Nombre: Delgaudio Lucila Fecha: 17/12/2020

Instituto Superior de Formación Docente y Técnica Nº 127 - Profesorado en

Inglés – Lengua y Expresión Escrita III - 3er año – Examen Final – Diciembre
2020

Attention!

You have one hour and a half to complete the Reading and Grammar tasks. You are
allowed to use the English-English dictionary.

II-Read the text and write about field, tenor and mode.
Field

The text is about “trainspotting”, in it the author explains the meaning the word has and what
the hobby is about.
The author uses a lot of vocabulary related to the topic such as: trains, railways, locomotive,
wagons,railway station, platforms, etc.
The content is common sense, in the sense that anyone could understand what it is about,
moreover it mentions a well-known pop culture movie which means that the text is aimed at
any kind of public.

Tenor

The relationship between the author and the reader is impersonal, he makes use of the 1rst
and 2nd person and also addressing the reader several times. E.g.:
P 7 “I know what I think.”
P 4 “ - all you really need is...”
P 6 “Don’t let this fool you - ...”

In this way, the text is also informal since the author makes use of contractions and gives his
own opinion about the topic. E.g.:
P 4 “It’s a wonderfully inexpensive pastime - ”
P 4 “... you don’t want to risk the delights of railway station food”

The author might be considered an expert since not anyone might know about this hobby he
is mentioning. He gives a lot of details about the topic such as famous names and dates,
e.g. “..dates back to 1804 when Richard Trevithick built the first steam locomotive,...”; “...the
poet WH Auden, the comedian Michael Palin and, of course, Alfred Hitchcock...”; etc.

Modality:
Some signals of modality in the text are:
Paragraph 6 -“You ​may ​also be interested...” - the author uses “may” to say that he is not
certain but there is a ​possibility ​that the reader will be interested in “train-hopping”.
Paragraph 7 - “...this is ​certainly ​not a hobby that is violent or dangerous in any way” - here
the author is emphasizing that he completely ​certain ​that what he is saying is true, this is
due to the nature of the activity he is describing.

Mode

The text is written-like opinion essay and it planned since it is is divided into paragraphs (it
has an introduction, a body and a conclusion), it presents different kinds of sentences, etc.
Examples of sentences:
Simple: P 2 “The ultimate aim is to have seen every train in the country”
Compound: P 4 from “The modern train-spotter” to “these are unnecessary.”
Complex: P 4 from “Other optional equipment...” to “railway station food.”
Compound-complex: P 1 from “Many people around the world” to “...is all about?”
III. Grammar

1. Choose two sentences from the text and rewrite them using passive voice.

(P 4) ​Binoculars and a video camera may also be carried by the modern train-spotter, but
for the purists these are unnecessary.

(P 1) ​Danny Boyle’s movie Trainspotting based in irvine Welsh’s novel of the same name
and starring Ewan McGregor, has been seen by many people around the world​, but how
many of us can really claim to know what trains-potting is all about?

2. Connect the following sentences using a relative pronoun.

a. Train-spotters are considered geeks or nerds. Their aim is to have seen every
train in the country.
Train-spotters are considered geeks or nerds ​whose ​aim is to have seen
every train in the country.

b. Alfred Hitchcock was a train-spotter. He featured trains regularly in his films.

​ ho ​featured trains regularly in his films
Alfred Hitchcock was a train-spotter w

c. All train-spotters carry a pen, pencil or notebook. Some of them can also take
a camera.
All train-spotters carry a pen, pencil or notebook​, some of them can also take
a camera.

3. Look for an example of:

a. An adverbial clause of time

P 3 “...dates back to 1804 ​when Richard Trevithick built the first steam
locomotive...​”

b. An adverbial clause of manner

P 2 “Well, exactly ​as the title suggests ​...”

4. Rephrase the following sentence using the word given so that you write an adverbial
participle clause.

a. Alfred Hitchcock is considered a train-spotter because he was obsessed with

trains. BEING
Being obsessed with trains, Alfred Hitchcock is considered a train-spotter
 b. When he arrived at the station, he realized the train had left. ON
On arriving at the station, he realized the train had left.

c. She felt ill, but she hurried to the station to spot the next train. ALTHOUGH
Although feeling ill, she hurried to the station to spot the next train.

5.​ T
​ urn these sentences into indirect speech

a.​ “​ Is this reputation really deserved?” the author wondered.

The author wondered if that reputation was really deserved.

b.​ “​ Trainspotting dates back to 1804 when Richard Trevithick built the first steam
locomotive”, the author explained.
The author explained that trainspotting dated back to 1804 when Richard
Trevithick had built the first steam locomotive.

c.​ “​ What do you need to be a train-spotter?” he asked.

He asked what we needed to be a trainspotter.

6.​ F
​ ind and rewrite an example of an inverted sentence and explain why inversion is

used in that case.

P 3 “As the number of trains grew and they got faster and faster, ​so did the
interest in them grow. ​” This is an example of inversion used to emphasised
that there was a direct connection between the growth in train production (or the
number of trains) and the growth in the interest people had for them.