Culture. The royal family

1. Look at the picture. Do you know these people? Who are they? What do you know about this family? 2. Read the questions and choose the correct answers, in some questions there are more than one correct answer. Listen and check.

1) What’s the nationality of the royal family? a) English b) American c) British 2) What is the name of the British

Queen? a) Elizabeth b) Diana с) Kate 3) What is the surname of the

Royal Family? a) Buckingham b) Mountbatten-Windsor c) Kensington 4) What’s the name of the Queen’s official residence in London? a) The Tower of London b) Buckingham Palace c) Westminster House 5) The Queen is the Head of … a) England b) the 4 countries, parts of the UK c) the 15 countries, including Jamaica, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

3. British Royals: past and present. Complete the names of the royal people.

King / Prince / Princess / Queen

___ Elizabeth II ___ Diana ___ George V ___ Harry

4. Match the verbs on the left to the words on the right to make royal phrases.

1) sit 2) wear 3) become 4) rule a) a country b) a crown c) king or queen d) on the throne

5. Read the text and match the headings with the correct paragraphs

a) Family b) Image c) Job d) Home e) Leisure

THE QUEEN AND THE ROYAL FAMILY

1) _______The British Royal Family is over 1000 years old. Many British people love them – they are a symbol of tradition and Britain’s favourite tourist attraction. Queen Elizabeth is the fifty-fourth monarch. She became Queen at the age of 25 in 1952. 2) _______The Queen has got four children and eight grandchildren. Her eldest son is Prince Charles; he is the future King. He’s got two sons from his marriage to Princess Diana (1961-1997). Now Charles’s wife is Camilla.

3) The Queen lives in Buckingham Palace in London. Also, she spends time in the other royal homes, like Windsor Castle in England or Balmoral summer residence in Scotland. 4) _______The Queen’s life isn’t easy, she works very hard. Every day the Queen meets important people and discusses political life of her country with the Prime Minister every Tuesday. The Queen usually visits a lot of different places like schools, hospitals, or factories and she regularly welcomes hundreds of visitors to her official meeting at Buckingham Palace. Every year the Queen travels to a lot of countries all over the world. 5) _______The Queen hasn’t got a lot of free time, but she likes walking her favourite corgi dogs. Also, she loves horse-riding and owns racehorses, so she often goes to see them run at famous races like the Derby.

6. Check the meaning of the words in the box. Find such people in the royal family.

step-mother / great-grandmother / grandson / brother-in-law

7. Say who is who in this family? Use the family tree with the names and titles to complete the relationships.

1) Camilla is the Queen’s _____ 2) Kate is the Queen’s _____ 3) Harry is Louis’s _____ 4) Philip is the Queen’s _____ 5) Charlotte is Harry’s _____ 6) Harry and William are

Camilla’s _____ 7) The Queen is Harry and

William’s _____ 8) Charlotte is George and

Louis’s _____ 9) Charles is Louis’s _____ 10) Philip is George, Charlotte and Louis’s _____

Lilibet

8. Facts about the Queen. Put true (T) or false (F), then listen and check. Correct the wrong ones.

1) The Queen celebrates her birthday more than once. 2) The Queen doesn’t need a passport to travel abroad. 3) The Queen doesn’t speak any foreign languages. 4) The Queen has social media accounts. 5) The Queen has got a pet elephant and jaguar.

9. Imagine you are the Queen / King for a day. Answer the questions and plan your royal day.

What do you do? Where do you go? Who do you meet?

Morning:

Afternoon:

Evening:

Night

Vocabulary to have a cup of tea to read the British press to ride a carriage to sign Acts of Parliament to hold a meeting with… to travel abroad to walk around Buckingham Palace to visit a school/hospital/factory