Module 6-RC

Apellidos y nombre: ................................................................................................................................................

D.N.I.: .........................Grupo:.............. Docente del programa:.........................................................................

INSTRUCCIONES
1. El alumnado deberá tener disponible en todo momento a requerimiento del personal docente del
programa documento acreditativo de su identidad como D.N.I., pasaporte, permiso de conducir o,
en el caso del alumnado extranjero, tarjeta de residencia en vigor o en trámite o tarjeta de
estudiante emitida por la Subdelegación de Gobierno.

2. Para la realización de la prueba sólo está permitido el uso de papel sellado proporcionado por el
personal docente.

3. Al finalizar la prueba, el alumnado deberá entregar al personal docente tanto el cuadernillo de

examen completo como los folios en blanco sellados que pudieran haberle sido entregados.

4. Este cuadernillo de examen contiene las siguientes secciones:

• Comprensión escrita o Reading Passage.
• Comprensión oral o Listening Comprehension
• Uso de la lengua o General Language:
Parts A, B, C, and Pronunciation
• Expresión escrita o Writing Composition
• Hoja de respuestas o Answer Sheet

5. En las dos últimas hojas, Writing Composition y Answer Sheet, el alumnado deberá
consignar su nombre y apellidos, así como el número de su D.N.I. Sólo se considerarán
para su evaluación las respuestas anotadas por el alumnado en la hoja de respuestas o Answer
Sheet, por lo que sólo será en esta hoja donde el alumnado deberá escribir las respuestas de las
preguntas de cada sección a excepción del ejercicio de expresión escrita que se redactará en su
hoja específica.

6. Sólo se admitirán para su corrección los exámenes escritos con tinta azul o negra.

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 Reading Passage Module 6-RC

Good & Bad Reading Habits

Regarding reading process, there are some good habits which will increase a child’s reading comprehension.
These habits are based on a concept called active reading: if a child’s brain is frequently occupied in the act of
reading, the child will learn faster and more easily. The following reading habits are good strategies for active
reading.
Use the cover up. Many words together on the same page confuse many students. To resolve this, a small
card can be used to cover everything except the sentence that the child is reading. When they finish a
line, they move the card down, uncovering the next line.
Read aloud. Another way to help verbal processing can be reading aloud a text.
Use three-color highlighting. Take a yellow marker and highlight a sentence or some important words.
Highlights are a cheap and easy way to integrate visual memory into the reading process. Buy your child
three colours and have them assign a different colour to the main points, supporting details, and terms
of the reading.
Take margin notes. Irritable old librarians hate this habit, but books are supposed to be written on –children
should write notes, questions, comments, or draw pictures in the margins.
Write or talk out summaries. Making children take a few minutes to either write up a summary or talk it out
will help them retain the written information and ultimately help them remember it during an exam.
Consider reading notes. Reading notes are great for some kids, horrible for others. The problem with
reading notes is that for some kids, if they take notes, they’ll never finish the reading. By contrast,
reading notes can obviously help them retain and remember the written information. Children should
then be limited to writing only one sentence about a paragraph and summaries at the end of sections or
chapters.

To really eliminate a bad habit, you should replace it with a good one. The following are some of the bad
habits which tend to cause people to read slowly. Ask yourself whether you are guilty of any of the following:
Moving your lips when you read. Moving your lips slows you to a fast talking rate, about 150 words per
minute, which is much less than an ordinary reading speed. Put your fingers on your lips to stop the
motion.
Reading one word at a time. Do you think one word at a time, or in phrases? Slow readers tend to see only
one word at a time. Good readers will see several words at a time and their eyes will stop only three or
four times as they move across a page. Reading in idea-phrases speeds your reading and improves your
understanding of what you have read. Mark the phrases in the sentences of a passage, then practice
seeing more than one word at a time.

Changing reading habits is not easy, after all you have been reading that way for many years. It takes several weeks of
conscious effort in order to change bad reading habits.

Complete the sentence with the best option according to the information given in the text

1 The main benefit of acting reading is that...

a children have more fun when reading.
b children’s learning process will be better.
c children will be good readers when they become adult.

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 Reading Passage Module 6-RC

2 Thanks to the cover up technique…

a the child doesn’t get so confused at seeing many words together.
b the child isn’t distracted by the pictures on the book.
c the child clearly sees and follows the line he or she is reading.

3 The use of different colours for highlighting…

a makes reading texts more attractive for children.
b helps identify the different types of information in the text.
c develops the child’s artistic skills when reading.

4 Writing or drawing pictures on book margins…

a won’t make the child’s text comprehension better.
b will make the book unusable for future readers.
c is something that some people dislike.

5 Writing reading notes is a good idea, but…

a the child spends more time in writing than in reading.
b some children might not read the ending of the text.
c children don’t like studying the notes after reading..

6 A technique that will make you read faster is…

a trying to see two or three words at the same time.
b pronouncing the words in a sentence or phrase very clearly.
c reading several texts or books at the same time.

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 Listening comprehension Module 6-RC

A perfect and fashionable body. (You will listen to the recording three times)

A story

It is the 22nd century and the world is very different. With new technologies, people can have the bodies that
they want.

Complete the sentence with the best option according to the information given in the recording.

7 Mr Smith is interested in...

a a new nose.
b a surgery operation to look younger.
c a stomach reduction.

8 The suggestion that the lady makes...

a is not accepted by Mr Smith.
b is very original.
c is very popular this year.

9 Mr Smith’s wife sees her husband new acquisition…

a after he arrives home in the evening.
b when he phones her.
c when she saw a picture of it on her computer monitor.

10 According to Mr Smith, many years ago plastic surgery…

a used to be dangerous but not painful.
b was as dangerous as it is today.
c used to cost a lot of money.

11 The shop assistants at Bodyco used to be…

a nice and efficient.
b humans.
c not very friendly.

12 In the end of the story, Mr Smith...

a doesn’t accept any new hair for him.
b decided to buy something else.
c left the shop with a new nose.

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 General language Module 6-RC

Part A
Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
–Susan 13)….. (answer) emails since 9 o’clock: she 14)….. (already / answer) 30 emails!
–Really! I 15)….. (help) her tomorrow.
–She’ll be happy if you help her. Yesterday, when she 16)….. (leave) from work, she 17)….. (write) almost 50
emails.
–That’s incredible!
Part B
Rewrite the following sentences. Begin the new sentence with the given words.
18) Some children take reading notes when reading.
Reading notes...
19) Yesterday we saw a girl. John goes out with that girl.
Yesterday we saw the girl...
20) You see a very nice house and say: “How nice!”
You see a very nice house and say: “What...!”
21) Peter kissed Maggie and Maggie kissed Peter too.
Peter and Maggie...
22) A. I have just found a new and better job! / B: Good for you!
A. I have just found a new and better job! / B: Well...!
23) Yesterday Jimmy watched a film on TV from 20.00 h to 22.00. Thomas phoned Jimmy yesterday at 21.00.
Yesterday, when Jimmy...
Part C
Complete the sentences and the crossword with words related to the theatre and cinema:
26. ACROSS
S 28. 24. The Best Actor Oscar Award goes to the actor
25. T O with the best ___________ in a film.
R A V E R E V I E W S 25. (two words) A play receives __________, when
G A critics say it is fantastic.
E 27. C A S T
27. The ____________ is the group of actors and
I
actresses in a play or film.
24. O
P E R F O R M A N C E

26. The part of the theatre where the actor 28. If the public really loved the play, there is a
DOWN
plays is the _____________ standing ____________

Part D
Put the following words in order to make a complete and meaningful sentence.
29). (is / Mr / my / person / sisters / Smith / the / with / work)
30). A: My mother-in-law has just won the Nobel Price (No / ! / joking / must / ! / be / way / You)
31) Complete the intonation rule with the words in the box. an order – a warning – rising - falling
When we express ________, we use ________ intonation. When we express ________we use _______ intonation.
32) Which two words in bold are not homographs?
The shops which are close to my office close at 17.30.
John read a boring book last month. He hadn’t read such a boring book in his life.
Susan and I had a terrible row because I didn’t want to sit in the last row at the theatre.

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 Writing composition Module 6-RC

Full name: ..............................................................................................................................................................

I.D.: ...............................................................

Writing Composition. Interaction.–

Yesterday you read on the on-line edition of the Art World Today newspaper an article by a Gillian McIntyre, a
journalist specializing in abstract art, expressing wonderful comments on the painting called Background Thirty-Two, which
you can see below:

The technique, the composition and the use of colours are superb…

…The symbolism is just amazing…

…The impression it makes on the viewer can’t hardly be explained

with words…

The on-line edition of that newspaper allows readers to send their

own comments to the published pieces of news and articles. Write a
125-word comment to Ms McIntyre.

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 Answer sheet Module 6-RC

Full name: ..............................................................................................................................................................

I.D.: ...............................................................

Tache la casilla correcta.

Comprensión de Lectura Comprensión Oral

1. A B C 7. A B C
2. A B C 8. A B C
3. A B C 9. A B C
4. A B C 10. A B C
5. A B C 11. A B C
6. A B C 12. A B C

General Language

13. 23.

14.

15. 24.

16. 25.

17. 26.

18. 27.

28.

19. 29.

20. 30.

21. Pronunciation
31.

22. 32.

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