MODELO DE EXAMEN DE ACREDITACIÓN LINGÜÍSTICA SERVICIO CENTRAL DE IDIOMAS. INGLÉS B2 (MODELO ACLES)
Ejemplo de tarea de comprensión lectora ( Reading ) Read the following text and answer the questions. Shared vision: masterpieces on show alongside photographs they inspired Positioning a group for a family photo on a day trip, or snapping the passing landscape from the car window, you may not feel the hand of Gainsborough or Constable on your shoulder, but it is there all the same. The National Gallery's first major photography exhibition, which will open in the autumn, is to make a clear case for the strong influence of the great painters in the way we still pictur picturee the the world world.. The impetus for the show, Seduced by Art, came from an article in the Observer in 2007 by gallery curator Colin Wiggins. Wiggins pointed out the unlikely correspondences between the searing images taken by modern photojournalists and the work of their painterly forebears. "Photography as a narrative tool is a comparative newcomer," he wrote in 2007. "For centuries it was the painters who illustrated stories. From the Renaissance onwards, it was they who laid down the ground rules for pictorial storytelling." To prove his theory, Wiggins compared the composition of a news shot of Lady Thatcher sharing the frame with a gorilla during a visit to London Zoo to old masters that show the Virgin Mary adored by surrounding saints. It was unconscious mimicry but showed just how long the rules about images have been laid down. Sometimes the photographer is unaware of the influence, while in the case of photographic artists there is often a deliberate nod to the traditions of painting. "New examples are happening all the time, because the language of visual communication was invented by painters," said Wiggins. "My original piece in the Observer was about photo photojou journa rnalis lism m and and this this new show show is more more abou aboutt fine fine art art photo photogra graphy phy,, but itit all goes goes back back to the the beginn beginning ingss of the techn technolo ology gy in the the 184 1840s 0s when when pho photog tograp raphe hers rs were were evo evokin kingg the the old old mast masters ers.. And And then it became subliminal." In addition to juxtaposing a challenging photograph by Martin Parr with Thomas Gainsborough's 18th-century portrait, Mr and Mrs Andrews, and a spectacular 1821 battlefield tableau by Emile Jean-Horace Vernet with Luc Delahaye's modern image, the gallery is to spring some bigger surprises. In a series of "exceptional interventions", contemporary photographs by Richard Billingham, Craigie Horsfield and Richard Learoyd will be displayed in the gallery's permanent collection, alongside great 19th-century paintings by Constable, Degas and Ingres. I ngres. "We had been thinking about doing this kind of photographic exhibition, which puts forward an argument, for some time," said Christopher Riopelle, the gallery's expert in post-1800 paintings and co-curator of the show with Hope Kingsley from the Wilson Centre of Photography. He added: "We can see that the earliest photographers were looking closely at paintings and modifying these compositional ideas while they worked. But it is also true that there are innately pleas pleasing ing ways ways of organ organisi ising ng things things visual visually ly and and they they had had simp simply ly been been iden identif tified ied first first by painte painters. rs. "In the first few decades of the new technology of photography there was real interest from painte painters rs too too,, so there there was was a whol wholee nexu nexuss betw between een the two art forms forms.. This This exh exhibi ibitio tionn is is not not a surve surveyy
of photography. It is more of a polemic. We also wanted to look at the use contemporary photographic artists have made of this notion." For Wiggins, it was Raphael, more than any other artist, who drew up the template for captured images, shaping the gestures and patterns for later narrative painters, including Caravaggio, Goya and Manet. "It is a pictorial language that audiences have learnt to read over the centuries," Wiggins wrote in 2007. "And so when a modern photograph accidentally replicates the format of a celebrated painting we are already attuned to understand the way it tells its story. We are simply drawing upon a centuries-old skill of reading pictures that our predecessors initially learnt from the great painters." The exhibition, which will travel to Spain in early 2013, will include just under 90 photographs displayed alongside chosen paintings from the gallery's collection. Newly commissioned photography and video will also be on display. A centrepiece of the exhibition will contrast provocative religious imagery from the 19th-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron with the work of the late 20th-century artist Helen Chadwick, while Tina Barney's social portraits will introduce the theme of portraiture. A room of landscapes will feature works by the early French photographer Gustave Le Gray and contemporary artists such as Jem Southam and Tacita Dean, who will contribute a huge, six-part photogravure. Sam Taylor-Wood's time-based Still Life (2001) will represent more experimental photographic work, while Ori Gersht's digital still life, Time after Time: Blow Up No. 05 (2007) will be shown next to its inspiration, Rosy Wealth of June (1886) by Ignace-Henri-Théodore Fantin-Latour.
1. Find words in the text that match the following definitions. EXAMPLE. Taking a quick photograph (v): SNAPPING 1.1. Close to the side of; next to (prep): 1.2. Relating to putting together the ingredients or constituents of a whole or mixture, in this case a work of art (adj): 1.3. An artistic representation of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders (n): 1.4. A painting or drawing of a static arrangement of objects, typically flowers and/or fruit (n):
2. Answer True or False according to the text and justify your answer in one sentence. EXAMPLE. The photography exhibition aims to reveal the pictorial tradition held in common with classic images.
TRUE/FALSE. It aims to make a clear case for the strong influence of the great painters in the way photographers picture the world.
2.1. People who are not artists are not influenced by artistic tradition. TRUE/FALSE. _____________________________________________________________________ 2.2. All photographers consciously acknowledge an influence from the pictorial tradition. TRUE/FALSE. _____________________________________________________________________ 2.3. In the dawn of photography, the links between the two art forms were more obvious. TRUE/FALSE. _____________________________________________________________________ 2.4. There will be no pieces created specifically for the exhibition. TRUE/FALSE. _____________________________________________________________________
Ejemplo de tarea de comprensión auditiva ( Listening ) Listen to the report “15000 websites that spread terror and hate” and answer the following
questions.
1. Fill in the gaps with what you hear (5 words max.). The answers will appear in order. These websites provide information on not only how to do it, but also on 1.1 WHERE YOU SHOULD DO IT and 1.2____________________. The websites considered problematic included 1.3__________________, 1.4 ___________________, 1.5 ___________________, and 1.6 ____________________. Abraham Cooper says we all have our own 1.7 _________________, and we have to stand up for our own 1.8. _____________________, and our own 1.9__________________. This report is the first one to be offered to officials through an 1.10 ____________________ that provides up-to-date listings.
2. Answer the following questions with TRUE or FALSE and justify your answer in one sentence. EXAMPLE. When the project commenced there were at least as many dangerous websites as there are nowadays.
FALSE. THERE WAS ONLY ONE. 2.1. Cooper is particularly worried about websites with connections to terrorist organizations.
2.2. Websites without affiliation are easier to track.
Ejemplo de tarea de expresión escrita ( Writing ) The business opposite your house has a guard dog that barks all night. Write a formal letter to the manager to complain, explaining how it has affected you and your family and what you will do if the situation does not improve. (Min. 250 words)
Ejemplo de tarea de expresión oral ( Speaking ) Short monologue
If you were President of Spain, what would you do?
