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Unit 2

The Crown Focus on â€Ś Royalty Relationships Etiquette The basics Revision present tenses Adjectives and adverbs Question word questions On speaking terms Rumours about royals Discussing relationships Polite conversations

Mouth gymnastics Humming (intonation) Did you know? Royal rules Shuffle Adele Finger exercise School manners On the spot

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What do you think? Do you think we need royals? Who is your favourite royal? Why? Do you think royals can have ‘normal’ relationships, like ‘normal’ people? How important is etiquette when you are a royal? How important is etiquette for you? Would you like to be a royal?

1. Focus on … Royalty 1

Watch the excerpt from "The Crown". Which royal do we meet here? What kind of person is this? What particular moment do we witness? Why is the matter of her name so important?

Link these titles to the correct description. king prince duchess earl queen duke princess

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the wife of a duke the prince who will become king when the present king or queen dies the male ruler of an independent state that has a royal family a nobleman of the highest rank a nobleman of high rank the female ruler of an independent state that has a royal family a male member of a royal family who is not the king, especially the son or grandson of the king or queen a female member of a royal family who is not the queen, especially the daughter or granddaughter of the king or queen

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Which words belong together (they have more or less the same meaning or belong to the same category)? elite – heir – kingdom – aristocracy – monarchy – descendant – empire – commonwealth – nobility – lineage

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Complete. Use the list. queen regnant – commoner – monarch – Commonwealth – to abdicate – line of succession – privilege – Highness

1) A … is a nation’s ruler, usually by hereditary right.

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2) ‘Your …’ is a phrase used to address a royal person.

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3) When monarchs don’t want their power, they can ...

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4) The order in which royals are expected to succeed one another is the ...

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5) A female sovereign ruler is called the …

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6) A person who holds no title is called a ...

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7) The … is an international organization consisting of the UK and other countries, including most of the countries that used to be part of the British empire.

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8) A … is a special right or advantage available only to a particular group, such as the royal family.

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What are the queen’s duties? Complete the pyramid. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

to … neutral to … carefully to … heads of state to … parties at palaces to … people with a title of honour to … from the throne to … messages to … the country to … diplomatic relationships

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2. On speaking terms Your Majesty

Rumours about royals Prince Harry is my favourite royal. I like the charities he supports. I don’t believe Meghan Markle is as mean as people want her to be. Do you really think Kate and William will split up? I don’t think royals are role models for normal people. They don’t live in the normal world, you know. Royals can’t expect us not to have an opinion. We pay for their livelihood! Royal families have the same troubles as other families.

Do you agree? • • • • • •

Royals are role models. Their behaviour should be impeccable. Privileges are unfair and have no place in the 21st century. People don’t choose to be royals. Hence they should be able to choose not to be one. Taxpayers shouldn’t have to fund royal families. Royals should have a weekly TV show. It is good to die fighting for one’s king or queen and country.

Discuss these headlines. Are royals really in control of their own lives? Should they be?

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Watch the excerpt from “The Crown”. Do all the queen’s actions have implications? What do you see? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

‘But do we understand the terms?’ Is this just about a dance? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

‘Our queen is dancing, sir, with an African.’ ‘Was this agreed?’ ‘This was definitely not agreed.’ Why is there a man on the phone? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What about her husband, the king? What does he think? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Read this article about the significance of the dance.

“The Crown” says one dance changed history. The truth isn't so simple. It was a highlight of the latest season of the Netflix series “The Crown”, which chronicles the early years of Queen Elizabeth II's reign. The year is 1961, the Cold War is heating up and the queen (played by Claire Foy), feeling self-conscious after learning that First Lady Jackie Kennedy (Jodi Balfour) called her "incurious" at a dinner party, decides to take a more proactive role in dealing with Ghana, a former colony whose new leader, Kwame Nkrumah (Danny Sapani), appears to be getting too cosy with the Soviets. Her solution: a dance with Nkrumah at a ball in the capital, Accra. The foxtrot, specifically, to the extreme, hilarious consternation of prime minister Harold Macmillan (Anton Lesser). It's a high-stakes political gamble that could decide the balance of Soviet power in Africa, which in the early 1960s was fast emerging as a Cold War battleground. To everyone's relief, the dance is a success. The implication is that, in exchange for his photo opportunity dancing with the queen, Nkrumah will ‘come back to the fold’ and squash Soviet hopes for Africa. Later, JFK (Michael Hall) crows to Jackie that her jab at the queen precipitated a major foreign policy victory for the US and UK It's the foxtrot that changes the course of history. ‘Well, that's nice’, says Nat Nuno-Amarteifio, an architect and amateur historian who served as mayor of Accra from 1994-98 and remembers the queen's supposedly fateful visit from when he was a teenage student. ‘It's a lot of bulls**t.’ It turns out “The Crown” got a lot wrong about that dance, according to Nuno-Amarteifio and other Ghanaian history experts. There's no dispute that the Ghana visit happened, or that Nkrumah and the queen shared a dance. But the dance wasn't exactly a pivotal moment for Nkrumah's political philosophy, which continued to adhere to socialism in subsequent years, even earning him the Lenin Peace Prize the year after the queen's visit. ‘I'm surprised that the dance has attained this retroactive reputation’, NunoAmarteifio says. ‘Nobody talked about it then.’ John Parker, a historian at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, agreed that Nkrumah's ties to socialism were mostly ideological and detached from specific foreign policy agreements with the USSR. Still, Nkrumah was seen as a wild card by the US and UK, and the queen's visit was part of a broader strategy (not an individual impulse, as represented in the show) to corral him and other rogue leaders. ‘The British government was certainly concerned to limit Soviet influence in ex-colonies’, Parker says. ‘Overseas tours by the queen were designed broadly to strengthen Commonwealth links.’ Meanwhile, African socialism wasn't exactly working the way Ghanaians hoped it would. By the time of the queen's visit in 1961, the economy was crumbling, bribes were routinely collected by government officials at every level of the system (including by Nkrumah himself, who, according to Meredith, even set up a special state-run company to facilitate bribe collection from foreign businessmen) and political opponents were frequently jailed. ‘There was a lot of unhappiness, and Nkrumah's position was already delicate’, Nuno-Amarteifio says. ‘If the queen was brave to come to Ghana, he was also brave to welcome her, because it exposed him to tremendous embarrassment should anything happen. The whole world would be watching.’ Fortunately, the event seems to have gone off smoothly. As for the dance itself, Nuno-Amarteifio says it barely registered with him and his friends at the time. If anything, he says, the depiction of the ecstatic Ghanaian press and bewildered British bureaucrats - shocked that the queen would deign to dance with an African - in “The Crown” comes across as paternalistic.

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‘It was a young white woman dancing with an African’, he says. ‘What do you expect me to do, applaud?’ Did the visit accomplish anything? The big hydroelectric dam referenced in the episode was eventually built, not by the USSR but by an Italian company with financing from the US and UK. But ‘Ghana did not 'sever links' with the USSR’, Parker says. ‘To suggest that the dance - or the royal tour as a whole – ‘tipped the balance’ of Soviet power in West Africa is untrue.’ Nkrumah would remain a proponent of socialism the rest of his life. In 1966, while on a trip to North Korea and China, he was deposed in a military coup that was likely orchestrated by the CIA. In other words, the episode not only makes much ado out of a forgettable moment, but uses that representation to manufacture a victory for the US and UK that never really happened. Or, as NunoAmarteifio puts it: ‘I still don't know why that stupid dance is so important.’ Source: after https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/01/21/578674702/netflixs-the-crown-says-one-dance-changed-history-the-truthisn-t-so-simple?t=1579863390080

What is the significance of the dance according to the Netflix series “The Crown”? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What is the significance of the dance according to Nat Nuno-Amarteifio? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What is the significance of the dance according to John Parker? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Write a short article about the dance that could be put on the cover of one of the newspapers in exercise 7. Make sure you have a good headline. Keep in mind: not all papers are interested in the truth; some merely want to sell as many copies as possible.

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3. Mouth gymnastics Humming (intonation) • List intonation: When pronouncing a list of items, the intonation often rises on each item before the last. On the last item, the intonation drops to a low note to show that the list is finished. • Choice intonation: When a question elicits an answer that is a choice between two or more alternatives, the intonation rises with each choice, and then drops with the final option. • Double rising intonation: The intonation rises both at the beginning and at the end of the sentence. Double rising intonation on a question makes it sound like you misunderstood the first time you heard the answer or it makes clear you are in fact asking two questions in one. • Falling intonation: The intonation drops to a low note. You use this to make clear that what you are saying is a fact for you. • Rising intonation: The intonation rises at the end of the sentence. You use this to ask a question.

Work in pairs. Student A hums the intonation patterns of the phrases in the second column, student B hums the correct reply. student A

student B

(list intonation)

I hate orange, yellow and green.

Not all together, I hope.

(choice intonation)

Would you prefer purple or pink?

Pink, please.

(double rising intonation)

Would you like some pizza and coke?

No, thank you. I’m not hungry.

(falling intonation)

Next week we are going to Rome.

Really? How long will you be there?

(rising intonation)

Is he going to the doctor?

Yes. He has a headache.

All these people are reading. Can you explain the differences? 1

Tom reads a book every evening.

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Suzie is reading a book right now.

Rik has read that book before.

Ellen has been reading since this morning.

4. The basics I have read the book that Tom is reading right now

Revision present tenses

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• Some verbs are used in both simple and continuous tenses. These are called action verbs. She usually walks home but today she isn’t walking, she is driving. • Some verbs are not usually used in continuous tenses. These are called state verbs. I like lemonade. NOT I am liking lemonade. I know the answer. NOT I am knowing the answer.

• With state verbs (to be, to hear, to feel, to believe, to love, to see, to like, to think …) the present simple is used to talk about now or the period around now. I feel good. • Some state verbs can be used in the continuous form when they have a different, active meaning or when you want to make clear you are talking about an action in progress and not about a permanent state. I’m loving it.

Complete, using the present simple. Why do you use the present simple tense? 1) (I – usually – to drink) coffee in the morning.

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