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Materiale didattico di supporto per la certificazione B 2
Esperto: Prof.ssa Joanne Stellato
a. s. 2013-2014
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Esperto prof.ssa Joanne Stellato
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EXAMPLES OF PAST TRINITY EXAMS
Integrated Skills in English
ISE II
This examination paper contains two tasks. You must complete both tasks.
Time allowed: 2 hours
Use your own words as far as possible. No marks for answers copied from the reading texts.
What does your pet tell us about you?
It used to be true that specific skills and experience would help you find that perfect job. Not now: in a
competitive and psychologically aware world, there are other personality characteristics that matter
more — such as what pets you have!
Pressured by competition and their own success, the popular search engine Google has created an
automated way to search for new employees who are fully appropriate as well as academically highachieving.
In a pilot project, the 100,000 people who fill in online job applications for Google each month will be
asked to complete a complicated questionnaire exploring their attitudes, behaviour, personality and
biographical details going back to their school days.
The questions range from whether applicants have ever set a world record, to whether their workspace
is messy or tidy or what magazines they subscribe to. Answers are studied by Google’s mathematicians
to calculate a score meant to predict how well a person will fit into the organisation’s chaotic and
competitive culture.
Psychometric tests are already used by more traditional companies to select workers, but they are
unheard of in a company like Google, which is built on a belief in individual talent. The online
questionnaire is based on the answers to 300 questions sent out last summer to every employee at the
head office in California’s Silicon Valley. Some questions were factual: What programming languages
are you familiar with? What internet mailing lists do you subscribe to?
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Other questions, however, tried to establish personality and behavioural characteristics: Have you ever
tutored another person?
‘We wanted to cast a very wide net,’ said Laszlo Bock, Google’s Vice-President for People Operations.
‘It is not unusual to walk into our office and bump into dogs. Maybe people who own dogs have some
personality trait that is useful.’
(Source: Adapted from The Observer)
Task 2 — Writing task
‘It is better for children to grow up in the countryside than in a big city.’
Write an article (approximately 250 words) for a lifestyle magazine, saying to what extent you agree or
disagree with this statement, supporting your viewpoint with relevant examples.
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Integrated Skills in English
ISE II
This examination paper contains two tasks. You must complete both tasks.
Time allowed: 2 hours
Use your own words as far as possible. No marks for answers copied from the reading texts.
Task 1 — Reading into writing task
Read the text below. Then, in your own words, write an article (approximately 250 words) for an
educational publication:
i) summarising the advantages and disadvantages Judith has found when learning Greek at the age of 61
and
ii) describing your own foreign language learning experiences and your feelings about them.
How to keep your mind active
At 61, Judith Magill decided to take seriously the advice given to over-sixties: keep your mind active.
Do crosswords. Learn a new language. This is because mental challenges strengthen brain connections
and keep us sharp.
Judith says, “I decided to learn Greek, which is rather like training for a marathon when a doctor
recommended a short walk each day. Greek appealed to me because it brought back memories of
happy holidays in my childhood and because it is extremely difficult and I was looking for a challenge.
Having to relearn your ABC, or rather alpha, beta, gamma, is like being four years old again. Four-yearolds, though, do not have anything to unlearn; starting, after 57 years or so, to pronounce ‘u’ as ‘I’ and
‘w’ as ‘o’ is not easy.
Writing is equally difficult, and so is the grammar. In English you can say ‘the big dog’ without any
problem. In Greek there are fifteen different ways of saying ‘the’, eleven ways of saying ‘big’ and three
ways of saying ‘dog’. As for vocabulary, it’s much more difficult to remember new words than when I
was 11 and learning French.
But my big advantage is that I have plenty of time. As well as an evening class once a week, I can sit
down during the day and devote half an hour to Greek. Or I can combine physical and mental exercise
as I march along the country lanes. Do I feel better for all this mental effort? It is certainly rewarding to
make your brain do something new. There is stimulus without stress, which is the ideal combination. It
feels good to be a pupil again. What delight when I got a top grade for writing about my hobby and
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when my team came top in the quiz! And I have a marvellous excuse for a holiday in Crete next
summer.”
(Source: Adapted from The Times, 3 March 2007)
Task 2 — Writing task
Write a description (approximately 250 words) of your favourite national customs for an English
magazine. Describe the origin and history of these customs and say whether you think they will
continue in the future.
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Integrated Skills in English
ISE II
This examination paper contains two tasks. You must complete both tasks.
Time allowed: 2 hours
Use your own words as far as possible. No marks for answers copied from the reading texts.
Task 1 — Reading into writing task
Read the text below. Then, in your own words, write an article (approximately 250 words) for a
sociology publication:
i) summarising what it means to be a ‘freegan’ and
ii) expressing your own feelings about the values and ideals which freegans believe are important.
Who are the freegans?
On a Friday evening in May, the day after New York University’s class of 2007 graduated, about fifteen
men and women assembled in front of a student dormitory. They had come to take advantage of the
university’s end-of-the-year clear-out, when students’ unwanted items are loaded into big rubbish bins.
According to one New York resident who was there that night, New York University’s well-off student
body produces unusually profitable findings.
One man dug deep and discovered a television. Another found a beautiful painting of a Mediterranean
harbour. A few of those present had come across the scene by chance, but most were there in response
to a posting on the website www.freegan.info.
The website provides information and listings for the small but growing subculture of anticonsumerists who call themselves ‘freegans’ — the term comes from vegans, the vegetarians who don’t
use or eat animal products — is the closest thing their movement has to an official voice. It serves as a
guide to living, and making a home, in a world they see as hostile to their values.
Freeegans live off consumer waste in an effort to minimise their support of corporations and their
impact on the planet, and to distance themselves from what they see as out of control consumerism.
They go through supermarket rubbish and eat the slightly damaged produce or just-out-of-date canned
goods that are thrown out every day.
They dress in other people’s old clothes and furnish their homes with what they have found on the
street or from freecycle.com where users post unwanted items. Freeganism dates from the mid-nineties,
and grew out of the anti-globalisation and environmental movements.
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There are freegans all over the world. The one who organised the New York University event found
several half-eaten jars of peanut butter in the rubbish bin. ‘It’s a never-ending supply,’ she said.
(Source: Adapted from the Observer, 1 July 2007)
Task 2 — Writing task
Write a story (approximately 250 words) for a writing competition about two people who used to
disagree about almost everything but eventually became very close friends.
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Integrated Skills in English
ISE II
This examination paper contains two tasks. You must complete both tasks.
Time allowed: 2 hours
Use your own words as far as possible. No marks for answers copied from the reading texts.
Task 1 — Reading into writing task
Read the text below and then, in your own words, write a report (approximately 250 words) for an
international business organisation:
i) summarising the problems that foreign business people may have when working in India and China
and
ii) explaining what difficulties you would expect to find if you had to travel regularly to another
country for work.
The business people who commute between continents
As many UK companies move their manufacturing base to China and their administration departments
to India, so business travel to these destinations is growing. Many British employees are travelling back
and forth to ensure the process goes smoothly.
For some, becoming a frequent flyer is all in a day’s work. For others, commuting between continents
and between very different cultures and working environments is a tough exercise. ‘It takes a while to
get used to what passes for ‘normal’ in India’, says Paul Jeynes, who works for a computer company in
England. Jeynes has been working in Bangalore for two weeks every month since last November.
‘It is a very different working environment and you have to be very sensitive to the way they work.
There are a lot of rules employees have to follow, that you don’t get in the UK. This is due to what they
call ‘dignity of employment’, based on everyone having a place in society according to what they do.
When I am over there, for example, I can’t go and make myself a cup of coffee, or pick my printouts
up from the printer. There’s someone to do that for you.’
‘The work ethic in China also takes getting used to’, says Joy Jarrett, who is an account manager at a
children’s clothing supplier. ‘Most of the factory workers live in dormitories on site and they send a
large proportion of their wages back to their families.’
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Ms Jarrett adds ‘The working parent ethic is also different. People tend to have their children quite
young and then the grandparents look after them and bring them up while the parents are away
working. There is a different pace of work in China, too. They work much longer hours, but the pace is
a lot slower. There is no sense of urgency at all and it is really hard getting staff to meet deadlines,
which I find really stressful.’
(Source: Adapted from the Guardian)
Task 2 — Writing task
Write a short story (approximately 250 words) for a writing competition that begins or ends with the
words, ‘If I hadn’t been in exactly the right place at exactly the right time, I wouldn’t have had this
wonderful opportunity.
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