3. Now read the text and answer the key questions

1). Who were the parties in the Hundred Years’ War ? What aims did they pursue ?

2) Why were the English successful in the first years of the war ?

3) What contributed to the victory of the French ?

4) What did both countries have to endure in those years ?

5). Why did English king make up his mind to marry his children to powerful

houses of the kingdom ?

6). Why was the struggle between the rivals for the English throne called the Wars

of the Roses ?

7). What did the war end with ?

8). Why did the following dynasty manage to build a new state ?

Ex 5. Match the endings with respective beginnings .

Ending Beginning

a. a decisive point in the Wars of Roses. 1. Being an important trade partner,

Flanders and

to the daughters of the most significant 2. The battle of Bosworth was

families .

c. aimed at seizing the English throne. 3. Henry Bolingbroke succeeded in

catching the English Crown

d. who claimed to hear heavenly voices 4. To strengthen his power King

married his sons

d. a real disaster, came from France and 5.

killed two-thirds of the population.

dynasty . influential Houses was

f. its ports meant much in the development 6. In the 14^th century, an epidemic

of England’s industries. of the plague,

g. were immediately killed 7. Those who were captured

6. Explain the usage of the articles

1. The barons strengthened themselves by building fortresses and forming their own armies.

2. That was a real threat for the monarch.

3. The nobles were driven by the desire to catch the lands in France.

4. The members of the royal dynasty вecame relatives to many rich families.

Ex 8. Put the words in the right order of the interrogative sentence and

give full answers to them.

1). the of what the War were parties Roses of the ?

2). did king to up why English make mind marry his to powerful his

Houses children the ?

3). happened during country what the the War to Years’ Hundred ?

4). Flemish an England’s why ports development did in of role play

important ?

5). Richard - The - Lionheart for what known is ?

6). kings taxes constantly did English why to have raise ?

7). the was on the who Rose side Red of ?

8). document for time what people first what liberties the stated of

certain the ?

9). plans regard French with of what fewdals did England have ?

10). the who dynasty started Plantagenet ?

11). the dialect of what base national of language was ?

12). Parliament from where originate did English ?

13). Disaster France did from have England what both suffer and to ?

14). growth the England’s what industries promoted of ?

15). to during happened War what the Roses of country the ?

A. Imagine you are in a history museum . What questions would you ask the guide to get an additional information about the Medieval England ?

B. What would you as a guide tell your listeners about this epoch ?