- •Unit 3. Ancient Greece
- •A) by, b) during, c) from, d) in, e) of, f) on, g) to, h) with
- •1. A figurine, 2. A metope, 3. A scenery, 4. A stadium, 5. A treaty, 6. An epic, 7. An orchestra, 8. Ethics,9. Hegemony, 10. Monarchy
- •1. Aphrodite, 2. Ares, 3. Artemis, 4. Athena, 5. Eros, 6. Hades, 7. Hephaestus, 8. Hera, 9. Heracles, 10. Hermes, 11. Hestia, 12. Poseidon
- •1. Aphrodite, 2. Apollo, 3. Ares, 4. Artemis, 5. Athena, 6. Demeter, 7. Hephaestus, 8. Hera, 9. Hermes, 10. Hestia, 11. Poseidon, 12. Zeus
- •Unit 3. Ancient Greece The Twelve Olympians
- •The Twelve Labours of Heracles
- •3. The Adjective and the Adverb Comparison of adjectives
- •Form and Comparison of Adverbs
- •Irregular adverb
- •Adjective or Adverb
- •Grammar Exercises. The Adjective and the adverb
- •Test. The Adjective and the Adverb
A) by, b) during, c) from, d) in, e) of, f) on, g) to, h) with
1. a number ..... short poems ..... Archilochus and Sappho, 2. a surprising amount ..... different kinds ..... books, 3. a theatre was usually a bowl-shaped arena ..... a hillside, 4. a young man scraping the oil ...... his skin ..... a strigil, 5. Byzantium was the capital ..... the Roman Empire ..... 330 AD, 6. ..... the Roman takeover ..... Greece, 7. ..... about 750 BC the Greeks began 250 years ..... expansion, 8. philosophy dealt ..... a wide variety ..... subjects, 9. power shifted ..... Thebes and the League ..... Corinth, 10. the Aegean Sea lies ..... the east ..... Greece, 11. the Battle ..... Corinth ..... 146 BC, 12. the closure ..... the Neoplatonic Academy ..... Justinian I ..... 529 AD, 13. the establishment ..... Byzantium ..... Constantine, 14. the theater ..... Dionysus ..... the side ..... the Acropolis ..... Athens
Exercise 7. Match the items to make full sentences.
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1. At the end of the 400s BC, Greece and especially Athens, ............................................... 2. In 300 BC, Aristotle and other philosophers at the Academy in Athens ....................................... 3. The most famous surviving classical temple is the Parthenon ....................................................... 4. People, to Phidias and other Greeks of this time, ..................................................................... 5. Architecture includes houses, religious buildings like temples and tombs, .......................
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a) are wonderful creations of the gods, beautiful, strong and intelligent. b) as a way of organizing the world and making order out of chaos. c) but also relief sculptures which were on the sides of buildings and tombs. d) by Aristophanes which were written in around 425 BC. e) in Athens, which mixes the Doric and the new Ionic styles. |
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6. The first written philosophy was completed by ......................................................................... 7. Sculpture includes small figurines and life-size statues, .......................................................... 8. The oldest comedies that we still have are ...... 9. Greek people were very interested in science .............................................................................. 10. The sculptors also became more interested in the three-side sculpture: ...................................... |
f) people being able to see it from all different sides and not just from the front. g) Plato in around 380 BC in the form of a play. h) public building like city walls, theaters and stadia. i) was devastated by the Peloponnesian War which involved nearly all the Greek city-states. j) worked on observing plants, animals and organized them into types. |
Exercise 8. Translate the words in bold and then match the pairs which are similar in meaning.
1. a chorus, 2. a coast, 3. a creature, 4. a death, 5. a figurine, 6. a peculiarity, 7. a polis, 8. a revolt, 9. a takeover , 10. a treaty, 11. an infant, 12. important, 13. prominent, 14. to boost, 15. to devastate, 16. to dominate, 17. to permit, 18. to scrape, 19. to shift, 20. trade
a) a baby, b) a being, c) a choir, d) a city-state, e) a decease, f) a feature, g) a pact, h) a rebellion, i) a seaboard, j) a seizure, k) a statuette, l) commerce, m) famous, n) significant, o) to allow, p) to hand, q) to prevail, r) to raise, s) to ravage, t) to scratch
Exercise 9. Explain the words in bold and then match them with the best definition.