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Step Four B2.1

Willliam Shakespeare
Positive lively and outgoing sensitive and thoughtful honest and sincere generous and welcoming reliable and trustworthy Negative shy and insecure solemn and humourless selfish and thoughtless

ambitious and single-minded

Page 17 – Exercise 4 Open answers
KEY TO THE EXERCISES AND EXIT TEST

Page 25 – Exercise 4 a. borrows b. lend c. borrow, lend d. borrowed e. lending Page 26 – Exercise 5 1. a 2. c 3. a 4. b 5. b 8. b 9. b 10. a 6. c 7. a

Page 18 – Picture description Open answers

Shakespeare’s Life
Page 7 – Exercise 1 a. 23 April is also St. George’s Day, the patron saint of England. b. No, his father was a tradesman. c. He went to the local grammar school in Stratford. d. Shakespeare was eighteen when he got married. e. He had three children. f. He went to follow his career in London. g. James I was King when Shakespeare was with the King’s Men. h. Shakespeare retired to Stratford. i. Shakespeare died on the 23 April, 1616. j. The first published edition of his plays was known as the ‘First Folio’. k. Between 230 and 240 copies of the First Folio are thought to survive today.

Characters
Page 10 – Exercise 1 a. daughter b. Lorenzo c. Portia d. Bassanio e. the Prince of Morocco, the Prince of Aragon f. moneylender g. Nerissa h.Tubal i. Antonio j. Leonardo, Launcelot k. Duke of Venice

CHAPTER TWO
Page 24 – Exercise 1 1B 2A 3D 4C 5C 6B Page 25 – Exercise 2

The Origins of the Pound of Flesh Story
Page 28 – Exercise 1 a. thirty b. slavery, hanged c. ‘Il Pecorone’ Page 28 – Exercise 2 1. b 2. d 3. c 4. a a. seen better days b. the world is his oyster seen better days – Shakespeare's As You Like It. it’s Greek to me - Shakespeare's Julius Caesar a sorry sight - Shakespeare's Macbeth the world’s (my) oyster Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'

CHAPTER ONE
Page 10 – Exercise 1 b. and d. and e.