TOUCHSTONES 1 READING ACTIVITY
Go to your activity book to complete the retired words matching task (see page 118).
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PERFORMING Divide into pairs and try this improvisation task. In this scenario, one person is trying to order a meal at a fast-food restaurant. The customer is speaking in Shakespearean English and the person working at the cash register cannot understand what they are trying to order.
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If you are playing the customer, think about what retired Shakespearean words might be good to use, as well as any other words or phrases you’ve learned so far. The fast-food worker should try to remain calm but will become increasingly frustrated.
Shakespeare’s Grammar Pronouns
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A pronoun is a part of speech that replaces a noun in a sentence (see page 276 for more on pronouns). When Shakespeare was writing his plays, there were more pronouns in speech than we have today – for example, he regularly uses ‘thy’, ‘thine’, ‘thee’ and ‘thou’. There are different types of pronouns, depending on what part of a sentence they appear in. Pronoun = possessive determiner
Pronoun = possessive
You
You
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Yours
You are a potato.
Potato likes you.
Your potato is mouldy.
It is not my potato, it’s yours.
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Thee
Thy
Thine
Thou art a potato.
Potato liketh thee.
Thy potato is mouldy.
It’s not my potato, it’s thine.
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Pronoun = object of the sentence
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Modern English
Pronoun = subject of the sentence
ACTIVITY
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Shakespeare’s English
READING Go to your activity book to complete the tasks on pronouns (see pages 118–119).
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