First things first. We need to get to know the text we are expecting to find within the PEvAU exam. Therefore, in this section, I attached a sample text, which we are going to be working with in different activities as if we were dealing with the exam right away. Are you ready? 

In this case, I chose a text which describes some interesting features of the British writter Charles Dickens. Since the PEvAU exam does not introduce you any kind of cultural headland, this kind of texts are going to be really useful for you to get introduced into the English language environent while practicing for your PEvAU exam.

As you can see, it states that this is the second text of a group of 2 options the exam is going to give to you. Therefore, you can choose the text you prefer attending not only to the text itself, but also to the different questions regarding the other sections of the exam.

TEXT 2: CHARLES DICKENS

1     Charles Dickens is one of the greatest writers in English literature. His stories such as Great Expectations and Oliver Twist

2     continue to shape the way in which we understand nineteenth-century England.

3     Forget the idea that Dickens was always a rich, benevolent gentleman. His family moved around a lot in Dickens’s youth, from

4     Portsmouth to Kent, and from there to London. Dickens’s father was getting deeper and deeper into debt, and the family were

5     literally running away from their creditors. When he was 12, Dickens was sent to live with a family friend and to work at Warren’s

6     shoe polish factory. In his youth, Dickens thought of becoming an actor. However, he fell in love with a woman whose parents were

7     middle-class and disapproved of her association with an aspiring actor —actors being seen as of a low social status at the time.

8     Once he was a famous writer, Dickens became a well-known philanthropist who committed himself to many charities,

9     particularly focusing on issues of child poverty and education. On the same altruistic note, Dickens was also the editor of magazines

10   that, at popular prices, brought literature to everybody. They featured stories by different writers, established novelists, including

11   himself, and also women, like the first salaried female journalist, Eliza Lynn Linton.

12   Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol rapidly, taking just six weeks from beginning to end. He was forced to pay half the publication

13   costs himself as his publishers failed to see the value of a Christmas story. Ironically, it’s never been out of print since its publication

14   in 1843 and it’s been considered one of Dickens’s finest literary achievements, as well as an inspiration for numerous films.