SUPUESTOS PRCTICOS

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Autoras: Teresa Vaello Reos y Maria Vicenta Llorca Llorca

Primera edicin, 2014
Autoras: Teresa Vaello Reos, Maria Vicenta Llorca Llorca
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 NDICE
EJEMPLOS EXMENES PRCTICOS OPOSICIONES SECUNDARIA INGLS 5
1. The Physician by Noah Gordon 7
2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone by JK Rowling 12
3. Wuthering Heights by E. Brnte 16
4. The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 19
5. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 23
6. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 25
7. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 29
8. Gullivers travels by Jonathan Swift 32
9. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 36
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 39

SOLUCIONES EXMENES PRCTICOS OPOSICIONES SECUNDARIA INGLS 43

1. The Physician by Noah Gordon 45
2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone by JK Rowling 48
3. Wuthering Heights by E. Brnte 51
4. The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 53
5. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 56
6. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 58
7. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 61
8. Gullivers travels by Jonathan Swift 63
9. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 67
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 70

TRADUCCIN TEXTOS CLSICOS 73

Dracula de Bram stoker 74
El Prcipe y el Mendigo de Mark Twain 76
El Retrato de Dorian Gray de Oscar Wilde 78
El libro de la Selva de Rudyard Kipling 80
La Letra Escarlata de Nathaniel Hawthorne 82
La Mscara de la Muerte Roja de Edgar Allan Poe 84
Cancin de Navidad de Charles Dickens 86
Retrato de una Dama de Henry James 88
El Gran Gatsby de F. Scott Fitzgerald 90
Soneto 18 de William Shakespeare 91
Moby Dick de Herman Melville 92
Los Viajes de Gulliver de Jonathan Swift 94
Frankenstein de Mary Shelley 96
El Gran Gatsby de F. Scott Fitzgerald 97
Orgullo y Prejuicio de Jane Austen 98
Robinson Crusoe de Daniel Defoe 100
 1. The Physician by Noah Gordon

Read carefully the following text and answer the questions about it:

Let us catch some breakfast, he said as they washed the dirt from their faces and
hands. He cut two willow poles and got hooks and line from the wagon. From the shaded
place behind the seat he pulled out a box. This is our grasshopper box.
He said. It is one of our duties to keep it filled. He lifted the lid only far enough to allow Rob to
stick his hands inside. Living things rustled away from Robs fingers, frantic and spiky, and he
pulled one gently into his palm. When he withdrew his hand, keeping the wings folded between
his thumb and forefinger, the insects legs scrabbled frantically.
The four front legs were thin as hairs and the hind two were powerful and large-thighed,
enabling it to be a hopper.
Barber showed him how to slip the point of the hook just beneath the sort section of tough,
ridged shell behind the head. Not too deep or hell bleed molasses and die. Where have you
fished?
The Thames. He prided himself on his ability as a fisher, for he and his father often had
dangled worms in the broad river, depending on the fish to help feed the family during the
unemployment.
Barber grunted. This is a different kind of fishing,
He said. Leave the poles for a moment and get on your hands and knees
They crawled cautiously to a place overlooking the nearest pool and lay on their bellies. Rob
thought the fat man daft.
Four fish hung suspended in glass.
Small, Rob whispered. Best eating that size, Barber said as they crept away from the bank.
Your big river trouts are tough and oily. Did you note how these drifted near the head of the
pool? They feed facing upstream, waiting for a juicy meal to fall in and come floating down.
Theyre wild and wary.
If you stand next to the stream, they see you. If you tread strongly on the bank they feel your
step and they scatter. Thats why you use the long pole. If you stand next back and lightly drop
the hopper just above the pool, letting the flow carry it to the fish. He watched critically as Rob
swung the grasshopper where he had directed.
With a shock that travelled along the pole and sent excitement up into Robs arms, the unseen
fish struck like a dragon. After that it was like fishing in the Thames. He waited patiently, giving
the trout time to doom itself, and then raised the tip of the pole and set the hook as his father
had taught him. When he pulled in the first flopping prize they admired its blood: the gleaming
background like oiled walnut wood, the sleek sides splattered with rainbow reds, the black fins
marked with warm orange ...
The Physician by Noah Gordon
1. Give homophones from the text for the following words (state the line number):
were
would
taut
plaice
dye
sighs
tuff

2. Give minimal pairs (from the first paragraph) for the following words:
come
for
calm
get
thinks

3. Make a phonetic transcription of the following words:

Thames withdrew
wagon beneath
grasshopper tough
duties leave
enough cautiously

4. Give 6 examples of silent letters found in the text:

5. Give 10 verbs belonging to the lexical field of TYPES OF MOVEMENTS:

6. Give 3 verbs belonging to the lexical field of types of talking:

7. Give 5 words belonging to the lexical field of Nature:
NATURE

8. Give 5 words from the text which refer to different parts of animals:

9. Give 7 words from the text which refer to different parts of a persons body:

10. Give 6 words from the text which refer to the lexical field of types of animals:

11. Name a simile in the text and add two more:

12. Name a metaphor in the text and add two more:

13. Give one example of:

Temporal deixis:
Personal deixis:
Place deixis:

14. Give a euphemism which can be substituted by decease or expire:

15. Classify the category of the words given in the text according to their word formation
(prefixes, suffixes, compounds):
unemployment
excitement
flopping
grasshopper
rainbow
forefinger
walnut
frantically
gleaming
enabling

16. Give 5 examples from the text of prepositions of place:

17. Define the following expressions using your own words:

pole

wagon

hook

living things

wings

bleed

to feed

juicy
18. Find the word or expressions from the text for these definitions:
the thick short digit of the forelimb

an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the suns rays
by rain
the feeling of lively and cheerful joy

a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth

organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic

animals

19. Give examples of synonyms for the following words:

skills back
excited to fish
bony almighty
hidden succulent
glossy to supply

20. Give examples of antonyms for the following words:

tame Tiny
tender Wide
weakly shallow
empty Cool
fat Long

21. Give examples of connectors from the text and classify them:

22. Comment the following sentence from a morphosyntactic point of view:

he watched critically as rob swung the grasshopper where he had directed

23. Complete the following sentences with words from the text:
a) Mind your hands! I dont want you .. the needle in your finger
b) Ummm, it smells tasty when youve .................... from the pot.
c) He is not a confident person. He is always.............. of running his own business.
d) The city has been destroyed by a huge earthquake. It was a ............... and gloom
situation.
 SOLUCIONES EXAMEN PRACTICO 1

1. Give homophones from the text for the following words (state the line number):
were Where
would Wood
taut Taught
plaice Place
dye Die
sighs Size
tuff Tough

2. Give minimal pairs (from the first paragraph) for the following words:
Come Some
For Four
Calm Palm
Get Got
Thinks Things

3. Make a phonetic transcription of the following words:

Thames tmz withdrew wdru
Wagon wgn beneath bni
grasshopper grshpr tough tf
Duties Dutiz leave liv
Enough nf cautiously ksli

4. Give 6 examples of silent letters found in the text:

Some knees Allow where often would

5. Give 10 verbs belonging to the lexical field of TYPES OF MOVEMENTS:

to cut Pulled lifted stick
withdrew scrabbled to slip crawled
lay on Crept drift fall
come scatter struck

6. Give 3 verbs belonging to the lexical field of types of talking:

said grunted whispered
7. Give 5 words belonging to the lexical field of Nature:
NATURE
willow
river
bank
stream
fish

8. Give 5 words from the text which refer to different parts of animals:
Fin wings head legs shell

9. Give 7 words from the text which refer to different parts of a persons body:
Faces hands fingers palm knees thumb bellies forefinger

10. Give 6 words from the text which refer to the lexical field of types of animals:
Insect worms grasshopper trout fish dragon

11. Name a simile in the text and add two more:

The four front legs were thin as hairs

12. Name a metaphor in the text and add two more:

The unseen fish struck like a dragon.

13. Give one example of:

Temporal deixis: breakfast
Personal deixis: Barber, Rob
Place deixis: the Thames

14. Give a euphemism which can be substituted by decease or expire: to die

15. Classify the category of the words given in the text according to their word formation
(prefixes, suffixes, compounds):
noun that results adding the prefix un- to the noun employment
unemployment
forming its antonym
excitement noun that results adding the suffix ment to the verb to excite
flopping adjective that results from adding the suffix ing to the verb to flop
grasshopper compound noun
rainbow compound noun
forefinger compound noun
walnut compound noun
frantically adverbs that result from adding the suffix ly to the adjective frantic
gleaming adjective that results from adding the suffix ing to the noun gleam
verb resulting from the prefix en and the suffix ing added to the
enabling
verb to able

SESGADO
 Dracula de Bram stoker

En cuanto llegu a esta conclusin escuch pesados pasos que se acercaban detrs de la gran
puerta, y vi a travs de las grietas el brillo de una luz que se acercaba. Se escuch el ruido de cadenas
que golpeaban y el chirrido de pesados cerrojos que se corran. Una llave gir haciendo el conocido
ruido producido por el largo desuso, y la inmensa puerta se abri hacia adentro.
En ella apareci un hombre alto, viejo, limpiamente afeitado, a excepcin de un largo bigote blanco, y
vestido de negro de la cabeza a los pies, sin ninguna mancha de color en ninguna parte. Tena en la
mano una antigua lmpara de plata, en la cual la llama se quemaba sin globo ni proteccin de ninguna
clase, lanzando largas y ondulosas sombras al fluctuar por la corriente de la puerta abierta. El anciano
me hizo un gesto con su mano derecha, haciendo un gesto corts y hablando en excelente ingls,
aunque con una entonacin extraa:
- Bienvenido a mi casa. Entre con libertad y por su propia voluntad!
No hizo ningn movimiento para acercrseme, sino que permaneci inmvil como una estatua, como
si su gesto de bienvenida lo hubiese fijado en piedra. Sin embargo, en el instante en que traspuse el
umbral de la puerta, dio un paso impulsivamente hacia adelante y, extendiendo la mano, sujet la ma
con una fuerza que me hizo retroceder, un efecto que no fue aminorado por el hecho de que pareca
fra como el hielo; de que pareca ms la mano de un muerto que de un hombre vivo. Dijo otra vez:
- Bienvenido a mi casa. Venga libremente, vyase a salvo, y deje algo de la alegra que trae consigo.
La fuerza del apretn de mano era tan parecida a la que yo haba notado en el cochero, cuyo rostro no
haba podido ver, que por un momento dud si no se trataba de la misma persona a quien le estaba
hablando; as es que para asegurarme, le pregunt:
- El conde Drcula?
Se inclin cortsmente al responderme.
- Yo soy Drcula; y le doy mi bienvenida, seor Harker, en mi casa. Pase; el aire de la noche est fro,
y seguramente usted necesita comer y descansar.
 Dracula by Bram stoker

Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw
through the chinks the gleam of a coming light. Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the
clanking of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and
the great door swung back.
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from
head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He held in his hand an antique
silver lamp, in which the flame burned without a chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering
shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door.
The old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly gesture, saying in excellent English, but
with a strange intonation.
Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!
He made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his gesture of welcome
had fixed him into stone.
The instant, however, that I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding
out his hand grasped mine with a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by
the fact that it seemed cold as ice, more like the hand of a dead than a living man.
Again he said.
Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring!
The strength of the handshake was so much akin to that which I had noticed in the driver, whose face
I had not seen, that for a moment I doubted if it were not the same person to whom I was speaking.
So to make sure, I said interrogatively, Count Dracula?
He bowed in a courtly was as he replied, I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my
house. Come in, the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest.