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Informacin personal
Apellidos __________________________________________________________
Nombre

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Profesor/a _________________________________________________________
Grupo

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Modalidad de enseanza: Oficial

Libre

Calificaciones
PARTES DEL

NOTAS POR

EXAMEN

EJERCICIO

NOTA GLOBAL

APTO

NO APTO

WRITING

/20

LISTENING

/20

COMPREHENSION
READING

/20

COMPREHENSION
ORAL

TOTAL../80

/20

APTO

NO APTO

Instrucciones:
Apaga tu telfono mvil y lee atentamente esta informacin sobre el examen. Encontrarss
instrucciones especficas antes de cada parte.
Partes del

Ejercicios

Puntuacin

examen
Writing

nota global
Writing 1

10 puntos

Writing 2

10 puntos

Listening 1

6 puntos

Comprehension Listening 2

6 puntos

Listening 3

4 puntos

Reading 1

10 puntos

Comprehension Reading 2

10 puntos

Oral

20 puntos

Listening

Reading

Porcentaje de la Duracin

Task 1

25%

120 minutos

25%

60 minutos

25%

60 minutos

25%

30-35 minutos*

Task 2

(incluyendo preparacin)

*Prueba oral (speaking):

Esta seccin del examen se realizar otro da. Tu profesor te indicar cundo.
Duracin total del examen escrito: 4h
Procedimiento:
a) Writing: hay dos tareas. Se os entregar papel en sucio pero tendris que entregar la
redaccin en el papel oficial.
b) Listening: Hay tres ejercicios.
c) Reading: Hay dos textos, el primero con dos ejercicios y el segundo con uno.
Justificantes de asistencia: consulta al profesor si necesitas uno.
NOTA IMPORTANTE: al finalizar debers entregar el examen entero (hoja de respuestas,
writing, cuestionario de listening, textos y cuestionario de Reading).

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TEACHER:_____________

EOI:___________________

Alumno oficial
Alumno libre

Writing
Instrucciones
Tu profesor te facilitar papel para tomar notas pero todo el examen tiene que estar escrito
integramante en este cuadernillo y a bolgrafo

You have to write the two compositions and should allow about 120 minutes for this
part of the exam. Please make sure that you follow closely the instructions for each
task and use appropriate language. Remember that good use of vocabulary and
structures as well as correctness , organisation of paragraphs, development and
coherence of ideas will be taken into account.
Good luck and do your best!

WRITING 1
Discuss the following question for an article in a local magazine: Do technological advances
such as internet or social networks isolate us, human beings, or bring us closer together?
(Write a minimum of 225 words)

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WRITING 2
You live in the centre of a medium-sized town. There are already 2 bars in your street.

However, a new one is being built. Write a 175-word formal letter of complaint to the mayor of

your town explaining the inconveniences caused by such businesses and propose solutions.

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Alumno oficial
Alumno libre

Listening
Task 1
You are going to hear seven extracts about different topics. Match options (a-g) to
texts (1-6). You will hear the extracts TWICE. Now you have 60 seconds to read the
options. The first text is an example.
You have 15 seconds to consider your answers before listening to the recording for a second
time and between one text and the next one.

Which speaker/extract
a) describes how technology aids social protests?

Example
Text 1

b) mentions a man-made natural catastrophe?

Text 2

c) mentions an unfortunate event that has happened more than

Text 3

once?

Text 4

d) talks about the usefulness of a technological facility?

e) shows tough measures to silence protesters?
f) explains the multiple and beneficial uses of a single action?

Text 5
Text 6

g) mentions a visit that reminds him of a current serious

situation?
Task 2 Marriage in the Sikh community
In the following video doctor Indrajit Singh reflects on the role of men and women in
Sikh married couples; such reflection is inspired by the news of the future royal
wedding between Prince William and his fiance, Kate Middleton. Listen and choose
the best option to complete the sentences below.
You will hear the text THREE TIMES.
You have 2 minutes to read the questions.
You have 30 seconds to consider your answers before listening to the recording for a second
and a third time and 45 seconds at the end.

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1. Guru Nanaks (*) teachings

a) followed the tendency of his times.
b) marked a contrast with the previous ideas.
c) established that women are equal to men except when serving their community.
2. Theoretically, for Sikhs, women
a) are equal to men, but not in worship.
b) cannot occupy important positions.
c) are 100% equal to men.
3. Reality proves that
a) this equality is not fully realised in the community.
b) Guru Nanaks teachings are followed all the way through.
c) culture and religion go together in this respect.
4. As for the roles of men and women in the Sikh community,
a) both men and women had the same role in the past.
b) nothing has changed so far.
c) both seem to have the same relevance now.
5. In doctor Singhs family
a) he only plays the role of the hunter-gatherer.
b) he plays both roles, hunter-gatherer and main carer.
c) his wife does all the housework.
6. According to doctor Singh, Kate Middleton will find it difficult to deal with
a) the housework.
b) the press
c) only what clothes she should wear .
(*) Guru Nanak was the founder of the religion of Sikhism in the late fifteenth century.

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Task 3 What is fat?

In the following video a man talks about the functions and consequences of fat in our
health; listen and choose the best option to complete the sentences below.
You will hear the text TWICE.
You have 2 minutes to read the questions.
You have 30 seconds to consider your answers before listening to the recording for a second
and a third time and 45 seconds at the end.

1. According to the speaker,

a) fat is a simple mechanism in our bodies.
b) fat is able to store energy at all times.
c) 1 kilo of fat could provide energy for more than one day.

2. Fat
a) sends hormonal signals from the brain to the body.
b) keeps us warm in winter.
c) is found only in certain parts of our bodies

3. Subcutaneous fat
a) is the most abundant in our bodies.
b) hardly affects our health.
c) could damage our liver.

4. As for visceral fat,

a) .it is less dangerous than the fat under our skin.
b) there is less compared to the subcutaneous one.
c) is more difficult to burn.

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Reading Comprehension
TEXT 1
The Guardian

How feminism could improve judicial decisionmaking

What difference would it make if a judge's feminist values and
perspectives were included in their decision-making?
Baroness Hale of Richmond believes that reading the judgments ought to be a chastening experience for any
judge who believes himself or herself to be both true to their judicial oath and a neutral observer of the
world.
Can judges be feminists? Should judges be feminists? On one view the answer is easy: no. We don't want our
judges to be activists. We don't want them to promote their own political agendas. We want them to do their
job. We want them to apply the law.
Now, of course, we can all agree that we want our judges to take their judicial responsibilities seriously. But
judges especially those at the highest levels are often called on to make decisions where the existing legal
rules provide no clear answer. In such cases, the judge must turn to their own sense of justice, of what is right
and wrong, to decide the case. And this will differ from judge to judge. None of this is controversial. Judges
often disagree, and not simply on what the authorities say but on the direction the law should take.
So, given that judges will, sometimes, have no choice but to fall back on their own values and perspectives,
why shouldn't feminist values and perspectives be included? And if they were, what difference might this
make to the law and the way cases are decided?
The Feminist Judgments Project offers a vision as to what the law might look like if there were (more)
feminist judges, and in doing so, challenges our thinking about law and judging. More than 50 academics,
practitioners and activists have come together to produce 23 alternative feminist judgments in a series of key
cases in English law.
In R v A (No 2), for example, instead of rules restricting the use of sexual history evidence in rape trials being
overturned by an all-male House of Lords (itself the subject of a legal challenge by the Fawcett Society), the
feminist judgment by Clare McGlynn upholds the restrictions, challenging the assumption at the heart of the
case: that a woman who has agreed to have sex with a particular man is simply by virtue of that fact more
likely to do so again at another time.
Other cases include attorney-general for Jersey v Holley, in which Susan Edwards dissents from the majority
of the Privy Council. She argues that the defence of provocation should be sensitive to the specific
circumstances and capacities of the defendant, which would go some way to redressing the law's inadequate
treatment of women who kill their abusive partners.
While many of the feminist judgments argue for different results, others reach the same conclusions but for
different reasons, highlighting details of women's lives and raising argument that the courts overlooked. In
some cases, they reveal different feminist views on a particular issue. Alison Diduck's judgment in Re G
(Children) (Residence: Same Sex Partner) is a case in point. Although she finds much to agree with in Baroness
Hale's leading opinion itself perhaps an example of a feminist judgment Diduck rejects Hale's attempt to
treat the former lesbian partners in the same way as a heterosexual couple. She argues that it obscures
specific difficulties faced by same-sex parents.
The feminist judgments reveal the extent to which cases could and should have been decided differently,
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decisions the courts could legitimately have reached. The important point is that cases such as these can only
be decided by the application of a set of values whether feminist or other.
As Baroness Hale writes in her foreword to the collection, reading the judgments ought to be a chastening
experience for any judge who believes himself or herself to be both true to their judicial oath and a neutral
observer of the world.
Moreover, the judgments help us see how the incorporation of viewpoints and perspectives from sections of
society which remain under-represented on the bench might improve the quality of judicial decision-making.
The book Feminist Judgments: From Theory to Practice (edited by Rosemary Hunter, Clare McGlynn and Erika
Rackley) is published by Hart Publishing.

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Task 1
Read the following article and then choose the best option a), b) or c)
according to the text.
1. a) People oppose the individual sense of justice found in judgements.
b) Judges must always depend on laws for decision making.
c) It is widely accepted that judges do not always agree.
2. a) Clare McGlynn approves the restriction of the use of sexual history evidence.
b) The House of Lords approves the restriction.
c) Both McGlynn and the House of Lords disapprove the restriction.
3. a) The Privy Council takes into account the specific circumstances of provocation.
b) Susan Edwards agrees with the Privy Council.
c) The laws concerning abused women are unsatisfactory.
4. a) Baroness Hale does not distinguish between same-sex and heterosexual parents.
b) Alison Diduck does not distinguish between same-sex and heterosexual parents.
c) Diduck rejects the concept of single-sex parents.
5. The article concludes that:
a) Female judges make feminist judgements.
b) Feminist judgements could enrich the judicial system.
c) Feminist judges do as they please.
ANSWERS
1. _____

2. _____

3. _____

4. _____

5. _____

Task 2
Now choose the correct meaning of the following words (in bold in the text) according to
the context.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

chastening(twice) a) punishing
oath
a) belief
called on to
a) asked to
fall back on
a) ignore
highlighting
a) playing down
argument
a) sympathy
former
a) long-time
constraints
a) restrictions
foreword
a) justification
on the bench
a) in the media

ANSWERS
6. _____
11. _____

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7. _____
12. _____

b) humiliating
c) humbling
b) promise
c) opinion
b) ready to
c) expert at
b) change
c) use
b) focusing on
c) minimizing
b) disagreements c) evidence
b) accused
c) exb) dilemmas
c) prohibitions
b) introduction
c) explanation
b) in the courtroom c)among the judicial authorities

8. _____
13. _____

9. _____
14. _____

10. _____
15. _____

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TEXT 2
Match these opening sentences with their headlines. There is ONE EXTRA headline.
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
h)
i)
j)

Ian Norris, a former UK executive, is due in a Manhattan court on Friday.

A good meal satisfies more than just our hunger.
The convicted US fraudsters son has commited suicide in his NY apartment, a family lawyer says.
The International Energy Agency lifted its forecast for next year and raised its projectons for
consumption to 2015, citing stronger US growth.
The Home Secretary has said she will be actively looking at whether a controversial clergyman
should be allowed to enter UK.
Does Sweden live up to its squeaky-clean image?
Kosovos ethnic Serbs split by parliamentary elections.
The group of pro-wikileaks activists explain their actions in a document published on-line.
At their annual meeting, the 12-nation cartel sees no need to increase production.
Plans are in progress to make private lenders cover the losses of any future eurozone government
debt crisis.

1. ANONYMOUS ATTACKERS GO
PUBLIC

3. EX-BOSS FACES US SENTENCE

2. MAY TO CONSIDER BANNING

US PASTOR

4. THE BIG CHILL

5. DIVIDED LOYALTY
7. EU BAIL-OUTS TO HIT
BOND HOLDERS

6. OIL DEMAND RISE ON

GLOBAL RECOVERY
8. OPEC MINISTERS SIGNAL NO
CHANGE IN OUTPUT

9. WELL-LAUNDERED
REPUTATION
10. MARK MADOFF FOUND HANGED
11. A FEAST FOR THE SOUL

a) _____

b) _____

c) _____

d) _____

e) _____

f) _____

g) _____

h) _____

i) _____

j) _____

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