Extremadura PAU Foreign Language II - English case studies
Extremadura PAU Foreign Language II - English · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Extremadura PAU (Prueba de Acceso a la Universidad), often called Selectividad or EBAU, is the university entrance examination for students in the region of Extremadura, Spain. The Foreign Language II: English paper assesses whether you can understand and produce English at a level suitable for university study. The Extremadura PAU Foreign Language II - English case studies are 5 cases and about 2,272 words.
1Reading item 1: honey, grants and the wrong inference
An Extremadura PAU candidate is working through the reading-comprehension section of a mock paper. The text is an original article on a school project in Trujillo: 'Last September, twelve secondary schools in Cáceres province installed wooden insect hotels on their roofs.
508 words, about 3 min2Use of English: would, used to and the stative trap
During a PAU-style grammar transformation drill, a candidate has to rewrite six sentences without changing their meaning. Item 4 reads: 'My grandmother had a small house by the river.' The required beginning is 'My grandmother...' and the candidate must use 'would'.
479 words, about 2 min3Written production: cutting 214 words to 180 without losing the argument
A candidate in the written-production section has 30 minutes to write an opinion essay of 150-180 words on this prompt: 'Some schools ban mobile phones during lessons. Do you agree?' The draft is 214 words.
416 words, about 2 min4Punctuation and cohesion: the run-on excursion sentence
An Extremadura PAU candidate submits this sentence in the writing task: 'In spite of the rain was heavy, the excursion went ahead, however most students forgot their boots, they had to borrow some from the sports hall.' The teacher also finds two more problems in the same paragraph: 'the 1990's' written with an apostrophe and 'well-known' written without a hyphen when it precedes a noun ('a well known author'). The candidate says the sentence 'sounds fine' because each idea is clear.
476 words, about 2 min5Use of English: -ed/-ing adjectives and the so/such frame
A candidate is completing a PAU use-of-English gap-fill. Item 1: 'The concert was so that half the audience left early.' The options are 'bored' and 'boring'.
393 words, about 2 min