7G Cultural events and venues

1 Complete the sentences with the words below.

(Hoàn thành các câu với các từ dưới đây.)

1 We saw an amazing collection of Ancient Egyptian jewellery at the __________

2 I enjoy watching acrobats at the __________, but I don't think they should use animals.

3 On Thursday evenings at my local __________, anyonecan have a go at being a comedian.

4 I went to see Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Met, a world- famous __________ in New York.

5 Some of these Impressionist paintings are privately owned and have never been seen in any __________

6 The Globe is a __________ in London where Shakespeare's plays are performed.

7 While we were in Vienna, we went to a __________ to hear a Beethoven piano recital.

8 At the O2 __________ in London, up to twenty thousand people can watch some of the biggest acts in music.

9 The British __________ holds around 170 million books and other items for students and researchers to access.

7H Describing stories

2 Complete the sentences with the words below.

(Hoàn thành các câu với các từ dưới đây.)

1 The __________ character is Bilbo Baggins.

2 I couldn't __________ with Bella Swan.

3 It's been __________ into a film called The Golden Compass.

4 It's the __________ of a group of boys who get stranded on a desert island.

5 __________I liked about the book was the way it described teenage alienation and disillusionment.

6 It's __________ on the author's experience of the unjust treatment of African Americans in 1930s America.

7 I found the __________ of Harry, Ron and Hermione rather unconvincing.

3 Match the sentences in exercise 2 with the books below that they refer to. Which ones have you read?

(Nối các câu trong bài tập 2 với những cuốn sách dưới đây mà họ đề cập. Những cái nào bạn đã đọc?)