Shakespeare Helps Young Lovers

Getting Things Done

Life in the smaller country places can make you feel very isolated. Once our village didn’t have a very good (1) ________ into town since there were only two buses a week. (2) ________ was the state of (3) ________ when I first (4) _______ there some years ago. I remember the startled (5) _______ of women I spoke to outside the shops about this (6) _______ of a very basic provision. ‘Well, that’s how it is, there’s nothing we can do about it.’ ‘There’s (7) ________ , ‘ I replied quickly. ‘We can (8) _______ a meeting in the village hall, get up a petition, and (9) _______it to the local council, asking them to (10) ________ the number of days a week the bus (11) _______ . And most important of all we have to make sure that the local Member of Parliament either (12) _______ the meeting or certainly gets a copy of our petition.’ After some hesitation and (13) ________ doubt about our chance of success, the idea was put into (14) ________ with the (15) ________ that today the village has a daily bus into town.

1 A transport B route C link D service

2 A It B This C There D So

3 A affairs B matters C ways D facts

4 A survived B settled C rested D started

5 A return B repeat C reaction D result

6 A loss B waste C scarcity D lack

7 A many B plenty C great D lot

8 A hold B raise C handle D bring

9 A refer B propose C present D offer

10 A enlarge B extend C stretch D develop

11 A serves B drives C transfers D runs

12 A arrives B comes C attends D appears

13 A first B opening C starting D initial

14 A movement B act C practice D form

15 A result B output C end D verdict

Task 2. For questions 16-30, read the following text and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space.

Shakespeare Helps Young Lovers

Possibly the first known London address of Shakespeare is in the area of what today (16) ________ Liverpool Street Station. In October 1596 this was (17) ________ of the Parish (18) ________ St Helen’s, Bishopsgate. A William Shakespeare is on a debtors’ list of that date and place for five shillings in tax – a good (19) ________ pounds by today’s values. He had (20) ________ February 1597 to pay but the collectors who called during that month were (21) ________ to get their money. His name appears in the (22) ________ parish in 1598, (23) ________ time for even (24) ________ tax, payable (25) ________ the end of March. History repeated itself when the men called, and (26) ________ more they collected nothing. By October Shakespeare was across the river and only ten years later did he recross (27) ________ to lodge in the house of a wigmaker in Silver Street. This is (28) ________ record because in a 1612 court case at Westminster, Shakespeare speaks (29) ________ behalf of an apprentice in the house of the wigmaker, (30) ________ daughter the apprentice hoped to marry, despite her father’s disapproval – rich material indeed for a dramatist.

Task 3. The four words in each group have something in common. Guess the word they are all connected with and write it down into boxes. Some letters are done for you as prompts.

Example: milk, sour cream, curds, yoghurt

Task 4. Add two letters to each of the following words to form an new word. Use the explanations of new words as prompts. Example: sit SIXTH :not fifth

46 dead ______________ : the years

47 way ______________ : tired of life

48 lay ______________ : tall and thin

49 ripe ______________ : read this and cook

50 dear ______________ : dull, boring, colourless

51 come ______________ : what you earn

52 tend ______________ : make something longer, in time or space

53 tray ______________ : what traitors do

54 cell ______________ : keep wine in this

55 red ______________ : have babies

Date: 2015-02-03; view: 2174