OPOSICIONES TRIVIUM PREPARADORA: EMMA HAMILTON
Practical case: Harry Potter
1. Provide a homophone for the following and say what they mean:
Earn
Fair
Find
Fur
Flair
Flea
Forth
Foul
2. Provide synonyms and antonyms for the following words:
Contempt
Contrived
Delight
3. Explain what the following idioms mean:
- To catch someone red-handed.
- To be in the red.
- To tell a white lie.
- Out of the blue.
- To feel blue.
- A green belt.
4. The following words can be grouped as "ways of preventing people from doing"
and as "types of routes or roads". Say which ones belong to which group, and
explain their meaning:
Alley Avenue Drive Hamper Hinder
Impede Keep Lañe Pass Path
Prevent Promenade Road Route Street
Terrace Thoroughfare Way Thwart Track
Trail Walk
OPOSICIONES TRIVIUM PREPARADORA: EMMA HAMILTON
5. Read the text below and describe its genre, text types and communicative
functions.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
(J. K. Rowling)
...A whistling in Harry's ear told him the Bludger had just missed him again: he turned
right over and sped in the opposite direction.
"Training for the ballet, Potter?" yelled Malfoy, as Harry was forced to do a stupid
kind of twirl in mid-air to dodge the Bludger. Off Harry fled, the Bludger trailing a few
feet behind him: and then, glaring back at Malfoy in hatred, he saw it, the Golden Snitch.
It was hovering inches above Malfoy's left ear - and Malfoy, busy laughing at Harry,
hadn't seen it. For an agonising moment, Harry hung in mid-air, not daring to speed
towards Malfoy in case he looked up and saw the Snitch.
WHAM! He had stayed still a second too long. The Bludger had hit him at last,
smashed into his elbow, and Harry felt his arm break. Dimly, dazed by the searing pain
in his arm, he slid sideways on his rain-drenched broom, one knee still crooked over it,
his right arm dangling useless at his side.
The Bludger came pelting back for a second attack, this time aiming at his face. Harry
swerved out of the way, one idea firmly lodged in his numb brain: get to Malfoy. Through
a haze of rain and pain he dived for the shimmering, sneering face below him and saw
its eyes widen with fear: Malfoy thought Harry was attacking him.
"What the-" he gasped, careering out of Harry's way. Harry took his remaining hand
off his broom and made a wild snatch; he felt his fingers close on the cold Snitch but was
now only gripping the broom with his legs and there was a yell from the crowd below as
he headed straight for the ground, trying hard not to pass out.
With a splattering thud he hit the mud and rolled off his broom. His arm was hanging
at a very strange angle. Riddled with pain, he heard, as though from a distance, a good
deal of whistling and shouting. He focused on the Snitch clutched in his good hand.
"Aha," he said vaguely, "we've won." And he fainted.
6. Provide a syntactic analysis of the following sentence:
With a splattering thud he hit the mud and rolled off his broom
7. Phonetically transcribe the following words:
a) gasped
b) distance
c) careering
