Complete the sentences. Working with language.

The Tudor Age

Exercises

Working with language.

Use these words to join the sentences together.

So because but when

a). Henry divorced Catherine of Aragon.. She didn’t him a son.

b). Henry was very strong and handsome. He was young.

c). Katherine Howard had lovers. Henry sent her to the Tower of London.

d). Edward become King of England. He died when he was only fifteen.

Put together these beginnings and endings of sentences.

a) Jane Seymour had a baby boy.

b). Men fell in love with Anne Boleyn.

c). Henry married Catherine Howard.

d). Margaret didn’t know much about King Henry.

e). when they looked into her eyes.

f). because she came from a small village.

g). after he divorced Anne Cleves.

h). and then she died.

Choose the correct beginning or ending.

1). The Tudor family came to power ….

after the Hundred Years’ War

after the War with Ireland

after the Wars of the Roses

2). By 1521 Henry 8^th had written an Anti-Lutheran book for which a grateful Pope awarded him the title of ….

Supreme Head of his new church

Defender of the Faith

Hammer of the Scots

3). Henry 8^th closed the monasteries because ….

he wanted to get their wealth and lands

he was an atheist

he quarreled with his wife

4). Henry 8^th wanted to divorce Catherine of Aragon because ….

she loved his brother

she didn’t give him a son

she had a nasty character

5). Henry 8^th had his second wife, Anne Boleyn, executed because ….

she didn’t give him a son

she had six fingers on her hand

she was the mother of Elizabeth, who later became the greatest monarch England had ever known

6). Henry 8^th broke away from the Catholic Church because ….

the Pope refused to allow Henry to divorce Catherine of Aragon

the Pope told Henry that his marriage to Catherine was s sin

Henry wanted to become a Protestant

7). All in all Henry 8^th had ….

eight wives

five wives

six wives

8). Henry 8^th wanted to have a son because ….

He thought that England would be weak if there were no King to follow him

He hated girls

He wanted to have somebody to play football with

9). After Henry’s death … came to the throne.

His daughter Elizabeth

His wife Anne Boleyn

His son Edward

10). …. Became the greatest monarch England has ever known.

Mary

Elizabeth

Edward, Prince of Wales

King Henry 8^th quiz.

Look at the family tree of the Tudors (1485-1603). Write information about the British Royal family.

a). King Henry 7^th / Prince Henry 8^th.

King Henry 7^th was Prince Henry 8^th ’s father.. Prince Henry 8^th, the second monarch of their dynasty, became king when he was 17.

b). Queen Elizabeth of York / King Henry 7^th.

c). Arthur, Prince of Wales Henry 8^th.

d). Mary 1^st and Elizabeth 1^st / King Henry 8^th.

e). Prince Edward 6^th / King Henry 8^th and Queen Jane Seymour.

2. Read the information about King Henry 8^th. Put his wives in chronical order in which they were his wives. The following rhyme may help you: “Divorced, beheaded, died

Divorced, beheaded, survived”

3. Prisoners at the Tower. Only seven people were executed on Tower Green: William, Lord Hastings (1483), Queen Anne Boleyn (1536), Margaret Countess of Salibery (1541), Queen Catherine Howard (1542), Jane, Viscountess Rochford (1542), Lady Jane Grey (1554) and Robert Devereux, 2^nd Earl of essex (1601). Which of the prisoners were King Henry 8^th’s wives?

Complete the sentences.

a). Any three things Henry 8^th was good at:

b). The names of Henry’s children in order of birth:

c). The names of Henry’s children in order they were king or queen:

d). The name of King Henry 8^th’s wife he wore a mourning:

5. Fill in the gaps the following words and phrases:

Princes died in childbirth ambassador male heir reign athletic

a). A period of time when king or queen rules the country is called ___________.

b). A boy who will become king after the present king dies is called __________.

c). A female member of a royal family who is not a queen is called _____________.

d). _______________ is a senior official who lives in a foreign country and represents his or her own country there.

e). When someone is good at physical sports we call them ____________________.

f). When a woman dies at the same time as her baby is born people say “she __________.”

6. You are a newspaper reporter. You go to the Tower of London to meet Anne Boleyn the night before she is beheaded. What questions do you ask her, and how does she reply? Is she angry, afraid, calm? Write down your conversation, and act it our in class.

Keys.

Quiz

2.

Catherine of Aragon

Anne Boleyn

Jane Seymour

Anne of Cleves

Catherine Howard

Catherine Parr

3.

Queen Anne Boleyn

Queen Catherine Howard

4.

1. Music

Foreign languages

Horse riding

2. Mary

Elizabeth

Edward

3.Edward

Mary

Elizabeth

4. Jane Seymour

reign

male heir

princess

ambassador

athletic

died in childbirth

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