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 Index
INTRODUCTION....................6
SPEAKING...........................12

WRITING.............................17

GRAMMAR...........................23

VOCABULARY.......................31

READING ............................35

ANSWERS............................52
READING
ANSWERS...........................52

GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY

ANSWERS...........................55

LISTENING
ANSWERS...........................57

TIPS & TRICKS....................60

Introduction
Before you start, we want to give you an advice:

Having a material do not ensure a C1, it's about

knowing how to do it well rather than doing it fast

and wrong.

Now we can start! El examen Aptis Advanced

tiene 5 habilidades: Speaking, Writing, Grammar &

Vocabulary, Reading y Listening.

Cada una consta de 4 partes:

Speaking (10 minutos)

Escucha atentamente  las instrucciones y  habla

claramente por el micrófono  cuando escuches la

señal.  Cada parte de la prueba aparecerá

automáticamente. 

Parte 1: Deberás hacer una comparación y hablar

de  dos imágenes  presentadas juntas con tres

preguntas. Tendrás 45 segundos para responder

cada una.  

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Primero tienes que hacer una comparación de las

imágenes y después contestar cuál de las dos

situaciones que se muestran te parece más

atractiva o cuál preferirías si pudieras escoger. Por

último se te hará una pregunta general

relacionada con el tema.

Parte 2: Deberás hablar durante 2 minutos sobre

un tema dado por los examinadores y tendrás 1

minuto para preparar tu exposición.

Parte 3: Deberás exponer durante un minuto y 30

segundos los pros y contras de otro tema dado. Te

darán tres ventajas y tres desventajas. Tendrás que

elegir dos de cada una para hablar.

Parte 4: Se te hará una pregunta relacionada con

la parte anterior y tendrás que dar tu respuesta

durante 45 segundos.

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 Writing (45 minutos)

Parte 1: Deberás contestar a tres preguntas con un

estilo relativamente informal y en pocas palabras,

máximo 40.

El cuestionario simula el proceso de inscripción de

un foro especializado que puede ser sobre cocina,

historia o literatura.

Parte 2: Se te pide redactar un correo electrónico

con una extensión máxima de 150 palabras y

deberás escribir en un estilo formal.

Deberás responder el  e-mail a una entidad que

pide conocer tu opinión. A lo largo del texto

deben plantearse quejas y sugerencias con un

nivel lingüístico alto.

Parte 3: Deberás realizar un artículo con datos

dados por el examinador.

Este texto deberá tener una extensión de 180 a

220 palabras.

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 Grammar & Vocabulary (30 minutos)

En Grammar tendrás 25 ejercicios con respuestas

de opción múltiple. Verás que tiene preguntas de

Aptis General.

En Vocabulary tendrás 25 ejercicios con

respuestas de opción múltiple de sinónimos,

definiciones y collocations.

Reading (60 minutos)

Parte 1: Vas a leer la opinión de 4 personas y

después tendrás que decir quién expresó cada

idea al contestar 7 preguntas.

Parte 2. Tendrás que elegir el título adecuado

para cada párrafo. 

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Parte 3. Leerás un texto de 300 palabras con

frases faltantes, así que deberás elegir la mejor

opción y llenar los espacios.

Parte 4. Deberás llenar huecos de un texto, en

función de la concordancia semántica y

gramatical.

Listening (25 minutos)

Parte 1. Escucharás cinco audios de monólogos o

diálogos y se te harán preguntas relacionadas con

respuestas de opción múltiple. El nivel en esta

parte es B1-B2.

Parte 2. Escucharás dos conversaciones o

monólogos y tendrás que responder a dos

preguntas con opción múltiple para cada audio.

Podrás escucharlos dos veces cada uno.

Parte 3. Escucharás una conversación en la que,

generalmente, participan hombre y mujer. De esa

charla deberás contestar quién dijo cada idea.

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Parte 4. Una persona habla o varias pueden tener

una conversación bastante larga. Las opciones de

respuesta aparecen en tablas. Se escucha una vez

y el nivel es parecido al de un C2. 

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Recuerda que si eres maestro o profesor en apuros

porque necesitas presentar ya la habilitación

lingüística, puedes habilitar tu título de inglés C1

con Aptis Advanced. En Murcia y Extremadura no

es válido, en el resto de España sí lo es.

Let's start!

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 SPEAKING PART 1

TASK 1. You will answer 3 questions, you

have 45 seconds to answer each question

1. Compare the pictures:

2. What kind of concert would people choose?

3. What kind of music is better in your opinion?

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 SPEAKING PART 2

Task 2: You have 1 minute to prepare and 2

minutes to answer the 3 questions.

Natural Disasters

Have you ever heard about/lived through an

natural disaster?

How do you think people should react in case of

a natural disaster?

Do you think countries are (in general) prepared

for this kind of catastrophes?

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SPEAKING TASK 3

Task 3. You have 1 minute to prepare and

1:30 minutes to discuss only 2 pros and 2
cons from the ones below.

ARTWORKS

Should artists be paid for their artworks?

PROS:

Unknown artists can make a living of their

work.

Culture diffusion around the world.

Art as an expression of feelings and

emotion.

CONS:

Art is considered by many as a hobby.

Certain artworks are seen as worthless.

The quality of art is subjective in all cases.

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SPEAKING TASK 4

Task 4. You have 45 seconds to answer one

question (related to the topic of the previous
exercise).

Do you think modern art is valuable for

everyone?

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 WRITING TASK 1

TASK 1. Write an answer to each question

within 30-40 words. You have around 5
minutes (INFORMAL STYLE).

CHRISTMAS

Hi, Aron here! How do you normally celebrate

Christmas? Is it always the same way?

Hey there, I am from Asia and I was interested in

how this festivity is celebrated in your country.

Do you enjoy Christmas?

Are you usually given gifts on Christmas? Which

one has been the best so far?

Hello! Did you believe in Santa Claus/the Three

Wisemen when you were a child? How has

Christmas changed over the last 20 years?

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Task 2. Write an EMAIL with the information

below. You have to write 130-150 words. You
have around 15 minutes (FORMAL STYLE).

AIRLINE

The airline you have travelled with has lost your

luggage, also they are changing a few of their

policies that will most definitely affect your

future journeys. Hence, you have to send them

an email complaining (respectfully) about the

following issues:

How to get your luggage back and if you will

be charged extra money for it (it would not

be fair).

Now you are not allowed to bring more than

one suitcase, no matter how small it is,

without paying extra. 

The airline is downsizing and that affects the

way passengers are treated.

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Task 2. Write an EMAIL 130-150 words. You

have around 15 minutes (FORMAL STYLE).

AIRLINE E-MAIL

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 WRITING TASK 3

TASK 3. Write an ARTICLE using 180-220

words.
You have around 20 minutes (NEUTRAL STYLE).
You have to mention all the info provided.

The following data shows the statistics of

divorce in the U.S during the last decade. 
Divorce is quite common nowadays (more
than ever).
Decrease in the amount of marriages this last
decade.

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 WRITING TASK 3

TASK 3. Write an ARTICLE using 180-220

words.
You have around 20 minutes (NEUTRAL STYLE).
You have to mention all the info provided.

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Welcome to the Aptis Grammar and Vocabulary

test. The test consists of two sections: grammar
(25 questions) and vocabulary (25 questions).
You have 30 minutes to answer both sections.

1. We .......... dinner when our unexpected guests

............

A) ate / were arriving

B) were eating / arrived

C) had been eating / have arrived

2. Since they ........... us they were coming, we

.......... any food for them.

A) hadn't told / didn't have

B) don't tell / won't have

C) haven't told / aren't having

3. ......... more specific in his letter, I......... that he

would be living in Paris until next year.

A) If  he had been / wouldn’t have thought

B) If he has been / wouldn’t have thought

C) If he had been / wouldn’t thought

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4. I'm not going to start looking for a job ......... I

have finished my studies. 

A) by the time 

B) until 

C) moreover

5. In spite of the fact that the government owns

.......... of the forests in our country, ......... has

been done either to curb their misuse or to

develop a well-managed forest industry.

A) a few / none

B) most / plenty 

C) all / little

6.He consistently refused to take his medicine and

.......... his illness has gotten worse.

A) otherwise 

B) on the other hand 

C) consequently

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7. .......... having traveled to Mecca in disguise,

Burton was not able to penetrate the forbidden

city of Harar in what is now Ethiopia.

A) Although 

B) Regardless of 

C) Despite 

8. You have to take the full course of your

antibiotics......you feel better;......, your illness will

simply return.

A) unless / moreover

B) even if / otherwise

C) although / so that

9. If you ...... a car, you should get it ...... regularly.

A) owned / to service

B) will own / servicing

C) own / serviced

10.When I was young we ...... in a big house in the

countryside.

A) used to live

B) would live

C) used to living

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11. On summer mornings we  ...... while everyone

else was asleep.

A) used to get up

B) would get up

C) are used to getting up

12. Quite  ...... , I think this whole situation is

ridiculous.

A) frankly

B) honestly

c) really

13.  .......  of his injury, Ricardo will play in

Saturday's match.

A) despite

B) spite

C) in spite

14. A new house ……. yesterday by the new staff.

A) is being sold

B) was sold

c) had been sold

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15. The stairs ....... repaired a long time ago.

A) should be

B) should have 

C) should have been

16. I was using my pencil a minute ago. It ..... be

here somewhere!

A) can

B) could

C) must

17. His excuse ..... be true, but I don’t believe.

A) may

B) can

C) could

18. I remember _____ the Queen in London. 

A) meet 

B) to meet 

C) meeting

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19. Mrs Jones, I regret _____ you that your credit

limit has been exceeded. 

A) inform 

B) to inform 

C) informing 

20. Look, it's starting _____ . 

A) rain 

B) to rain 

C) raining 

21. There are no classes ______ summer.

A) at

B) in

C) on

22. Elizabeth likes to take a nap ______ noon.

A) at

B) in

C) on

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23.This wet weather is so ......

A) depressed

B) depressing

C) depression

24. He's such a ..... person. He never wants to go

out.

A) bored

B) boring

C) bore

25. I'm not very ..... in sport.

A) interested

B) interesting

C) interest

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VOCABULARY TASK 1 & 2

1. Match the words with their definitions:

2. Select a word from the list that has the

most similar meaning to the word on the
left.

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 VOCABULARY TASK 3 & 4

3. Select a word on the left that is most

often used with a word on the right.

4. Finish each sentence using a word from

the list.

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VOCABULARY TASK 5

Task 5. Choose a word to complete the

sentences.

1. I worked all night long in order to ........ the

deadline. I finally managed to hand my essay in

on time. 

a) take b) get c) meet

2. It is widely .......... that computers can make

our lives easier.

a) accepted b)  agreed c) allowed

3. The cabin .......... was supposed to be taking

care of the passengers

a) staff b) team c) crew

4. He asked me if there was any point in the

.......... future when I'd like to have children.

a) expected b) foreseeable c) predictable

5. Unfortunately, clinical details of influenza-like

illness in the detention .......... were not available.

a) facility b) site c) centre

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 READING TASK 1

1. Task 1. Read carefully the paragraphs and pay

attention to the author. Then answer the
questions below and decide who says what.

OCD
 

A. CINDY

My OCD started in the 5th  grade when I believed my

parents were trying to poison me. Every night before

bed, I asked for a glass of water, and would take a sip

while calculating the number of hours until the poison

would kill me. This is just one example of the strange

compulsions and haunting images I had to

endure.    While in Hawaii during Christmas of my

6th  grade year, I saw a TV show that followed the life

of three young men and women dealing with everyday

battles related to OCD. I watched the program for

about 3 minutes and turned it off. I was scared out of

my mind. From that point on, I told my parents that I

thought I had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I knew

very little about the condition, because when you are

of a young age like I was, you do not know what is

considered “normal”. 

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B. JOHN

My OCD became evident and disruptive to me, and my

family’s life, in February of 2000.  Shortly after the

birth of my son,  I was hospitalized with internal

bleeding.  After being released, a sense of constant

anxiety over fears of health, death became  intrusive

and obsessive.  It took until July 2002 before I decided

that enough was enough and I needed to get some

help finding out what was going on with my

thinking.  Eventually, my quests lead me to the Anxiety

Treatment Center.  The treatment that I have been

pursuing with Dr Zasio has done more for me in the last

7 months than all of the treatment I received in the last

8 years.

C. MARK

OCD makes life so much harder than it should be.  If it

is not one thing it’s another. Exposure and ritual

prevention therapy, I find, is the real solution to get a

handle on OCD.

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 READING TASK 1

Back in time, some of the obsessions included a fear of

being gay or damned, a fear of not living a good

Christian life, a fear of not being normal or a fear that

if I don’t deposit money in my checking account daily

that I will not have a secure bank account. As I said, I

feared that I had to live a “perfect” Christian life.  This

resulted in compulsions and drastic changes in my life.

The problem was, it never helped. I purged everything I

owned except my bedroom furniture and clothing.    I

lost thousands of dollars in computers, cell phones and

so forth.

D. JENNA

The Anxiety Treatment Center is the first program that

actually understood my anxiety and what I needed to

do to get better. They looked at me as a whole person

and all the areas of my life that were affected by my

anxiety. I had been through other local programs

reporting to have expertise only to find out they were

group based and for more general mental health

conditions.

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 READING TASK 1

The kind, warm, individualized treatment that I

received fostered a safe environment for me to open

up, talk about my fears, and face them head on. I am

ready to return to work, something that I never thought

I could do. If you are looking for help, this is the place

to go.

Answer the following questions:

Who gives the name of someone who helped him/her?

___

Who says that Exposure Therapy was the best option?

___ 

Who did not want to go to group therapy? ___

Whose OCD started earlier? ___

Who talks about the past and how she/he failed? ___

Who is living now a normal life? ___

Whose OCD affected their relationships with family

members? ___

Who found out about OCD by watching TV? ___

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2. Task 2. Choose the most suitable heading from

the table for each part of the article.

LUMBERJACKING, THE WORST PROFESSION

ON EARTH

1. _______________

Also known as loggers, they fell, cut, and transport

trees for processing. Cutting down trees may not be

the greenest job ever, but it’s a necessity. Trees

supply us with both paper products and lumber.

Things like pencils, furniture, buildings, homes, papers,

books, and desks all come from trees. A US website,

has published its lists of best and worst jobs in 2012

and places lumberjacking at the top of its chart of

careers to steer clear of.

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 READING TASK 2

2. _____________

Loggers work deep in the wilderness in heavily

forested areas. There they set up a base camp and

get to work chopping down massive trees. It may

seem like a simple job, but statistically it is one of the

most dangerous. Loggers are typically strong,

physically fit, incredibly lucky people with amazingly

quick reflexes. They work in teams to flatten a patch

of forest, collect the downed trees, and transport

them away by truck, helicopter, or barge. Standard

logger equipment includes chainsaws, hard hats,

reflective vests, pikes, axes, and spiked shoes.

3. ___________

Apart from having plenty of inconveniences, when it

comes to work as a logger, including environmental

damage, physical demands and stress, this profession

ranks in the highest. Oh, except for income, where it

ranks in the lowest. Unemployment for lumberjacks is

very high, and the demand for their services is

expected to continue to fall, and while working

outside all day may seem like a great job perk, being

a lumberjack not only is considered the worst job, but

also one of the world's most dangerous.

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4. ____________

Trailing behind on the list of jobs to avoid are dairy

farmer, enlisted military soldier, oil rig worker and

newspaper reporter. As the digital world continues to

take over the need for print newspapers and daily

newscasts is diminishing, pointing to on-the-job

stress, declining job opportunities and low income

levels as factors affecting the decline of Fourth

Estate careers.

5. _____________

As logging leaves the Earth looking like a patchwork

quilt, in order to limit the impact on the environment,

the logging industry works with tree planters and

communities to ensure future forests.  If one has to

see any bright side about it, maybe a logger’s reward

is the adventure, the risk, and life in the outdoors.

Logging is a physically demanding, never-ending job.

There are no formal requirements to become a

logger. Any large lumber company is in need of a

hard working, determined, tough logger.

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6. ____________

Is this a men’s world? There are exceptions.

Lumberjills are quite rare, however, some of them are

winning wood chopping championships nowadays.

Normally, just as it happens with men, they’re taught

to handle a wood chopper during their early teenage

years, as if it was not really a big deal, even though it

is not considered something that southern ladies

would do in their free time. Would you consider the

option of becoming a lumberjack/jill, even after

reading all these inconveniences? Are you curious

now?

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3. Task 3. Fill the gaps. Choose the correct

option for each gap.

Many Animals Can Count, Some Better Than You

Every night during breeding season, the male

túngara frog of Central America will 1.______out

a performance patch in the local pond and spend

unbroken hours broadcasting his splendor to the

world.

The mud-brown frog is barely the size of a shelled

pecan, but his call is large and dynamic, a long

downward sweep that sounds remarkably like a

phaser weapon on “Star Trek,” followed by a

brief, twangy, harmonically dense chuck.

Unless, that is, a competing male starts calling

nearby, in which case the first frog 2. _________

two chucks to the tail of his sweep. And

3._______ his rival respond likewise, Male A will

tack on three chucks.

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4. ________ they go, call and raise, until the frogs

hit their respiratory limit at six to seven rapid-fire

chucks.

The acoustic one-upfrogship 5.  __________ and

risks attracting predators like bats. Yet the male

frogs have no choice but to keep count of the

competition, for the simple reason that female

túngaras are doing the same: listening, counting

and  ultimately mating with the male of maximum

chucks.

Behind the frog’s surprisingly sophisticated number

sense, scientists have found, are specialized cells

located in the amphibian midbrain that tally up

sound signals and the intervals between them.

“The neurons are counting the number of

appropriate pulses, and they’re highly selective,”

said Gary Rose, a biologist at the University of Utah.

If the timing between pulses 6. ______ fraction of

a second, the neurons don’t fire and the counting

process breaks down.

“It’s game over,” Dr. Rose said. “Just as in human

communication, an inappropriate comment can end

the whole conversation.”

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The story of the frog’s neuro-abacus is just one

example of nature’s vast, ancient and versatile

number sense, a talent  explored in detail in a

recent themed issue of Philosophical Transactions

of the Royal Society B, edited by Brian Butterworth,

a cognitive neuroscientist at University College

London, C. Randy Gallistel of Rutgers University

and Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of

Trento.

Source: The New York Times.

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4. Task 4. You are going to read 2 articles about

an extinct animal. Choose the most suitable option
per blank.

Bring mammoth back to life

The woolly mammoth is long gone, having been

pushed to extinction thousands of years ago, but in

recent years, there have been no 1. ___________ 

the species back. No, we’re not talking

about  Jurassic Park-style of cloning — at least not

yet — but a mammoth specimen discovered nearly

a decade ago is bringing scientists closer than ever

to 2. _________.

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 READING TASK 4

The mammoth, named Yuka, was found frozen in

Siberia in 2010. Miraculously, even after thousands

of years of lying dormant, scientists out of Japan

recently managed to bring some of the animal’s

biological material back to life.

Put simply, the scientists took the heart of the

“dormant,” but damaged, mammoth cells and 1.

swapped them into living mouse reproductive cells

in a process called nuclear transfer (NT) in the

hopes of bringing the harvested biological samples

back from the brink. Against all odds, the cells

began to wake back up, bringing a tiny bit of a

woolly mammoth back to life.

However, as promising as this might sound, it’s a

far cry from actually reviving the extinct species.

There are still 3. __________ before such a thing

could even be considered, much less attempted,

not least of which is finding samples of a

preserved woolly mammoth with DNA that has held

up better over time. 

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 READING TASK 4

“Although the results presented here clearly show

us again the de facto impossibility to clone the

mammoth by current NT technology, our approach

paves the way for evaluating the biological

activities of nuclei in extinct animal species,” the

team says.

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We Might Soon Resurrect Extinct Species. Is It

Worth the Cost?

With enough determination, money and smarts,

scientists just might revive the woolly mammoth, or

some version of it, by splicing genes from ancient

mammoths into Asian elephant DNA. The ultimate

dream is to generate a sustainable population of

mammoths that can once again roam the tundra.

But here’s a sad irony to ponder: What if that

dream 1. ________ today’s Asian and African

elephants, whose numbers are quickly dwindling

because of habitat loss and poaching?

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 READING TASK 4

Just because scientists can 2. _______ this feat

of genetic engineering, does not necessarily mean

that they should. The fear is not that we may be

heading towards creating the chaos of Jurassic

Park. Dinosaurs lived more than 60 million years

ago, whereas the oldest species to yield usable

DNA is a 43,000-year-old woolly mammoth.

Instead, spending resources on iconic extinct

species, editors at Scientific American have

argued, could lead to draining resources that

would be better spent on saving species on the

verge of extinction.

Already conservationists face difficult choices

about which species and ecosystems to try to save,

since they cannot hope to rescue them all. 

3. _________, a costly and flamboyant project to

resuscitate extinct flora and fauna in the name of

conservation looks irresponsible: Should we

resurrect the mammoth only to let elephants go

under? Of course not.

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1. Task 1.

1. Who gives the name of someone who helped

him/her? B
2. Who says that Exposure Therapy was the best

option? C
3. Who did not want to go to group therapy? D
4. Whose OCD started earlier? A
5. Who talks about the past and how she/he

failed? C
6. Who is living now a normal life? D
7. Whose OCD affected their relationships with

family members? B
8. Who found out about OCD by watching TV? A

2. Task 2.
1.A need to keep away from

2. A tough and demanding occupation

3. At the top of the disruption's list

4. More bullets to dodge

5. An unenviable job’s bright side

6. The wood chopping world may be prejudiced

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Task 3. 
1. Stake

2. is likely to add

3. should

4. back and forth

5. is energetically draining

6. is off by just

Task 4.
Reading: "Bring mammoth back to life"
1. shortage of efforts to test the feasibility of

bringing

2. realizing that dream

3. major hurdles that need to be overcome

Reading: "We Might Soon Resurrect Extinct

Species. Is It Worth the Cost?"
1. came at the expense of

2. pull off

3. against that backdrop

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1. b) 16. a)

2. a) 17. c)

3. a) 18. b)

4. b) 19. b)

5. c) 20. b)

6. c) 21. a)

7. c) 22. b)

8. b) 23. b)

9. c) 24. b)

10. a) 25. a)

11. b)

12. a)

13. c)

14. b)

15. c)

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1. Task 1

2. Task 2.

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3. Task 3.

4. Task 4.

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1. Listening Part 1
1. c)

2. d)

3. a)

4. a)

5. a)

6. d)

7. b)

2. Listening Part 2
Respuestas:
1. She celebrated: c)

2. Her sister: a)

Listening 2

1. At the restaurant you can take your: b)

2. The restaurant is a bit: c)

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3. Listening Part 3
"RY" for Ryan / "RO" for Rox / "B" for both
1. Alienated children can cause a lot of trouble

to the community: B
2. Socialising with other children is imperative: B
3. Most new theories in education just lead to an

increased burden of teachers: RY

4. I believe children have to learn to deal with

difficulties: RO
5. I think educating children at home is a really

positive move: RY
6. It would be much easier to organise different

activities for just a few children: B

7. Currently children do worse than before: RY 
8. New methodologies are just a horse of a

different colour: B
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4. Listening Part 4

RESPUESTAS:

He is afraid of going on holidays with a friend

beacuse:

C) He is not outgoing

The speaker had...

A) A fight in a pub

The couple he went to Sicily with...

B) Got divorced

The daughter of the friends he went on holidays

with was:

A) Bad-mannered
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TIPS Y TRUCOS PARA APTIS ADVANCED

El mejor consejo que podemos darte es: ESTUDIA,

PRACTICA, PRACTICA MUCHO Y VUELVE A

PRACTICAR.

Te darás cuenta de que esta guía no responderá

todas tus dudas, sobre todo en la parte de

Grammar & Vocabulary, Reading y Writing, ya que

más allá de los trucos del examen es importante

que tengas una base sólida sobre los tiempos

verbales, el uso de los artículos, preposiciones,

relative clauses, modal verbs, etcétera.

Con esto no queremos agobiarte, sólo que sepas

que en el blog de salondeidiomas.es encontrarás

vocabulario, idioms, phrasal verbs, collocations,

sinónimos, metáforas, preposiciones y todo lo que

creemos que necesitarás para obtener el nivel C1 -

C2.

Igualmente en el canal de Youtube de Salón de

Idiomas encontrarás tutoriales sobre Aptis

Advanced.

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TIPS Y TRUCOS PARA SPEAKING

IMPORTANTE:

Cuando practiques...

1.Utiliza un cronómetro para poder determinar el

tiempo en tus respuestas. 

2. Establece una estructura definida para

contestar al tipo de preguntas que se hacen, a

continuación te daremos algunos trucos.

3. Mejora el  vocabulario  para poder reducir las

repeticiones y pausas.

4. Utiliza conectores: Evita utilizar los más

comunes, tales como "and", "but", "because". En

lugar de "because", por ejemplo, utiliza "since" o

"provided that". A continuación te damos

vocabulario.

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PARTE 1 DE SPEAKING

Comparar imágenes
Da un vistazo muy rápido de las imágenes y

procura encontrar dos diferencias y dos

similitudes para comentar. Utiliza conectores de

comparación.

Frases que puedes utilizar al iniciar con la

descripción:

At first sight                  A primera vista 

First of all                      Antes que nada

To start with                  Para empezar

Para suponer situaciones acerca de  la

imagen:

On the left/right … it might be + ing

He /She/ It must be

It seem to be…

I get the impression...

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Para hablar de una impresión personal sobre la

imagen:

It reminds me of...

It makes me think of...

I would love to...

PARTE 2 DE SPEAKING

Es necesario utilizar:

Conectores nivel C1.

Estructuras condicionales  (“If I were you, I

would include these conditional structures”).

Voz pasiva  (“She was given an award”  y

no “they gave her an award”, por ejemplo).

Adverbios  (que no sean  really  o  totally  por

favor).

Verbos modales (que no sean can o could).

Adjetivos (no es lo mismo decir “I went to a

beach” que “I went to a paradise-like beach”

Idioms: nada de “it’s a piece of cake” que está

muy visto. 

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Sinónimos. Evita a toda costa repetir palabras

que sean muy comunes. En su lugar, tendremos

que poner sinónimos más apropiados. No

utilices muchas veces palabras como “thing”,

“do”, “think”, “big”, “good”, “bad”, etc. Si es

posible, es importante sustituir esas palabras.

Por ejemplo, si estamos hablando de teléfonos

móviles u otros aparatos, no decimos “the

mobile phone is a thing”, diríamos “the mobile

phone is a device”.

Evita Sustituye por:

Big huge, colossal, large, great

Good positive, favourable, useful

Do experience, practise, handle

Bad detrimental, prejudicial, negative

Thing device, tool, object, item

Think guess, believe, reckon, ponder

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PARTE 3 DE SPEAKING

Pros and cons

La parte 3 del speaking del examen Aptis C1-C2

está dividida en dos secciones, una de Pros y otra

de Cons. Lo primero que hay que saber es que no

debes utilizar en tu speech las palabras "pros" y

"cons". Utiliza sinónimos como:

Pro Con
Advantage Disadvantage

Benefit Drawback

Positive aspect Negative aspect

Asset Inconvenience

Upside Downside

Reason for (topic) Reason against (topic)

Desarrollo de la pregunta
Hay que escoger rápido dos pros y dos cons de

los tres que vienen para cada parte. Elige  lo que

mejor puedas conectar y de lo que más puedas 

hablar.

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PARTE 4 DE SPEAKING

En esta parte desarrollarás el mismo tema del que

ya hablaste en la parte 3, así que  lo más seguro

es que ya tengas vocabulario suficiente para

manejarte con destreza.

Si ves que te estás quedando sin ideas y te

sobran unos segundos, puedes intentar concluir e

introducir a un breve resumen con frases como:

To sum up, to conclude, in conclusion, all in all, in

brief, in short, on the whole.

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CÓMO PREPARAR EL LISTENING

Escucha antes de elegir la respuesta. Si te

pones a mirar las respuestas mientras escuchas

puedes perderte u obviar la palabra clave.

Presta atención a los tiempos verbales que

aparecen porque te dan pistas.

Ten cuidado con las negativas (a veces indican

todo lo contrario).

Fíjate cuando muestran alguna emoción o

duda o cualquier exaltación porque pueden

darte trucos.

No des nada por hecho. Aunque todo parezca

indicar algo, no te dejes llevar por una

conclusión precipitada.

Intenta quedarte con las expresiones claves,

incluso apúntalas si tienes tiempo por si luego

te ayudan.

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WRITING: ¿CÓMO ESCRIBIR CORRECTAMENTE?

Parte 1: Los chats

El truco para este ejercicio es poner ejemplos,

como siempre, de vuestra propia experiencia.

Parte 2: Carta formal

En la carta formal, si sabemos a quién nos

estamos dirigiendo, tendremos que utilizar “Dear

Mr/Mrs XXX (quien sea)”.

Sin embargo, si no lo sabemos, tendremos que

utilizar “To whom it may concern” que viene a ser

“A la atención del organismo que proceda” o “a

quien le interese”.

La despedida también es importante y tiene que

coincidir con el saludo. Con “Dear Mr/Mrs  lo que

sea” utilizaremos “Yours cordially/sincerely“, pero

si por el contrario utilizamos “To whom it may

concern” tendremos que despedirnos con un

“Yours faithfully“.

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MÁS TIPS PARA LAS CARTAS FORMAL E

INFORMAL

Añade modal verbs que no sean "can", utiliza

"must", "should", "ought to", "have to".

Utiliza adverbios como "basically", "actually"

(que no es actualmente).

Utiliza conectores no habituales. Evita: "but" y

"because".

No olvides finalizar la carta con tu nombre y

apellidos (también cuentan como palabras).

Recordad que tenéis que intentar tocar todos los

puntos.

Parte 3: El artículo
Para el artículo cuatro párrafos bien organizados

son suficientes. Lo importante es mencionar todos

los datos que se te ofrecen y compararlos con base

en lo que se te pide: hablar de ventajas,

desventajas o ser neutral.

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Estructura del artículo

Párrafo 1. Introduce el tema de una manera

atractiva. Por ejemplo, si vuestro artículo va del

número de gente que come chocolate blanco en

el mundo, puedes empezar con una pregunta

como “Have you ever wondered how many people

prefer white chocolate in the world?”,  “Did  you

know that a huge amount of people prefer white

chocolate instead of a better option?”.

Antes de dar datos, explica qué tema vas a

exponer y cuál es tu enfoque.

Párrafo 2. A partir de aquí, da datos de la tabla y

empieza con un breve análisis, si suben, si bajan,

si se mantienen estables.

Utiliza vocabulario conveniente para este tema.

Por ejemplo, si suben “increase” o “soar“; si bajan

usaremos “drop” o “decrease”.

Utiliza adverbios como “sharply“, “suddenly“,

“significantly“.

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Párrafo 3. Aquí colocamos datos que refuerzan

nuestra postura inicial, busca que el artículo

tenga coherencia y lógica.

Párrafo 4. Para concluir no puedes ser subjetivo.

Olvídate de concluir con frases como “therefore,

in my opinion, I believe it’s best to…”. Redacta tu

conclusión en función de los datos presentados y

apelando a ellos.

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