Task 2. Read the article about Comic-Con. geek – гик
non-profit organization – некоммерческая организация
convention - съезд awards ceremony - церемония вручения наград
disguise – маскировка
wander round - побродить вокруг

GEEKS AND SUPERHEROES
Do you like comics? In the 1950s and 60s, many teenagers used to read comics like Batman, Superman or X Men. Some were so fascinated by comics that they would continue reading them when they grew up. They were comic ‘geeks’: intelligent, often unsociable young people who identified more with the worlds of fantasy and science fiction than the real world. Geeks still exist today; in the popular TV comedy series The Big Bang Theory, the main characters are science geeks who are big fans of comics, fantasy games and Comic-Con.
Comic-Con doesn’t try to make money. In fact it describes itself as a non-profit organisation that exists to make comics and related art forms more popular through conventions and events. In 1970, a group of about 100 comic fans got together in San Diego, California for the first Comic-Con, or convention. They decided to include not only comics, but also other aspects of popular culture, including fantasy and science-fiction games, books and films from all over the world. Within 30 years, Comic-Con had grown into a huge three-day international convention, with over 120,000 visitors every year. Today there are exhibitions, comics to buy, games to play, educational sessions, talks, a film festival, and even an awards ceremony known as the ‘Oscars’ of the comic industry.
Nowadays, there are comic conventions all over the world, but Comic-Con is the most iconic. It attracts famous film stars, writers and artists from the world of comics. Many of the fans who visit it wear costumes of comic book characters, and sometimes famous stars wear a disguise too so they can wander round the convention like all the other fans. In 2014, Daniel Radcliffe walked around Comic-Con dressed in a Spiderman costume with a face mask, and no one recognised him. So if you go to Comic-Con, you never know who might be next to you!

Who or what is each sentence about?

0 Teenagers started reading them in the 1950s and 60s. - comics
1 They preferred a fantasy world to real life.
2 This is what Comic-Con has become.
3 There are more than a hundred thousand of these.
4 Definitely the most famous comic event internationally.
5 Many of the visitors wear these at Comic-Con.
6 He visited Comic-Con and no one knew who he was.

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