Sample question

In the exam you may be asked to write a letter giving your personal details. This exercise will help you to understand the information that you are given and show you how to adapt it in for your answer.

Recycling and adapting language

• ¡Hola!

  Me llamo Víctor. Soy español y vivo en Valencia.
  • You can reuse the greeting and the way to say what your name is and where you live. To write as if you are Tanya, you need to change the name, the nationality and where you live. Don't forget, as Tanya is a girl you will need to put the feminine form of galés.
• Tengo quince años. Mi cumpleaños es el 4 de abril.
  • You will need to change the age, the date and the month.
• Soy de talla media.
  • Instead of saying you're medium-sized, you need to say you're small.
• Tengo el pelo corto y negro y los ojos marrones.
  • Change the hair description and colour and the eye colour to fit Tanya.
• En mi familia somos cuatro, mi madre, mi padre, mi hermana y yo.
  • Change the number in the family, and family members as appropriate (you may be able to reuse some of them).
• No me gusta jugar al fútbol pero esta tarde voy a practicar atletismo.
  • You can use some of the same words and phrases but you have to change them round because they don't like the same things. Notice that Victor uses voy a to talk about what he is going to do.
• Me gusta escuchar música. Prefiero el Soul. Mi grupo preferido se llama Y. ¿Y tú? ¿Qué grupo prefieres?
  • Luckily they both like listening to music - but you need to change the type. You also need to change the name of the group.
• Escríbeme pronto, Víctor.
  • You can reuse this way of signing off. Just change the name.

In the exam you are often asked to give information about yourself. It could be in a:

• conversation
• letter
• form