[Activity designed by Mercedes Ariza at Francesc Macià Highschool, Cornellà]

Watch the video and do the following exercises:

I    Vocabulary: Match the words with their definitions

1    To pass away            a    To earn money

2    Foster child                b   Something that gives you a feeling of fear

3    To go into debt         c    Strange

4    To gamble                  d    To die

5    Bizarre                         e    Someone adopted by another family

6    Tavern                          f   To owe money

7    Creepy                         g    Place where people eat and drink

8    Barely                          h    To take a risky action or decision in the hope of gaining

money or an advantage

9    To make a living        I    It indicates that the thing that you are talking about is only

just true

 

Answer the following questions:

1     Underline the type of literature Poe wrote: fiction, biography, poetry, criticism, horror

2     Poe was a master of

3     He was called by many the father of

4     When and where was Poe born?

5     What happened to him when he was two years old?

6     How old was he when he started to write poetry?

7     Where did he study?

8     Who did he marry?

9     What happened to her?

10  Did he earn a lot of money from his writing?

11  Why is his story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” so important?

12  When did Poe write his famous poem “The Raven”?

13  How old was Poe when he died?