A. Text-based tasks
27 pts
| 1. Decide whether the following statements are right or wrong. | 3 pts | ||
| a) | Vampires are usually very kind creatures. | ||
| b)1 | The author´s vampires do not drink human blood. | ||
| c) | The idea for Twilight came from a song Stephenie Meyer had heared. | ||
| d) | She was an English teacher in Utah. | ||
| e) | She became a housewife after her third child was born. | ||
| f)1 | Before Twilight the author did not wrote books. | ||
| 2. Find information in the text about … (2 items each) (You do not have to write complete sentences.) | 5 pts | ||
| a) | vampires in horror stories | ||
| b) | the success of Stephenie Meyer´s books… have had a difficult job for centuries. | ||
| c) | Stephenie´s way of living | ||
| d) | characteristics of Stephenie Meyer´s vampires | ||
| e) | Stephenie Meyer´s plan for her future | ||
| 3. Finish the senteces using the information from the text. | 5 pts | ||
| a) | Finishing the book … | ||
| b) | Making up stories … | ||
| c) | Thirteen publisher … | ||
| d) 1 | Stephenie Meyer´s books … | ||
| e) | The Host ... | ||
| 4. Answer the questions in complete sentences using the
information from the text. | 8 pts | ||
| a) | What did the vampire tell the young girl in Stephenie Meyer´s dream? | ||
| b) | Why did she wait so long to write her first story? | ||
| c) | How does the author make her stories so exciting? | ||
| d)1 | Why did she want
to do something completely different after finishing the series of vampitre books? | ||
| 5. Ask questions. | 6 pts | ||
| Stephenie Meyer has been invited to your town for a special
reading session. Ask her four questions about her work as an author. Use four different question forms. | |||
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