Стр.102 Модуль 6 ГДЗ Starlight Баранова 7 класс

Задача

Check these words: crime, writer, well-to-do, conservative, lack, hire, tutor, verbally, make up, award, pass away.

What do you know about Agatha Christie? What more would you like to know? Write three questions. Listen, read and check. Did the text answer your questions?
Read the text again and say if the statements (1–6) are T (true), F (false) or NS (not stated). Justify your answers.
1. Agatha’s parents were American.
2. Agatha had two sisters.
3. Tutors taught Agatha how to read.
4. Agatha wasn’t a very outgoing child.
5. Agatha’s first book was published during the war.
6. She sold more books than any other writer of her time.
Find words/phrases in the text that mean:
1. someone who investigates crimes
2. pretty wealthy
3. teacher
4. a book of fiction
5. invent
Say four things you have learnt about Agatha Christie.
Think!
a) Think of some famous writers and poets from your country. Give their names.
b) Write a short biography of Leo Tolstoy or Alexander Pushkin. Present it to the class.

Подробный ответ

2.

F — Agatha’s father was American, but her mother was English.
NS — the text says she was the youngest of three children, but it does not say she had two sisters.
F — Agatha taught herself how to read when she was four.
T — she was shy and had problems expressing herself verbally.
F — her first book was published five years later, not during the war.
T — she is the best-selling writer of her time.

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