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Multiple Choice Cloze 10.00 AM UK TIME TUESDAY 1st of SEPTEMBER - Livestream - C1 and C2
#iswearenglish #multiplechoicecloze #cloze #cpe
NEXT STREAMS WILL BE ON
THURSDAY 3rd SEPTEMBER AT 3.30 PM UK TIME
FRIDAY 4th SEPTEMBER AT 1 PM UK TIME
SATURDAY 5th SEPTEMBER AT 1 PM UK TIME
The man who wrote the most perfect sentences ever written
bbc.com/culture/article/20200602-the-man-who-wrote-the-most-perfect-sentences-ever-written
To read any of those sentences is to …… at the elaborate but elegant route it takes to a perfect (prank, quip, jape, punchline);
MARVEL PUNCHLINE
to delight in how it glides between Shakespeare and ……-track slang, between understatement and (exaggeration, magnification, burlesque, embroidery), between gentle humour and stinging wit.
RACE EXAGGERATION
“What Wodehouse writes is pure word music,” said Douglas Adams. “It matters not one …… that he writes endless (changes, alterations, differences, variations) on a theme of pig kidnappings, lofty butlers, and ludicrous impostures.
WHIT VARIATIONS
He could certainly have written darker, more soul-…… books if he hadn’t been so naturally (jovial, buoyant, festive, mellow):
SEARCHING JOVIAL
he had plenty of …… material to (attract, drag, draw, haul) on. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was born in 1881.
RAW DRAW
His Victorian colonial parents were rarely in the same (land, county, country, kingdom) as he was, …….. to his biographer, Robert McCrum.
COUNTRY ACCORDING
“In total, Wodehouse saw his parents for barely six months between the ages of three and 15, which is by any …….. a shattering emotional (deprivation, poverty, penury, forfeit),” he noted in 2005’s Wodehouse: A Life.
STANDARDS DEPRIVATION
Nonetheless, “Plum” (delighted, basked, revelled, relished) his Dulwich College schooldays, and was looking forward to his university years when the next …… fell:
RELISHED BLOW
his father (advertised, announced, issued, released) that he had to go straight to a job in a bank ……...
ANNOUNCED INSTEAD
The …… didn’t stop him. He always knew that he wanted to be a writer, and so he sold short stories at a superhuman rate until he could make a (life, live, living, lifeline) from them.
DISAPPOINTMENT LIVING
Soon he graduated to anthologies and novels, some (highlighting, featuring, prompting, pushing) Jeeves and Wooster (who ……. in 1915),
FEATURING DEBUTED
others featuring the canny Psmith or the garrulous Mr Mulliner, some set at mossy Blandings Castle, ……… set at Marvis Bay Golf and Country Club.
OTHERS
Beyond these, there were Broadway ….. and Hollywood ……, and a long and harmonious marriage.
MUSICALS SCREENPLAYS
He made the money and his wife spent it, a/an (deal, arrangement, structure, bargain) which ……. them both.
ARRANGEMENT SUITED
Multiple Choice Cloze 10.00 AM UK TIME TUESDAY 1st of SEPTEMBER - Livestream - C1 and C2
#iswearenglish #multiplechoicecloze #cloze #cpe
NEXT STREAMS WILL BE ON
THURSDAY 3rd SEPTEMBER AT 3.30 PM UK TIME
FRIDAY 4th SEPTEMBER AT 1 PM UK TIME
SATURDAY 5th SEPTEMBER AT 1 PM UK TIME
The man who wrote the most perfect sentences ever written
bbc.com/culture/article/20200602-the-man-who-wrote-the-most-perfect-sentences-ever-written
To read any of those sentences is to …… at the elaborate but elegant route it takes to a perfect (prank, quip, jape, punchline);
MARVEL PUNCHLINE
to delight in how it glides between Shakespeare and ……-track slang, between understatement and (exaggeration, magnification, burlesque, embroidery), between gentle humour and stinging wit.
RACE EXAGGERATION
“What Wodehouse writes is pure word music,” said Douglas Adams. “It matters not one …… that he writes endless (changes, alterations, differences, variations) on a theme of pig kidnappings, lofty butlers, and ludicrous impostures.
WHIT VARIATIONS
He could certainly have written darker, more soul-…… books if he hadn’t been so naturally (jovial, buoyant, festive, mellow):
SEARCHING JOVIAL
he had plenty of …… material to (attract, drag, draw, haul) on. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was born in 1881.
RAW DRAW
His Victorian colonial parents were rarely in the same (land, county, country, kingdom) as he was, …….. to his biographer, Robert McCrum.
COUNTRY ACCORDING
“In total, Wodehouse saw his parents for barely six months between the ages of three and 15, which is by any …….. a shattering emotional (deprivation, poverty, penury, forfeit),” he noted in 2005’s Wodehouse: A Life.
STANDARDS DEPRIVATION
Nonetheless, “Plum” (delighted, basked, revelled, relished) his Dulwich College schooldays, and was looking forward to his university years when the next …… fell:
RELISHED BLOW
his father (advertised, announced, issued, released) that he had to go straight to a job in a bank ……...
ANNOUNCED INSTEAD
The …… didn’t stop him. He always knew that he wanted to be a writer, and so he sold short stories at a superhuman rate until he could make a (life, live, living, lifeline) from them.
DISAPPOINTMENT LIVING
Soon he graduated to anthologies and novels, some (highlighting, featuring, prompting, pushing) Jeeves and Wooster (who ……. in 1915),
FEATURING DEBUTED
others featuring the canny Psmith or the garrulous Mr Mulliner, some set at mossy Blandings Castle, ……… set at Marvis Bay Golf and Country Club.
OTHERS
Beyond these, there were Broadway ….. and Hollywood ……, and a long and harmonious marriage.
MUSICALS SCREENPLAYS
He made the money and his wife spent it, a/an (deal, arrangement, structure, bargain) which ……. them both.
ARRANGEMENT SUITED
