As announced, the 2008 English language PAU test has got three parts:
- Reading comprehension. The text was about “toxic friends”, that is to say, people who are your friends but make it difficult for you to make new things. Overall, the test was on the easy side and there were minor vocabulary problems.
- Writing. The two options were: a letter where you ask a “toxic friend” to renegotiate your friendship; or a composition about the influence of psycology in our lives.
- Listening exercise: 8 questions about a TV series where a famous British comedian -Michael Palin- travels the world.
To know more about the topics in the exam, you can follow the links below:
- What are ‘toxic friends‘?
- How can you identify a ‘toxic friend’?
- Who is Michael Palin?
- Michael Palin’s Around The World In 80 Days series.
- A youtube video on Michael Palin’s last series “Michael Palin’s New Europe”