ESTO ES UNA RECOPILACIÓN DE LO QUE RECUERDAN NUESTROS ALUMNOS DE LO QUE LES

CAYÓ EN EL EXAMEN. COMO SUELEN REPETIRSE, NO ESTÁ DE MÁS HACERLOS. HE RECREADO

LOS EJERCICIOS LO MEJOR QUE HE PODIDO. ALGUNOS HAN QUEDADO MÁS COMPLETOS QUE
OTROS ESTO ES UN MODELO ANTIGUO, PERO LAS PARTES 1, 2 Y 4 SIGUEN CAYENDO, ASÍ
QUE ES IMPORTANTE QUE LO HAGAS.

1. FILL IN THE FOLLOWING FORM

DECIR A UN AMIGO CÓMO LLEGAR A TU CASA (posiblemete el mismo que en el reading 2)

2. ORDER: SIMILAR A ESTO:

1. Amsterdam is one of the most beautiful cities in the world

2. It’s formed by a large number of canals, more than 100 kilometres
3. Therefore, water has always been very relevant there
4. People like the main canals which are Prinsengracht, Herengracht, and Keizersgracht
5. Navigating the canals by boat is a great way to spend the day in Amsterdam
6. Another way of visiting this city is by bike, visiting its squares and shops
7. If the weather is nice, you can enjoy this city very much

8. FILL IN THE GAPS:

ASSAM TEA
Assam tea is a variety of black tea made from the leaves of the plant Camellia Sinensis. After fresh
Assam tea leaves are harvested in the (forest), and they undergo a fermentation process. Tea workers
struggle to get the tea from the leaves, squeezing them.

It’s traditionally grown in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, one of the largest tea-producing
regions in the world. It (became) popular in 1820 when the British East India Company began large-scale
production of tea in Assam. Because of its naturally high caffeine content, Assam tea is frequently
marketed as a breakfast tea, although it can be drunk at any time of the day. Some experts recommend
adding some milk.

FORCED

FOREST

BECAME

9. TITLES: COMERCIO E HISTORIA TULIPANES HOLANDESES

THE DUTCH TULIPS TRADE

ECHA UN VISTAZO A ESTE ARTÍCULO PORQUE TRATA DE ESO Y TE VENDRÁ BIEN PARA COGER
VOCABULARIO Y ENTENDER EL TEXTO EN EL EXAMEN: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44067178

HEMOS ENCONTRADO ESTE TEXTO SIMILAR:

Read the text below. Some of its sentences A-H have been removed. Put them in their correct places.
There is one extra sentence you don´t need to use.

TULIPMANIA

1. Greed, desire, anguish and devotion all played a part in the development of the tulip from a wild
flower of Central Asia and the Caucasus to the worlwide phenomenon it is today. When
Merchants first bought it to the flower markets of Europe, it caused a sensation. Only the rise of
football as a spectator sport could draw people´s interest away from the thousands of intensely
competitive tulip growers´ societies that existed in England in the nineteenth century. (0-H)
2. Holland was the setting for perhaps the most mysterious of these events. What might be called
“Tulipmania” engulfed the country in 1630s and has puzzled historians and economists ever
since. Before tulipmania took hold, a bulb sold for 46 guilders. Within a month, the price had
risen from 60 guilders to 1,800 guilders. At the height of the fever, one bulb could sell for the
equivalent of 15 years´ wages for the average Amsterdam bricklayer.(1-………………………..)
3. It was partly a matter of timing. The Dutch East India company had been set up in 1602, and this
combined with Amsterdam´s increasing importance as a port, marked the beginning of an era of
great prosperity to the Dutch. Merchants got rich and so did lawyers, doctors, pharmacists and
jewellers. (2-…………………..)
4. And the flower itself had a unique trick that added dangerously to its other attractions. A plain
read tulip might emerge the following spring looking completely different with its petals
feathered and flamed in intricate patterns of white and deep red. Though tulip lovers of the
time did not know it, these “breaks” were caused by a virus spred by insects. It was not until de
1920s and the invention of the electron microscrope that the mystery was solved.
5. Some, taking the advice of contemporary alchemists, laid powdered paint on their tulip beds,
expecting the colours miraculously to affect the flowers. It was no stranger than the alchemists
´own attempts to turn base metal into gold. In fact, it was rather better, for while the alchemists
consistently failed, the tulip growers occasionally succeded. They just did not know why.
6. Connoisseurs had always rated “broken” flowers more highly than plain-coloured ones. For that
reason, the broken flowers were the ones that commanded outrageous prices. But the virus was
the joker in the tulip bed. (5-……………………..)Virus-weakened tulips did not reproduce as freely
and vigorously as virus-free bulbs, and that too, increased their value.
7. Though other European countries experienced similar bouts of tulipmania, the Dutch soon came
to lead the world in tulip cultivation. (6-……………………….) The Dutchman Carolus Clusius created
a Tulip collection so fine that he couldn´t bring himself to sell it. Inevitably the fame of his
collection spread and it was eventually stolen. As soon as the thieves had the tulips, they
planted the seeds to produce more.
 8. (7-………………..)People who were unable to afford tulip bulbs commissioned paintings by masters
whose works were considered cheap substitutes for the real flowers. Jan van Huysum, the great
master of Dutch flower painting, could rarely charge more than 5,000 guilders for a canvas, but
at an auction in 1637, at the height of Dutch tulipmania, a trader paid 4,000 guilders (the
equivalent of a year´s wages) for a single bulb.

A.Because its cause was not shown, its effects could not be controlled.

B. In seventeenth-century Holland, books were often illustrated with engravings of garden flowers and
were purchased at a cost far less than that of bulbs.

C. How had this bizarre situation come about?

D. It could change colour.

E. One possible explanation for this domination on a famous theft.

F. The tulip, which had only recently been introduced, became the ultimate status symbol in much the
same way as a fast sports car might be today.

G. Early growers had a thousand theories on the best way to bring about the magic break.

H. There is no denying that the flower has had an eventful history full of mystery and drama.

I. Tulipmania is supposed to have ended when the state finally intervened to bring an end to the three
years of frenzied trading in the flower.