EJERCICIO PRÁCTICO
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Introducción.....................................................3
Listening.........................................................4
Reading.........................................................6
Traducciones.................................................14
Prepara el Ejercicio Práctico de Inglés..........16
Introducción
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Listening
YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR PART OF AN EXTRACT OF ' Life Lessons'. THIS EXERCISE CONSISTS OF
DIFFERENT TASKS. YOU WILL HAVE TO ANSWER TO QUESTIONS AND FILL IN THE GAPS. TO FULFIL
THE TASKS YOU WILL HEAR THE TEXT ONLY TWICE. THE QUESTIONS ARE NOT IN ORDER.
1. What exactly has drifted Jazza and a family member apart?
2. Explain the democratic deficit in the UK and how to deal with it.
3. What does the vlogger has a fond recollection of dinner with his
grandparents?
4. What are the examples stated by Shahira to stand her ground?
5. Jazza is uncertain whether it’s possible for him and his grandfather to reach
across the divide. Is that so? Explain his feelings.
6. According to _________________________________ participated in
elections in the last 3 years.
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Listening
7. The decision to not discuss politics was made so as to
____________________________ constantly.
8. Jazza believes signing off on different sides of the Brexit doesn’t have to
mean quitting relationships. Explain this idea in example.
9. Whats is a dichotomy from Shahira’s point of view?
10. Brexit ________________________ the unlikeliness of the family’s
thoughts, cite some examples.
11. Young people ________________________ in the political system. What
does not lowering the minimum voting age mean to young generations?
12. Why does Jazza believe to be the one at loss with the decision of the
family?
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reading
READ THE FOLLOWING TEXT AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW.
The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway
The odds would change back and forth all night and they fed the negro rum and
lighted cigarettes for him. Then the negro, after the rum, would try for a
tremendous effort and once he had the old man, who was not an old man then but
was Santiago El Campeon, nearly three inches off balance. But the old man had
raised his hand up to dead even again. He was sure then that he had the negro,
who was a fine man and a great athlete, beaten. And at daylight when the bettors
were asking that it be called a draw and the referee was shaking his head, he had
unleashed his effort and forced the hand of the negro down and down until it rested
on the wood. The match had started on a Sunday morning and ended on a
Monday morning. Many of the bettors had asked for a draw because they had to
go to work on the docks loading sacks of sugar or at the Havana Coal Company.
Otherwise everyone would have wanted it to go to a finish. But he had finished it
anyway and before anyone had to go to work. For a long time after that everyone
had called him The Champion and there had been a return match in the spring. But
not much money was bet and he had won it quite easily since he had broken the
confidence of the negro from Cienfuegos in the first match. After that he had a few
matches and then no more. He decided that he could beat anyone if he wanted to
badly enough and he decided that it was bad for his right hand for fishing. He had
tried a few practice matches with his left hand. But his left hand had always been a
traitor and would not do what he called on it to do and he did not trust it. The sun
will bake it out well now, he thought. It should not cramp on me again unless it gets
too cold in the night. I wonder what this night will bring. An airplane passed
overhead on its course to Miami and he watched its shadow scaring up the schools
of flying fish. “With so much flying fish there should be dolphin,” he said, and
leaned back on the line to see if it was possible to gain any on his fish. But he
could not and it stayed at the hardness and water-drop shivering that preceded
breaking. The boat moved ahead slowly and he watched the airplane until he could
no longer see it. It must be very strange in an airplane, he thought. I wonder what
the sea looks like from that height? They should be able to see the fish well if they
do not fly too high. I would like to fly very slowly at two hundred fathoms high and
see the fish from above. In the turtle boats I was in the cross-trees of the mast-
head and even at that height I saw much. The dolphin look greener from there and
you can see their stripes and their purple spots and you can see all of the school
as they swim. Why is it that all the fast-moving fish of the dark current have purple
backs and usually purple stripes or spots? The dolphin looks green of course
because he is really golden. But when he comes to feed, truly hungry, purple
stripes show on his sides as on a marlin.
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The old man and the sea Ernest Hemingway
Can it be anger, or the greater speed he makes that brings them out? Just before it
was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung
in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a
yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped
in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.
It jumped again and again in the acrobatics of its fear and he worked his way back
to the stern and crouching and holding the big line with his right hand and arm, he
pulled the dolphin in with his left hand, stepping on the gained line each time with
his bare left foot. When the fish was at the stem, plunging and cutting from side to
side in desperation, the old man leaned over the stern and lifted the burnished gold
fish with its purple spots over the stem. Its jaws were working convulsively in quick
bites against the hook and it pounded the bottom of the skiff with its long flat body,
its tail and its head until he clubbed it across the shining golden head until it
shivered and was still. The old man unhooked the fish, re-baited the line with
another sardine and tossed it over. Then he worked his way slowly back to the
bow. He washed his left hand and wiped it on his trousers. Then he shifted the
heavy line from his right hand to his left and washed his right hand in the sea while
he watched the sun go into the ocean and the slant of the big cord. “He hasn’t
changed at all,” he said. But watching the movement of the water against his hand
he noted that it was perceptibly slower. “I’ll lash the two oars together across the
stern and that will slow him in the night,” he said. “He’s good for the night and so
am I.” It would be better to gut the dolphin a little later to save the blood in the
meat, he thought. I can do that a little later and lash the oars to make a drag at the
same time. I had better keep the fish quiet now and not disturb him too much at
sunset. The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish. He let his hand dry in the
air then grasped the line with it and eased himself as much as he could and
allowed himself to be pulled forward against the wood so that the boat took the
strain as much, or more, than he did. I’m learning how to do it, he thought. This
part of it anyway. Then too, remember he hasn’t eaten since he took the bait and
he is huge and needs much food. I have eaten the whole bonito. Tomorrow I will
eat the dolphin. He called it dorado. Perhaps I should eat some of it when I clean it.
It will be harder to eat than the bonito. But, then, nothing is easy. “How do you feel,
fish?” he asked aloud. “I feel good and my left hand is better and I have food for a
night and a day. Pull the boat, fish.” He did not truly feel good because the pain
from the cord across his back had almost passed pain and gone into a dullness
that he mistrusted. But I have had worse things than that, he thought. My hand is
only cut a little and the cramp is gone from the other. My legs are all right. Also
now I have gained on him in the question of sustenance.
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The old man and the sea Ernest Hemingway
It was dark now as it becomes dark quickly after the sun sets in September. He lay
against the worn wood of the bow and rested all that he could. The first stars were
out. He did not know the name of Rigel but he saw it and knew soon they would all
be out and he would have all his distant friends. “The fish is my friend too,” he said
aloud. “I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we
do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the
moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should
have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky, he thought.
Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his
determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. How many
people he will feed, he thought. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course
not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behaviour
and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is
good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is
enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
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Questions
1. Classify the text according to its typology, genre, style and communicator’s
intentions.
2) Find two expressions whose semantic meaning differ from the pragmatic one.
3) What is the meaning of Santiago's words, 'I'm glad we do not have to kill the
stars'?
4) Why did Hemingway use Spanish words in The Old Man and the Sea?
5) Why does the author speak to the fish: 'How do you feel, fish? I feel good and
my left hand is better and I have food for a night and a day. Pull the boat, fish.'
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Questions
6) What’s the tone the author uses?
7) One of the motifs of The Old Man and the Sea is the Crucifixion Imagery and a
resemblance to Christ. Find structures, contrasts or literary devices in the text that
suggest this motif.
8) What major themes can be grasped from the story?
9) An airplane passes overhead on its course to Miami and Santiago watches its
shadow scaring up the schools of flying fish. Why does Hemingway include this
scene in the story?
10) Locate 3 different kinds of cohesive devices (references, linkers, ellipsis, etc.)
and other rhetorical resources, illustrated by examples.
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Questions
11) Hemingway uses plenty of parallelisms, find some of them in the text and state
why he uses this technique.
12. What does Santiago, the main character, convey with the last paragraph (bold
type)?
13) Provide definitions for the following words from the text. Add their phonological
transcription:
STRAIN [ ]:
BOW [ ]:
CROUCHING [ ]:
FATHOMS [ ]:
14) Find the words in the text that correspond to the following phonetic
transcription.
A) [ˈɔːrs]
B) [ˈhiːvt]
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Questions
15) For each of the following sentences below, write a new sentence as similar
as possible in the meaning to the original sentence, but using the word in capital
letters. This word can not be altered in any way.
a) The odds would change back and forth all night and they fed the negro
rum and lighted cigarettes for him.
TO AND FRO
The negro would be fed rum and lighted cigarettes _____________________.
b) Then he worked his way slowly back to the bow.
TOWARDS
He sluggishly _____________________________________________bow.
c) But not much money was bet and he had won it quite easily since he had
broken the confidence of the negro from Cienfuegos in the first match.
TORN
But not much money was bet and he had won it quite easily since
he_____________________ of the negro from Cienfuegos in the first match.
d) He was sure then that he had the negro, who was a fine man and a great
athlete, beaten.
CIRCUMSTANCES
_______________________ that the negro, who was a fine man and a great
athlete, beaten.
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16) Analyse syntactically the following extract from the text:
'And at daylight when the bettors were asking that it be called a draw and the
referee was shaking his head, he had unleashed his effort and forced the hand of
the negro down and down until it rested on the wood.'
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Translations
TRANSLATE THE FOLLOWING FRAGMENT INTO SPANISH.
1. When my father was admitted to the bar, he returned to Maycomb and began
his practice. Mayeomb, some twenty miles east of Finch's Landing, was the county
seat of Maycomb County. Atticus's office in the courthouse contained little more
than a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard and an unsullied Code of Alabama. His
first two clients were the last two persons hanged in the Maycomb County jail.
Atticus had urged them to accept the state's generosity in allowing them to plead
Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives, but they were
Haverfords, in Maycomb County a name synonymous with jackass. The
Haverfords had dispatched Maycomb's leading blacksmith in a misunderstanding
arising from the alleged wrongful detention of a mare, were imprudent enough to
do it in the presence of three witnesses, and insisted that the-son-of-a-bitch-had-
itcoming-to-him was a good enough defense for anybody. They persisted in
pleading Not Guilty to first-degree murder, so there was nothing much Atticus
could do for his clients except be present at their departure, an occasion that was
probably the beginning of my father's profound distaste for the practice of criminal
law.
From To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Translations
TRANSLATE THE FOLLOWING FRAGMENT INTO ENGLISH.
2. Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only
because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that
later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-
year-old schoolgirl. Oh well, it doesn't matter. I feel like writing, and I have an even
greater need to get all kinds of things off my chest."Paper is more patience than
man." I thought of this saying on one of those days when I was feeling a little
depressed and was sitting at home with my chin in my hands, bored and listless,
wondering whether to stay in or go out. I finally stayed where I was, brooding. Yes,
paper does have more patience, and since I'm not planning to let anyone else read
this stiff-backed notebookgrandly referred to as a "diary," unless I should ever find
a real friend, it probably won't make a bit of difference.
De El diario de Anne Frank de Anne Frank.
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