Homework 3OVeB Revise the
simple past of IRREGULAR VERBS Send your work via e-mail
Deadline: Tuesday,
19 March 2020 0. Homework for last week (1- letter to friend, where you give your impression about your internship 2- written translation of the dialogue at page 217)
1. a) Look at the video about a very famous toy https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=26&v=Nl0iGMkxwcc b) Answer this quiz in a Word
document and send it QUIZ A. Ole Kirk Christiansen was a carpenter ... 1.
who was fired from his company who ran his own company had difficulty firing his last worker
B. Things got even worse 1.
Ole had to raise his sons alone Oles wife died of a heartattack Ole had 4
lazy sons C. The visitor made a living from ... 1.
selling holes to foolish people buying and selling things in large quantities to other merchants checking the quality of toys
D. The wholesaler ..., which was a disaster. 1.
lost all his money and had to shutdown his business decided not to buy the toy he had ordered from Ole
3.
didn't
pay a good price for the toys, so Ole's family had a poor Christmas
E. Ole managed to ... 1.
trade all of his toys for groceries (basic food) sell some of his toys for money and the rest for groceries sell all of his toys and bought a lot of food for Christmas
F. The name LEGO ... 1.
comes from a Danish phrase that means "playing well" comes from a Latin phrase that means "I put together" was suggested to him by a truckdriver
G. Ole's son ..., so he only painted the ducks twice, instead of three times. 1.
wanted to shirk (avoid doing) his duties ran out of lacqueur (transparent paint) wanted to save money
H. In Copenhagen Ole saw ... 1.
a moulding machine that could produce plastic blocks anew machine that could cutout wooden blocks a moulding machine and decided to stop producing wooden toys
I. Ole was the only one who ... 1.
wanted to produce plastic teddy bears thought that producing plastic bricks could become a thriving (good) business liked building Lego houses from
the bricks in the beginning J. There was one problem with the Lego system 1.
it took along time to build them, because they weren't sticky enough the glue they sold to stick them together wasn't very good the parts didn't stick, so the Lego constructions
easily fell apart K. Ole's son ... 1.
was forced to shutdown the wooden toy business because of the fire decided to stop producing wooden toys after the fire
3.
didn't resume the wooden toy business until after the Lego sales grew large enough
L. Godtfred ... ... 1.
had always wanted to create an amusement park built from Lego bricks originally wanted to have an exhibition room for his Lego models came up with the idea of Legoland when the modelling
room became too crowded 2. Read the example and use it to describe the three people you see.
1 2 3 4 Example of description: Number 2: He is a strongly built man. He is probably in his thirties, maybe 34 or 35. He has dark skin and he is bald. He is standing with his hands in his pockets. He is formally dressed in plain blue shirt and well-pressed dark blue trousers. He’s also wearing a leather black belt and well-polished black shoes.
Height and weight Age and skin Hair Posture Clothes style Accessories Clothes tall average height fat strongly built well-built slim petite
short thin chubby skinny slender elderly in his/her late forties in his/her early thirties middle-aged teenage wrinkled face freckles pimples scar flawless skin clean shaven face/head straight wavy curly bald moustache medium length dyed
dark blonde grey-haired fair beard spiky sideburns goatee ponytail fringe arms folded his/her hands on his/her hips hands clasped hands by his/her sides his/her hands in his/her pockets standing lying
squatting seated formally dressed casually dressed neatly dressed untidily dressed trendy old-fashioned creased scruffy glamorous flamboyant sexy vintage belt watch earrings bracelet necklace ring piercings bow
tie tattoo glasses mobile phone umbrella bag headband smart baggy loose tight patched well-pressed long short-sleeved woolen cotton denim handcrafted conventional stylish multicoloured Clothes patterns checked striped plain spotted flowered print tartan paisley Shoes well-polished leather comfortable high-heeled flats sports
barefoot Describe these people age, posture, their physical appearance and clothes. Follow the list of words and example.