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1 Schriftliche Vordiplomprüfung Betriebsökonomie FH / Wirtschaftsinformatik FH Serie C LÖSUNGEN Fach: Zeit: Englisch schriftlich 180 Minuten Punkte: 100 Seite 1 von 5

2 Marking scale Part 1: Listening Task 1: 1 point for speaker number, 1 point for content, total 12 Task 2: 1 point for each item, total 12 Total for both parts 24, to be scaled to 25 Part 2: Reading Comprehension Oslo, the capital of health and prosperity and points points each, total points Total: 30 points Three Men in a Boat 1. 2 points per item, total point 4. 2 points 3. 2 points 5. 5 points Total: 20 Total of both parts: 50, to be scaled down to 25 Part 3: Composition Total 25 points Part 4: Grammar and Vocabulary 1 point for each item: Task 1: 8 Task 4: 10 Task 2: 12 Task 5: 12 Task 3: 12 Task 6: 10 Task 7: 20 Total 84, to be scaled down to 25 Seite 2 von 5

3 Key to English Vordiplom-Prüfung spring 2003 Part 1: Listening Task 1: Jobs Voice 1: business travel consultant Voice 2: trainee hotel manager Voice 3: cabin attendant Voice 4: conference coordinator Voice 5: travel consultant Voice 6: product manager Business travel consultant: Job involves finding corporate clients who need to send their personnel to a meeting or conference. Trainee hotel manager: Job involves any one of these - working in a restaurant, in the kitchen, at reception, accountancy and financial management. Cabin attendant: Job involves any one of these - being friendly to passengers, making sure everyone is in their right seat, showing safety procedures, serving drinks and a snack. Conference coordinator: Job involves checking that everything is ready before the conference, e.g. equipment in the right place, catering looked after, hotel reservations made. He has to welcome visitors, give them badges and information folders. Travel consultant: Any one of the following: Takes bookings for flights, hotels, tours, car hire etc. Product manager: Job involves planning ahead, so that in in two or three years' time there is another destination or resort to offer in the catalogue. This means he has to visit and travel around, contract with hoteliers and service providers etc. He has to deal with money matters and negotiate terms and conditions. Task 2: Historical events 1981: Reagan became 40th president of the USA Space shuttle launched first time Formula One won by Nelson Piquet Assassination attempts on the Pope and President Reagan Anwar Sadat assassinated 1985: Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union Football riot in Brussels in the Heysel Stadium Bob Geldof organised the Live Aid concert Boris Becker won Wimbledon "Out of Africa" won an Oscar 1989: Berlin Wall came down (end of Cold War) Seite 3 von 5

4 Emperor Hirohito died George Bush became president of the USA Huge earthquake in Tadzikistan Part 2: Reading Comprehension "Oslo, the capital of health and prosperity..." 1a) derelict = in a poor condition; warehouse = place where goods are stored b) emaciated = very thin c) nod their heads listlessly = heads move up and down without energy d) topping = the city is at the top of the list e) starkly at odds = strongly different, doesn't fit with the travel brochure image f) dither = hesitate, can't make up their minds g) pass out = faint, lose consciousness h) increase the odds = make the result even more dangerous 2. Image of swans on a lake, moving very smoothly 3. Students' own response 4. Image of a beautiful, wealthy, clean country with few social problems 5. Drugs addicts tend to inject heroin rather than smoke it; also they mix the drugs with alcohol. 6. Suggestions vary from putting addicts on a northern island to giving free drugs to addicts in order to decriminalise drug use, i.e. extreme intolerance to extreme tolerance 7. Student's own response Three Men in a Boat 1a) It took only five seconds to get the spoon out of the hamper. b) This seems logical, it is an idea which could contain truth. c) They gave up the idea that Harris had disappeared to heaven because the pie had gone too. d) coming back to a more probable solution e) He had fallen over with the pie and everything else he had with him 2. The inhabitants of heaven, the angels, or whoever took him to heaven. 3. Because he is hungry and regrets that the pie has gone. 4. i) He has been taken to heaven ii) There has been an earthquake They are not very intelligent. 5. The stupidity of the situation, the funny dialogue, the image of Harris disappearing, the naive friends, the fact that they regret the vanished pie more than the vanished friend. Lively vocabulary. Seite 4 von 5

5 Part 3: Composition marks: Minimal errors. Controlled and natural use of language, showing wide range of vocabulary and structure. Task fully completed. Appropriate register. Suitable paragraphs marks: Errors only when complex language is attempted. Fairly good range of vocabulary and structure. Good realisation of task, only minor omissions. Appropriate register. Suitable paragraphs marks: Either a) task reasonably achieved with few errors, adequate language or b) ambitious attempt with more complex language and a number of non-impeding errors marks: Some attempt at task but lack of expansion and/or notable omissions and/or irrelevance. Errors may obscure communication. Language elementary. No clear organisation. 6-8 marks: Serious lack of control and frequent errors. Narrow range of language. Task not achieved. Below 8 marks: Totally irrelevant or totally illegible or fewer than 50 words. Part 4: Grammar Task 1: B, A, D, D, C, A, C, B Task 2: D, C, C, A, A, B, A, C, B, C, C, A Task 3: the smallest city, the safest place, the worst singer, the easiest question, the most generous person, the most intelligent person, the darkest room, the heaviest suitcase, the weakest coffee, the mildest cigarettes, the tamest animal, the least money Task 4: valuable, murderer, memorable, indigestion, proof, politician, revelation, delicacy, uncoiled, illogical Task 5: are going to move, will be, know, started, didn't find, saw, 're living, think, 'll enjoy, is trying, 'm packing, 're having Task 6: of, for, of, in, to, on, with, into, of, at Task 7: walking, financial, to, would have, who, me, slowly, was, if, parked, still, not, always, didn't, There were, such, got, functioning, when, was manufactured Seite 5 von 5

Schriftliche Vordiplomprüfung Betriebsökonomie FH/Wirtschaftsinformatik FH Prüfungsserie C

Schriftliche Vordiplomprüfung Betriebsökonomie FH/Wirtschaftsinformatik FH Prüfungsserie C Fach: Englisch schriftlich Zeit: 180 Minuten Punkte: 100 Name, Vorname: Studiengang / evtl. Klasse: Erster Prüfungsversuch