Writing Final Test: 10%

Tryst, you might not be for me

It was a day like the others. Then, come the night where me and others students went to see Tryst, a play impose by our teacher. And as i am looking forward to this experience I do not really think that I might be the best person to tell if whether it should win the best play of the year or not. First, because I do not think that the play was actually for us and second, because to give an award we need special viewer’s circumstances that were not granted to us.

First of all, in every way I could see this play, I do not think it was for us, young adults. When a play or anything creative really touched us it is because we feel a connection or something that related to something we know, we understand or that acted on us. But with two protagonists of a well-advanced age, set in the Victorian years, it is clear we would not found a lot of ourselves in it. Then, despite the fine and classy staging and the well-intended performances, the story was not enough captivating for a Tuesday night of school. This old-age womanizer’s con and this poor blocked-in-her-life woman with her sad past story, had nothing to capture my attention during two hours. And even if in a way we can try to related in any of those characters, for younger story about aging people is never something really captivating. That is why I do not think I could pronounced myself on if it should win or not because it was not the best play for people of our age.

Secondly, there are circumstances to choose a winner and we were not under them. Someone who has to watch a play, a movie or anything else for a special purpose, would not do it the same way other people will do. To give an award we need to know the criteria of evaluation first. And then, we need to compare it to other candidates, something we have not do. . Yes, I could evaluated this play individually by the too much intense performances, by the simple but in a way interesting staging. I could criticized the strange projections they tried to insert and that add nothing else to it. I could also talked about my own appreciation of the play, stating the finely written dialogues. But, it is an old play so what we are rating here is this peculiar adaptation and it had nothing to truly impressed. So in any case I would issued my judgement on that question.

To sum up, I am really not qualify to give any judgement on whether it should win an award or not because I do not think I was part of the audience they were targeting and because I did not watch the play with the circumstances someone who got to choose a winner would have done it. So, winners are never general one, they are part of a majority but we too often forget the circumstances case and in any way, it is what influenced everything else.

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Reading Final Test: 10%

Read the text: “Genetically Modified Foods.” Answer the following questions. /50 A.

Match the synonym or definition below with the word from the paragraph. The (number) in parenthesis refers to the paragraph number. / 16
(1) interfering - meddling
(2) Amount of food collected from a field - crops
(3) person who grows plants - breeder
(4) make better - improve
(5) things that are planned - obvious
(6) freedom from harm or danger - safety
(7) occurring in many places - outcry
(8) amount by which something is deficient B. - shortages

Comprehension / 3
1. State the thesis or main point of the text as a whole.
GM foods are not as bad as we might think, or as people wants us to believe it.

2. How, well in your opinion, does the author support her point of view? / 3
Well, she's supporting my point of view by saying that we shouldn't criticized too fast and that we should always show both side of every story. Too often things are hidden to people things or only the side that will makes us support the point of view they want is showed. So in that way, the author really relied to what I think. Saying especially that everything has good and bad sides.

3. How does this text relate to the readings in our textbook in the unit, GMF? / 4
Well both of them we're talking of GM food but with a different opposition. In our textbook it was talking more about the bad sides of it, but in this text they tried to show the good sides of it, a part that we hardly know actually.

4. In one or two sentences, write the main idea of each paragraph in your own words. / 24
Paragraph 1: Interfering with nature is something that has been made since the age of time.

Paragraph 2 : What is the process to gros food and always have the best crops.

Paragraph 3: How they used a way to accelerate the growing of food.

Paragraph 4: Besides what critics might say it's something really natural if we compare to reality.

Paragraph 5: Two great and positive achievements of GM foods that we don't read in the newspaper.

Paragraph 6: Gm foods don't increase the danger related to food more than anything else in reality. With or without, there are as many dangers.

Paragraph 7: The food growing from GM nature are not a threat to environnement or animal or insect or everything in it. Based on the Monarch case, experience were really positive to it.

Paragraph 8: GM foods is not the only solution, but there's a lot of problem to stop in the world and while people tried to stop GM foods it has gain more positive solution than a lot of other bad things.


Writing Final Test: 10%