Individual work. Match the pairs of synonyms.

Example: 1- c

contempt	to move back
ostentatious	to order officially to come
to retreat	disdain
unique	to regain
to recover	to destroy or to bring to an end by force
combination	influential
to summon	governmental
to betray	pretentious
powerful	peculiar
bureaucratic	joining
to renounce	to be disloyal
to suppress	to repudiate

Exercise 3.9

Pair work. Choose words from exercises 3.6 and 3.8 and compose at least 3 true/false statements. Read them to your partner, agree or disagree orally as in the example. Pay special attention to the underlined phrases

Example:

S1: If I’m not mistaken, Henry VII renounced papal supremacy.

S2: I’m afraid, that’s not so, because it was his son Henry VIII who did this.

S2: Both Henry VIII and his father were powerful men, I believe.

S1: You are absolutely right, I couldn’t agree more.

Exercise 3.10

Group work. Read the text and fill in the missing sentences, given in the box below; then write out the words in bold and give their Russian equivalents.

Example: 1-d; landed in England – высадился в Англии

Henry VIII (1491-1547) succeeded his father Henry VII in 1509 and married Catherine of Aragon, the widow of his elder brother Arthur. Henry avoided foreign wars. Henry had six wives. Henry VII was the first Tudor monarch.

THE HOUSE OF TUDOR

The reign of the royal dynasty of Tudor extended from 1485 to 1603. (1…) He was succeeded by Henry VIII and then followed Henry VIII’s children by different wives: Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, the last of the line.

Henry VII (1457-1509), the first king of the Tudor dynasty, lived in France until 1485, when he landed in England, raised a rebellion and defeated and killed Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth. To secure his hold on the throne, he married Edward IV’s daughter Elizabeth of York. He put down two rebellions and restored order after the Wars of the Roses by means of the Star Chamber. He imposed heavy fines and accumulated a large fortune. (2…) He made peace treaties with Spain, France and Scotland.

(3…) During the first years of his reign he was active in foreign policy, largely under the guidance of Cardinal Wolsey. Henry disgraced him, however, in 1529, when Wolsey had failed to persuade the Pope to grant Henry a divorce from Catherine.

With Parliament’s approval Henry renounced the papal supremacy, proclaimed himself Head of the Church and dissolved the monasteries.

(4…) Catherine of Aragon, the mother of the future Queen Mary I, was divorced in 1533 and the king married Anne Boleyn who was executed in 1536 for alleged adultery. Henry’s third wife, Jane Seymour, died in 1537 in childbirth. Then the king married and quickly divorced Anne of Cleves, beheading Thomas Cromwell, his chief assistant, who had found him the bride. Henry’s fifth wife, Catherine Howard, was executed in 1542 and the following year Henry married Catherine Parr, who outlived him.

Exercise 3.11

Group work. Read the text in exercise 3.10 again and answer the questions.

Example: 1) The Tudors ruled England for 18 years.