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In this section, you are going to find part of a famous Gothic story entitled “The Masque of the Red Death” by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It tells the story of rich people who are having a party while the people of their country are dying of a plague. But there’s a masked individual at this party… Is it death? If you want to know where the party took place, play the audiobook below and find out!

W tym rozdziale znajdziesz fragment słynnego opowiadania gotyckiego zatytułowanego Maska Czerwonej Śmierci autorstwa amerykańskiego pisarza EdgarAllanPoe. Opowiada ono o bogatych ludziach, którzy bawią się na przyjęciu, podczas gdy mieszkańcy ich kraju umierają na zarazę. Ale na przyjęciu pojawia się zamaskowany osobnik... Czy to sama śmierć? Jeśli chcesz wiedzieć, gdzie odbyło się to przyjęcie, to dowiesz się tego z audiobooka zamieszczonego poniżej!

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Which palace map looks more likely to be the setting of a scary Gothic story?
Która z map przedstawiająccyh pałace wygląda bardziej prawdopodobnie jako sceneria przerażającej gotyckiej opowieści?
Źródło: Konrad Szczodrak, domena publiczna.
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Exercise 1
Play the audiobook and drag the rooms to put them in the order they are located in the palace one after another. Elementy do uszeregowania: 1. blue room, 2. black room, 3. purple room, 4. violet room, 5. orange room, 6. green room, 7. white room
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Źródło: GroMar Sp. z o.o., licencja: CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Exercise 2
Play the audiobook. Then drag and drop the elements below to complete the sentences. There are three extra elements you will not need. The old Grand Hotel still offers its rooms to the public, but there are so many strange stories surrounding it that only foreigners stay there. The imperial     1. 1. suite, 2. panes, 3. folds, 4. tapestries, 5. vista, 6. accordance, 7. slide, 8. fro     has four luxurious rooms all decorated back in the 1920’s in     2. 1. suite, 2. panes, 3. folds, 4. tapestries, 5. vista, 6. accordance, 7. slide, 8. fro     with the then-current trends in the most luxurious way. In every room, the colour of the curtains and carpets corresponds to the colour of the walls. Some guests say that the heavy     3. 1. suite, 2. panes, 3. folds, 4. tapestries, 5. vista, 6. accordance, 7. slide, 8. fro     of the curtains seem to move on their own at night as if someone was behind them. Others whisper that the heavy vases with flowers     4. 1. suite, 2. panes, 3. folds, 4. tapestries, 5. vista, 6. accordance, 7. slide, 8. fro     across the tables when the guests’ backs are turned. The staff of the hotel are used to these stories and you’ll see them moving to and     5. 1. suite, 2. panes, 3. folds, 4. tapestries, 5. vista, 6. accordance, 7. slide, 8. fro     all day, making sure the guests are comfortable, but they’d never enter the rooms alone at night.
Źródło: GroMar Sp. z o.o., licencja: CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Exercise 3
Play the audiobook and type the missing words to complete its summary. The duke’s palace wasn’t     1. Tu uzupełnij     palaces. Instead of one long corridor that could be divided into rooms by doors located along the way, this one had seven separate rooms with corridors going around them. In all the rooms, except      2. Tu uzupełnij     one, the windows and the walls were     3. Tu uzupełnij.     The room that was different had red windows and black walls and floors. The rooms had no lamps. The light in these rooms came in through     4. Tu uzupełnij.     It was from fires that were burning outside in the corridors. In the black room, the light gave such an effect that no     5. Tu uzupełnij     to go in. In the room, there was a(n)     6. Tu uzupełnijw    hose chimes made the orchestra     7. Tu uzupełnij.     It made everyone confused. It happened     8. Tu uzupełnij     minutes. And they always said they wouldn’t do it again. But they always did anyway.
Źródło: GroMar Sp. z o.o., licencja: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Exercise 4

How were you feeling while reading about the party in the duke’s apartment ? Would you like to visit such a place? Why (not)? Write 3 sentences to answer the questions.

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