Independent work I variant Reading task. Reading

EXERCISE 1: Find words or phrases in the passage which mean the same as:

COLUMN A COLUMN B

a) be criticized in the media (phrase) _______________

b) feeling and showing that something deserves no respect; showing contempt_____________

c) lack of knowledge _______________

d) system of people being owned by other people and having to work for them_____________

e) like the idea of; imagine ________________

f) treated cruelly, violently, and inhumanely ________________

g) of the period in history from AD 1000 to about _______________

AD 1500

h) covered with protective metal wear ______________

i) suffering or dying from hunger ______________

j) person working on the land, often poor and considered to be of low status____________

k) wonderful thing causing admiration and surprise ______________