MATHS
How do you say this number in English: 12,345?
Twelve thousand three hundred forty-five.
What is the chemical symbol for iron?
Fe.
Who wrote The Little Prince?
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (France)
What’s the past participle of lie (acostarse-echarse sobre)?
Lie → lain
Who was the British Prime Minister during World War II?
Winston Churchill.
Translate into English: “número primo” and give one example.
Prime number; example: 7.
Explain briefly: what is photosynthesis?
Process by which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make food (glucose) and oxygen.
Which Russian author wrote War and Peace?
Leo Tolstoy.
Correct this sentence: She suggested me to go to the cinema.
She suggested that I go to the cinema.
She suggested going to the cinema.
What river separates the USA and Mexico?
The Rio Grande
What is the difference between “area” and “perimeter”? Explain briefly.
Area = space inside a shape; perimeter = distance around the shape.
Translate into English: “fuerza de gravedad.”
Gravitational force / gravity.
Define “alliteration” and give a simple example.
Repetition of consonant sounds; e.g., Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Transform into reported speech: “I have already finished my homework,” she said.
She said (that) she had already finished her homework.
In what year did Spain join the European Union?
1986.
Solve in English: The square root of 144 plus 50 divided by 10 = ?
√144 = 12 → 12 + 50 ÷ 10 = 12 + 5 = 17.
Name one scientist who contributed to quantum physics.
Albert Einstein (also Planck, Heisenberg, Schrödinger).
Who painted Guernica? In what historical context?
Pablo Picasso; during the Spanish Civil War.
Create a sentence using the future perfect continuous tense.
By next year, I will have been studying English for ten years
Name two countries that were part of the former Soviet Union.
Russia, Ukraine (others: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, etc.)
Explain the Fibonacci sequence in English.
A series of numbers where each number is the sum of the two previous ones (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5…).
Who proposed the theory of evolution and in which century?
Charles Darwin, 19th century.
What is an oxymoron? Give an example.
An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings. (Small giant)
How many pure vowel phonemes are there in English?
12
Explain briefly: What was the Cold War?
Political and military tension between the USA and the USSR after World War II, without direct combat.