Examen de Inglés PAU La Rioja 2021 · Extraordinaria

Text A - Leaving home

Going away to university is always a tricky time, both for the students who are leaving home and their parents who are staying behind. We got advice on how to cope from a student daughter and her dad.

A daughter's advice to parents, by Kerry Price

My parents drove me to uni at the beginning of the first term. That was great, but then they hung around, so it was hard to chat to the people in the rooms near mine. It's best if you leave us to unpack ourselves.

Don't ask us to come home during term time. There's a lot going on at weekends, there just isn't time.

Get another interest or a pet if you feel lonely without us. Don't make us feel guilty about leaving home!

It is quite interesting to hear about your experiences at uni, but remember that it was a LONG time ago so don't go on about it so much. Things have changed a lot. Now we have a lot more debt and it'll be harder to find a job in the future.

Please don't check up on us or our friends on Facebook. I know it's a public site, but we have the right to some privacy.

Don't change anything in our bedrooms. We have only half left home - we'll be back in the holidays, so please don't touch anything.

We'd still like to come on family holidays with you. Don't forget to include us just because we're not there all the time.

A father's advice to students, by Stuart Price

Don't complain so much about how much work you have to do. We work a lot too. You're an adult now, get used to it.

Put up with the fact that we refused to get a dog while you were at home, then suddenly bought one as soon as you moved out. We miss you!

Just because you're at university studying very complex subjects, it doesn't mean that you're more intelligent than everybody else. Don't treat your family as if they were stupid; we're really not.

Let us come and visit you now and again. We promise to try not to embarrass you in front of your friends. We just want to see you for a short time and take you out for a meal.

Don't waste so much time on Facebook. You need time for all that work you have to do, remember?

We might make a few changes to your room, so deal with it. It's great to have a guest room at last, but we won't change things too much, promise.

Don't forget to call home from time to time and don't get annoyed if we phone you. It's not pestering. If we didn't call, you wouldn't know that we care.

Source: https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading/upper-intermediate-b2-reading/leaving-home

1A. Choose the correct answer a, b or c. (3 points, 0.5 each)

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Text A - Leaving home

Going away to university is always a tricky time, both for the students who are leaving home and their parents who are staying behind. We got advice on how to cope from a student daughter and her dad.

A daughter's advice to parents, by Kerry Price

My parents drove me to uni at the beginning of the first term. That was great, but then they hung around, so it was hard to chat to the people in the rooms near mine. It's best if you leave us to unpack ourselves.

Don't ask us to come home during term time. There's a lot going on at weekends, there just isn't time.

Get another interest or a pet if you feel lonely without us. Don't make us feel guilty about leaving home!

It is quite interesting to hear about your experiences at uni, but remember that it was a LONG time ago so don't go on about it so much. Things have changed a lot. Now we have a lot more debt and it'll be harder to find a job in the future.

Please don't check up on us or our friends on Facebook. I know it's a public site, but we have the right to some privacy.

Don't change anything in our bedrooms. We have only half left home - we'll be back in the holidays, so please don't touch anything.

We'd still like to come on family holidays with you. Don't forget to include us just because we're not there all the time.

A father's advice to students, by Stuart Price

Don't complain so much about how much work you have to do. We work a lot too. You're an adult now, get used to it.

Put up with the fact that we refused to get a dog while you were at home, then suddenly bought one as soon as you moved out. We miss you!

Just because you're at university studying very complex subjects, it doesn't mean that you're more intelligent than everybody else. Don't treat your family as if they were stupid; we're really not.

Let us come and visit you now and again. We promise to try not to embarrass you in front of your friends. We just want to see you for a short time and take you out for a meal.

Don't waste so much time on Facebook. You need time for all that work you have to do, remember?

We might make a few changes to your room, so deal with it. It's great to have a guest room at last, but we won't change things too much, promise.

Don't forget to call home from time to time and don't get annoyed if we phone you. It's not pestering. If we didn't call, you wouldn't know that we care.

Source: https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading/upper-intermediate-b2-reading/leaving-home

2A. Answer these questions in no more than 5 words. (1 point, 0.25 each)

a)

Why was it hard for Kerry to chat with the people in the rooms near hers?

b)

What should parents get if they feel lonely without their children?

c)

What does Stuart think university students waste too much time on?

d)

What does Stuart promise not to do in his daughter's room?

Text A - Leaving home

Going away to university is always a tricky time, both for the students who are leaving home and their parents who are staying behind. We got advice on how to cope from a student daughter and her dad.

A daughter's advice to parents, by Kerry Price

My parents drove me to uni at the beginning of the first term. That was great, but then they hung around, so it was hard to chat to the people in the rooms near mine. It's best if you leave us to unpack ourselves.

Don't ask us to come home during term time. There's a lot going on at weekends, there just isn't time.

Get another interest or a pet if you feel lonely without us. Don't make us feel guilty about leaving home!

It is quite interesting to hear about your experiences at uni, but remember that it was a LONG time ago so don't go on about it so much. Things have changed a lot. Now we have a lot more debt and it'll be harder to find a job in the future.

Please don't check up on us or our friends on Facebook. I know it's a public site, but we have the right to some privacy.

Don't change anything in our bedrooms. We have only half left home - we'll be back in the holidays, so please don't touch anything.

We'd still like to come on family holidays with you. Don't forget to include us just because we're not there all the time.

A father's advice to students, by Stuart Price

Don't complain so much about how much work you have to do. We work a lot too. You're an adult now, get used to it.

Put up with the fact that we refused to get a dog while you were at home, then suddenly bought one as soon as you moved out. We miss you!

Just because you're at university studying very complex subjects, it doesn't mean that you're more intelligent than everybody else. Don't treat your family as if they were stupid; we're really not.

Let us come and visit you now and again. We promise to try not to embarrass you in front of your friends. We just want to see you for a short time and take you out for a meal.

Don't waste so much time on Facebook. You need time for all that work you have to do, remember?

We might make a few changes to your room, so deal with it. It's great to have a guest room at last, but we won't change things too much, promise.

Don't forget to call home from time to time and don't get annoyed if we phone you. It's not pestering. If we didn't call, you wouldn't know that we care.

Source: https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading/upper-intermediate-b2-reading/leaving-home

3A. Find a word in the text for each of these definitions. (1 point, 0.25 each)

a)

difficult to deal with and needs careful attention or skill

b)

remove things from a suitcase, bag, or box

c)

something that is owed to someone else, or the state of owing something

d)

cause someone to feel nervous, worried, or uncomfortable:

1B. Choose the correct answer a, b or c. (3 points, 0.5 each)

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2B. Answer these questions in no more than 5 words. (1 point, 0.25 each)

a)

How many people were rescued after a volcano in the Caribbean island of Martinique blew up?

b)

What techniques were used in 'the natural method'?

c)

What does the Yamikasi mean?

d)

What is the philosophy of traceurs?

3B. Find a word in the text for each of these definitions. (1 point, 0.25 each)

a)

naturally existing in a place or country rather than arriving from another place

b)

the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and plants live

c)

jumping over something by first putting your hands on it or by using a pole

d)

harm or injury

PART 2- USE OF ENGLISH (2 POINTS)

4. CHOOSE FOUR OF THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS AND REPHRASE THEM SO THAT THEIR MEANING IS AS SIMILAR TO THE ORIGINAL AS POSSIBLE. (0.5 EACH).

a.

My parents drove me to uni at the beginning of the first term.

I

b.

Kerry is more intelligent than everybody else

Nobody is

c.

Raymond Belle was a practitioner of parcour in Vietnam in the 1950s. He had great athletic ability.

Raymond Belle was

d.

‘Dad, please don’t check up on us or our friends on Facebook’, said Kerry

Kerry asked

e.

We might make a few changes in your room, so do not complain.

Do not complain

f.

Parkour involves a range of ‘moves’. They include vaulting, jumping and landing accurately on small and narrow features.

Parkour involves

g.

In 2003, filmmaker Mike Christie made the film Jump London

In 2003, the film

h.

‘Injuries are rare, because they rely on their own hands and feet’, said practitioners

Practitioners said

PART 3- WRITING (3 POINTS)

5. CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TOPICS AND WRITE A 150 WORD LONG TEXT.

a)

Write an opinion article about leaving home. Do not forget to mention when and why you plan to leave your parents’ home, where you plan to move, etc.

PART 3- WRITING (3 POINTS)

5. CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TOPICS AND WRITE A 150 WORD LONG TEXT.

b)

Have you ever practised extreme sports? Do not forget to mention the name of the sport, the equipment you need to practise it, how often you do it, etc.