks
Over 3,000
More than 200,000
4,000 soldiers
Stopped people from stealing; gave food and clothes to people;
helped build 5610 new houses
40 % of SF’s buildings could fall down / Large fires would burn down the city /
Many people would become homeless / Water pipes could break /
Many people would be without drinking water
Loma Prieta; 1989
Northridge; 1994
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