Nancy Birdsall
Nancy Birdsall is the founding president of the Centre for global development. Prior to launching the Centre, Birdsall served for three years as a senior associate and director of the economic reform project at the Carnegie endowment for international peace.Her work at Carnegie focused on issues of globalisation and inequality? As well as on the reform of the international financial institutions. From 1993 to 1998, Birdsall was executive vice-president for the inter-American development bank, the largest of the regional development banks, where she oversaw a 30 $ billion public and private loan portfolio. Before joining the inter-American development bank, Birdsall spent 14 years in research, policy, and management positions in the World Bank, most recently as director of the policy research department.
Ms Birdsall is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books and monographs. She has also written more than 75 articles for books and scholarly journals published in English and Spanish. Shorter pieces of her writing have appeared in dozens of U.S and Latin American newspapers and periodicals.
Comprehension
A/ are these sentences true or false? Justify (2 points)
Nancy is interested in the issues of globalization and inequality.
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Nancy doesn’t speak Spanish.
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B/ Answer these questions (4 points)
What is Nancy’s job?
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How long was she the executive vice president of the inter-American development bank?
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Where did Nancy work before 1993?
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Where can we find Ms. Birdsall’s pieces of writing?
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C/ find words which mean the same as (2 points)
creating (paragraph 1):_______________________
The writer (paragraph 2):________________
D/what do the underlined words refer to? (2 points)
The Centre (paragraph 1):___________________________
She (paragraph 2):___________________________
Grammar
Rewrite the sentences with the words given(3 points)
Leila speaks English
English____________________________________________________________
The organizing committee has included two African film in the competition
Two African films___________________________________________________
All citizens knew the late Brown by his courage for the defense of human rights
The late Brown_________________________________________________________
Give the right tense of the verbs between brackets (5 points)
The fire _____________________ (already/reach) the roof by the time the firemen (arrive) ________________.
Joe Smith (go) ______________ to prison because he________________________ (steal) a lot of money.
My father bought the new car after he ___________________________ (Try) it a few times.
Functions
What would you say in the following situations ( 2 points)
You forget to bring your friend’s book. Apologize to him or her
You: ————————————————————————————————
Your neighbor is making a lot of noise at night. you decide to ask him to make less noise
You: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………