El amor de el Rey

ACTIVITIES

Before Reading

1 Read the back cover, and the story introduction on the first page. What do you know about this story? Tick one box for each sentence.

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1 Edward VIII was King of 42 countries. [pic 1]

2 Everyone wanted Edward to marry woman he loved.

3 She was the Queen of another country.

4 She was already married to another man.

5 The love of a King is a true story

2 How do you think life is different for a King? Do you agree (A) or disagree (D) with these sentences?

1 A King can choose his own wife.

2 A King has an easy life because he is rich.

3 A King can say what he wants and do what he wants.

4 A King is always followed by photographers.

3 What will happen in this story? Choose one of these ideas.

1 Edward marries the woman, and is still the King.

2 Edward marries the woman, and leaves the country.

3 Edward doesn´t marry, and is the King for many years.

While Reading

Read In April 1987 on page 1. Can you guess the answers to these questions?

1 Why were Edward and Wallis so famous?

2 Why did Edward give Wallis so much jewellery?

Read Chapters 1 and 2. Now complete this passage with the right words (one Word for each gap).

Edward was not a _____ child. He lived in a big, beautiful _____, but he never _____ with other children, and he had no _____. He didn´t go to _____ but had _____ with a teacher, who sometimes hit him with a _____.

When Edward was _____, he became _____ of wales.

He had to wear special clothes and a gold _____ on his head.

Read Chapters 3 and 4. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? Change the false sentences into true ones.

1 In the First World War Edward only met rich people.

2 In five years Edward visited 45 different countries.

3 Edward never got out of his car and talked to people.

4 Edward liked Wallis because she told him truth.

5 Wallis wanted to talk about central heating.

Read Chapter 5. Put these sentences in the correct order.

1 During the next three year, they became good friends.

2 One night Winfield hit her and locked her in a room.

3 A year later she married Ernest Simpson.

4 A few months later Edward asked Wallis to marry him.

5 Wallis married Winfield Spencer when she was twenty.

6 Two years after that, she met Edward at a house party.

7 There, they fell in love.

8 So Wallis divorced him.

9 Then Edward asked Wallis to go skiing in Austria.

Read Chapters 6 to 8. Who said or wrote this and to whom?

1 ´Be a good King, Edward. And be good to your mother.´

2 ´The King is dead. Long live the King.´

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