Provincia de Salta Ministerio de Educacién, Clencia y Tecnologia iubsecretaria de Politicas Socioeducativas Instituto de Idiomas de Salta B2 Mock Exam November 2022 Ustening You will hear a restaurant chef talking about his work. For questions 1-10. complete the sentences. c = Jinsteas of a chet. tthe worst thmg about working in the hate! was the _ rad. He vrent to work in France because he knew 2 7» in Paris. mos cooked meals tor 6 |and cther farmous peopte. his first job in tate [_ In nis own restal — Taal. Pacen.————— Max is partcviany proud C1 Ad fresh restaurant. He says that everything in his restaurant is cceieneeeeeeneepeeEeRTERETIETNIISOE S| cooxed for the customer. Sn ene occasion. all the, [AO] was stolen on its way to the restaurant. Part 2 Escaneado con CamScanner1 You overhear a man in a restaurant Gaag to a coteagee wee ean, + You averear evo pacaia taking ina Wino ie ro? docier's wating room A apolie officer low Soes ine man tet now? ~ B adoctor 6 23%, © asports coach aa ete 2 younearwoman thing ard § ou nara young weman hing e jend about 9 cross-country race. 1era is she going now? wnat do mey agree about? 1 A Rihehcepial ~ A He should lake up sienna ofl cinema B He shoule continue to run ery - © tothe shops cay : 3 You near a oatient tateng cn the ae aE phone. face. q Wrat does he disike about the 6 You owwinees a veeran on the chor nosptal? wry's sho cating? - A the quality oftine food =A to compiain atout something 1B the amount of noise. 1B to mote an appointment CS toask for intdemation READING 4. Read the article. Choose from the paragraphs (A-F) the one which fits each gap (1-5). There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. A\n spite of this, Jamie continues with his own successful career as a high-profile chef. B These twin objectives led to him opening a restaurant called ‘Fifteen’ specially to train young chefs. C Basically, it requires a great deal of hard work and commitment, D Without this, Fifteen would just be another restaurant and without the top-class food, the charity would be just another youth training centre unconnected to the real world of business. E To qualify, candidates have to be between sixteen and twenty-four and not in employment, education or training. F Michael, himself one of the first graduates, won't put up with any nonsense and hates to see young people wasting their opportunities, so he expects high standards. Escaneado con CamScannerMore than a restaurant Famous TV chef Jamie Oliver left school aged sixteen to work in his family's restaurant and later was given his own cookery show. The programme was an instant success and was followed by a best-selling cookbook and more TV series. However, Oliver wasn't only interested in being a celebrity. His aim was to give disadvantaged young people with few job or social opportunities professional training, plus the chance of a successful career. (1) Since 2002, over 100 apprentice chefs have graduated and gone on to work in first-rate restaurants. There is a lot of competition to gain a place as a trainee chef. Each year, up to 100 would-be apprentices are interviewed. (2) Many lack confidence, and in extreme cases, their parents or grandparents have applied on their behalf. But instead of looking for the most employable people, interviewers at Fifteen are looking for the least employable ones. They identify the candidates most in need by finding out why things haven't worked out for them and assessing their potential. Sixty candidates are selected initially, and they attend what's called a ‘bootcamp’ where they do character assessment exercises. Half are then selected for a four-month college course in catering where they learn basic food theory and practical skills. Then a final selection is made and approximately eighteen to twenty new apprentices enter Fifteen’s kitchens each spring. So, what does training in Fifteen’s kitchens involve? (3), Apprentices get up every day at 7 a.m. and work in the restaurant from 8 a.m. till 11 p.m. Two days a week are spent at college so that they can obtain a qualification in catering. Three days are spent in the restaurant working and then there is a ‘sourcing’ day once a week, when they go to food suppliers and leam about how food is grown or raised. For many of them, this is their first time outside their usual environment so the experience of using high-quality ingredients is a real eye-opener. There is no doubt that being a Fifteen apprentice is challenging, but it works for most of them. The act of taking a simple, uncooked ingredient and turning it into something special has a magical appeal and the apprentices get a real sense of achievement every day. Even so, between three and six fall to complete the training most years and this is partly down to the man in charge of the restaurant. (4). Not all the trainers have such a strict approach. They point out that, despite some apprentices being immature and not always having a positive attitude, the main purpose of the scheme is to help people and give them a start in life. Not many people realise Fifteen is a charity. It’s a socially responsible business which raises its own money and puts all profit back into the training programme. (5), With so many graduates now working as chefs, Jamie Oliver can be proud of what he has achieved with Fifteen. Escaneado con CamScannerpart 3 Use of English 7 | B2_| Amazon ~ A Global Technology Giant amazon —__ , Read the text andl via Wikimedia Commons choose the best option for each blank. Liu049 Amazon is one of the world's largest technology companies. It started (1) online bookstore in the middle of the 1980s and has grown (2) past decades. as an over the Today, Amazon sells almost everything, from CDs and DVDs to sportswear and electrical (3) ‘The company also produces its own tablets and e-readers and lets users upload their own photos and other files to the Amazon-based cloud. Amazon.com was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, It first (4) out of a small garage in Washington state. (5) a year Amazon offered hundreds of thousands of books. People could not only order books from an online catalogue but also write their own (6) In 1997 Amazon.com started (7) shares on the NASDAQ stock exchange. By 2000 it had made over a billion dollars in sales. As time went on Amazon.com gradually grew. It bought many of its (8) and today cooperates with other companies and lets them sell their products via the Amazon website. In 2007 Amazon went a step (9) It surprised the electronics world with a revolutionary eBook reader, the Kindle, which today dominates the market. In 2011 a tablet computer followed, the Amazon Fire. In the following years the company started selling music downloads and videos on demand, Amazon customers can (10) everything they buy on their private cloud and download it anytime they want Today, the company has over 300 milion active (11) . Its net profitis over 14 billion dollars. Although Amazon is the biggest internet retailer in the world itis often criticized, Economic experts say that Amazon is turing the Intemet (12) intoa monopoly. Others point (13) bad working conditions for Amazon (14) Escaneado con CamScannerfa of [- _ out up h 2 steadily gradual firm 3 machines equipments - a pieces appliances ran functioned operated worked § tan During While inside 6 analysis checks reviews critics 7 operating dealing changing trading 8 rivalry ‘opponents Tivals competition 9 further farther more beyond 40 retail store deposit stock Ft customers clients purchase traders 412 profession economy | company business 13 out up at in 14 employ employees employers employment PART 3 WRITING: Task 1 - Write an essay in response to one of these questions: > Isit a good idea for teenagers to have part-time jobs while they are still in school? Write about earning pocket money and having less tome for studying. Escaneado con CamScannerVVVVV Poverty is the cause of crime Is learning at home better than at school? Government should protect then environment? Travel can be a real eye opener? Write your answer in 160-210 words in an appropriate style. Consider the lay out of an opinion essay : Introduction Arguments in favor Arguments against Conclusion Escaneado con CamScanner