Matura English case studies
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Egzamin maturalny z języka angielskiego w Formule 2023 to egzamin państwowy przeprowadzany przez Centralną Komisję Egzaminacyjną (CKE) wraz z okręgowymi komisjami egzaminacyjnymi. CKE prowadzi go jako odrębną ścieżkę obok egzaminu w Formule 2015 - obie formuły mają własne sekcje „O egzaminie”, „Podstawa programowa”, „Informatory”, „Arkusze”, „Harmonogram, komunikaty i informacje”, „Wyniki, sprawozdania”, „Materiały dodatkowe / Arkusze diagnostyczne” oraz „Archiwum”. The Matura English case studies are 5 cases and about 3,546 words.
1Two transformations, three minutes, four constraints
Marta is 40 minutes into the rozszerzona paper with six minutes left for two transformation items. Each answer must use the given word unchanged, in two to four words, and must keep the meaning of the original sentence.
728 words, about 4 min2The complaint after the 'but': listening for attitude, not content
Midway through the rozszerzona listening section, candidates hear a four-minute interview with Ania Krawczyk, who retrained as a chef at 34. Each recording is played twice.
737 words, about 4 min3Impressive packaging: irony and attitude in a review
Candidates read this extract from a review of the popular-science book 'The Salt of the Earth': The book arrives with an impressive apparatus: forty pages of notes, a glossary and an endorsement from a television chef. We are told on the first page that the author spent 'the better part of a decade' on it - a claim that the ninety-two items in the bibliography do not entirely support.
667 words, about 3 min4270 words, 35 minutes: cutting an article without losing the task
Tomek has 35 minutes left on the rozszerzona paper and 270 words written for task 2: an article of 200–250 words for the school magazine describing a local initiative that has improved your area and encouraging readers to get involved. His draft has four paragraphs: an opening on the city's bike-share scheme with the figure 'over 60,000 journeys a month'; a second paragraph of numbers on traffic and air quality, including one statistic he half-remembers; a third describing the docking station at the end of his street, which he has never used; and a closing line, 'So what are you waiting for?
722 words, about 4 min5Real words, wrong answers: marking word formation
Pani Ewa is marking the word-formation task from her class's mock rozszerzona paper. Each gap takes one word derived from the prompt in capitals, correctly spelt, which fits the gap grammatically and in meaning.
692 words, about 3 min