ISFDyT Nº 24 Fecha: Comisión: Turno: Nº Orden: Mark:

Examen de Suficiencia 2018 Alumno/a: _____

DNI:
10

NOTE: You cannot use the phone, dictionary or liquid corrector.

The composition (Exercise 2) must be original.
Please do not write in the margin. It will be used for corrections (by the teachers)

1-Read the following text, which is the beginning of a narrative, and answer the questions:
The Maligned Wolf

The forest was my home. I lived there and I cared about it. I tried to keep it neat and clean.

Then one sunny day, while I was cleaning up some rubbish a camper had left behind, I heard
some footsteps. I leapt behind a tree and saw a rather plain girl coming down the path carrying a
basket. I was suspicious of this little girl right away because she was dressed so strangely – all in red,
and her head covered up so it seemed like she didn’t want people to know who she was. Naturally I
stopped to check her out. I asked her who she was, where she was going, where she had come from
and all that. She answered everything carelessly and even gave me a song and dance about going to
her grandmother’s house with a basket of lunch. She appeared to be a basically honest person, but she
looked suspicious. So I decided to teach her a lesson.

I let her go on her way, but I ran ahead to her grandmother’s house. When I saw that nice old woman I
told her what had happened, and she agreed that her granddaughter needed to learn a lesson. So she
hid under the bed...

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2p. a) Explain the meaning of the title of the story (do not translate; explain it in connection with the
story).

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2p. b) Why did the wolf and the grandmother wanted to teach the little girl a lesson? What is the
lesson about?

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1 p.
 c) What do you think the expression ‘she gave me a song and dance’ means?
- the little girl danced for the wolf
- the little girl told him what sounded like an excuse
- the little girl was dancing in the forest when the wolf stopped her

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6p.
2- Read the text on the previous page and continue the story from here (make sure you write a
narrative, 10 to 12 lines):

... she agreed that her granddaughter needed to learn a lesson. So she hid under the bed...