Vocabulary: Choose The Correct Answers To Show You Understand The Meaning of The Words in Bold
Vocabulary: Choose The Correct Answers To Show You Understand The Meaning of The Words in Bold
Vocabulary: Choose The Correct Answers To Show You Understand The Meaning of The Words in Bold
Vocabulary
(Bloque 3 Comprensión escrita: 1. Identificar instrucciones; Bloque 4 Producción escrita: 4. Escribir notas, mensajes o comentarios)
1 Choose the correct answers to show you understand the meaning of the words in bold.
1. The army lost the game / battle.
2. The Queen ruled the country / palace for 30 years.
3. The King’s cat / son was his heir.
4. A relative is another person in your class / family.
5. Everyone looked at the crown on the prince’s head / hand.
6. Ten houses / people were killed by the bomb.
2 Match the beginnings in A to a logical continuation in B. Pay attention to the words in bold.
A B
1. The Queen’s reign was ...... a. after his father died.
2. The King executed ...... b. its army to help.
3. The end of the war led to ...... c. the whole country.
4. The King came to power ...... d. happier times in the kingdom.
5. The country’s ally sent ...... e. to take his throne.
6. The assassination of the duke shocked ...... f. all his enemies.
7. The King’s brother plotted ...... g. long and happy.
4 Complete the sentences with the correct relative pronoun. Use who, which, whose, where or when.
1. I read about the time …………………… the English king Charles I was executed.
2. Edward I was an English king …………………… wife was a Spanish princess.
3. Camelot was the place …………………… the legendary King Arthur had his castle.
4. Edward and Richard were two English princes …………………… disappeared mysteriously.
5. “Prince of Wales” is a title …………………… is given to the heir to the British throne.
Is there 1.…………………… who hasn’t heard of Genghis Khan, the great Mongol
leader? Genghis Khan was born 2.…………………… in central Mongolia in about
1162. By the age of 30, Genghis Khan was a powerful leader and 3.……………………
who terrified his enemies. There wasn’t 4.…………………… he didn’t know about his
enemies because he had many spies among them. When other leaders did 5.
…………………… to annoy him, he immediately went to war. After he captured
a city, 6.…………………… was safe; he killed everyone – men, women and children.
When he died, he didn’t want 7.…………………… to find his tomb, so his soldiers
killed all the people who saw his funeral procession. Even today, 8.……………………
knows the exact location of his tomb.