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Lt 33 Revise and Check GRAMMAR Circlea, b, orc. 1 Van Gogh and Gauguin __ both painters a was b were cis 2 Where __ Shakespeare born? awas bwere cis 3 __ the tickets expensive? @ Was b Were c Did 4 1__a good film on TV last night. a watched b watch c watches 5 They __ at the right airport. a didn’tarrived b don'tarrived ¢ didn’t arrive 6 ___ you see the football match last night? a Did b Do ¢ Were 7 We __ to Istanbul three years ago. ago bwere went 8 When in Los Angeles? a youlived b did youlived ¢ did you live 9 |__ you at the party last night. a didn’tsaw b didn't see € don't saw 10 What time __ home? a didyouget b youdid get _¢ you got 11 __abiig table in the living room. a There are b Thereis ¢ itis 12 How many bedrooms _? a there are b are there ¢ are they 13 There aren't __ pictures on the walls. a any b some ca 14 __only three guests in the dining room. a Therewas b There were ¢ There is 15 How many people ___in the hotel? a there were b wasthere were there VOCABULARY 2 Complete the professions with -er, -or,-ian, or -ist. 1 act__ 2 art__ 3 paint__ 4 music 5 scient_—_ b Complete the phrases with go, have, or get. 1 a good time 2 an email 3 away for the weekend 4 ated 5 holiday ¢ Complete the sentences with back, by, in, out, or to. 1 Lwent with my friends on Saturday night. 2 They went home car. 3 What time did you get 4 Iwas born 1998. 5 Alterlunch Iwent___to work. d_ Label the pictures. 1 2 3 4 5 @ Write the prepositions. ° nema? the restaurant? PRONUNCIATION ‘a Practise the words and sounds. Vowel sounds a 2 @ chair phone horse Consonant sounds dog i vase bag parrot b @p.166-7 Sound Bank Say more words for each sound. ¢ What sound do the pink letters have in these words? 1 hall 2 here 3 lived 4 looked 5 there d_ Underline the stressed syllable. 1 scientist 3. yesiteriday 2 algo 4 beltween 5. fireiplace CAN YOU understand this text? a Read the article once. Do you have any favourite detectives or detective writers? b Read the article again. Mark the sentences T (true) or F (false). 1 Gillin Flynn and Lee Child are moder crime writers. 2 Sherlock Holmes only appeared in short stores. 3 Agatha Christie's novels were similar to older crime fiction 4. She wanted her readers to try to solve the crimes themselves, 5 Ifyou read detective fiction from the 19th and early 20th century, you can learn about how people thought and behaved 6 Not many people now enjoy Dorothy Sayers's books. How the modern detective novel was born ol — —— Millions of readers, like me, love the books of Gillian. Flynn and Ruth Rendell, of Lee Child and Laura Lippman, But most fans of modern crime fiction know very little about the writers who invented the modern detective novel Many ofthe best early detective stories were short stories. igar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was probably the author of the first detective story. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) created perhaps the most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown was also a detective who was nearly as popular as Holmes; he was created by G.K. ‘Chesterton (1874-1936), Father Brown only appeared in short stories, and Sherlock Holmes appeared in over 50 short stories and only four novels, including The Hound ofthe Baskervilles, where he solves the mystery of an ‘enormous ghost dog. In 1916, in her book The Mysterious Afar at Styles, Agatha Christie introduced a new type of detective novel, and. anew detective, Hercule Poirot. This book was a bit different because the plot was more important than the characters and the writer asked readers to guess the name of the murderer. Later, in the 1930s and. 40s, Dorothy Sayers wrote detective novels where the relationships between the characters were sometimes, ‘more interesting than the plot. Reading can give usa fascinating view of the past, and when we read these detective stories and novels we can also learn something about how people lived and thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. These authors, are still very popular. They influence present-day authors such as J.K. Rowling and they are probably going to inspire crime fiction for decades to come. ‘Adapted trom the Bri © CAN YOU understand these people? @8.25 Watch or listen and answer the questions. c Rebecca James Maura. = Asya. David 1 Rebecca's family lives in a Italy b theUK 2 Last weekend, James a went out with fiends went to the cinema 3 In Maura's bedroom there's @ aTVanda cupboard ba wardrobe and a bed 4 Yesterday, Asya @ wenttobedlate — ¢ had lunch with her brother b_ went out with her sister 5. Last New Year's Eve, David celebrated a athome b withfriends ¢ with his children © Newcastle © watched a concert on TV © abedand a desk CAN YOU say this in English? Do the tasks with a partner. Tick (/) the box if you can do these things. Can you...? 1 [ll say three things about a famous (dead) person from your country 2. [ll say five things you did last week, using past time expressions, e.g. lastnight, yesterday, (three) days ago, ete. 3 [ll say where and when you were born 4. [ask five questions about the past with was / were or did

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