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Listen 2

A Discuss.
• Have you ever visited a wax museum?
• What do you know about the Madame
Tussauds wax museum?
Research,
B Listen to a man giving some
information about Madame Tussauds Write & Present
and write T for True or F for False.
1. Marie Tussaud was 16 when she A Choose a famous building (museum,
made her irst wax igure. palace, etc.) in your country and find facts
about it. Choose a question from each of
2. The irst Madame Tussauds the boxes below.
museum opened in London in 1970.
3. There are Madame Tussauds Past
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museums only in the UK and the USA. • When did it first open?
4. The irst American Madame Tussauds • Who created it? / Who built it?
museum opened in New York. • Who lived there?

Grammar Present
• What time does it open for visitors?
More irregular verbs
Mor e irr egular v erbs
• What can you see there?
• Who lives there now?
Marie Tussaud created this museum. A doctor,
Philippe Curtius, taught Marie how to make
wax igures when she was very young. Marie
made her irst wax igure in 1777, when she B Make a poster. Write facts about
the building you chose in Activity A.
was only 16 years old!
Find pictures of it, too.
Look at the irregular verbs below. Can you
guess the base form of the verbs? BRITISH
MUSEUM
BASE FORM PAST SIMPLE
bought

drank
ate

forgot
gave

knew
left

met
ran

sent
The British Museum first opened in 1759.
slept
wrote
It opens every day at ten o’clock in the morning.

C Present your poster to the class.

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