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UNIT 12 It’s an awesome place!

Text work

1 Read the article about Transylvania. Tick (✓) the things that the writer saw.

1 mountains 4 bears
2 castles 5 vampires
3 wolves
The real Transylvania

Last summer, we went to But then, over the mountains, We went to one castle where
Transylvania. Maybe you think of we reached Transylvania. It is a Dracula used to live. Yes, Dracula
Transylvania as being full of wolves, magical land – green and full of was a real person! He was the ruler
vampires and strange castles. wild flowers. We stayed at a village of Transylvania 600 years ago.
But is it a real place? Yes, it is! where things were the same as We saw lots of animals. Not only
And it’s one of the most beautiful they were a hundred years ago. farm animals, but butterflies and
places in Europe. We saw lots of People still wear traditional clothes wild horses. We even saw bears!
castles and amazing mountains. every Sunday and you can see In some places, they come down
And people even told me there are people travelling by horse and cart. at night to look through the rubbish
wolves living here! Every morning, the farmers take bins. They are cute but very
their cows and sheep up into the
We went by car. It was a long dangerous!
journey, and we had to drive a very hills.
long way up into the mountains. We saw amazing churches – The only thing we didn’t see was a
The roads were very narrow and hundreds of years old – made only vampire!
winding. from wood. And we saw castles on
mountain tops.

2 Circle T (true) or F (false).

The writer said that …
1 Transylvania is not a real place. T / F
2 there are wolves in Transylvania. T / F
3 people don’t wear traditional clothes in this place. T / F
4 Dracula was not a real person. T / F
5 the bears are very friendly. T / F
6 he saw a vampire. T / F

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