СОР Английский язык 11 класс 2 четверть ЕМН «Investigate and report on timekeeping devices» с ответами

Summative assessment for the unit «Investigate and report on timekeeping devices»

English language Grade 11 NMD

Methodological recommendations for Summative Assessment are designed to assist teachers in planning, organising and carrying out Summative Assessment in the subject of «The English language» for the Grade 11 learners of upper secondary level education of the Social-Humanitarian direction on the updated content.
Methodological recommendations are aligned with the Subject Programme and Long-term plan. Summative Assessment in Grade 11 is conducted in Terms 1, 2, 3 and 4.
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СОР Английский язык 11 класс 2 четверть ЕМН «Investigate and report on timekeeping devices» с ответами

Summative assessment for the unit «Investigate and report on timekeeping devices» 
Learning objectives 
11.4.1 
11.4.7  
11.5.1 
Assessment criteria 
Understand complex and abstract main points in 
extended texts on a wide range of familiar and 
unfamiliar general and curricular topics  
Recognize patterns of development in lengthy texts 
[inter-paragraph level] on a range of more complex and 
abstract general and curricular topics 
Plan, write, edit and proofread work at text level 
independently on a wide range of general and curricular 
topics  
 Summarize main information from the text  
 Identify the organization of  information in the text 
 Create coherent paragraph for a range of purposes; 
Develop a topic with well-chosen, relevant facts 
Level of thinking skills 
Duration 
Reading 
Knowledge and comprehension 
Application  
20 minutes 
Task 1. Read the text and be ready to answer the questions.  
Timekeeping: Why We Need Clocks and Calendars 
By David Christian, Big History Project, adapted by Newsela staff 
All life forms come with their own way of keeping track of time. However, no other 
species does it better than humans. People have more ways of marking time, and they do it more 
precisely. 
Why bother to keep time? 
Why do people need clocks and calendars? The answer may seem obvious. People need to 
know what others are doing and when they are doing it. They also need to know what is 
happening in nature. People who do not know the time or date will be out of sync with the world. 
It is not just modern humans who need to keep track of time. All living things must know 
the time to adjust to the world as it changes. Plants need to know when to blossom. Birds need to 
know when to fly south for the winter. 
Keeping track of time is very important. It is so important that, over time, humans have 
developed clocks in their bodies. The body clocks react to daylight and the seasons changing. 
They tell people not to wake up at 2 am, when it is dark outside. 
What's different about human time? 
Humans track time differently than other creatures. They have found more detailed ways to 
mark the time. To schedule work and keep track of history, humans have designed sophisticated 
clocks, calendars, and timetables. It was not always this way.  
Keeping time in the Paleolithic era 
In early societies, it was easy to keep track of the time. Ancient people spent most of their 
time outside. They could watch the positions of the Sun and the stars. 
As early as 100,000 years ago, humans lived in South Africa's Blombos Cave. In the cave, 
historians found pieces of ochre, an orange/red rock. The rocks had strange marks on them. It is