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Henry VIII and his Six Wives Before Reading

Stage 2

Before reading activities (page 44)

1 Yes 2 No 3 No 4 Yes 5 Yes 6 No 7 Yes 8 No 9 No 10 Yes

activities answers

We’re going to read all the letters tomorrow. I can’t wait! I’ll write again soon and tell you all about them. Your loving daughter Margaret chApters 2 And 3 while reading

• Anne Boleyn: wonderful black eyes, beheaded, wild and dangerous, three and a half years, Princess Elizabeth, a witch, six fingers, Tower of London, a sword. • Katherine of Aragon: divorced, twenty-four years, Princess Mary, Spain, Henry’s brother Arthur, a gold cross.

Activity 2 before reading

Encourage students to speculate and make guesses but do not tell them the answers. They will find out as they read that the correct answers are: • Katherine of Aragon was divorced. • Anne Boleyn was beheaded. • Jane Seymour died after her child was born. • Anne of Cleves was divorced. • Katherine Howard was beheaded.

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Activity 3 before reading

Encourage discussion and speculation. The obvious modern words are: president, pop star, car, cycling, telephone, photograph, New York, apartment. Possible words which don’t actually appear in the story: Italy, gun. Words that do appear in the story: princess, queen, England, horse, tennis, letter, sword, painting, London, palace.

Princess Elizabeth Jane Seymour King Henry Jane Seymour Anne of Cleves Holbein Anne of Cleves King Henry

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Encourage speculation. Possible answers: 1 Because she could not say no. / Because her family wanted her to be Queen of England. 2 Open answer. 3 Often angry and shouting. Fat and ugly. 4 Probably, yes. 5 Yes, she did. 6 Mary, Katherine of Aragon’s daughter.

Activity 4 before reading

Encourage students to speculate. Possible answers: 1 Yes, usually. A king was very powerful. 2 Yes, because many babies and children died from illness. 3 Yes. The King wanted a son to be a strong ruler after him. 4 No. Women were not at all equal to men. 5 Yes. Kings of that time usually did kill their enemies.

While Reading chApter 1 while reading

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Dear Mother Yesterday, I went to Whitehall Palace with my lady Catherine Parr. We found a box with a large gold H on the top. Inside, there were letters from Henry’s first five wives. There was also a beautiful gold necklace and a piece of hair. Catherine Parr told me all about King Henry. When he was young, he was very handsome and he liked horse riding and playing tennis. But when he was old, he became very fat.

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After Reading Activity 1 after reading

activities answers

Words across: 1 younger 3 calm 5 Tower of London 7 sword 9 artist 10 necklace Words down: 1 yellow 2 letters 3 Catholic 4 son 6 lover 8 maid 1

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Activity 2 after reading

Open answers. Encourage discussion. Activity 3 after reading

1 Elizabeth, about her mother, Anne Boleyn. 2 Edward, about his mother, Jane Seymour. 3 Mary, about her mother, Katherine of Aragon. Activity 4 after reading

Henry VIII, King of England, was a tall and handsome young man, who liked horse riding, tennis and playing music. He wrote many beautiful songs and had a wonderful singing voice. When he was older, he became very fat. He had a very bad leg, and often couldn’t walk. And when his leg hurt, he was always angry. He married six times because he wanted a son to be King after him. His one son, Edward VI, died just before he was sixteen. Henry VIII is famous in England’s history because he broke with the Pope and the Catholic Church, and started the Church of England. In 1547 he became very ill and died. His three children, Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, all became King and Queen after him. None of them had any children so Henry’s family came to an end. Activity 5 after reading

Open answers.

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Project work after reading

If appropriate, students might like to work in groups, selecting a different famous person in each group. After they have researched and written their texts, each group could then hold a quiz to find out how much the rest of the class knows about the subject of their mini-biography.

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