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Video vocabulary. 1. Match the words in italics to the definitions:
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1. Match the words in italics to the definitions:
1. startling A. singing
2. heir B. a person who takes care of a public building
3. relics С travelling to a sacred land as an act of religious devotion
4. monk D. a person with the legal right to receive a title or property
5. pilgrimage E. a religious ceremony admitting a person to full membership of the Church
6. martyr F. a person accepted into a different religion
7. confirmation G. remains of a saint
8. custodian H. a member of a community of men living together under religious vows in a
monastery
9. convert I. a person who is put to death or caused to suffer for his religious beliefs
10. chanting J. outstanding
2. Select the words which best match the expressions in italics in the following sentences, then write a sentence of your own using each expression:
| 1. There is also a sort of mystical thread which ties these nations. 2. Soon after his death, Edward's relics started to work miracles. 3. Henry VII banned the cult of relics. 4. During the reign of Henry VIII the monasteries were dissolved. 5. This news caught the public interest for several decades. 6. He became a monk and was ordained long ago. 7. He converted to Christianity when he was a teenager. 8. He thinks that the English people are the hardest people in the world to get on with. 9. They are terribly polite and then they stop coming and you don't know why and in about two years down the line you hear from somebody else that they were terribly offended. 10. To do this for an Englishman is quite shocking because an English person if he falls out with someone he would never show it. | A. accepted B. to communicate with С attracted D. was made a priest E. prohibited F. were broken up G. connects H. to demonstrate I. quarrels J. later |
3. Fill in the gaps with the prepositions in the box below. Each preposition should be used only once:
| To, With, Through, After, Upon, On, Between, In, At, For |
1. He had decided that he was talking to the Russian heir.............the throne.
2.................... his brother's order he was reburied in the central cathedral of the nunnery at Shaftsbury.
3. The Russian Orthodox Church has particular respect......................those innocent boys from the tsar's family.
4. The brotherhood is....................good health, with an orthodox service held every day in a reconstructed Anglican church with icons on the wall.
5. They can't really cope......................all these difficulties.
6. Edward's stepmother and stepbrother inherited the throne.......................him.
7. I found a book......................... the Orthodox Church and I started reading it and then other books about the history around Byzantium and Russia.
8. In the Church of England when you are about 12-13 you go......................what they call it confirmation and you have classes before it.
9. I never quite felt..........................home here again.
10. Everybody knows the almost identical likeness.......................... the last Russian Emperor and the English King George V.