Appearance and character of a person (literary character)

Choose the appropriate word. Hermiona is so _____. She wants to know everything.

Choose the appropriate word. Ann was confused and her smile was _____.

Match the words.

Choose the appropriate word. Granny’s face is so _____.

Choose the appropriate modal verb to complete the sentence. You _______ be glad to find the best flat.

Choose the appropriate modal verb to complete the sentence. You ______ not take pictures in this museum.

Choose the appropriate modal verb to complete the sentence. He ______ read when he was six.

Choose the appropriate modal verb to complete the sentence. It _____ be your car there. You have parked it today.

Read the text and mark the sentences True or False. The Man in the Iron Mask He didn’t wear an unusual iron mask but he wore the one made of cloth. For thirty-five years this man was kept in prison. To this day nobody knows who the man was. He was put in prison by the King of France who refused to answer any questions about why the prisoner was there or who he was. When the famous author Alexander Dumas heard about that mysterious person, he used him as the basis of his popular book “The Man in the Iron Mask”. To make the story even more tragic, Dumas changed the cloth mask which the man actually wore for the iron one. The real man was put in prison when he was no more than twenty-two. He was told by his heartless guards that if he said one word about who he was, he would be killed. So, he was allowed to speak only about his health and food. According to some records, the man was kind, patient and never complained. When he died in prison, he was buried under a false name.

Read the text and mark the sentences True, False or Not stated. Nostradamus, the Prophet Was a man living in the 16th century able to predict the French Revolution, World War II and that Man would walk on the Moon? The answer is ‘yes’ if we ask the fans of Nostradamus, a great French astrologer and astronomer, who used both astrology and astronomy to predict the future. Nostradamus’ real name was Michel de Nostradame. He was born on the 14th of December, 1503, in a small town in southern France. As a child he was very good at mathematics and astrology. At the age of 15, he became a university student, but the University was soon closed because of an outbreak of the plague. Nostradamus travelled across the country and helped victims of the plague using his own methods. It is said that he invented a ‘rose pill’ that could protect people against the plague. Sadly, his first wife and two small children later died from the plague. Nostradamus continued to learn and practise medicine, but he also got interested in astrology. Soon legends began to grow about his strange ability to predict future. One story said that when Nostradamus was in Italy, he met a monk. He immediately went down on his knees and called the monk ‘Your Holiness’. About 45 years later the monk became Pope. Nostradamus realised that he had an unusual gift and started writing down his predictions in the form of four-line poems. He quickly became famous, and even Queen Catherine de Medici of France wanted to meet him. Nostradamus predicted the death of her husband, King Henry II, and in 1559 his prediction came true! It is said that Nostradamus even predicted his own death! When his assistant wished him goodnight on the 1st of July, 1566, Nostradamus said: ‘You won’t find me alive at sunrise.’ He was found dead on the 2nd of July. All in all, Nostradamus wrote over 900 predictions about the future of the world. They were published in two books called The Centuries, which were published in 1555 and 1558. Nostradamus’ four-line poems predicted events from the mid-1500s until the end of the world. People have studied and interpreted his predictions since the sixteenth century! The problem with these predictions is that they are very vague and can mean many things. Nostradamus made his poems difficult to understand by using words from Latin, French, Greek and Italian. They have anagrams and riddles and are not placed in chronological order. This was because he didn’t want the Church to accuse him of being a magician or a heretic. But just how did Nostradamus predict the future? He worked with ancient books, he studied the stars using his knowledge of astrology. He also used an ancient method of predicting the future - he looked into a bowl of water until he had an inspiration or saw an image. People who believe him say that he predicted the Great Fire of London of 1666, the rise of both Napoleon and Hitler, the assassination of American President John F. Kennedy and even the terrorist attacks of the 11th of September, 2001. Many of his predictions seem true. But some of the events never happened. Sceptics think that Nostradamus’ predictions can be interpreted to fit almost any event.