Ex. 3. Use the film to prove the following statements

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1 The Duke of Anjou was a dissolute young man.

2 The Vatican didn’t support the sovereignty of Elizabeth.

3 Norfolk played a different game.

4 Renouncing heresy, Lord Robert was promised many new and powerful friends.

5 The point of marriage was pressing.

6 Elizabeth sacrificed her own happiness for the welfare of her people.

7 Lord Robert was just a pawn in the game for power.

Ex. 4. Listen to the very last episode and describe the picture (The priest from England arrived in Rome)

Ex. 5. Characterize: a) the situation at the Court; b) the inner state of Elizabeth.

Writing

Ex. 1. Write a letter of papal blessing and hope to Catholics in England, depriving Elizabeth of her throne.

Ex. 2. Write an essay “Does not a Queen sit under the same stars as any other woman?”

UNIT 5

Pre-view Exercises

Ex. 1. A) Guess the meaning of the international words.

C onspiracy, to corrupt, a gesture, terms, politics.

B) Translate the sentences choosing their appropriate contextual meaning.

1 Is God such a worldly person that he must play politics and conspiracy?

To play politics – 1) вести политическую игру (соблюдая собственные, а не общественные интересы); 2) вести нечестную политическую игру, пользоваться нечестными средствами для достижения политических целей.

Conspiracy – 1) умысел, замысел; 2) тайный сговор; 3) тайная организация; 4) секретность, конспирация

2 The Queen’s love could corrupt the soul of any man.

Corrupt – 1) развращать, разлагать, разлагаться (о человеке, государстве); 2) подкупать, давать взятку; 3) гноить, портить (органические вещества), гнить, разлагаться; 4) искажать (язык, текст); 5) уничтожать, разрушать данные.

3 You must also make conciliatory gestures towards the Spanish.

Gesture – 1)жест; телодвижение; 2) поступок, действие, шаг; 3) мимика.

4 What terms can your Queen propose?

Terms (pl.) – 1) условия соглашения, договора; 2) условия оплаты; гонорар; 3)личные отношения.

Ex. 2. Translate the underlined words in the phrases, taking into consideration their derivational structure.

To outnumber the enemy’s army; to legitimize claims to the throne, to safeguard the throne, a merciful person, to overthrow the queen, to do something with ease, to depend on someone’s goodwill, on the deathbed.

Ex. 3. Look up the meaning and pronunciation of the new vocabulary in the dictionary.

abandon (v.)

conciliatory (adj.)

conviction (n.)

divine (adj., n.)

harbour (n., v.)

martyr (n.)

offence (n.)

reject (v.)

ruthlessness (n.)

torture (n.,v.)

vanity (n.)