Make Your Way 7, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Mastering ... Language in use You are going to read a text about an ancient story. In most lines of the text there is a word that should not be there. Write that word in the space provided after each line. 3–5 lines are correct. Indicate these lines with a tick (  ). There are two examples at the beginning. 9 Writing You are a member of an online English-language reading club. You are this month’s chairperson of the online discussion of the story “Call if you need me”. Write a review of the story that is meant to get the discussion started. Make sure you include the following points: • a short synopsis of the story • the quality of the writing/language • the message of the story Write your review in about 200 words . 10 For thousands of years, storytellers have delighted listeners with tales of 0 heroic deeds. e oldest of these is the epic of Gilgamesh, which o en called 00 the rst great work of world literature. e poem was being composed four or Q1 ve thousand years ago, in what is now modern-day Iraq. It probably grew out Q2 of tales recited by storytellers, which scribes then set them down on twelve Q3 clay tablets. e script, is known as cuneiform, was made by pressing Q4 triangular shapes into any wet clay with a special tool. Q5 Like as many popular epics, from Homer’s Odyssey to Harry Potter, it’s a Q6 story of a quest. Gilgamesh is a young man who has to grow up overcoming Q7 impossible odds, frequently ghting demons and facing death in his hero’s Q8 fruitless search for everlasting life. Some tales may appear familiar: there the Q9 story of a great ood could be refer the same event as the biblical Noah’s Q10 ood. Other episodes nd their way into Homer, into the Tales of the Arabian Q11 Nights in the Middle Ages, and possibly have even survive in present day oral Q12 tradition in southern Iraq. Stories from the ancient world have been used Q13 source in novels, lms, computer games and even an episode of Star Trek. Q14 which  139 1 Compact unit 1: Stories stories tell Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv