Reading Comprehension.

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11. Rush hour: time of the day when more people is in the street and more traffic.

12. Disease: when someone is sick, we say that he has a disease

13. Compass: object that helps to guide you. It use to point the north.

14. Jealousy: that feeling when someone has something that you want.

15. Shelter: place where you are save from any danger.

16. Bluff: plan that consist of trick someone for get something.

B. Write sentences with the words from the previous exercise to retell the plot of the book. Modify the word accordingly if necessary.

1. I could feel the burning heat when i was in Morocco, it was 38 degrees.

2. My phone and my computer are valuables for me, I couldn’t live without them

3. The witch made a curse agains me, she said my dog will die.

4. I didnt know how to get into the house, it was a puzzle.

5. I was walking on the street when some smugglers stole me the phone.

6. I don’t like but I use to go to the burial place to see my grandma and i bring her some flowers

7. I really like to go to the museum and see the antiquities from the prehistory.

8. When i was young I had a fish, but he died and we made a tomb for him

9. In my class i have a mate who was very scholar, he always had the best marks.

10. Every time that I go to france i have to pas the custom and show my passport.

11. I hate when i have to drive and it’s rush time, I´m always late because of that.

12. I went to the hospital and i saw a very strange people, he was doing crazy things, he must have a disease.

13. 50 years ago, people used compass when they where lost in the middle of the ocean.

14. My girlfriend was always with other boys and i was so jealous.

15. In the second war of world, people use to go inside oh the shelter when someone was attacking them.

16. I forgot my homework at home and i had to think a bluff to say to my teacher.

C. Complete the sentences with the modal verbs included in the box:

Must

Couldn’t

Will

Can’t

Don’t have to

Can

Should

Might

May

1. Salahadin thinks the Amsterdam Ring MIGHT be after Dr. Farrow’s disappearance.

2. After finding about information about Dr. Farrow’s theory, Salahadin thinks he MUST go back to Egypt.

3. “You WILL help us, if not we will kill your wife”, said Greer to Dr. Farrow.

4. Christine Farrow CAN’T leave the room where she is held.

5. Someone MAY find Dr. Farrow’s book with the message to Salahadin.

6. “They SHOULD not remove Queen Axtarte’s coffin from the tomb”, said Salahadin.

7. Dr. Jusef Sprengel COULDN’T run properly as he was wearing a heavy and special suit.

8. Salahadin’s driver CAN use the radio to call Greer.

9. Police officers DON’T HAVE TO go to the tomb as Sprengel’s men take back Queen Axtarte’s remains back to the tomb.

Writing

Read again chapters 13 and 14 and rewrite the story with an alternative ending (100-120 words). Use your own words.

….Strangle was giving orders to his mans when he saw Salahadin.

Salahadin was pointing him with a revolver and he said ‘tell to your mans than they should leave the mommy inside the tomb, other way i will kill you’ but Strangle didn’t say nothing to his mans, so the mans took the mommy out of the tomb and Salahadin shot and killed Strangle and after he killed his mans also, the body of the mommy fall of and every body got infected by the virus. All of them died and the mommy went inside the tomb again by himself. This way every body who knew where was that tomb is die now. And nobody will never know.

On the other part of the history, nobody made that radio call so Greer killed Christine and then Leila arrest him.