Make Your Way 6, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Language in use You are going to read a text about the Great Exhibition of 1851. Some words are missing from the text. Use the words in brackets to form a word that fits in the gap (1–10). Write your answers in the spaces provided at the end of the text. The first one (0) has been done for you. 30 TIP Proceed as follows: • Carefully read through the text. • For each gap, first decide what type of word (verb, noun, adjective or adverb) is required. Only then make the necessary change in the stem word. • Fill the gap with the new word and check whether the resulting text makes sense. • Write the word you have formed in the space provided at the end of the text, paying attention to its correct spelling. e Great Exhibition of 1851 The Great Exhibition took place from 1 May to 15 October 1851. One of the chief organisers of this (0) ..... (celebrate) of invention and manufacturing was Prince Albert, a keen (Q1) ..... (support) of industrial and (Q2) ..... (science) development, and husband of Queen Victoria. The exhibition was housed in the Crystal Palace, which had been specially designed by Joseph Paxton, an eminent architect. Its cast-iron frame was constructed under the (Q3) ..... (supervise) of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the great Victorian (Q4) ..... (engine) . The whole (Q5) ..... (construct) covered more than seven and a half hectares of London’s Hyde Park. Six million people, equivalent to a (Q6) ..... (three) of the entire population of Great Britain, visited the Exhibition. Conservatives feared that the great mass of people might become a (Q7) ..... (revolution) mob, while radicals such as Karl Marx saw the exhibition as an example of the (Q8) ..... (exceed) of capitalism. The £186,000 profit made by the exhibition was used for the (Q9) ..... (establish) of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum, in an area of London that became known as Albertopolis. Today the Great Exhibition has become a symbol for the (Q10) ..... (con dent) and enterprise of the Victorian era. Write your answers here: 0 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 celebration 53 2 Extensive unit 2: Victorian times Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv