EVALUACIÓN DE BACHILLERATO

PARA EL ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD (EBAU)

FASE GENERAL
CURSO 2019–2020
MATERIA: Primera Lengua Extranjera II: Inglés

Convocatoria: MOCK EXAM (2)

Esta prueba consta de dos opciones (A y B). El alumnado tiene que optar por una de ellas y
responder a todas las preguntas de la misma.

OPCIÓN A

E-sports and the rise of the ‘millennial athlete’

The Dojo is New Zealand’s first e-sports training facility. Once a junk room, the Dojo is home to Breakaway
E-sports. The room has 10 state-of-the-art gaming PCs, 10 PlayStation 4 Pros and a coaching station all set
up in a futuristic, blue-lit studio.
The studio isn’t a place, however, where kids stare at screens for hours. Instead, the Dojo markets itself as a
5 competitive sports environment, where players are taught to communicate, work together and think
strategically. The Dojo is the training centre for some of New Zealand’s best “athletes” in their field.
Daniel Saedian, better known by his screen name ‘DanBanter,’ spends up to six of his 20 hours of weekly
training time at the Dojo playing Tekken 7.
E-sports training takes more than pushing a bunch of buttons and hoping that does enough damage. Saedian
10 has learned all the characters’ attack styles, individual moves and combos. His focus is intense. “At this
stage, I can’t have it as my main career, but later on, if I make a name for myself globally, then it could
work,” Saedian said. “I've definitely thought about how much I could earn.”
A career in e-sports wasn’t considered realistic less than five years ago, but today, professional gaming teams
are making as much as some Premier League and NBA players. Top international gamers are earning more
15 than $2 million a year from prize money, while some professional teams have shared winnings of up to $20
million a year.
The prospect of making a career of playing video games may seem ridiculous to some, but Breakaway E-
sports general manager, Freddie Tresidder, says the sport and lifestyle of a pro gamer is misunderstood.
“There is a huge difference between gaming and e-sports,” explains Tresidder. “Gaming is what I do at the
20 end of a work day when I sit down in front of my computer to relax for half an hour before I go to bed,
whereas these guys are training. I compare it to kicking a ball around in the park with your mates at the end
of the day and training with a football team. It’s a totally different dynamic. I wouldn’t call Daniel a gamer
– his approach to how he trains is like an athlete.”
Fragment adapted from nzherald.com, January 2019

1. Say whether the following sentences are TRUE or FALSE according to the text. COPY the evidence
from the text. No marks will be given without the evidence. (1.5 points)
a) The Dojo wasn’t always an e-sports training centre.
b) Some people find it hard to believe that you can earn a living as a gamer.
c) One professional gamer in a team can earn as much as $20 million a year.
2. ANSWER the questions below. COPY no more than 10 words and/or a number from the text to
answer each question. (1.5 points)

a) Which game does Saedian play for nearly a third of his training time?
b) What skills do players learn at the Dojo?
c) What position does Freddie Tresidder hold in Breakaway E-sports?

3. Find a word or phrase in the text that means... (1 point)

a) installed/organised (lines 1-10) c) now/for the moment (lines 10-23)

b) wanting to win (lines 1-10) d) while on the contrary (lines 10-23)

4. READ this conversation and COMPLETE your part. Write the numbers (1-6) and complete each
sentence on your exam paper. (1.5 points)

A friend of yours has lost her phone

Sarah: Oh! Hello, have you seen my phone?

You: No, I haven’t. (1) _________
Sarah: I think I have lost it.
You: Relax, you must (2) ________
Sarah: That’s the first place I looked, but it is not in my room.
You: (3) _________?
Sarah: I looked in the drawers, under the bed, in all my pockets... I am worried sick.
You: I see what you mean. You have already lost a phone this year, haven’t you?
Sarah: Yes, it is the second one. My parents are going to ground me forever!
You: Why (4) _____________?
Sarah: Are you joking? I cannot do that. I cannot lie my way out of this. Not again.
You: Yes, (5) _________________
Sarah: I know, I have to be sincere this time. Can I borrow your phone to send them a message?
You: Of course, I have it here in my bag. Wait! I have two phones here. (6) _____________

5. Read the following situations and WRITE what you would say in each one to show that you
understand the context of the situation. Write between 10 and 25 words. (1.5 points)

a) You are at a friend’s house and you are having lunch. Compliment his parents for the meal.
b) You and your friends are making plans for the weekend. Make a suggestion.
c) Someone asks you: “Where is the nearest supermarket?” Give directions.

6. WRITE a composition of about 120-150 words on the following topic (3 points):

What could be the advantages and disadvantages of including e-sports as a subject in secondary education?
 EVALUACIÓN DE BACHILLERATO
PARA EL ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD (EBAU)
FASE GENERAL
CURSO 2019–2020
MATERIA: Primera Lengua Extranjera II: Inglés

Convocatoria: MOCK EXAM (2)

Esta prueba consta de dos opciones (A y B). El alumnado tiene que optar por una de ellas y
responder a todas las preguntas de la misma.

OPCIÓN B

Families Have Evolved. Now Language Must Too

It is a shortcoming of the English language that it has relatively few words to describe family relationships:
father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother, aunt, uncle, cousin – occasionally
with a prefix such as “step” or “half”.
We have had general access to computers in daily life for only a few decades, yet the new terms we’ve
5 learned to help us accommodate that change are omnipresent: email, pdf, smartphone, texting, Googling,
emojis, and so on.
This emergence of vocabulary reflects how easily discourse assimilates widespread changes in everyday life.
And yet for families, the lexicon remains restricted. As a consequence, when we refer to new modes of being
related to one another, we tend to compare them to the traditional ones. Thus, we define today’s increasing
10 variety of families in terms of their capacity to imitate the traditional family.
My husband and I are often asked whether our son George’s *surrogate mother is “like an aunt”. We are
asked which of us is “the mom”. People will also ask my husband and me which of us is our son’s “real
father” and what is our relationship to our son’s surrogate – who is a beloved member of our family. She is
not exactly my son’s mother, because she is not a primary parent, but neither is she a special friend – the
15 word friend denoting a category too indeterminate for who we are, especially in the age of Facebook.
Every time I explain the structure of my family, I have to go over these complex relationships in a paragraph
at least, because there are no words for them.
In our euphoric acceptance of the nuclear family, we are told that a child “needs” a mother and a father, and
that it is problematical for a child to be “missing” one of those classical roles, or to look to more than two
20 people for guidance and reassurance. But, families have evolved. Therefore, “relatives” should be an
encompassing word, and each family should have the right to define it to suit their own reality.
Let’s have a fiesta of new words for these new forms of relatedness, ones that not only refer to traditional
roles, and a society that recognises them. We need to acknowledge that families come in multiple shapes
and sizes and that caregiving involves more than a biological obligation.
Fragment adapted from The Guardian, April 2017
*surrogate:a woman who agrees to become pregnant and give birth to a child for another person who will
become the parent of the child.

1. Say whether the following sentences are TRUE or FALSE according to the text. COPY the evidence
from the text. No marks will be given without the evidence. (1.5 points)
a) New family structures are characterized using language that describes the relationships we are already
familiar with.
b) George’s surrogate mother is considered a good family friend.
c) In general, languages tend to adapt to transformations in society.
2. ANSWER the questions below. COPY no more than 10 words and/or a number from the text to
answer each question. (1.5 points)

a) Why is it so difficult for the author to describe his family relationships?

b) What is a drawback of the English language?
c) Apart from new words for new kinds of family relationships, what else is needed?

3. Find a word or phrase in the text that means... (1 point)

a) found in many places (lines 1-13) c) advice (lines 14-24)

b) someone you care for greatly (lines 1-13) d) appreciates (lines 14-24)

4. READ this conversation and COMPLETE your part. Write the numbers (1-6) and complete each
sentence on your exam paper. (1.5 points)

You and your mum are talking about summer plans

Your mum: Morning! How do you feel on your first day of vacation?
You: Great, relaxed! By the way, (1) ____________________?
Your mum: We don’t know yet, but dad and I have been talking about taking a digital detox holiday.
You: “Digital detox”?! (2) ____________________________
Your mum: Come on! You belong to the digital generation and you don’t know what digital detox is?
It’s simply about spending time unplugged from electronic devices. No smartphone, no
social media…
You: Are you kidding? (3) ___________________________
Your mum: You’re always complaining about dad and I being connected to work and we complain
about you being connected to your social networks, so it’s time for connecting to real-life.
You: But, mum. Are you serious? (4) ___________________
Your mum: It’s not so weird. Many celebrities, like Ed Sheeran or Selena Gomez, have taken a break
from social media to live real experiences.
You: And (5) ___________________________?
Your mum: Well, I’m sure there’re lots of fun things we can do without gadgets. It’s just something we
have to plan together. Why don’t you give it a chance?
You: OK, I’ll see what I can find on the web. Oops, sorry, (6) ___________
Your mum: I didn’t say we were getting rid of all electronic devices, only that we need time to have
real-life, face-to-face connections.

5. Read the following situations and WRITE what you would say in each one to show that you
understand the context of the situation. Write between 10 and 25 words. (1.5 points)

a) You want to study a degree your parents think doesn’t have many professional opportunities. Try to
convince them it is a good option.
b) You were going to pick up your friend early in the morning but you overslept and are late. Apologise
and make an excuse.
c) You and your classmates think your English class is boring. Give your teacher some ideas to make it
more enjoyable.

6. WRITE a composition of about 120-150 words on the following topic (3 points):

Family relationships sometimes get quite complicated. What do you think we can do to improve family
relationships?