COLEGIO GIMNASIO SAN MATEO SCHOOL ZIPAQUIRA- CUNDINAMARCA ENGLISH PAMA GRADE (REINFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES) ELEVENTH GRADE, FIRST TERM Teacher: Rosalba Riaño Poveda Student full name. Day, month, ordinal number(date), year Score READING COMPREHENSION THE CURSE OF TUTANKHAMEN? In 1922, Englishman Howard Howard Carter form the tomb of an Egyptian king named Tutankhamen some reports say that above the entrance to the tomb, a curse was written. “Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the peace of the king.” Carter ignored the curse. He and his friend Lord Carnarvon broke into the tomb. They found an amazing collection of treasure and three mummies. A few months later. Lord Carnarvon aged 57. Got sick and died. The doctor didn’t know the exact cause of his death, but said perhaps it was from an infection started by and insect bite. Some say that when he died, there was a short power outage and all of the lights throughout Cairo went out. At his home back in England. His favorite dog howled and dropped dead. Even stranger, when the mummy of Tutankhamen was unwrapped in 1925, it was found to have a wound on the left cheek in exactly the same position as the insect bite on Carnarvon that led to his dead. Even more strange, when the mummy of Tutankhamen was un wrapped in 1925, it was found to have a wound on the left cheek in exactly the same position as the insect bite on Carnarvon that led to his death. Reporters quickly developed the story. By 1935, they claimed that 21 deaths were due to the “Mummy’s Curse “However, according to Herbert E. Winlock, the due to the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, by 1934, only eight people directly connected to the tomb had died. Indeed, Howard Carter, the man who actually opened the tomb, lived to almost 65 before dying of natural causes. But perhaps some connections did exist. In 1999, a German Scientistic suggested that the deaths were possibly caused by mold- extremely small, dangerous growths that can survive for thousands of years, even in a dark, dry tomb. For this reason, archeologists now wear special masks and gloves when unwrapping a mummy. The great Pyramid is known as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It was built by the Egyptian King Khufu. Khufu’s mummy and treasure have never been found. Experts think the tomb had been robbed hundreds of years earlier. Others say that more secrets will be uncovered in the future. COLEGIO GIMNASIO SAN MATEO SCHOOL ZIPAQUIRA- CUNDINAMARCA ENGLISH PAMA GRADE (REINFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES) ELEVENTH GRADE, FIRST TERM Teacher: Rosalba Riaño Poveda Exercises. Underline the unknown words and write synonyms, a phrase or definition in English. Choose the right answer. 1. When Tutankhamen’s tomb__, it was the most spectacular find in history. a. was being discovered b. was discovered c. have been discovered d. is discovered 2. Researchers were delighted that the treasure was still there nothing-------! a. was removed b. was being removed c. had been removed d. has been removed 3. Hundreds of objects that---- there are now in the Egyptian museum in Cairo. a. were hidden b. were hiding c. had been hiding d. have been hidden 4. In 2005, news of the discovery in Bosnia of a huge pyramid-----a. was reporting b. were reported c. was reported d. was report Good luck! 5. Researcher Semir Osmania claims to ___the first pyramid in Europe. a. have identifying b. have been identifying c. be identified d. have identified 6. More research____ to see if the find if the find in Bosnia really is a pyramid. a. is done b. is to do c. was been done d. is being done 7. If the Bosnian find is a pyramid, it ___that is could be even bigger than the great pyramid in Egypt. a. believed b. is believed c. was believing d. had been believed 8. Some people argue that many pyramids-----built in Europe. a. have been b. have being c. had been d. had been Answer the following questions: 9. How old was Lord Carnarvon, when got sick? 10. What is the main idea about this reading?
