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El misterio de la llave by Elena Moreno Doña Blanca mira por la ventana. El otoño está llegando ya y Toledo se prepara para el frío. Pronto va a llover y el día está gris. En la calle un hombre con sombrero parece estar esperando a alguien. Pasea rápido. A veces, se para y mira hacia las ventanas del piso. Después, empieza a andar otra vez. “No lo conozco, ¿quién puede ser?” piensa doña Blanca. El hombre no es viejo, no es joven. Es muy moreno y bastante bajo. Por fin empieza a llover. A la abuela le gusta mucho la lluvia del otoño. Doña Blanca ve cómo el hombre del sombrero corre hasta un portal. "Bueno, dice ella, no a todo el mundo le gusta la lluvia tanto como a mí". Put a cross [X] in the correct box. [Example]: What season is it? … A summer B spring C autumn X D winter (a) What is the man wearing? A glasses B a hat C a scarf D a watch (b) Does doña Blanca know him? A yes B no C perhaps D we do not know (c) How is he described? A dark skinned and tall B tall and handsome C small and old D small and dark skinned (d) What weather does the grandmother like? A rain B cold C wind D snow (e) What does the man do? A He eats some food B He starts to cry C He puts up an umbrella D He runs to a doorway (Total for Question = 5 marks)
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El misterio de la llave by Elena Moreno
Doña Blanca mira por la ventana. El otoño está llegando ya y Toledo se prepara para el frío. Pronto va a llover y el día está gris. En la calle un hombre con sombrero parece estar esperando a alguien. Pasea rápido. A veces, se para y mira hacia las ventanas del piso. Después, empieza a andar otra vez. “No lo conozco, ¿quién puede ser?” piensa doña Blanca. El hombre no es viejo, no es joven. Es muy moreno y bastante bajo.Por fin empieza a llover. A la abuela le gusta mucho la lluvia del otoño.Doña Blanca ve cómo el hombre del sombrero corre hasta un portal."Bueno, dice ella, no a todo el mundo le gusta la lluvia tanto como a mí".
Put a cross [X] in the correct box. [Example]: What season is it? …
A summerB springC autumn XD winter
(a) What is the man wearing?A glassesB a hatC a scarfD a watch
(b) Does doña Blanca know him?A yesB noC perhapsD we do not know
(c) How is he described?A dark skinned and tallB tall and handsomeC small and oldD small and dark skinned
(d) What weather does the grandmother like?A rainB coldC windD snow
(e) What does the man do?A He eats some foodB He starts to cryC He puts up an umbrellaD He runs to a doorway
(Total for Question = 5 marks)
El misterio de la llave by Elena Moreno. Inside a Toledo synagogue, an archaeologist and a writer find a key with mysterious inscriptions written in Arabic and Hebrew. What door does the key open? Will it lead them to some fabulous treasure?
Strategies for answering literary text questions
PREDICTION What can you tell about the text from the title, the exam rubric, any visuals, the layout, the punctuation?
ANTICIPATION Read the English questions to add to your overall sense of what the text is about, and anticipate possible answers based on real world logic and probability.
SKIM READING Read the whole text once through to add to your gist understanding. Don’t stop when there are unfamiliar words.
SCANNING Go back to the questions, one by one. Decide what information you need. Who? What? Where? When? Why? If the task is multiple choice, scan the text for those specific words. If not, scan for possible answers that fit, e.g. a person for ‘Who?’.
EVALUATION Keep the overall text and context in mind. Ensure that answers don’t contradict each other (use in-text logic) and are not impossible or unlikely (use real world logic).
DEDUCTION AND INFERENCE
In more challenging questions, the answers are not directly given but are built-up by piecing together hints from the text. Where the answer is not immediately clear, look at the sentence before and after the keyword to get more information.
