Международная skills-олимпиада по английскому языку Winter is coming (по мотивам сериала Игра престолов)

 Сhoose the option where the motto and the family match each other

The project “Game of Thrones” is based on 

Whose name is pronounced with [a:]?

Choose the incorrect spelling of a name.

There are lots of geographical objects in the world of “Game of Thrones”. Which of them are used with definite article “the”?

Bastards of the North are called “Snow”, which is not surprising. What is Russian for the name of bastards of the South?

Sandor Clegane’s nickname is

The phrase, which gave the name to Hodor

This is Daenerys Targaryen’s  speech.  Choose the fragment where you can find Passive Voice:

I. Blood of my blood! You kept all your promises to me. You killed my enemies in their iron suits. You tore down their stone houses. You gave me the Seven Kingdoms!

II. Grey Worm, you have walked beside me since the Plaza of Pride. You are the bravest of men, the most loyal of soldiers. I name you commander of all my forces, the Queen’s Master of War.

III. Unsullied, all of you were torn from your mother’s arms and raised as slaves. Now you are liberators! You have freed the people of King’s Landing from the grip of a tyrant! But the war is not over. We will not lay down our spears until we have liberated all the people of the world! From Winterfell to Dorne, from Lannisport to Quarth, from the Summer Isles to the Jade Sea! Women, men and children have suffered too long beneath the wheel. Will you break the wheel with me?

Choose the correct preposition: Jon Snow is the true heir … the Iron Throne.

Watch the short video. What is the fragment about?

Read the text and fill in the missing sentences.

- Are you ashamed of me, father?

- When you were an infant, the Dornish trailer landed on Dragonstone. His goods were junk except for one wooden doll. He’s even sewn a dress on it in the colours of our House. 1) ________. I still remember how you smiled when I put that doll in your cradle. 2) ________.

By the time we burnt the doll, it was too late. I was told you would die or worse… The grayscale would go slow. Let you grow just enough to know the world before taking it away from you. 3) ________, to live out your short life with the Stone men, before the sickness spread to the castle. I told them all to go to hell. I called in every master on this side of the world, every healer, every apothecary. 4) _______. Because you did not belong across the world with the bloody Stone men. You are the Princess Shireen of House Baratheon. And you are my daughter.

a) You pressed it to your cheek.

b) Everyone advised me to send you to the ruins of Valyria

c) No doubt he’d heard of your birth and assumed new fathers were easy targets.

d) They stopped the disease and saved your life.

How well do you know the characters and their famous words? Try and guess, who said what. 

1) I offer you a choice. Bend the knee and join me, or refuse, and die.

2) Jon isn’t really my father’s son. He’s the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and my aunt, Lyanna Stark.

3) Stick them with the pointy end.

4) How are we meant to feed the greatest army the world has ever seen? What do dragons eat, anyway?

a) Brandon Stark b) Jon Snow c) Daenerys Targaryen d) Sansa Stark

Can you describe your favourite character? Can you do it in English? Can you recognize the ones described in the task?

1) He’s in his late forties, he’s tall and strong, he’s got short straight light-brown hair, the man has got blue eyes and a lot of wrinkles on his face.

2) She’s got red hair and blue eyes, she’s thin and short. The girl is very good at archery, she is strong and independent.

3) He’s old and he’s of medium height, he’s got grey hair and a beard. He doesn’t know how to fight, on the other hand, he’s rather wise. The man has no fingers on one of his arms.

4) This is a handsome young man, very self-confident and brave. He’s tall and well-built, he’s got dark curly hair and blue eyes.

5) This girl has got long red hair, she’s tall and slim and very beautiful. A silly girl at the beginning, she has become one of the strongest characters of the project.

a) Davos Seaworth b) Robb Stark c) Sansa Stark d) Ygritte e) Jorah Mormont

Tywin Lannister’s prototype from English history is

A legendary construction in England, which inspired George Martin to create the Wall, is

Westeros and Essos are 

“Game of Thrones” is famous for its battle scenes. What kind of troops is the command “Nock! Draw! Loose!” given to?

What is English for “Король Севера”?

Daenerys’s mother tongue is