EVAU JUNE 2018

B
Clara Barton: American Red Cross Founder

1.

a) FALSE: "No unmarried woman... but Barton was determined to go and she didn´t stop until someone ... permission"

b) TRUE: "While abroad, Barton came into contact with the International Committee of the Red Cross".

2. 

a) Just before the Civil War ended, she worked helping to either reunite missing soldiers and their families or find out more about those who were missing.

b) When she came back from Europe, she worked to create the American Red Cross and she became the head fo this organisation.

3.

a) eager

b) set up

c) impressive

d) commitment / self-sacrifice

4.

a) If I had known... I would have joined.

b) who / that... became

c) resigning / having resigned... whose

d) He asked Mary when the Red Cross had been founded / was founded.

A. Romanian´s Medieval Marital Prison

1.
a) FALSE: "At the heart of the village, next to the 15th-century fortified church that stands on a hill, there is a small building with a very small room".

b) FALSE: "Thanks to this blessed building, in the 300 years that Biertan had the bishop´s seat, we only had one divorce", said Biertan´s current priest".

2.
a) It as a very small dark room with thick walls. There was only a table. a chair, a chest and a very small bed with one pillow.
b) Because he wanted to keep the religious principles of his society and, at the same time, to protect children and women, who might suffer the negative consequences of a divorce.

3.
a) gather
b) on the rocks
c) repair
d) repair
e) attempt

4.
a) higher ---- shown / was shown
b) getting ---- means / would mean
c) whose ---- to
d) He asked what he should do next

AWARD 2 Progress Check page 89

Ex. 1
1. Death metal   2. lyrics   3. Saxophones   4. live

Ex. 2
1. fast; easily   2. well   3. slowly; clearly   4. quietly

Ex. 3
1. hardly   2. hard   3. hard   4. hardly

Ex. 4
1. enjoyable   2. successful   3. creative   4. criticize   5. attraction
6. imaginatively

Ex. 5
1. are sold   2. was made   3. have been held   4. were invented

Ex. 6
1. A guitar was lent to me by my teacher.
I was lent a guitar by my teacher.

2. Tickets to the concert were given to me.
I was given tickets to the concert.

3. A lullaby was sung to the baby.
The baby was sung a lullaby.

Ex. 7
1. Flutes and harps were played in ancient Egypt.
2. A new theatre is being built.
3. It is said that it will rain tomorrow.
4. My car will be washed tomorrow.
5. I had my hair cut yeterday.

Ex. 8
1. After   2. Although   3. When   4. during

Grammar Review
1. was formed   2. chose   3. were working   4. wasn´t working
5. told   6. which   7. were composed   8. were working
9. has written   10. hadn´t heard   11. liked   12. to produce
13. was released   14. had already heard   15. most   16. has sold
17. is influenced   18. refer

HAVE SOMETHING DONE

(AWARD 2, UNIT 6)

EX. 7 PAGE 69

3. You should have your ears / them pierced

4. They aren´t are going to have 
the new stage / it built.

5. I always have my nails / them painted by my sister.

September 2012

 A. FACEBOOK GENERATION SUFFERS FROM INFORMATION WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME

1. a) FALSE: "volunteers... around the world..."

b) FALSE: "it as abstinence from music... the most difficulty".

3. a) isolated   b) restless   c) rely upon   d) as

4. a) developing / highest

b) an / who

c) until / became

d) on // spent / used to spend

B. DAUGHTER OF DAVID ADAMS JOINS ANTARCTIC SKI EXPEDITION

1. a) TRUE: "The latest challenge will begin 97 miles from the South Pole... to abandon his expedition in 1907"

b) FALSE: "However, eating a lot of chocolate won´t be hard for me"

3. a) trek   b) spot   c) apprevensive   d) consume

4. a) have been training.

b) which / will be led

c) hadn´t gone / would have been

d) ... she might not be able to sleep.

she was not sure if she would be able to sleep.

June 2013

A. JANUARY SALES

1. a) TRUE: "Consumers who go to the shops... join in the sales frenzy".

b) TRUE: "For a less exciting but less... sales of their own"

3. a) pick up   b) continue   c) keenest   d) rewarded

4. a) better / are reduced

b) were / how

c) going / since

d) ... what she had bought for Peter.

B. YOUNG DA VINCI

1. a) TRUE: "His father was stern and distant with him... who ran teh family´s farm".

b) FALSE: "Piero da Vinci didn´t know... about his son, Leonardo".

3. a) ran   b) talent   c) famous   d) stunned

4. a) what / had had   b) from / left   c) as / oldest

d) not to stop practising until he learnt how to paint.

September 2013

A. NOMOPHOBIA: MOBILE PHONE ADDICTION

1. a) FALSE: "According to a recent survey in the UK..."

b) TRUE: "The reasons that drive... cannot bear solitude".

3. a) afflicted   b) endeavors   c) prone   d) due to

4. a) who / than / better

b) switching off  /  driving

c) has grown 

d) ... if I had ever slept with my mobile phone.

B. WOMEN AND SUSTAINABILITY

1. a) TRUE: "What is more important, women hace strong... communities"

b) TRUE: "From all my 20 years... than in others"

3. a) empower   b) drawn   c) appear   d) goods

4. a) often 

b) buying / in / greater

c) was invited / which

d) hadn´t obtained / wouldn´t have got

June 2014

A. CELL PHONE JAMMERS

1. A) TRUE "I guess I´m taking the law...I´m proud of it"

B) FALSE, "Police reported that other people... using them as well".

3. a) fine   b) fed up with   c) bother   d) such as

4. a) using / be considered

b) what / were bothered

c) better / up

d) had used cell phones ever since she had started going to school.

B. THE KEY TO CHOOSING THE RIGHT CAREER

1. A) TRUE "Choosing a career path... stressing experience"

B) TRUE " Well you can begin by choosing... your skills and values"

3. a) confusing   b) fits   c) reach   d) venture

4. a) are motivated

b) best / have ever read

c) for / of

d) where

e) ... to choose a job she loved

Septiembre 2014

A. THE DECLINE OF "ONCE UPON A TIME..."

1. a) True: "According to a poll... with their little ones"

b) True: "Surprisingly enough... when they were little"

3. a) nearly   b) teamed up   c) create   d) key

4. a) used to tell / going   b) is considered / between. The better

c)  than   d) "... they appreciated how important it is..."

B. COURSES ONLINE

1. a) False: "Significantly, the platform... with a certificate and a grade".

b) False: "It is well-known that... their course content online"

3. a) struggle   b) however   c) supersede   d) required

4. a) had offered / would have taken

b) in /    to/ rather than 

c) are admitted / have been admitted   /unless

d) "... what he would like to do when he finished High School".

1415 MODEL

A) SOAP OPERAS

1. a) F: "Each show will have several... several shows".

b) F: "And we should not forget... in the North of England".

2. a) It comes from the advertising of soap by the companies which even sponsored the programmes, due to the fact of having hosewives as the main watchers of them at the beginning. 

b) Soap operas usually show events typical from real life but exaggerating everything, being more dramatic to be more entertaining.

3. a) depict   b) at once   c) continue   d) happen

4. a) often / a

b) who / without

c) watching / what

d) leaving / had watched

B ) A CUP OF TEA

1. a) F: "And despite the increase... tea remains their preferred beverage".

b) F: "Although it dates back... madde its appeareance in England".

3. a) wealthy   b) mild   c) increased   d) consoles

4. a) if / should

b) has become / for

c) making / so

d) having some tea

 

EVAUS FOR MARCH AND APRIL

MARCH, 14,
MODEL 2014/2015:
CUP OF TEA? / SOAP OPERA

MARCH, 21,
SEPTEMBER 2014:
THE DECLINE OF "ONCE UPON A TIME" / COURSES ONLINE

APRIL, 4,
JUNE 2014:
CELL PHONE JAMMERS / THE KEY TO CHOOSING THE RIGHT CAREER

APRIL, 11,
SEPTEMBER 2013:
NOMOPHOBIA: MOBILE PHONE ADDICTION / WOMEN AND SUSTAINABILITY

APRIL, 18,
JUNE 2013:
JANUARY SALES / YOUNG DA VINCI

APRIL, 25,
SEPTEMBER 2012:
FACEBOOK GENERATION SUFFERS FROM INFORMATION WITHDRAWAL* SYNDROME /
DAUGHTER OF DAVID ADAMS JOINS ANTARCTIC SKI EXPEDITION

1415 June

A. DO ALIENS REALLY EXIST?

1. a) TRUE: "This theory is suppoerted by...sightings".

b) FALSE: "And two brothers in Chile said...a driver´s suit"

3. a) depicted   b) nowadays   c) vanished   d) just

4. a) handn´t believed / to

b) whose / by

c) much / was given

d) of / thought

B. GENETIC FINGERPRINTING

1. a) FALSE: "Looking  at an x-ray... genetic fingerprinting"

b) TRUE: "The importance of the discovery... and immigration authoritites"

3. a) immediately   b) storing   c) worried   d) available


4. a) was arrested / committing

b) had had / would have been

c) Although / to

d) better / should - must

2015 September

A.  GO ON TWO WHEELS

 1. a) false: "It is absurd to give...it is safe to go."

b) false: "The car is no longer a symbol of freedom..."

3. a) just   b) timetables   c) founded   d) throw off

4. a) biking / where

b) was founded / than

c) must / to do

d) ...going for a walk the following day if the weather was fine.


B. USE OR ABUSE OF TECHNOLOGY

1. a)false: "we are becoming more and more anti-social....face-to-face conversations because of technology".

b) false: "Dr. Cassidy linked the increasing cases... and physical development".

3. a) almost   b) finding   c) because of   d) linked

4. a) which / in

b) wouldn´t communicate / didn´t exist

c) getting / had been using

d) shouldn´t have been sent for printing yet.

EVAU June 2016

A. NO FEAR, NO SURPRISE, NO HESITATION

1.
a) False: "It´s from a seventeenth century samurai warrior".
b) True: "But if you look carefully... that it was going to happen".

3.

a) huge   b) happen   c) passed   d) looked at


4.
a) began / between

 b) often / a

c) had / what

d) focuses / are explained 

B. WORKING HOURS

1.
a) False: "surveys show the important role... in our country".
b) False: "we must have the courage to... of other European countries".

3. 

a) called on   b) juggle   c) overall   d) take steps to

4.

a) trying / than

b) Despite / because of

c) were / on

d) ... why I had applied for a new job if my salary seemed to be reasonable.
 

PAU Semptiembre 2016 B Has Creativity Disappeared in Schools?

1. a) FALSE: "Picasso said that all children are born artists and the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up".

b) FALSE: "Eight years ago Ken Robinson, an expert on creativity and education, made a speech that revolutionized the topic".


3. a) acting out    b) places    c) gift    d) eliminated



4. a) shown / produces   b) had been encouraged / wouldn´t have been.

c) more / at    d) "... not to worry then because I would understand it the following day"

Valentine´s Day

Valentine´s Day history, level 1.

FUTURE TENSES

Here you have an exercise with a mixture of future tenses. 

You have 30 sentences with the answers below. Do it without looking at the answers. Then, check them. 

Good luck!