Page 15 - IP1Y 002 Listening Success BT8

A. Listen and answer the following questions. Note taking

1. What is the main idea of the passage? Topic :

family tree of famous writers

British playwrights who won the Nobel prize for literature
English writers Main idea :

English artists

2. Who of the following was a member of the group, the 1 Major point :
st
Inklings?

Charles Dickens
Owen Barfield
Details :
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe

3. Who wrote the series, ‘The Chronicles of Narnia?’
J.R.R. Tolkein

nd
Charles Dickens 2 Major point :
Owen Barfield

C.S. Lewis

Details :
4. Why was Dickens famous during his lifetime?

He was a member of a famous literary discussion group.

He was a man of ideas.
He was known as a master of prose.
Critics of the day championed his work.
rd
3 Major point :

B. Check True or False.
Details :
1. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote ‘The Hobbit’.

2. C.S. Lewis was not a member of the
Inklings.

3. Dickens’ pen name was Boz.

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