Faure’s Requiem – In Paradisum

Can you guess what ‘in paradisum’ means?

Rooftoppers – Chapter 15

For the first exercise, we’re going to look at new vocabulary so you will need something you can use as a writer’s notebook. Don’t write anything yet, but read the words and their meanings. Match them up in your head.

Vocabulary

1. resin         2. halt           3. slate        4. threadbare      5. corrupt

First, match these meanings up with the words:

• old and with holes

• stop

• gone bad

• the dried sap of a pine tree

• a kind of stone, which comes from Wales

Then, complete these noun phrases using the vocabulary. 

• a ____________ policeman

• a ____________ roof

• a ______________, old jumper

• The children came to a ____________ outside the sweet shop.

• When ___________ is used for instruments it is called ‘rosin’.

Questions

1. Why does Sophie spread her belongings across the rooftops?

2. Find and copy one word which shows that Matteo’s clothes were       very old, tatty and full of holes.

3. Why does Matteo think that finding a lawyer won’t help?

4. What is the name of the piece of music that Sophie plays?

5. Why does Sophie put her cello back in the bedroom?

 

 

Once you’ve had a go at the vocab and read all the questions, you’re ready to listen. Check your vocab and listen carefully for the answers to the questions.