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.

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".

PAU TEST 2011 2012 SEPTEMBER

A. Facebook generation 

suffers from information withdrawal syndrome

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

b) FALSE: "However, it was abstinence from music... the most difficulty"

Ex. 2
a) The volunteers in the experiment had to spend one day without any electronic device, such as telephones or the internet.

b) Two positive effects have been that...
One positive effect has been that volunteers have improved their facilities for surviving. Another has been that they spent more time outside, walking in the streets, for instance or enjoying nature.

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

Ex. 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... his expedition in 1907".

b) FALSE: "However, eating a lot of chocolate... hard for me".

3. a) trek   b) spot   c) apprehensive   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 / could sleep

PAU 1213 SEPTEMBER A NOMOPHOBIA: MOBILE PHONE ADDICTION

4. a) who 
(relative pronoun, referring to "individuals") / 
than / better (comparative)

b) switching off (suggest + gerund) / driving (preposition + gerund)

c) has grown (present perfect)

d) ... if I had ever slept with my mobile phone.
(reported yes / no question; present perfect = past perfect; your = my)

Next PAU tests

1st P / R

COURSES ONLINE 13 / 14 September B

CELL PHONE JAMMERS 13 / 14 June A

Due to: Wednesday 1st February

THE KEY TO CHOOSING THE RIGHT CAREER 13 / 14 June B

Due to: Thursday, 2nd February

1st Q

COURSES ONLINE 13 / 14 September B

CELL PHONE JAMMERS 13 / 14 June A

Due to: Wednesday 1st February

THE KEY TO CHOOSING THE RIGHT CAREER 13 / 14 June B

Due to: Friday, 3rd February

NOTE: the corresponding COMPOSITIONS will be collected on each date

PAU 14/15 Modelo Apción A SOAP OPERAS

2. (examples)

a) It comes from the advertising of soap by companies which even sponsored the programmes, due to the fact of having housewives 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 the same time c) go on d) take place

4. a) often (How often= ¿con qué frecuencia? / a (=cuatro veces a la semana)
b) who/without 
c) watching (love + gerund) /what

d) leaving (gerund after preposition)
 /had watched (past perfect)

FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY, 25TH JANUARY:
14/15 Modelo B A cup of tea?
13/14 Septiembre A The Decline of "Once Upon a Time..."

Genetic Fingerprinting PAU 2014 2015 June B

The text continues as follows:
As the technique becomes more sophisticated, all this information and more will be available.

4. a) was arrested
 (passive voice, past)/
 commiting (gerund after preposition)
b) had had / would have been ( 3rd conditional)
c)Although / to
d) better / must, should

Next test: Jan. 20th, Soap Operas,
Model 2014 2015

PAU 2015-2015 JUNE A DO ALIENS REALLY EXIST?

4. A) HADN´T BELIEVED / TO

CONDITIONAL SENTENCE TYPE 3 / 

VERB + PRESPOSITION

B) WHOSE / BY

RELATIVE PRONOUN (POSSESSION) / PASSIVE PREPOSITION BEFORE COMPLEMENT

C) MUCH / WAS GIVEN

UNCOUNTABLE HOW MUCH / PASSIVE VOICE, PAST SIMPLE

D) OF / THOUGHT

Next test: 2014-2015 B

Genetic Fingerprinting

Due to: January, 11th

 

 

PAU September 2014 1015 B Use and Abuse of Technology

4. a) which / in
b) wouldn´t communicate / didn´t exist (Conditional sentences)
c) getting / had been using
 (Gerund after preposition / Past perfect Continuous)
d) The report souldn´t have been sent
(Reported Speech:. shouldn´t doesn´t change) 

NEXT TEST:

JUNE 2014 2015 A 

DO ALIENS REALLY EXIST ?

DUE TO: Jan., 4th, 2017

Happy New Year!!

PAU SEPTEMBER 2015 A

GO ON TWO WHEELS

Exercise 4.

a) biking / where

b) was founded / than

c) Must / to do

d) John suggested going for a walk 
the following day

if the weather was fine.

for December the 28th, do B

PAU September 2016 B

Hello again, and welcome to our second PAU exam this year.

Did you find option B easier, more difficult or the same as 

option A?

I have added two words to be looked for in the text:

Find the verbs in the text that mean:

Be very good at (2nd paragraph), sobresalir.

Dismiss, not consider (2nd paragraph), dejar de lado.

(Definitions and translations taken from: www.wordreference.com)

They are underlined in red colour:

Exercise 4.

a) shown / produces

b) were encouraged / wouldn´t be 

(Conditional type 2)

c) more / at

d) The teacher told me 

not to worry at that moment 

since / because I would understand it

the following day.

Please, if you haven´t done it yet, order your packet of PAU exams at the Copier´s Room.

For next Wednesday, we´ll do Go on two wheels

(2014-2015, option A)

Thank you!

Pau September 2016 A

In red colour:

Phrasal verb: take off

Prepositional verbs

In green colour:

Connectors

In yellow colour:

The answers to question 1.

In pink colour:

The answers to question 3.

Question 4.

a) has become / most. 

TENSES (present perfect) / SUPERLATIVES

b) had worked / would have been been used. 

CONDITIONAL SENTENCES (third type, passive)

More about conditional sentences 1 & 2 here.
More about conditional sentences  type 3 here.

c) which / promoting.

 RELATIVE CLAUSES (non-defining) / verb + gerund.

More about relative clauses here.

d) Peter warned Sarah that her voice recognition system was not working at that moment.

REPORTED SPEECH. 

Examples of reported speech with warn here.

FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY: B
DON´T  FORGET YOUR COMPOSITIONS!

:-)

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