Examen de Inglés PAU Extremadura 2026 · Ordinaria

Text 1: 'Made me feel proudly American': stars react to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show

As blue, red and white fireworks filled the sky at the end of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl half-time show, a message filled the screen in all capitals: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” It was the enduring statement from a 13-minute spectacle that invited an estimated 135.4 million viewers into Bad Bunny's world, with richly textured references to politics, history and Puerto Rican culture. The artist transformed the pitch of the Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, into his own love letter to the island, with cinematic set pieces including sugarcane fields, a house party, and a lively wedding ceremony featuring a surprise performance by Lady Gaga.

Bad Bunny tapped into just how broad a definition of “America” could be, shouting “God bless America” before saying a list of countries and territories including the US and “mi madre,” Puerto Rico. In a five-star review, The Guardian 's Stefanie Fernández called it a celebration of “the love, the community and the absolute joy that we create together every day in spite of everything else.”

Earlier this month, Bad Bunny took home the album of the year Grammy for his 2025 release Debí Tirar Más Fotos, which blends traditional Puerto Rican genres with hip-hop and reggaeton. During one of his speeches that night, he said: “We are not savages, we are not animals, we are not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans … The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love.”

Last year, he was Spotify's most-streamed global artist with more than 19.8 billion streams, dethroning Taylor Swift, who had held that title for the previous two years. The half-time show's references to politics were subtle but frequent. On stage, Bad Bunny carried the Puerto Rican flag of independence, the original flag of the territory that was outlawed until 1952 and is distinguished by its sky-blue triangle.

Ahead of the performance, Bad Bunny said: “I really want people to have fun. It's gonna be a huge party. I want to bring what people can always expect from me, and a lot of my culture.”

Source: The Guardian (February 2026. Adapted)

1. Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)? Quote the fragment from the text that justifies your answer. Marks: 2 points (0.5 points per correct answer).

True

False

Text 1: 'Made me feel proudly American': stars react to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show

As blue, red and white fireworks filled the sky at the end of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl half-time show, a message filled the screen in all capitals: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” It was the enduring statement from a 13-minute spectacle that invited an estimated 135.4 million viewers into Bad Bunny's world, with richly textured references to politics, history and Puerto Rican culture. The artist transformed the pitch of the Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, into his own love letter to the island, with cinematic set pieces including sugarcane fields, a house party, and a lively wedding ceremony featuring a surprise performance by Lady Gaga.

Bad Bunny tapped into just how broad a definition of “America” could be, shouting “God bless America” before saying a list of countries and territories including the US and “mi madre,” Puerto Rico. In a five-star review, The Guardian 's Stefanie Fernández called it a celebration of “the love, the community and the absolute joy that we create together every day in spite of everything else.”

Earlier this month, Bad Bunny took home the album of the year Grammy for his 2025 release Debí Tirar Más Fotos, which blends traditional Puerto Rican genres with hip-hop and reggaeton. During one of his speeches that night, he said: “We are not savages, we are not animals, we are not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans … The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love.”

Last year, he was Spotify's most-streamed global artist with more than 19.8 billion streams, dethroning Taylor Swift, who had held that title for the previous two years. The half-time show's references to politics were subtle but frequent. On stage, Bad Bunny carried the Puerto Rican flag of independence, the original flag of the territory that was outlawed until 1952 and is distinguished by its sky-blue triangle.

Ahead of the performance, Bad Bunny said: “I really want people to have fun. It's gonna be a huge party. I want to bring what people can always expect from me, and a lot of my culture.”

Source: The Guardian (February 2026. Adapted)

2. Answer 2 of the following 3 questions with one or two sentences. Use your own words as far as possible. Marks: 2 points (1 point per correct answer).

A.

What were the main characteristics of Bad Bunny's spectacle?

B.

What do we learn about Bad Bunny, personally and professionally, in the text?

C.

What political questions were included in the show?

Text 1: 'Made me feel proudly American': stars react to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show

As blue, red and white fireworks filled the sky at the end of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl half-time show, a message filled the screen in all capitals: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” It was the enduring statement from a 13-minute spectacle that invited an estimated 135.4 million viewers into Bad Bunny's world, with richly textured references to politics, history and Puerto Rican culture. The artist transformed the pitch of the Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, into his own love letter to the island, with cinematic set pieces including sugarcane fields, a house party, and a lively wedding ceremony featuring a surprise performance by Lady Gaga.

Bad Bunny tapped into just how broad a definition of “America” could be, shouting “God bless America” before saying a list of countries and territories including the US and “mi madre,” Puerto Rico. In a five-star review, The Guardian 's Stefanie Fernández called it a celebration of “the love, the community and the absolute joy that we create together every day in spite of everything else.”

Earlier this month, Bad Bunny took home the album of the year Grammy for his 2025 release Debí Tirar Más Fotos, which blends traditional Puerto Rican genres with hip-hop and reggaeton. During one of his speeches that night, he said: “We are not savages, we are not animals, we are not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans … The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love.”

Last year, he was Spotify's most-streamed global artist with more than 19.8 billion streams, dethroning Taylor Swift, who had held that title for the previous two years. The half-time show's references to politics were subtle but frequent. On stage, Bad Bunny carried the Puerto Rican flag of independence, the original flag of the territory that was outlawed until 1952 and is distinguished by its sky-blue triangle.

Ahead of the performance, Bad Bunny said: “I really want people to have fun. It's gonna be a huge party. I want to bring what people can always expect from me, and a lot of my culture.”

Source: The Guardian (February 2026. Adapted)

3. Find words in the text as requested. Use one word in each case. Marks: 1.5 points (0.5 points per correct answer).

A.

Find a word for this definition: the field of play for an outdoor team game.

B.

Find a synonym for mixes, combines.

C.

Find an antonym for direct, obvious.

Text 1: 'Made me feel proudly American': stars react to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show

As blue, red and white fireworks filled the sky at the end of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl half-time show, a message filled the screen in all capitals: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” It was the enduring statement from a 13-minute spectacle that invited an estimated 135.4 million viewers into Bad Bunny's world, with richly textured references to politics, history and Puerto Rican culture. The artist transformed the pitch of the Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, into his own love letter to the island, with cinematic set pieces including sugarcane fields, a house party, and a lively wedding ceremony featuring a surprise performance by Lady Gaga.

Bad Bunny tapped into just how broad a definition of “America” could be, shouting “God bless America” before saying a list of countries and territories including the US and “mi madre,” Puerto Rico. In a five-star review, The Guardian 's Stefanie Fernández called it a celebration of “the love, the community and the absolute joy that we create together every day in spite of everything else.”

Earlier this month, Bad Bunny took home the album of the year Grammy for his 2025 release Debí Tirar Más Fotos, which blends traditional Puerto Rican genres with hip-hop and reggaeton. During one of his speeches that night, he said: “We are not savages, we are not animals, we are not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans … The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love.”

Last year, he was Spotify's most-streamed global artist with more than 19.8 billion streams, dethroning Taylor Swift, who had held that title for the previous two years. The half-time show's references to politics were subtle but frequent. On stage, Bad Bunny carried the Puerto Rican flag of independence, the original flag of the territory that was outlawed until 1952 and is distinguished by its sky-blue triangle.

Ahead of the performance, Bad Bunny said: “I really want people to have fun. It's gonna be a huge party. I want to bring what people can always expect from me, and a lot of my culture.”

Source: The Guardian (February 2026. Adapted)

4. Complete these sentences with one of the options given. Marks: 1.5 points (0.5 points per correct answer).

A.

Unless we early, we will have to queue for hours to get into the stadium.

B.

The more spectators at the stadium, the it will be.

C.

Bad Bunny said before the concert that it a big party.

Text 2: What would an AI university look like and how might it change education?

Professor Pan Hui has already been replaced by artificial intelligence—and he did the replacing himself. In 2023, one of his students mentioned that they were a little bored seeing the same professor every lesson and might enjoy being taught by some different faces. This gave Hui an idea: why not use generative AI and an avatar to teach the students instead? “I wanted to see whether the students would accept avatar teachers in the classroom and how they respond to this technology,” he says.

Like many researchers and educators, Hui views AI as a tool with potentially transformative power in education. So, over ten weeks in early 2024, postgraduate students were taught a course by various digital avatars. They could ask questions and an underlying large language model (LLM) provided real-time responses, syncing facial animations to the answers. Hui and colleagues collected data on the students’ experience via surveys and interviews. Students reported that certain human-like avatars felt more trustworthy than cartoonish avatars.

Hui’s experiment provides clues to the approach that an ‘AI-first’ university might take. AI has already had a seismic impact on higher education. The struggles faced by universities so far, both ethical and pedagogical, arise from the rapid deployment of AI tools into higher-education systems that were not equipped to handle them.

But what if new universities were built with AI as a core tool? From admissions that can be handled by AI agents to personalized tutoring and lesson plans based on individual learning needs, there is an opportunity to completely rethink how a university works as an educational institution.

Such ‘AI-first’ universities might find it easier to integrate technology, because they would include AI systems as the foundation of everything they do, suggests Helen Crompton, director of the Institute for Digital Innovation in Learning.

For some higher-education observers, however, there is both opportunity and concern. Anthony Kaziboni, a sociologist at the University of Johannesburg, says he is worried that if the companies behind AI systems are too involved in reshaping education, it would cause problems because their motivations “are not rooted in pedagogy, but profit.”

Source: www.nature.com (December 2025. Adapted).

1. Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)? Quote the fragment from the text that justifies your answer. Marks: 2 points (0.5 points per correct answer).

A.

Professor Hui has been replaced by AI because of a decision made by his superiors.

T

F

B.

The way students perceive different avatars is not always the same.

T

F

C.

AI has not affected university education much so far.

T

F

D.

Some experts believe there are dangers in AI-based education.

T

F

Text 2: What would an AI university look like and how might it change education?

Professor Pan Hui has already been replaced by artificial intelligence—and he did the replacing himself. In 2023, one of his students mentioned that they were a little bored seeing the same professor every lesson and might enjoy being taught by some different faces. This gave Hui an idea: why not use generative AI and an avatar to teach the students instead? “I wanted to see whether the students would accept avatar teachers in the classroom and how they respond to this technology,” he says.

Like many researchers and educators, Hui views AI as a tool with potentially transformative power in education. So, over ten weeks in early 2024, postgraduate students were taught a course by various digital avatars. They could ask questions and an underlying large language model (LLM) provided real-time responses, syncing facial animations to the answers. Hui and colleagues collected data on the students’ experience via surveys and interviews. Students reported that certain human-like avatars felt more trustworthy than cartoonish avatars.

Hui’s experiment provides clues to the approach that an ‘AI-first’ university might take. AI has already had a seismic impact on higher education. The struggles faced by universities so far, both ethical and pedagogical, arise from the rapid deployment of AI tools into higher-education systems that were not equipped to handle them.

But what if new universities were built with AI as a core tool? From admissions that can be handled by AI agents to personalized tutoring and lesson plans based on individual learning needs, there is an opportunity to completely rethink how a university works as an educational institution.

Such ‘AI-first’ universities might find it easier to integrate technology, because they would include AI systems as the foundation of everything they do, suggests Helen Crompton, director of the Institute for Digital Innovation in Learning.

For some higher-education observers, however, there is both opportunity and concern. Anthony Kaziboni, a sociologist at the University of Johannesburg, says he is worried that if the companies behind AI systems are too involved in reshaping education, it would cause problems because their motivations “are not rooted in pedagogy, but profit.”

Source: www.nature.com (December 2025. Adapted).

2. Answer 2 of the following 3 questions with one or two sentences. Use your own words as far as possible. Marks: 2 points (1 point per correct answer).

A.

What are the main elements in Pan Hui's experiment?

B.

What things can AI do for a university?

C.

What are the opinions of the experts cited in the text about AI in higher education?

Text 2: What would an AI university look like and how might it change education?

Professor Pan Hui has already been replaced by artificial intelligence—and he did the replacing himself. In 2023, one of his students mentioned that they were a little bored seeing the same professor every lesson and might enjoy being taught by some different faces. This gave Hui an idea: why not use generative AI and an avatar to teach the students instead? “I wanted to see whether the students would accept avatar teachers in the classroom and how they respond to this technology,” he says.

Like many researchers and educators, Hui views AI as a tool with potentially transformative power in education. So, over ten weeks in early 2024, postgraduate students were taught a course by various digital avatars. They could ask questions and an underlying large language model (LLM) provided real-time responses, syncing facial animations to the answers. Hui and colleagues collected data on the students’ experience via surveys and interviews. Students reported that certain human-like avatars felt more trustworthy than cartoonish avatars.

Hui’s experiment provides clues to the approach that an ‘AI-first’ university might take. AI has already had a seismic impact on higher education. The struggles faced by universities so far, both ethical and pedagogical, arise from the rapid deployment of AI tools into higher-education systems that were not equipped to handle them.

But what if new universities were built with AI as a core tool? From admissions that can be handled by AI agents to personalized tutoring and lesson plans based on individual learning needs, there is an opportunity to completely rethink how a university works as an educational institution.

Such ‘AI-first’ universities might find it easier to integrate technology, because they would include AI systems as the foundation of everything they do, suggests Helen Crompton, director of the Institute for Digital Innovation in Learning.

For some higher-education observers, however, there is both opportunity and concern. Anthony Kaziboni, a sociologist at the University of Johannesburg, says he is worried that if the companies behind AI systems are too involved in reshaping education, it would cause problems because their motivations “are not rooted in pedagogy, but profit.”

Source: www.nature.com (December 2025. Adapted).

3. Find words in the text as requested. Use one word in each case. Marks: 1.5 points (0.5 points per correct answer).

A.

B.

C.

Text 2: What would an AI university look like and how might it change education?

Professor Pan Hui has already been replaced by artificial intelligence—and he did the replacing himself. In 2023, one of his students mentioned that they were a little bored seeing the same professor every lesson and might enjoy being taught by some different faces. This gave Hui an idea: why not use generative AI and an avatar to teach the students instead? “I wanted to see whether the students would accept avatar teachers in the classroom and how they respond to this technology,” he says.

Like many researchers and educators, Hui views AI as a tool with potentially transformative power in education. So, over ten weeks in early 2024, postgraduate students were taught a course by various digital avatars. They could ask questions and an underlying large language model (LLM) provided real-time responses, syncing facial animations to the answers. Hui and colleagues collected data on the students’ experience via surveys and interviews. Students reported that certain human-like avatars felt more trustworthy than cartoonish avatars.

Hui’s experiment provides clues to the approach that an ‘AI-first’ university might take. AI has already had a seismic impact on higher education. The struggles faced by universities so far, both ethical and pedagogical, arise from the rapid deployment of AI tools into higher-education systems that were not equipped to handle them.

But what if new universities were built with AI as a core tool? From admissions that can be handled by AI agents to personalized tutoring and lesson plans based on individual learning needs, there is an opportunity to completely rethink how a university works as an educational institution.

Such ‘AI-first’ universities might find it easier to integrate technology, because they would include AI systems as the foundation of everything they do, suggests Helen Crompton, director of the Institute for Digital Innovation in Learning.

For some higher-education observers, however, there is both opportunity and concern. Anthony Kaziboni, a sociologist at the University of Johannesburg, says he is worried that if the companies behind AI systems are too involved in reshaping education, it would cause problems because their motivations “are not rooted in pedagogy, but profit.”

Source: www.nature.com (December 2025. Adapted).

4. Complete these sentences with one of the options given. Marks: 1.5 points (0.5 points per correct answer).

A.

I don't know if AI is going to be a problem or an opportunity. ________ the case, we must live with it.

B.

The teacher asked me ________ I had used AI tools for my essay or not.

C.

________ students have been using AI in the last few months. It's a growing tendency.

Written Expression

5. Write ONE of the following two compositions. Write between 120-150 words. Marks: 3 points.

A.

Do you think artificial intelligence can replace human teachers in the near future? Why? / Why not?

Written Expression

5. Write ONE of the following two compositions. Write between 120-150 words. Marks: 3 points.

B.

Write a story that ends with the words: “When the audience stood up for an ovation, Noah felt really proud.” Remember that the 12 words in the sentence do not count towards the 120-150 words you must write.