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Listen to the audio and click the best option: a, b or c. You have to get a 60% of correct answers to do well in the listening test.

Pre-teaching vocabulary: manor= very big old house. Hide-and-seek= a game children play where they hide and somebody must look for them. Anglo-Saxon= refers to groups of people that moved from Germanic countries to the British Isles (especially England) after Rome left during the 5th century A.D.

The Mistletoe Bride

Q.1

Mistletoe is a ...

type of tree like apple and willow trees.
plant that grows on trees.
plant that grows next to different types of trees.

Q.2

The name of mistletoe comes from...

sticks
sticks and dung.
a combination of two Old English Words.

Q.3

Druids thought ...

the plant should be hung from entrances.
trees bearing this plant should be cut down.
the plant made people very unlucky.

Q.4

Norse people...

kissed under this plant on Christmas Day.
related mistletoe to happiness and child bearing.
thought mistletoe could make them rich.

Q.5

The place where the event of the story happens...

is very well-known.
has the ghost of Lord Lovell.
is confusing.

Q.6

When the story begins, the guests ...

were waiting for the wedding ceremony to take place.
had already had Christmas Dinner.
were waiting for the dinner.

Q.7

When the guests started to play hide-and-seek...

the bride asked her husband not to find her.
the women were the first to hide.
all the guests took part in the game.

Q.8

When the house was sold, the new owners...

wanted to keep all the objects in the house.
only wanted the old coffer.
didn't want to keep anything.

Q.9

At the end of the story, the bride had probably...

hidden herself until the game was over.
accidentally closed the lid of the chest.
thought she would be found by somebody.

Listening activity by Serena for Blogdeserena.blog

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