Creating Opportunity Worldwide

Pro-ELT Teacher Training Materials

Reading
(25 questions 40 minutes)
Part 1
Order the sentences (A-G) below to make a story. Write your answers in the answer grid below.
(Questions 1-6).
The first sentence of the story (C) is given for you on the answer sheet as an example. It is marked
as 00 in your answer grid below
A. When his funeral mass was held at the Vatican, Raphael's unfinished Transfiguration was
placed on his coffin stand. Raphaels body was interred at the Pantheon in Rome, Italy.
B. By 1514, Raphael had achieved fame for his work at the Vatican and was able to hire a crew
of assistants to help him finish painting frescoes in the Stanza dellIncendio, freeing him up
to focus on other projects.
C. Italian Renaissance painter and architect Raphael was born Raffaello Sanzio on April
6, 1483, in Urbino, Italy.
D. After Raphael had left his apprenticeship with Perugino, he moved to Florence, where he
was heavily influenced by the works of the Italian painters Fra Bartolommeo, Leonardo da
Vinci, Michelangelo and Masaccio.
E. Raphael died suddenly and unexpectedly of mysterious causes in Rome, Italy, on his 37th
birthday. He had been working on his largest painting on canvas, The
Transfiguration (commissioned in 1517), at the time of his death.
F. The apprenticeship lasted four years and provided Raphael with the opportunity to gain both
knowledge and hands-on experience.
G. In 1500 a master painter named Pietro Vannunci, otherwise known as Perugino, invited
Raphael to become his apprentice in Perugia, in the Umbria region of central Italy.
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Text adapted from http://www.biography.com/people/raphael-41051

Contributed by: (Anna Morgachova)

The British Council, 2013
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