English Test 6th Year

Read the text attentively:

Madame Tussaud is one of the greatest attractions of London. It was founded one
hundred and seventy five years ago years ago, in 1835. This is not a typical museum. It is
a museum where you can see many wax figures from the past and famous people of
today. Marie Tussaud was the founder of this special museum. When she was young,
Marie Tussaud learned how to make figures from wax and soon she was famous because
of that. Her first museum was on Baker Street, in London. Her first figures were figures
representing the victims of the French revolution. You can see these figures in the
Chamber of Horrors.
Now, you can visit Madam Tussaud in nine major cities: Amsterdam, Berlin,
Hollywood, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, London, New York, Shanghai and Washington DC.
Today's wax figures at Tussaud include historical and royal figures, film stars, sports
stars and famous murderers. There are figures of the Royal Family, Marilyn Monroe, the
Beatles, Justin Timberlake, Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears, Albert Einstein, Tom Cruise,
Barack Obama and many more made out of wax!
The museum is open everyday, from 9:00 to 5:30.
There are more than two million visitors every year.
A - Read the sentences and decide if they are true or false. Correct the false ones:
1. The Museum was founded 200 years ago. ____________________________________
2. This is a normal museum. _________________________________________________
3. You can see wax figures of famous people from the past. ________________________
4. Madame Tussaud was a wax figure. ________________________________________
5. Her first figures were famous French people. __________________________________

6. There are many Madam Tussaud in the world. ________________________________

B Answer to the following questions about the text:
1 When was the museum founded? _________________________________________
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2 Who was Marie Tussaud?________________________________________________
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3 Why is this a very special musem? ________________________________________
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4 - What can you see in the museum? _________________________________________
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5 Where was Marie Tussauds first museum? __________________________________
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6- What time does the musem open? _________________________________________
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C Ask questions:
1 - _____________________________________________________________________
I am going to visit The Madame Tussaud next year.
2 - _____________________________________________________________________
They visit the Museum three times a year.
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There are hundred of figures in the museum.
4 - _____________________________________________________________________
Marie Tussaud was born in France.
5 - _____________________________________________________________________
The victims of the French Revolution were the first figures in the museum.
D Complete the text with the verbs in brackets. Use the present simple, present
continuous and near future.
1 They usually ______________ (visit) Madame Tussaud twice a year.
2 At the moment John ____________ (read) about Britain. He ____________ (travel) to
England next month but he ____________ (not / go) to London.

3 Next year John ______________ (take) photos of the Buckingham Palace in London.
He always ______________ (stay) in a hotel near the Palace.
4 Johns parents ______________ (plan) to visit Birmingham now.
E There are many figures in this great museum. Complete the information about
some of them with the past simple of verb to be:
1 - This is Lady Diana. She ________ the princess of Wales.

Lady Di

________ British. She ________ going to Paris when she died, in a car
accident. She ________ thirty eight years old. All the British people ________
very sad with Lady Dis death.
2 These are John Lennon and George Harrison.

They ________

members of The Beatles, a famous British band. They ________ very

important to Rock n Roll. John Lennon ________ murdered by a fan, in
1980 and George Harrison died in 2002. The world ________ very sad.
3 Charles Darwin ________ a British naturalist. He ________ born in
1809. He ________ famous for his theories of evolution and natural
selection.
F - Read Madame Tussaud fact file and write a paragraph about her.
Name: Marie Tussaud
Real name: Anna Maria Grosholtz
Nationality: French
City of origin: Paris
Born: 1761
Died: 1850
Job: assistant to a wax modeller, Doctor Philippe Curtius
First wax figure: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778)
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Good Luck!
The teacher, Ana Cristina