Life 4B - Unit 12C - The legacy of the samurai

Exercise 4 - 1. The early samurai were similar to European

knights.

• True

• False

Exercise 4 - 2. The samurai eventually died out following their defeat in battle.

• True

• False

Exercise 4 - 3. Samurai soldiers had a wide range of cultural

interests.

• True

• False

Exercise 4 - 4. The military skills of the samurai have been lost.

• True

• False

Exercise 4 - 5. The legacy of the samurai has spread outside Japan.

• True

• False

Exercise 5 - 1. I don’t understand the attraction of war movies.

• unarmed (line 38)

• appeal (line 50)

• lone (line 52)

• fierce (line 61)

Exercise 5 - 2. That boxer is frightening. He’s so intense and aggressive.

• unarmed (line 38)

• appeal (line 50)

• lone (line 52)

• fierce (line 61)

Exercise 5 - 3. We fought without any weapons.

• unarmed (line 38)

• appeal (line 50)

• lone (line 52)

• fierce (line 61)

Exercise 5 - 4. The police say they’re looking for a single, unaccompanied gunman.

• unarmed (line 38)

• appeal (line 50)

• lone (line 52)

• fierce (line 61)

Exercise 6 – Which sentence could come after this passage: “Here we teach the spirit of winning, but it’s not so much defeating an opponent as overcoming one’s own self. These days, it seems everyone is looking for someone to blame rather than focusing on himself. Our message here is that if you try hard, at kendo or anything else, you will enjoy life.”

• His words might easily have been spoken by a Bushido master from three centuries ago.

• The samurai promised to be loyal to these men, who needed soldiers to protect and increase their power.

• Samurai also played go, a board game about land conquest.

• The classic movie Seven Samurai by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa has been described as one of the most influential movies ever made.