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UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA
School of Language and Communication Studies
Main Series UG Examination 2012-2013
SPANISH HONOURS 3: WORLD SPANISHES
LCS-3H10
Time allowed: 2 hours
Answer BOTH sections and do so in the answer book provided.
Double-space ALL answers.
Section A carries 50% of the marks.
Section B carries 50% of the marks.
Use a SEPARATE answer book for EACH question.
Notes are not permitted in this examination.
Do not turn over until you are told to do so by the Invigilator.
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SECTION A – Translation into Spanish
Translate the following passages into Spanish:
Many victims found it hard to break their silence. I saw this at first hand, in Poyales,
where people sometimes lowered their voices when talking about the Civil War. The
historian Vinyes told me he found ex-prisoners he interviewed sometimes asked him
to turn off his tape-recorder, or suddenly changed the subject, if the children
appeared. Years of enforced silence had taken their toll. ‘They were scared of
recounting things that might disturb the family’, he explained. ‘Fear remains in the
blood’. At an exhibition on the takeover of Barcelona by Franco’s army, sixty years
after the event, he found one woman sobbing by a board listing the people shot by
firing squads. ‘That man is my father!, she explained. ‘My mother never told me. She
just said he disappeared during the war.’
Extracted from The Ghosts of Spain (by Giles Tremlett, 2006)
SECTION B
Write an argumentative, well-reasoned and supported essay in Spanish
discussing ONE of the following topics (about 450-500 words).
i)
Las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación en el siglo XXI no son
beneficiosas y contribuyen a la destrucción de los elementos normativos
de la lengua española.
ii)
Las autoridades lingüísticas del español tendrán que cambiar algunas
reglas gramaticales e inventar un buen número de palabras nuevas para
liberar a nuestro noble idioma de su carga antifeminista.
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