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Remember who has
said what…
Read and pay
attention to
details…
What do you
really need to
do?
Have you ever seen a
debate while doing
“zapping” on your
TV?
BELIEVE OR
NOT…
THIS IS THE
LAST PART OF
THE READING
AND USE OF
ENGLISH!!
Among the participants we can
find different backgrounds and
opinions talking about the same
issue or topic. Some of them
repeat the same information that
someone has already said; other
add extra information and,
sometimes, there are even
interesting ideas!
This part of the FCE is
pretty similar to what you
normally see on this type of
TV programs!
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A debate
without ads…
� You will find short texts (up to 6) or a
long text with different paragraphs,
� Before getting to the text you will see
10 questions related to the text(s) and
you will have to connect them,
� For that reason this exercise is called
“Multiple Matching”.
● Each correct answers = 1 POINT
● There is a TOTAL of 10 POINTS
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Types of texts
� Texts could be really similar regarding the topic they
talk about, the opinions being expressed, etc.
� But if we analyze them closely, we will be able to
appreciate the huge differences among them.
� The nuances (matices) and concretion are, again, the clue to
solve this B2 exercise.
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What is being assessed?
� The main objective of this activity is to determine your ability to pay attention to
details and discard non-relevant information.
� Therefore, this activity measures your capability to understand the messages
with exactitude as well as your ability to establish differences among texts that
could be similar.
� But… BE CAREFUL! Some of the texts could be matched with more than one
question!!
Warning!! There are 10 questions and only 6
texts. This means that the same text will match
more than one question!!
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When I grow up, I'd like to be a
peaky eater!
� TIPS:
○ Read as much as you can in English!!
■ For this exercise it is especially important to read reviews
about books, films, products, etc.
■ You can read, as well, the users’ feedback!
Do you know how to say “tiquismiquis” in English?
Picky, fussy, choosy, persnickety…
And not too careful?
Sloppy, lax, messy, lackadaisical…
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Looks are deceiving
� 1st: Quick Reading through the questions. This way you will be able to take them
into account while reading the texts and comparing the information they include.
� 2nd: Quick Reading through the texts. Are you able to see some differences?
� 3rd: Carefully re-read the questions and establish connections between them and
the texts.
� 4th: Go back to the fragments or the text and check if
that question really suits the information being given. Is
there any text that fits the information asked?
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Which
paragraph….
� Indicates the explanation preferred by a majority of scientists?
� Talks about people who have written about the dance of bees?
� Describes what specialists had noticed by watching the bees?
� Introduces the basic shapes of the dance of bees?
� Presents the theories that could explain the behavior of bees?
� Interprets the different dances as linguistic differences?
� Explains the meaning of the different varieties of dances?
� Suggests how bees can tell if the food is good or bad?
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Dancing bees…
Because of the Delicious honey bees produce, people have been interested in these flying creatures for
a very long time.
Through careful observation, naturalists have noticed that once one bee has found a source of food, it
flies straight back to the hive and shortly after that, a swarm of bees head out in the direction of the
source of food found by the original scout. And they find the food they make short work of collecting it
and bringing it back to the hive to be processed. But how do they know where to find the food? The First
theory suggests that bees transmit the information of where the food is located through their sense of
smell. They leave a Trail of nectar smell as the bees follow it. The second theory is centered on a dance
that the scouting bee performs when she gets back to the hive.
Most researchers support the “dance language” theory over the odor theory, although some admit that
they might complement each other. For the defenders of the complementary hypothesis, the dance and
the smell act in conjunction in conveying the information about they type of food and its location. The
bees’ dance has a well-defined sequence and structure and can be clearly interpreted to indicate the
distance between the hive and the food source, the direction in which the source is located, and the
quality of the food found. For the Western honey bee, the dance can take two main shapes: the round
dance and the waggle dance.
A
B
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Dancing bees…
The round dance consists of the bee moving in a circular pattern. This indicates that the food is nearby,
within 30 meters of the hive, but gives no indication of its exact location. However, since the radius of
search is limited, the rest of the bees are able to find the food source relatively quickly. The waggle
dance, in contrast, encodes much more information. Firstly, it points to food that is farther away.
Moreover, it is done in a figure-eight pattern, and the bee crosses it at every round waggling down the
central line. The angle of the crossing line indicates the direction of the food source, relative to the
position of the sun. The duration of each waggle section of the dance shows the distance between the
hive and the delicious nectar awaiting the other bees. And the energy with which the be waggles across
the center line conveys the quality of the food she ha found.
The first to describe the dance of bees was Aristotle in his Historia Animalium, but it wasn’t until 1947 that
Karl von Frisch managed to decode its meaning. And as research and experiments have been done on
different species of bees, some curious facts have been discovered. The dancing behavior is present in
all species of honey bees, but it varies somewhat in form and distance correlation between species. It is
as if each species “speaks” a different language, but all species definitely have a language. And this
language seems to be genetically determined, not learned. So an individual bee from one species placed
in a hive from a different species will not learn or understand the dance of the local bees, but will continue
to perform her native dance.
C
D
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Which
paragraph….
� Indicates the explanation preferred by a majority of scientists?
� Talks about people who have written about the dance of bees?
� Describes what specialists had noticed by watching the bees?
� Introduces the basic shapes of the dance of bees?
� Presents the theories that could explain the behavior of bees?
� Interprets the different dances as linguistic differences?
� Explains the meaning of the different varieties of dances?
� Suggests how bees can tell if the food is good or bad?
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bees…
Because of the Delicious honey bees produce, people have been interested in these flying creatures for
a very long time.
Through careful observation, naturalists have noticed that once one bee has found a source of food, it
flies straight back to the hive and shortly after that, a swarm of bees, head out in the direction of the
source of food found by the original scout. And they find the food they make short work of collecting it
and bringing it back to the hive to be processed. But how do they know where to find the food? There are
2 main hypothesis that attempt to explain how bees communicate. The First theory suggests that bees
transmit the information of where the food is located through their sense of smell. They leave a Trail of
nectar smell as the bees follow it. The second theory is centered on a dance that the scouting bee
performs when she gets back to the hive.
Most researchers support the “dance language” theory over the odor theory, although some admit that
they might complement each other. For the defenders of the complementary hypothesis, the dance and
the smell act in conjunction in conveying the information about they type of food and its location. The
bees’ dance has a well-defined sequence and structure and can be clearly interpreted to indicate the
distance between the hive and the food source, the direction in which the source is located, and the
quality of the food found. For the Western honey bee, the dance can take two main shapes: the round
dance and the waggle dance.
A
B
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The round dance consists of the bee moving in a circular pattern. This indicates that the food is nearby,
within 30 meters of the hive, but gives no indication of its exact location. However, since the radius of
search is limited, the rest of the bees are able to find the food source relatively quickly. The waggle
dance, in contrast, encodes much more information. Firstly, it points to food that is farther away.
Moreover, it is done in a figure-eight pattern, and the bee crosses it at every round waggling down the
central line. The angle of the crossing line indicates the direction of the food source, relative to the
position of the sun. The duration of each waggle section of the dance shows the distance between the
hive and the delicious nectar awaiting the other bees. And the energy with which the be waggles across
the center line conveys the quality of the food she ha found.
The first to describe the dance of bees was Aristotle in his Historia Animalium, but it wasn’t until 1947 that
Karl von Frisch managed to decode its meaning. And as research and experiments have been done on
different species of bees, some curious facts have been discovered. The dancing behavior is present in
all species of honey bees, but it varies somewhat in form and distance correlation between species. It is
as if each species “speaks” a different language, but all species definitely have a language. And this
language seems to be genetically determined, not learned. So an individual bee from one species placed
in a hive from a different species will not learn or understand the dance of the local bees, but will continue
to perform her native dance.
C
D
Dancing
bees…
