Listen and write the questions you hear.

1. In which country were umbrellas first used?

2. In which country were the first umbrellas used against the rain?

3. What material were the first umbrellas made from?

4. In which country did umbrellas become quite popular in the 1790s?

5. In which year were folding umbrellas invented?

 

Listen and write the questions you hear.

1. What is the name of the book in which the word metaverse was first used?

2. In which year was this book published?

3. What was the name of the platform that was started in 1993 and used avatars?

4. What did Facebook change its name to in 2021?

5. In which year did Microsoft acquire the company AltspaceVR?

Listen and write the questions you hear.

1. When was Marilyn Monroe born?

2. Who did she marry when she was 16?

3. What two things did Marilyn do in 1946?

4. What’s the name of the film that she won a Golden Globe award for in 1959?

5. How many times did Marilyn Monroe get married?

Listen and write the questions you hear.

1. When and where was Kenneth Branagh born?

2. What was his dad’s profession?

3. How old was he when he directed Henry V with Emma Thomson?

4. Who played the monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in 1994?

5. Which film did Branagh star in in 2008?