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Apruébalo B2 First

Multiple matching: parte 7 del B2 First

10 preguntas · 1 punto cada una · cuenta en Reading

En la parte 7 tienes un texto largo dividido en secciones, o varios textos cortos, y 10 preguntas. Para cada pregunta buscas la sección que contiene esa información. No hace falta leer todo con la misma atención: hace falta saber buscar.

Qué te piden

Son 10 preguntas. Cada acierto vale 1 punto: 10 puntos en total, dentro de Reading. El material puede ser un texto largo dividido en secciones o hasta 6 textos cortos. Una misma sección puede ser la respuesta de varias preguntas. Las preguntas no siguen el orden del texto: la respuesta de cualquiera puede estar en cualquier sección.

Tiempo orientativo

En la app te proponemos unos 14 minutos. Es un tiempo orientativo nuestro, no una norma del examen. Es una de las partes con más texto: si lees palabra por palabra, no terminas.

Qué evalúa

Mide dos cosas. La primera, buscar rápido una idea en un texto largo (scanning). La segunda, reconocer esa idea cuando el texto la dice con otras palabras (paráfrasis). Las preguntas casi nunca usan las mismas palabras que el texto.

La paráfrasis: la pregunta dice una cosa y el texto otra

  • regrets a decision

    Lamentar una decisión.

    • I wish I had never accepted that offer.
  • was surprised by something

    Algo no era como lo esperaba.

    • I had not expected the hotel to be so quiet.
  • mentions the cost

    Habla del precio sin decir cost.

    • It wasn't cheap, but it was worth every penny.
  • changed their mind

    Pasó de una opinión a la contraria.

    • At first I hated the idea, but I came round to it.
  • found something hard at first

    Le costó al principio.

    • It took me a while to get used to the early starts.

Paso a paso

  • Lee las 10 preguntas y subraya en cada una la idea clave, no solo las palabras.
  • Lee cada sección muy rápido para saber de qué trata.
  • Toma una pregunta y busca en el texto la idea, pensando en cómo se podría decir con otras palabras.
  • Cuando la encuentres, lee la frase entera y comprueba que dice lo mismo que la pregunta.
  • Si una pregunta se atasca, pasa a la siguiente y vuelve después.

Trampas habituales

  • La sección que repite una palabra de la pregunta pero habla de otra cosa.
  • La pregunta con dos ideas: por ejemplo, a problem that was solved quickly. Las dos tienen que estar en la sección.
  • Una idea parecida en dos secciones: solo una la dice exactamente.
  • Pensar que cada sección se usa el mismo número de veces: una puede valer para varias preguntas y otra solo para una.

Ojo.Muchos hispanohablantes leen el texto entero palabra por palabra y lo traducen mentalmente. En esta parte no te da tiempo. Lee rápido, busca la idea y lee despacio solo la frase que la contiene.

Antes de terminar

  • Has respondido las 10 preguntas.
  • Cada respuesta se apoya en una frase concreta del texto.
  • En las preguntas con dos ideas, has encontrado las dos.
  • No has elegido ninguna sección solo porque repite una palabra de la pregunta.

Ejercicios de muestra

Dos ejercicios de la parte 7 con corrección y explicación de cada pregunta. Están escritos por nosotros con el formato del examen; no son preguntas de exámenes oficiales.

Ejercicio 1: Never too late to learn

Lee las secciones y elige cuál responde a cada pregunta. Una sección puede servir para varias.

Four people talk about learning a foreign language as adults.

A · Daniel

I started learning Japanese at university, mainly because a friend dared me to. I expected to give up within a month, but I was hooked almost immediately, largely thanks to the writing system. Most people find the characters terrifying; I found them beautiful, and I would spend hours copying them out just for the pleasure of it. Speaking was another story. I could read a newspaper long before I could order a meal without panicking, and when I finally visited Tokyo, I realised that my textbook Japanese sounded extremely formal, almost old-fashioned. People were polite, but some of them clearly found it funny, and one shopkeeper asked me, with a big smile, whether I had learnt the language from my great-grandfather. Nowadays I use Japanese every day as a translator, mostly of technical documents, so in a sense my strange early strengths turned out to be exactly what I needed. I still feel slightly nervous on the phone, though.

B · Priya

When my company moved me to Lisbon, I assumed I could get by with English, and for the first few months I did. The problem was that I felt like a permanent visitor. I couldn't follow the conversation at lunch, and I was always the last to understand a joke. So I signed up for evening classes, which I found useful for grammar but rather slow. What really made the difference was volunteering at a community garden at weekends. The other volunteers were mostly retired people who spoke no English at all, so I had no choice. They corrected me constantly, sometimes quite bluntly, and I loved it. Three years on, I occasionally dream in Portuguese, and my neighbours say my accent is now more Lisbon than London. My only regret is that I spent so long relying on English before making a proper effort.

C · Tom

My grandmother grew up speaking Welsh, but she never taught it to my mother, and I always felt that part of our family history had been lost. When she became ill, I decided to learn it so that I could talk to her in her first language. I used an app at first, which was fine for vocabulary, but I needed real conversation, so I joined an online group that met by video every week. It was hard work. Welsh grammar does things that English simply doesn't, and the way the first letters of words change depending on what comes before them drove me mad for months. My grandmother died before I became really fluent, but we did manage a few short conversations, and the look on her face made every hour of study worthwhile. These days I help to run that online group myself, mainly for complete beginners.

D · Helen

I took up Italian at sixty-eight, after my husband and I had spent a holiday in Sicily and I'd felt embarrassed at being able to say only 'thank you'. Everyone warned me that it would be much harder at my age, and I suppose they were right, because new words take ages to stick. But I have things in my favour that younger learners don't. I have plenty of time, and I'm no longer worried about looking silly. I go to a small class at the local college, and I also read children's books in Italian, which my grandchildren find hilarious. I've no intention of becoming fluent. My aim is simply to have a proper conversation with the family who ran our hotel in Sicily when we go back next spring. I've already written to them in Italian, and they replied with great kindness and only a few corrections.

Pregunta 1

Which person noticed that some native speakers found their way of speaking amusing?

Pregunta 2

Which person says they do not intend to reach a high level in the language?

Pregunta 3

Which person started learning in order to communicate with a relative?

Pregunta 4

Which person wishes they had made a serious effort sooner?

Pregunta 5

Which person developed one language skill much more quickly than another?

Pregunta 6

Which person mentions that members of their family laugh at one of their ways of studying?

Pregunta 7

Which person found one feature of the language's grammar very frustrating?

Pregunta 8

Which person made the most progress by spending time with people who could not speak English?

Pregunta 9

Which person believes that their age gives them certain advantages as a learner?

Pregunta 10

Which person now helps other people to learn the language?

Ver las soluciones y las explicaciones
  1. A · Daniel. Daniel cuenta que su japonés sonaba anticuado y que a algunos japoneses les hacía gracia («clearly found it funny»). En el texto: People were polite, but some of them clearly found it funny
  2. D · Helen. Helen dice «I've no intention of becoming fluent»: solo quiere poder conversar con una familia. En el texto: I've no intention of becoming fluent.
  3. C · Tom. Tom aprendió galés para hablar con su abuela en su primera lengua. En el texto: I decided to learn it so that I could talk to her in her first language
  4. B · Priya. Priya lamenta haber tardado tanto en esforzarse de verdad («My only regret...»). En el texto: My only regret is that I spent so long relying on English before making a proper effort.
  5. A · Daniel. Daniel podía leer un periódico mucho antes de poder pedir comida sin ponerse nervioso: leía mucho mejor de lo que hablaba. En el texto: I could read a newspaper long before I could order a meal without panicking
  6. D · Helen. A los nietos de Helen les parece divertidísimo que lea libros infantiles en italiano («hilarious»). En el texto: I also read children's books in Italian, which my grandchildren find hilarious
  7. C · Tom. A Tom le volvía loco cómo cambian las primeras letras de las palabras en galés («drove me mad»). Daniel habla de la escritura, y le encantaba. En el texto: the way the first letters of words change depending on what comes before them drove me mad for months
  8. B · Priya. Priya mejoró de verdad en un huerto comunitario con voluntarios que no hablaban nada de inglés. En el texto: What really made the difference was volunteering at a community garden at weekends. The other volunteers were mostly retired people who spoke no English at all
  9. D · Helen. Helen dice que, frente a los jóvenes, tiene más tiempo y ya no le preocupa hacer el ridículo. En el texto: But I have things in my favour that younger learners don't. I have plenty of time, and I'm no longer worried about looking silly.
  10. C · Tom. Tom ayuda a llevar el grupo en línea para principiantes. En el texto: These days I help to run that online group myself, mainly for complete beginners.

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Ejercicio 2: Holidays that went wrong

Lee las secciones y elige cuál responde a cada pregunta. Una sección puede servir para varias.

Five people describe a holiday that did not go as planned.

A · Isabel

Three years ago, my sister and I planned a week's camping on the west coast of Ireland. We had bought expensive equipment and practised putting up the tent in my parents' garden, so we felt ready for anything. What we were not ready for was six days of almost non-stop rain. By the second night the tent was leaking, and everything we owned was wet. In the end we gave up and booked a room above a pub in the nearest village. That turned out to be the best decision of the trip. The owner dried our clothes by the fire and told us which beaches to visit on the one sunny afternoon we had. We have been back to that village every summer since, although we have never taken the tent again.

B · Owen

I booked a hotel in southern Spain mainly because it was cheap and the photos on its website showed a quiet pool surrounded by palm trees. When I arrived, I realised that the photos must have been taken years earlier: there was now a huge building site next door, and the drilling started at eight every morning. I complained at reception, and the staff were polite but said there was nothing they could do. To be fair, I had seen a couple of online reviews mentioning noise before I booked, but I had decided they were exaggerating. I spent most of the week on the beach to get away from the hotel, and the beach, as it happens, was lovely. These days I always read the reviews properly.

C · Priya

I had been looking forward to a cycling holiday in the Netherlands with two friends for months, and I lasted exactly one morning. On the first day, I braked too hard on a wet bridge, came off the bike and broke my wrist. My friends offered to change their plans, but I insisted they carry on without me, and I spent the rest of the week in a small town while my arm recovered. I expected to be bored, but the woman who ran my guesthouse introduced me to her neighbours, and soon I was being invited to their homes for dinner, and even to a birthday party. I probably learnt more about the country that week than my friends did on their bikes. I'd still like to do the cycling route one day, though.

D · Sam

Our plan was simple: fly to Rome and spend four days looking at ancient buildings and eating pasta. But on the morning we were due to leave, an air traffic control strike was announced, and our flight was cancelled. Rather than wait at the airport, my girlfriend and I decided to go by train and see how far we could get. We reached Paris that evening and then, on a whim, took another train south to Lyon, where we stayed for the rest of the trip. We never made it to Rome at all. Oddly, I don't regret it in the slightest. Sitting by the train window with a map, choosing the next stop as we went along, felt more like an adventure than any holiday I had ever planned.

E · Lucy

We were going to Portugal for my father's sixtieth birthday, eight of us altogether. At the check-in desk, the airline employee looked at my passport for a long time and then told me, very kindly, that it had run out two weeks earlier. Everyone else got on the plane, and I spent the next two days queuing at the passport office and feeling sorry for myself. I finally flew out and arrived just in time for the birthday dinner, where my family had kept me a seat and a slightly cold plate of food. At the time I was furious with myself, but now it is the story everyone tells at family parties, and even I can't help laughing at it.

Pregunta 1

Which person never reached the place they had originally planned to visit?

Pregunta 2

Which person moved to different accommodation because of the weather?

Pregunta 3

Which person had an accident on the first day of the holiday?

Pregunta 4

Which person had to travel separately from the people they were going on holiday with?

Pregunta 5

Which person believes the pictures of their hotel were out of date?

Pregunta 6

Which person was invited into local people's homes?

Pregunta 7

Which person has returned to the same place several times?

Pregunta 8

Which person enjoyed deciding where to go next during the trip?

Pregunta 9

Which person ignored a warning before the trip?

Pregunta 10

Which person can now laugh about what happened?

Ver las soluciones y las explicaciones
  1. D · Sam. Sam iba a Roma y acabó en Lyon: «We never made it to Rome at all». Lucy, en cambio, sí llegó a Portugal, aunque tarde. En el texto: We never made it to Rome at all.
  2. A · Isabel. Por la lluvia se les mojó la tienda y se fueron a una habitación encima de un pub («booked a room above a pub»). En el texto: By the second night the tent was leaking, and everything we owned was wet. In the end we gave up and booked a room above a pub in the nearest village.
  3. C · Priya. Priya frenó demasiado en un puente mojado y se rompió la muñeca el primer día. En el texto: On the first day, I braked too hard on a wet bridge, came off the bike and broke my wrist.
  4. E · Lucy. Con el pasaporte caducado, Lucy vio salir el avión de su familia y viajó dos días después. Priya no viajó aparte: se quedó en un pueblo mientras sus amigos seguían. En el texto: I finally flew out and arrived just in time for the birthday dinner, where my family had kept me a seat
  5. B · Owen. Owen cree que las fotos de la web se hicieron años antes («must have been taken years earlier»), porque ahora había una obra al lado. En el texto: When I arrived, I realised that the photos must have been taken years earlier
  6. C · Priya. Los vecinos de la dueña de la pensión invitaron a Priya a cenar en sus casas («invited to their homes for dinner»). En el texto: the woman who ran my guesthouse introduced me to her neighbours, and soon I was being invited to their homes for dinner
  7. A · Isabel. Isabel y su hermana han vuelto a ese pueblo todos los veranos («every summer since»). En el texto: We have been back to that village every summer since, although we have never taken the tent again.
  8. D · Sam. Sam disfrutó eligiendo la siguiente parada sobre la marcha: le pareció más aventura que cualquier viaje planeado. En el texto: Sitting by the train window with a map, choosing the next stop as we went along, felt more like an adventure than any holiday I had ever planned.
  9. B · Owen. Owen había leído reseñas que hablaban de ruido, pero pensó que exageraban. En el texto: To be fair, I had seen a couple of online reviews mentioning noise before I booked, but I had decided they were exaggerating.
  10. E · Lucy. A Lucy entonces le dio mucha rabia, pero ahora es la anécdota de las fiestas familiares y hasta ella se ríe («even I can't help laughing»). En el texto: At the time I was furious with myself, but now it is the story everyone tells at family parties, and even I can't help laughing at it.

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