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Sort it Out

Text out of Forrest Gump

1. When he was born, his Mom named him Forrest.

2. Then his father died.

3. He went to an ordinary school for a year.

4. He was put in a school where some children needed help to eat and go to the toilet.

5. He grew six inches in six months.

6. He was now bigger and heavier than all the other boys in his school.

7. A man in a car stopped him and asked him what his name was.

8. The man in the car and his Mom took him to a new high school.

Read and Answer

Text out of Forrest Gump

1. He began to     play football     with the high school team.
2. He met Jenny Curran in the school     café    .
3. A few days later, the boy and his friends started pushing and hitting Forrest. Then they ran after him across the     football field    .
4. Someone was watching this. Who?     Coach Fellers    .
5. That afternoon he gave Forrest a     ball     to run with.
6. It took     8 persons     to pull him down.
7. When he played his first game, Forrest ran over the goal line     two or three     times.
8. After this, people were really     kind     to him.

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Check the Words
Match 1-10 with a-j. Then write down the Swedish words for 1-10.

1. army people          a) Nobody was     hurt     in the accident.

2. immediately          b)     Front page    . 

3. shake hands         c) General, major, captain, corporal etc     army people    .

4. stomach               d) More than one, many.

5. waiter                  e) Come here at once! Come here     immediately    !
6. hurt                      f) To     pull away     someone     several     from a fire.
7. several                g) He works at a restaurant.     Waiter    .
8. silent                  h) You often do this when you meet someone.     Shake hands    .
9. pull away           i) The opposite of 'noisy'.     Silent    .
10. front page        j)     Stomach    .

(Swedish)
1. militärer
2. genast, omedelbart
3. skaka hand, hälsa
4. mage
5. kypare, servitör
6. skadad
7. åtskilliga, många
8. tyst
9. dra bort
10. första sidan

Listen and Answer

Listen and fill in the missing information.

1. The President lives at the     The White house    . It has a big     garden    .

2. Some     army people     started shaking his hand and saying they were pleased to meet him.

3. The President talked like somebody from    Texas    .

4. He didn't listen to the army man talking because he was feeling     hungry    .

5. The president gave him a     medal    .

6. He then went and had     breakfast     with the President.

7. They watched TV while he ate. (True?/False?)     It's true    .

8. The president showed him the palace on his     stomach     where he was once hurt.

9. Then Forrest pulled down his     trousers     to show the President where he was hurt.

10. A lot of newspaper men started taking     photographs    .

11. That afternoon Forrest's picture was on the     front page    of the newspapers.

12. Colonel Gooch was/wasn't pleased. (Choose)     Colonel Gooch wasn't pleased at all    .

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Text out of Bruce Lee - The Martial Arts Specialist

Read and Remember

How much du you remember about the text? Choose the correct answer (a, b or c). Then check by reading the text again.

1. Bruce Lee was born in     b) San Francisco    . True

2. His father was a famous     b) opera singer    . True

3. The family moved to Hong Kong in     c) 1943    . False 1941

4. He took up martial arts training after he was beaten up by a street gang when he was     c) 12    . 
True

5. He left Hong Kong at the age of 19 to study in America at the university of     a) Los Angeles    . False Seattle

6. He met his wife,     a) Linda    , while he was at university. True

7. His nick name was '    c) the Little Dragon    '. True

8. The Green Hornet series was     b) a huge hit     in Hong Kong. True

9. The film The Big Boss earned     a) $3-£4 million     in less than three weeks. True

10. He died in     c) 1973    . True

11. His last film The Game Of Death     c) was completed using a stand-in    . True

12. Bruce Lee had     a) three     children. False two children

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Home Listening - First Flight

Listen an Answer

A Listen and try to find the missing information.

1. DESTINATION                    5. CHEK-IN ZONE

2. AIRLINE                              6. CHEK-IN DESK

3. FLIGHT NUMBER             7. GATE NUMBER FOR BOARDING

4. DEPARTURE                     8. TIME FOR BOARDING

B Listen again and this time decide whether the sentences are true (T) ore false (F).

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