БЖБ Ағылшын тілі, 8-сынып 2-тоқсан “Sport, Health and Exercise”
Summative assessment for theunit “Sport, Health and Exercise”
English for the Grade 8
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БЖБ Ағылшын тілі, 8-сынып 2-тоқсан “Sport, Health and Exercise”
Learning objectives8.4.6.1(8.R6) Recognise the attitude or opinion of the writer on a
growing range of unfamiliar general and curricular topics, including
some extended text
8.5.2.1(8.W2) Write with minimal support about real and imaginary
past events, activities and experiences on a growing range of familiar
general topics and some curricular topics
8.5.5.1(8.W5) Develop with support coherent arguments supported
when necessary by examples and reasons for a growing range of
written genres in familiar general and curricular topics
Assessment criteriaInterpret the information to identify the author’s attitude and
opinion
Write sentences about real and imaginary past events
connecting sentences into paragraphs with minimal support
Evolve arguments, reasons, and evidence for a limited range of
written genres
Level of thinking
skills
Higher order thinking skills
Duration20 minutes
Reading
Task 1.Read the text.
Smartphones: Texting, playing games and ... helping patients
1.Doctors say smartphones can helppatientsfind out if they are sick and treatillnesses.New
apps use smartphone features to help people who may be sick. Some apps use the phone's
camera. Others use the microphone.
2. Shwetek Patel is a computer scientist. Patel says smartphones are becoming medical tools.
They already do some of the things doctors' tools can do.Smartphones count how many steps
you take. They can track what you eat. They can even count your heartbeats.Now smartphones
can find illnesses, too.
3. For example, one smartphone app checks for asthma. People with asthma have trouble
breathing. The app can tell if someone is not breathing well. It uses the phone's microphone.
The person breathes into the microphone. Then the app gives aresult.
4. Another app can say if someone has a blood problem. It can tell if there is enough
hemoglobin in the blood. The app uses the phone's camera. First, a person puts one finger over
the flash. They take a picture. The app reads the picture. It says how much hemoglobin is in the
person's blood!
5. These apps are good for patients, Patel says. They help people care for themselves. They can
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