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Spektrum Shake-speare

Schule und Unterricht 130 Language awareness There are many ways of cementing your command of English vocabulary. The golden rule to follow is always «Use them or lose them». This particular sonnet is full of verbs dealing with judgment: I. 1 esteem I.2 reproach I.3 deem I.7 spy (also: «to spy») I.8 count (bad) I.10 reckon First find synonyms for the given words. Then (homework or pair work or group work), invent a gap text for your neighbor in which the above menti- oned words and/or their synonyms are used. Make a little story out of the sentences with the missing words, then it is more interesting! There should be 8 gaps. OR Fill in the right words, using the words underlined above and their synonyms: All her life she …………………… it clever not to marry one of her suitors; among them were highly ………………… kings and adventurers. No doubt, some people ………………… . this one of her great virtues. Moreover, her secret service depended on a network of ……………………… As an unmar- ried woman on the throne she was in constant danger and rebellions were common. She …………….. … Sir Walter Raleigh among her closest friends, but in the end he suffered her bitter .. ………………… ended up in the Tower and was eventually beheaded. It would be interesting to find out what would have happened to England if her sister Mary Tudor had outlived her – would England still be ……………………… for Shakespeare? After all it was her interest in the theatre that made her ………….. ………… it worth supporting.

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