The mystery of Tutankhamun’s death

Watch the following video about the mystery of Tut’s death and do the exercises:

Write true or false:

(until 1:42)
T/F
  1. Tut was an icon of the Egyptian power.
 2. Until the discovery of his tomb Tut was well known in Egypt.
 3. The walls of his tomb were full of information about his life.
 4. Nobody knows why he died.
 5. There are two possible reasons to explain his death.
 6. One reason can be that he was hurt during a combat.
 7. He fractured his leg while doing some sport.
 8. He was murdered with a gun shot.

Choose the correct option:

(from 1:42 til the end)
1. The scanner generates more than________ images.
  1. 500
  2. 1.500
  3. 50.000
2. The hole in the head means that maybe he was ________.
  1. killed
  2. ill when he was little
  3. hit on the head accidentally
3. The Egyptians think that the hole in the head was made by __________
  1. his family
  2. the embalmers
  3. the gravedigger
4. When they keep on analysing Tut’s body they see a fracture in __________
  1. his foot
  2. his leg
  3. his knee
5. The mystery of Tut’s death is solved after __________.
  1. 13.000 years
  2. 3.000 years
  3. 1.000 years

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Shakespeare’s biography

Source: de.wikipedia.org

Read the following TEXT and answer the questions:

1. When and where was William Shakespeare born?

2. How many brothers and sisters had he got? Did he go to school?

3. How old was he when he married Ann Hathaway?

4. What did he do at the theatre?

5. Why did the company he was playing at change its name?

6. Did he have a good life?

 

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One year on the road

[designed by Mercedes Ariza]

Watch the video and answer the questions:

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/117292039[/vimeo]

  1. What did the narrator do a year ago?
  2. What was one of the reasons for making that trip?
  3. Where is he after a year travelling?
  4. What was his favourite moment of the trip so far?
  5. What was unforgettable for him?
  6. What was the hardest part of the trip?
  7. Why was it so difficult?
  8. What happened to one of his horses?
  9. What’s the biggest lesson from the trip?
  10. When will he be back home in Brazil?

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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”

[designed by Mercedes Ariza]

Read this summary to know what the poem is about:

It is midnight on a cold evening in December in the 1840s. In a dark and shadowy bedroom, wood burns in the fireplace as a man laments the death of Lenore, a woman he deeply loved. To occupy his mind, he reads a book of ancient stories. But a tapping noise disturbs him. When he opens the door to the bedroom, he sees nothing –only darkness. When the tapping persists, he opens the shutter of the window and discovers a raven, which flies into the room and lands above the door on a bust of Athena (Pallas in the poem), the goddess of wisdom and war in Greek mythology. It says “Nevermore” to all his thoughts and longings. The raven, a symbol of death, tells the man he will never again (“nevermore”) see his beloved, never again hold her –even in heaven.

Listen to the poem:

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