In the arena of Nationwide exams Today, Saturday, May 31, 2025, EPAL candidates were claiming a place in higher education for the academic year 2025-26.

The examiners were invited to first analyze a non -literary text on the value of music in our lives and then a poem by Tasos Levaditis belonging to the poetic collection “The Handwriting of Autumn”.

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ASSESSMENT

Today’s issues of the lesson of modern Greek in EPAL relate to a unity that is typically taught in the Secondary School.

The issue of offering music to humans and its value as a way of global linguistic communication is an easily manageable issue for young people.

The texts are simply in their understanding. Therefore, students will not have a problem. The exercises cover a wide range of theory and are clear. However, special attention is needed, as some of them ask different questions and therefore their answer must be a modular.

THE ANSWERS

1st activity

A1. (a) The second paragraph of the text argues that music is an important means of expressing thoughts and emotions. This happens as it reveals the whole range of them, but also because it concerns every human being. Finally, its importance lies in responding to situations and conditions that the standard language code cannot cover.

A1.b) Review to logic:

(a) Using a logical argument in the 2nd paragraph,
(b) Use historical example as presumption in the 3rd paragraph (reference to
ancient Greeks),
(c) Reference to archaeological finds, that is, the result of scientific research,
d) Scientific research/ studies as presumption in 3rd paragraph

Invocation to emotion:
rhetorical questions and emotional use of language in the 1st paragraph (‘will
We could imagine … TV? “)

2nd activity

A2. a) Indicative Titles:
“Music paints our lives”
‘Our music travels’

A2. b) In the last paragraph of the text “So music … in everything we feel!” Two ways of growth are identified. Initially, the columnist justifies his view that music is particularly important. The method of justification is (for example) in the use of the secondary causal proposals “because music is created by man for man” and “because it exists to express … that characterize us.” Examples are identified as a second way of development. In particular, the various types of music are presented “jazz, pop, rock, soul, fanks, blues, traditional, sirtaki ..”.
A2. c)

  1. b
  2. b
  3. a