Ejercicio Text 2 - Part II B. Phonetics · Inglés PAU Castilla-La Mancha Ordinaria 2023

TEXT 2: Education meets the metaverse

Imagine a circular classroom, surrounded by white boards and populated with movable chairs. Energized students are mesmerized by the tales of the Greek myths, the power of Zeus the god of the sky, and stories of the great Hercules—his son—whose strength was legendary.

Suddenly, a timeline is projected onto the middle of the floor. Children whisk away their chairs to stand in the present, ready to move backward and descend into the year 300 BC—a year in which they will encounter a new reality. They enter the metaverse of Greek culture. Carts buzz by them, traders in marketplaces surround them and high atop the hill, they see—with their own eyes—the temples of the gods and the people who worship them. They explore, they ask questions, they ponder, they learn!

Then, the teacher positions each child on the timeline so that they return to the present. The walls around them turn to images of brown dust in which they see ruined old temples and pieces of columns dotted along the ground. Each child is now given a chance to become an archeologist, to use their avatar to find the answers to the question of how we construct the past.

This deep transferable learning that will last a lifetime comes to us by virtue of the metaverse delivered in a hybrid, guided play environment that could represent the school of the future.

You could be in the middle of a world war in the early 20th century or watching an experiment in a Physics lab of a modern scientist. Or you could simply be sitting in the middle of the human brain marveling at its functioning. Metaverse is all set to become a reality paving the path for new opportunities to learn and interact.

Adapted from brookings.edu and bbc.com

PART II. LEXICON / PHONETICS (2 POINTS):

B. PHONETICS. (1 POINT) (0.25 points for each correct answer)

1.

How is the TH pronounced in PATHS? /ð/ or /θ/?

/ð/

/θ/

2.

3.

4.

How is the “S” pronounced in CARTS: /s/, /z/ or /ɪz/?

A

/s/

B

/z/

C

/ɪz/