SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE – CLOZE TEST

CLOZE TEST

Read the text and complete the chart below with a word from the list that comes after the text. Every word can only be used ONCE. There are five words that you do not need to use. Question 0 has been answered as an example.

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE

This best picture Oscar winner 0) ___________ Joseph Fiennes as a young, broke Shakespeare with writer’s 1) __________ who meets his dream girl and is then motivated to write one of his most famous plays. 2) __________ the story is not one draped in historical accuracy, the 3) __________ and setting draw the eye to inaccuracies that 4) __________ out. The characters drink out of modern beer glasses and the Queen attends a play publicly; any plays she would have seen would have been 5) __________ in her own court. Add to that the theatres would have been closed anyway in the dying days of the bubonic plague 6) __________, and you’ve got yourself a fairly impossible scenario.

The film creates an 7) __________ universe where Shakespeare’s inspiration for ‘Romeo and Juliet’ mirrors his own experience in forbidden love. 8) __________, screenwriter Marc Norman never pretended the film was rooted in fact, but its liberal take on the life of the most famous 9) __________ in history undoubtedly 10)__________ numerous viewers into thinking Shakespeare was essentially a run-of-the-mill starving artist at one stage, just like countless others.

Adapted from: https://screenrant.com/most-inaccurate-movies-history/

ALTERNATE         LUCKILY               PERFORMED       STARS

BACKGROUND     MISLEADS            PERFORMER        SUPPORTS

BLOCK                 OUTBREAK           PLAYWRIGHT       UNFORTUNATELY

DESPITE               PARALLEL             STAND                 WHILE

0	STARS
1					6
2					7
3					8
4					9
5					10

 

 

KEY

 

0. STARS

1. BLOCK
2. WHILE
3. BACKGROUND
4. STAND
5. PERFORMED
6. OUTBREAK
7. ALTERNATE
8. LUCKILY
9. PLAYWRIGHT
10. MISLEADS

 

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