Разработка упражнений по домашнему чтению к тексту "King Henry VIII Horoscope" (УМК М.Ю. Кауфман. Happy English для 8-го класса)

Разделы: Иностранные языки

Pre-reading task:

  1. Look at the words and try to predict the events of the story described in the text.
    Heir, prophecy, ancient, court, look after, feast, finger, golden red hair.
  2. Put the words into the sentences.
    1. Before her death the queen named…to the throne.
    2. I don’t like to …my little sister, she is so naughty.
    3. There was a great… at the castle in honour of a new king.
    4. Her … shone in the sun.
    5. He took a ring off his … and gave it to his daughter.
    6. We didn’t believe that the …could come true.
    7. I come from an … Scottish family.

Reading task.

Are the sentences true or false, or there was no information in the text?

  1. Queen Mary was very beloved by the people.
  2. Anne Boleyn was Mary’s daughter.
  3. The narrator is an astrologer.
  4. They couldn’t read the signs of the stars.
  5. The new born baby was red-haired.
  6. Henry gave his daughter a lot of presents.
  7. The horoscope was going to come true.
  8. Anne Boleyn had six fingers on her hand.

Make a new word from the given in brackets.

  1. All her …left her and she died.(STRONG)
  2. There were very happy in their …(MARRY)
  3. His voice was so … that everybody listened to him.(POWER)
  4. You should listen …if you want to understand.(CARE)
  5. She was very kind and …like her grandmother.(RELIGION)
  6. At the age of ten Mary’s …came to an end.(CHILD)

Use the words in brackets in an appropriate form.

  1. We are going to the town of Tikhvin where I …(BEAR)
  2. Perhaps she was crying about her husband who never …her.(LOVE)
  3. The new born baby…Mary.(CALL)
  4. Mary …her tears from her dad when he came in.(TRY)
  5. I…and…when suddenly I spotted a strange lady who was not wearing a mask.(DANCE, LAUGH)

Choose the right word.

  1. Queen had been crying… days.
    1. in
    2. for
    3. –
    4. about
  2. A group of men in black came… to her bed.
    1. up to
    2. from
    3. near to
    4. next
  3. They …the Queen Bloody Mary.
    1. name
    2. say
    3. call
    4. tell
  4. King Henry VIII was the most… man in the world.
    1. beautiful
    2. pretty
    3. handsome
    4. cleverest
  5. She was five years … than Henry.
    1. older
    2. as old
    3. elder
    4. elderly
  6. Guard her… a dog, give your life for her if you have to.
    1. like
    2. as
    3. as if
    4. how
  7. Anybody …wears this ring will not die…he was born for.
    1. that
    2. which
    3. who
    4. whose
  1. if
  2. till
  3. until
  4. when