10 February 09 - 3ºG and 3ºL

• Oral presentation (Raquel - Madrid car bomb)
• NEW FILE - Divorced, beheaded, died...
• Vocabulary - Quiz.

1. a. The Russian revolution b. Julius Caesar c. The American Civil War (1861-65). d. The Battle of Waterloo (1815) when the French under Napoleon Bonaparte were defeated by the British and Belgian forces.
2. a. Sweden b. Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George Bush... (http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/). c. Britain, Spain, Denmark... d. Chile, Argentina, Italy, Germany, Spain...
3. a. history is the study of past events; a story is a description of people and events who/which are not real; a legend is an old story that may or may not be true.
   b. a republic has an elected government and an elected leader; a dictatorship is a country ruled by a leader who has total power.
   c. a politician is someone who works in politics and represents a political party; a policy is a government's plan of action.
   d. an MP is a Member of Parliament; the PM is the Prime Minister.
   

• Vocabulary Bank
  History - A 5 - B 2 - C 1 - D 6 - E 3 - F 4
  c. Fill in the gaps.
  1. monarchy - 2. Civil War - 3. arms - 4. leader - 5. defeat
  6. surrendered - 7. executed - 8. dictator - 9. rule - 10. revolution.
  Politics
  

1. UK
2. UK
3. USA (in the UK the two houses are called the House of Commons and the House of Lords)
4. Both (in the UK the Labour party and the Conservative party, in the USA the Republicans and the Democrats)
5. UK
6. UK
7. USA
8. USA
9. UK
10. Neither
11. Both
12. Both
13. Neither
14. Both

Expand your knowledge: Britology - http://britologywatch.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/from-a-uk-of-england-and-semi-autonomous-regions-to-a-uk-of-autonomous-nations/

• Speaking - "word families" - Shifting stress.

1. history - historian - historical

2. politics - politician - political

• Speaking - oral discussion about history and politics...
• 3ºG ONLY - Grammar.

1. Excalibur: King Arthur's sword which he is supposed to have pulled out of a stone.
2. Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII's second wife.
3. The Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur's 12 most trusted men, who in many adventures search for the Holy Grail, the cup which in Christian legend was used by Jesus at the Last Supper.
4. Lancelot: King Arthur's best and bravest knight.
5. Guinevere /ˈgwi-nə-ˌvir/: King Arthur's wife and Sir Lancelot's lover.
6. The Pope: The head of the Catholic Church and the man who refused to give Henry VIII a divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Henry broke his relations with the Catholic church to get what he wanted, and this led to the Anglican (Protestant) Church becoming the official religion in Britain.
7. Thomas More: A Catholic scholar and Henry VIII's chancellor. He disagreed with Henry's decision to break with the Pope in order to divorce his wife and was executed.
8. Camelot: King Arthur's castle.

b. King Henry (H) or King Arthur (A)?

1. A
2. A
3. H
4. A
5. H
6. A
7. H

HOMEWORK - Workbook pp 27-29.

Reading - pp.46-47 - A rose without a thorn...

REMEMBER that you have to read another book for April. The title of the book is In cold feet by Rod Smith.