VOCABULARY
You go here to buy medicine
Chemists
How long ago did Shakespeare live?
About 400 years ago
Who was the first person to travel into space?
Yuri Gargarin
In Carnival, Rio is one of the ________ ________________ cities in the world
most exciting
When was the Great Fire of London?
1666
(extra 200 points if you said
2 September 1666)
A verb meaning to stand in line for something, for example to buy tickets for something
To queue
What was the name of his wife?
What is a meteorite?
A piece of rock that has fallen to the earth from outer space.
Make any question in past simple with BE
Make any question in past simple with ANY OTHER VERB
Was/were ......
Did...
Where did the fire start?
At a baker's in Pudding Lane
What is the American word for rubbish?
Trash or garbage
How many plays did Shakespeare write?
37
When is Chinese New Year?
In January or February
What are the comparative and superlative forms of
GOOD
BAD
FURTHER
Good - better - best
Bad - worse - worst
Far - further - furthes
How many days did the fire burn?
Four
Something that isn't true or an idea that seems very stupid
Nonsense
Shakespeare wrote plays but he also did two other things. What were they?
He was an actor
He wrote poetry (sonnets)
Who made the first phone call?
Antonio Meucci
Give the past simple of these eight verbs beginning with B
become be begin break bring build
burn buy
built burnt bought
What is the name of the tall column that marks the place where the Great Fire of London started?
The Monument
People who were born in the place
Native
When Shakespeare died, what did he leave in his will for his wife?
His second best bed
What was the language they spoke in New York BEFORE English?
If you can remember any words in this language, you get 200 points for each word
Dutch
boss, cookie,nitwit, poppycock
Give two reasons for using the past continuous?
For long actions in the past (when a second short action in past simple happened)
To say what was happening at a specific time in the past
Who wrote about the fire in his Diary?
Samuel Pepys