Mark, Tony and Lucy are visiting a very special museum, in London: The Madame Tussaud

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Madame Tussaud is one of the greatest attractions of London. It was founded one hundred and seventy five years ago years ago, in 1835. This is not a typical museum. It is a museum where you can see many wax figures from the past and famous people of today. Marie Tussaud was the founder of this special museum. When she was young, Marie Tussaud learned how to make figures from wax and soon she was famous because of that. Her first museum was on Baker Street, in London. Her first figures were figures representing the victims of the French revolution. You can see these figures in the Chamber of Horrors. Now, you can visit Madam Tussaud in nine major cities: Amsterdam, Berlin, Hollywood, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, London, New York, Shanghai and Washington DC. Today's wax figures at Tussaud include historical and royal figures, film stars, sports stars and famous murderers. There are figures of the Royal Family, Marilyn Monroe, the Beatles, Justin Timberlake, Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears, Albert Einstein, Tom Cruise, Barack Obama and many more made out of wax! The museum is open everyday, from 9:00 to 5:30.

There are more than two million visitors every year.A - Read the sentences and decide if they are true or false. Correct the false ones:

1. The Museum was founded 200 years ago. ____________________________________

2. This is a normal museum. _________________________________________________

3. You can see wax figures of famous people from the past. ________________________

4. Madame Tussaud was a wax figure. ________________________________________

5. Her first figures were famous French people. __________________________________6. There are many Madam Tussaud in the world. ________________________________

B Answer to the following questions about the text:

1 When was the museum founded? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2 Who was Marie Tussaud?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3 Why is this a very special musem? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4 - What can you see in the museum? _________________________________________

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5 Where was Marie Tussauds first museum? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6- What time does the musem open? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________C Ask questions:

1 - _____________________________________________________________________I am going to visit The Madame Tussaud next year.

2 - _____________________________________________________________________

They visit the Museum three times a year.

3 _____________________________________________________________________

There are hundred of figures in the museum.4 - _____________________________________________________________________

Marie Tussaud was born in France.

5 - _____________________________________________________________________

The victims of the French Revolution were the first figures in the museum.

D Complete the text with the verbs in brackets. Use the present simple, present continuous and near future.1 They usually ______________ (visit) Madame Tussaud twice a year.

2 At the moment John ____________ (read) about Britain. He ____________ (travel) to England next month but he ____________ (not / go) to London. 3 Next year John ______________ (take) photos of the Buckingham Palace in London. He always ______________ (stay) in a hotel near the Palace.4 Johns parents ______________ (plan) to visit Birmingham now.E There are many figures in this great museum. Complete the information about some of them with the past simple of verb to be:

1 - This is Lady Diana. She ________ the princess of Wales. Lady Di ________ British. She ________ going to Paris when she died, in a car accident. She ________ thirty eight years old. All the British people ________ very sad with Lady Dis death.

2 These are John Lennon and George Harrison. They ________ members of The Beatles, a famous British band. They ________ very important to Rock n Roll. John Lennon ________ murdered by a fan, in 1980 and George Harrison died in 2002. The world ________ very sad.

3 Charles Darwin ________ a British naturalist. He ________ born in 1809. He ________ famous for his theories of evolution and natural selection. F - Read Madame Tussaud fact file and write a paragraph about her.

Name: Marie TussaudReal name: Anna Maria GrosholtzNationality: FrenchCity of origin: Paris

Born: 1761

Died: 1850Job: assistant to a wax modeller, Doctor Philippe Curtius

First wax figure: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778)

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English Test 6th Year