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reading Ötzi the ice man • grammar irregular past simple verbs • vocabulary storytelling verbs •
pronunciation irregular past simple verbs • speaking true or false
The man in the ice www.english0905.com

Reading

1 Work in pairs. Look at the images
and captions. Who do you think Ötzi
was? Tell your partner.
2 Read the article and answer the
questions.
1 Where were the tourists from?

2 Where were they in September 1991?

3 Where was the body?
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Ötzi the Iceman at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy
4 Where is Ötzi today?

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Ötzi’s story
www.english0905.com Iin the Ötztal mountains between Italy and Austria. They

n September 1991, two German tourists were on vacation

went for a walk and they found a body in the ice. The body
was very old. The police came and they took the body to
the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Scientists studied
the body. It was a man. They called him “Ötzi.” Today, Ötzi
is in a museum in Bolzano, Italy. About 300,000 visitors A painting of
go to see him every year. In 2017, the director Felix Randau the Iceman’s last
wrote a story and made a movie about Ötzi’s life. moments

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