Examen Inglés OPO2017Madrid
Examen Inglés OPO2017Madrid
Examen Inglés OPO2017Madrid
01. Listen to this extract from “The Jungle Book” by Rudyard Kipling, and answer the following
questions. (10 POINTS)
d) According to Bagheera, the black panther, there’s a reason why Mowgli must never kill or eat
cattle. What’s that reason?
g) Which country is mentioned in this fragment of text? What do you know about British
colonialism in that country?
h) How did the villagers react to Mowgli’s arrival? What did Mowgli conclude after those
reactions?
i) Why does the narrator explain that Mowgli knew what real biting was?
j) Which is the solemn sentence the priest says at the end of the audio file? What does that
sentence mean?
02. Fill in the gaps and explain the meaning of the missing verbs. What do both verbs have in
common? Could you think of three more verbs that belong to the same lexical field? Do also explain
the meaning of the verbs you have chosen. (2 POINTS)
a) …there he discovered that if he……………………… hard at any wolf, the wolf would be
forced to drop his eyes.
b) …‘Let me look,’ said a woman with heavy copper rings on her wrists and ankles, and
she…………………………at Mowgli under the palm of her hand.
03. Since its publication in 1894, “The Jungle Book” gained a great reputation for being a “moral
story” in Victorian Great Britain. That’s the reason why many of the book's situations and
characters have been used by teachers as motivational resources and moral icons. Which
values may the eight characters mentioned in the fragment you have just listened to represent?
How would you transmit those values to your students? (3 POINTS)
04. Describe two activities you would design to work with the Disney animated version of “The
Jungle Book” in a 6th grade group. Those activities must accomplish the following conditions:
a) Activity 1 must be created with an authoring tool such as “Hotpotatoes”. Justify your
answer.(2,5 POINTS)
b) Activity 2 must be specifically adequate for a flipped classroom. Justify your answer (2,5
POINTS)
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b) En las preguntas abiertas, prevalecerá el criterio técnico del tribunal, según las
directrices básicas que facilite la Comisión y teniendo en cuenta que SIEMPRE
se intentará favorecer al candidato.
En relación a las Instrucciones de corrección de la Prueba A2, difundidas esta mañana por
la Comisión de Selección de la especialidad Inglés, se procede a aclarar mediante el
presente correo la literalidad de los principios b) y c) recogidos en los principios generales
del apartado 00 de dichas instrucciones:
Originally written for his young daughter Josephine, who died tragically aged six,
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is a collection of short stories
which were published separately in magazines before being compiled into a book.
The stories are in the form of fables, where animals communicate and speak to
each other as humans do and the purpose of each story was to convey a moral or
message to the reader.
Modern readers would be more familiar with the Disney animated version in which
Mowgli, the little “man-cub”. is raised by wolves. As he grows, he is trained by
denizens of the jungle like Bagheera the panther or Baloo the bear. The dreaded
tiger Sher Khan is a diabolical villain, feared by all.
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What strikes the reader is the sense of wonder and magic that Kipling evokes
in these stories about the mysterious jungle and its inhabitants. The writer's
brilliant skills with the English language are another feature that makes the book
such a reading pleasure. Interspersed with delightful poems, this is indeed the
perfect choice for a read-aloud with kids!
First published in book form in 1894, the original edition contained beautiful
illustrations by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling, an artist and art teacher
who spent much of his career in India. It was here that Kipling first heard Indian folk
tales and was inspired to recreate his versions of them for his own children.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 and till date, remains the
youngest to have won the prestigious award. Today, though his reputation stands
dimmed as he is seen as one of the “prophets of Imperialism” the magic of his
words cannot be denied. The Jungle Book is a classic that indeed belongs on every
bookshelf!
He grew up with the cubs, though they, of course, were grown wolves almost before
he was a child. And Father Wolf taught him his business, and the meaning of things
in the jungle, till every rustle in the grass, every breath of the warm night air, every
note of the owls above his head, every scratch of a bat’s claws as it roosted for a
while in a tree, and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as
much to him as the work of his office means to a business man.
When he was not learning he sat out in the sun and slept, and ate and went to sleep
again. When he felt dirty or hot he swam in the forest pools; and when he wanted
honey (Baloo told him that honey and nuts were just as pleasant to eat as raw
meat) he climbed up for it, and that Bagheera showed him how to do. Bagheera
would lie out on a branch and call, ‘Come along, Little Brother,’ and at first Mowgli
would cling like the sloth, but afterward he would fling himself through the branches
almost as boldly as the gray ape. He took his place at the Council Rock, too, when
the Pack met, and there he discovered that if he stared hard at any wolf, the wolf
would be forced to drop his eyes, and so he used to stare for fun. At other times he
would pick the long thorns out of the pads of his friends, for wolves suffer terribly
from thorns and burs in their coats. He would go down the hillside into the cultivated
lands by night, and look very curiously at the villagers in their huts, but he had a
mistrust of men because Bagheera showed him a square box with a drop gate so
cunningly hidden in the jungle that he nearly walked into it, and told him that it was a
trap.
As soon as he was old enough to understand things, Bagheera told him that he
must never touch cattle because he had been bought into the Pack at the price of a
bull’s life. ‘All the jungle is thine,’ said Bagheera, ‘and thou canst kill everything that
thou art strong enough to kill; but for the sake of the bull that bought thee thou must
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never kill or eat any cattle young or old. That is the Law of the Jungle.’ Mowgli
obeyed faithfully. Mother Wolf told him once or twice that Shere Khan was not a
creature to be trusted, and that some day he must kill Shere Khan. But though
a young wolf would have remembered that advice every hour, Mowgli forgot it
because he was only a boy—though he would have called himself a wolf if he had
been able to speak in any human tongue.
When Mowgli left the wolf’s cave after the fight with the Pack at the Council Rock,
he went down to the plowed lands where the villagers lived, but he would not stop
there because it was too near to the jungle. All over the plain, cattle and buffaloes
were grazing, and when the little boys in charge of the herds saw Mowgli they
shouted and ran away, and the yellow pariah dogs that hang about every Indian
village barked. ‘So men are afraid of the People of the Jungle here also.’ He sat
down by the gate, and when a man came out he stood up, opened his mouth, and
pointed down it to show that he wanted food. The man stared, and ran back up the
one street of the village shouting for the priest. The priest came to the gate, and
with him at least a hundred people, who stared and talked and shouted and pointed
at Mowgli. ‘They have no manners, these Men Folk,’ said Mowgli to himself. ‘Only
the gray ape would behave as they do.’ So he threw back his long hair and frowned
at the crowd. ‘What is there to be afraid of?’ said the priest. ‘Look at the marks on
his arms and legs. They are the bites of wolves. He is but a wolf-child run away
from the jungle.’ Of course, in playing together, the cubs had often nipped Mowgli
harder than they intended, and there were white scars all over his arms and legs.
But he would have been the last person in the world to call these bites, for he knew
what real biting meant.
‘Arre! Arre!’ said two or three women together. ‘To be bitten by wolves, poor child!
He is a handsome boy. He has eyes like red fire. By my honor, Messua, he is not
unlike thy boy that was taken by the tiger.’ ‘Let me look,’ said a woman with heavy
copper rings on her wrists and ankles, and she peered at Mowgli under the palm of
her hand. ‘Indeed he is not. He is thinner, but he has the very look of my boy.’ The
priest was a clever man, and he knew that Messua was wife to the richest villager in
the place. So he looked up at the sky for a minute and said solemnly: ‘What the
jungle has taken the jungle has restored.
0,75 PUNTOS She told Mowgli once or twice that Shere Khan was not a
creature to be trusted, and that some day he must kill Shere Khan”. Ella habla
de Shere Khan, el tigre, con desconfianza.
f) 1 PUNTO. Mowgli left the wolf’s cave after the fight with the pack of wolves.
Mowgli abandonó la cueva de los lobos porque se peleó con la manada.
h) 0,5 PUNTOS: They were afraid of Mowgli. When the little boys in charge of the
herds saw Mowgli they shouted and ran away.“The priest came to the gate, and
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with him at least a hundred people, who stared and talked and shouted and
pointed at Mowgli. ‘‘What is there to be afraid of?” Se asustaban al ver un
niño salvaje que viene de la selva.
0,5 PUNTOS. Mowgli thought: “So men are afraid of the People of the Jungle
here also”.”They have no manners, these Men Folk. Only the gray ape would
behave as they do.” Mowgli piensa que son unos maleducados.
i) 1 PUNTO. “Because the villagers confused Mowgli’s marks on his arms and legs
with bites of wolves. In playing with the cubs, they had sometimes nipped
Mowgli harder than they intended, but those weren’t really deliberate attempts to
hurt him. Porque los habitantes del pueblo confundieron sus marcas en los
brazos y piernas con mordeduras de lobo. Pero solo se trataban de mordiscos
de los cachorros al jugar con Mowgli sin intención de hacerle daño.
j) 0.5 PUNTOS: “What the jungle has taken the jungle has restored”. Lo que la
selva se llevó en su día, la selva lo devuelve.
0.5 PUNTOS: The sentence applies to the woman who had previously lost her
son in the jungle, killed by a tiger, and was going to adopt Mowgli, a wolf-child
that also came from the jungle. La frase se refiere a que la mujer que iba a
adoptar a Mowgli, el niño que viene de la selva, había perdido antes a su propio
hijo, atacado por un trigre en la selva.
c) 1 PUNTO. Respuesta Libre. Both are verbs belonging to the lexical field of
visual perception. (0,33 puntos por cada verbo que pertenezca al campo léxico
verbos de percepción visual, correctamente definido. Algunas posibles
respuestas serían:
GAZE to look steadily and intently, as with great curiosity, interest, pleasure, or
wonder.
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Bagheera is the black panther who serves as protector and mentor to the "man-
cub" Mowgli. This panther represents justice because it endeavours to teach
Mowgli the Law of the Jungle. VALOR: JUSTICIA. PROTECCIÓN
Father Wolf and Mother Wolf of the Seeonee wolf pack adopt the human cub
Mowgli. Father Wolf represents severity in education whereas Mother Wolf
introduces affection in that education. PADRE LOBO: SEVERIDAD EN LA
EDUCACIÓN. MADRE LOBRO: INDULGENCIA, AFECTO EN LA EDUCACIÓN.
SON AMBOS PADRES ADOPTIVOS.
Shere Khan, the tiger, a fictional character that is arrogant and regards himself
as the rightful lord of the jungle. He is treacherous and vengeful. Those are the
values he represents. VALOR: VENGANZA, TRAICIÓN.
Messua, the rich lady of the village, represents high class members of society
who like carrying out charitable actions. VALOR: ALTA SOCIEDAD
CARITATIVA.
The Priest represents the official religious power that controls society. VALOR:
EL PODER Y EL CONTROL DE LA IGLESIA EN LA ÉPOCA.