An English time travel through grades 11 & 12

Language

100

What are the past tense (2nd form) and past participles (3rd form) of the verbs sell, buy and say?

sell - sold - sold

buy - bought - bought

say - said - said

200

Correct the sentences:

Mitchell really makes the reader look different at the problem.

He lives self-sufficient.

Mitchell really makes the reader look differently.

He lives self-sufficiently.

300

What is the difference between they're, their and there?

they're = 3rd person plural personal pronoun + form of be

My friends are waiting outside. They're waiting for me.

their = 3rd person plural possessive pronoun

My cats are grey and black. Their names are Mina and Mizzie.

there = adverb, pronoun, adjective, expletive or interjection

Stand there until its your turn. (adverb)
Get away from there. (pronoun)
My dad is always there for me. (adjective)
There are yellow flowers everywhere. (expletive)
There now you've done it! (interjection)

400

What is the difference between the operators assess, justify and comment?

assess = provide pro and contra arguments on a topic in a balanced way

justify = show adequate grounds for decisions

comment = clearly state your opinion on a topic and support your views with evidence

500

Try to correctly (!) pronounce as many of the following British towns as possible:

Leicester
Worcestershire
Greenwich
Leominister
Gloucester

Leicester - pronounced Lester

Worcestershire - pronounced Wustershuh

Leominster - pronounced Lemster

Greenwich - pronounced Grenich

Gloucester - Gloster

fiction vs. non-fiction

100

Name the first victim of Macbeth.

Duncan, the King of Scotland

200

Name three typical characteristics of a fictional work.

characters (round vs. flat)

plot

setting

narrative perspective

300

Name the three most common narrative perspectives in fiction.

3rd person omniscient narrator

3rd person limited narrator

1st person narrator

400

Name five non-fictional text types.

magazine and newspaper articles, comment, report, academic paper, letter to the editor, blog entry, online article, ...

500

Which sub-genre of non-fiction combines factual accuracy and narrative storytelling techniques typically found in fiction?

creative non-fiction

Politics & Culture

100

Name three values of the Declaration of Independence.

life - liberty - the pursuit of happiness 

200

Name the three branches of the US government.

300

Name four forms of protest we talked about in class and give an example each.

riot - Stonewall Riot (NYC)

movements - Me too in the USA

boycott - Montgomery Bus Boycott (Rosa Parks)

demonstration - BLM protest marches in the USA

400

Which other US American stereotypes can you think of?

bad education - chasing the American Dream - fast food - loud - super friendly - superficial - the greatest country on earth - ...

500

Name at least five sights and say in which cities or states you can find the sights.

bonus question: Which sights do not belong to the USA?

Mount Rushmore (South Dakota) - the Empire State Building (NYC) - the Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco) - the Bean (Chicago) - the Obelisk (Washington, D.C.) - the Hollywood sign (California) - the Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.) - the Liberty Bell (Philadelphia) - Walt Disney World's Epcot Center (Orlando) - Central Park (NYC) - the White House (Washington, D.C.) - Mount Denali (Alaska) - the Space Needle (Seattle) - the Gateway Arch (St. Louis) - the Chrysler Building (NYC) - World Trade Center (NYC) - Willis Tower (Chicago)

bonus: the CN Tower (Toronto, Canada) and Quebec Town Hall (Quebec, Canada)

History

100

Name the year of the Brexit - the year Great Britain officially left the EU.

January 31, 2020

200

Name goods that the British colonizers exported to Great Britain from their colonies?

tea - sugar - rubber - teak - spices - cotton - coffee - fabrics ...

300

Name five US presidents.

in no particular order:

George Washington - Abraham Lincoln - John F. Kennedy - Bill Clinton - George W. Bush - Barack Obama - Donald Trump - Joe Biden - Richard Nixon 

400

Why did the sun never set on the empire?

The phrase was used for the British Empire (and others) to denote that in at least one part of the extensive territory of the empire the sun shone. 

500

What is the following picture about?

It's called American Progress and depicts the frontier myth and the expansion of the US towards the west.

duel

100

Write down as many synonyms as possible for thing.

object - element - item - factor - point - attribute - feature - phenomenon - entity - device

200

Write down as many stylistic devices as you can in 30 seconds.

alliteration - anaphora - ellipsis - simile - metaphor - hyperbole - irony - personifcation - ...

300

Write down as many British cities as you can in 30 seconds.

London - Bristol- Manchester - Cardiff - Belfast - Edinburgh - Glasgow - Cambridge - Oxford - Sheffield - Birmingham - Liverpool - Nottingham - York -Leeds - Plymouth - Portsmouth - Southampton - Norwich - Coventry - Salisbury - ...

400

Write down as many US American actors and actresses as possible in 30 seconds.

Kevin Costner - Timothée Chalamet - Jack Nicholson - Robert Downey Jr. - Tom Hanks - Brad Pitt - Tom Cruise - Ben Stiller - Leonardo DiCaprio - Johnny Depp - Jim Carrey - Cameron Diaz - Julia Roberts - Meryl Streep - Jody Foster - Scarlett Johannson - Natalie Portman - Reese Witherspoon - Amy Adams - Sandra Bullock - Jennifer Aniston - Jennifer Garner - America Ferrera - Angelina Jolie - Demi Moore - Anne Hathaway - Jennifer Lawrence - Gwyneth Paltrow

500

Write down as many DC and Marvel characters as you can in 30 seconds.

Marvel: Ant Man, Black Panther, Black Mamba, Black Widow, Captain America, Deadpool, Hulk, Iron Man, the Sandman, Spiderman, X-Man

DC: Aquaman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Batman, Shazam, Harley Quinn, The Joker, Black Manta, Lex Luthor, Green Lantern, Deadshot, Cyborg