After Kings and Queens of Britain, this is
another book by the same author, in the same series. It’s a slightly more advanced level, but most
of the same things I said about Kings and
Queens of Britain are true of this book as well. It confused my students more than anything,
but if it at least made them aware that the island of Ireland existed, I’m
happy with that for now. If they
continue to read widely in the future, hopefully gradually their picture of the
world will become clearer.
Teaching Materials
[This book contained a glossary at the back for words that might be problematic for students. On the first day, I had the class read through the glossary, then on subsequent days I made matching exercises for the words in the glossary. I know this is all terribly boring and uncreative, but my theory was something was better than nothing when it came to the vocabulary.]
army/armies,
battle, farm, fought, government, history, leader, leather,
monasteries, monks
|
___________ people who live and work in
monasteries
___________ the story of things that
happened a long time ago
___________ a big fight between two armies
___________ the skin of a cow. Most shoes
are made of this
___________ the important people who say
what can happen in the country
___________ milk and apples come from there,
and animals live there
___________ a lot of men, called soldiers,
who fight
___________ churches where men called monks
live and work
___________ the past tense of "to
fight"
___________ a person who tells other people
what to do
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parliament, peace, play, poetry, Pope, post office,
president, prison, pub, set
|
__________ a bar
___________special writing in beautiful
language
__________an important building where
postmen work
__________a place where bad people have to
live for a number of months or years
___________ the place where important
people in the government talk
__________the most important man in the
Catholic church
__________a story that is told by people in
the theatre
__________the most important person in a
government
___________when there is no fighting
___________I first ____ my eyes on: I could
see her for the first time
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thought, took, vote, welcome
|
_______the past tense of "to
take"
_______Hello, we are happy to see you
_______past tense of "to think"
_______to say who you want to be in the
government
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