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LEVEL 2 Activity worksheets Teacher Support Programme King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table Photocopiable Before reading Chapter 3 EASYSTARTS 1 Complete the sentences. 7 You are King Arthur. You are staying at a King Arthur is … Queen Annoure’s castle. Write a postcard to b Guinevere is … Guinevere telling her about the beautiful castle c The Knights of the Round Table are … and about Queen Annoure. LEVEL 2 Camelot is … d Chapter 4 Excalibur is … e 8 Complete the sentences. LEVEL 3 While reading Morgan le Fay was a q……, with a c…… in the Chapters 1–2 country of Gorres. She was a very b… w…… . 2 You are Merlin. You lost your job when Uther She could do m…… for b…… things. She died. Complete this to find a new job. LEVEL 4 h…… King Arthur but he did not k…… it. She wanted King Arthur to d…… . NAME: 9 Write why. AGE: a King Arthur did not take his sword because … LEVEL 5 COUNTRY: b Arthur left his sword with Morgan le Fay LAST JOB: because … MAGIC: c Arthur could not find his way out of the LEVEL 6 forest because … 3 You are King Uther. Write a letter to your d Arthur went onto the boat because … son, Arthur, telling him everything. e Arthur fought for Sir Damas because … f Before the fight, Arthur was happy because … Dear son, g During the fight, King Arthur was not happy I’m sorry that … because … h Sir Accolon fought against Arthur because … i Arthur took the castle from Sir Damas 4 In Chapter 1 there is a lot of magic. Read the because … chapter again and write down three parts that j Arthur stayed with the nuns because … have magic. k The nuns let Morgan le Fay look at Arthur 5 Arthur and Guinevere invite you to their party because … but the invitation is not right! Put the l Morgan le Fay threw the scabbard into the sentences in the right place. water because … 10 You are Morgan le Fay. Tell your story. Start Come to Arthur’s with: I am Morgan le Fay. You think I am a bad Wonderful party. woman but I am not … Archbishop will marry Camelot where the Chapters 5–6 them. We will enjoy a 11 What are Merlin and Vivien thinking? Write. and Guinevere’s wedding at 6 King Arthur writes to another king about the table Merlin made him. Read page 6 and complete. I have a wonderful table. There are (a) ……… places at the (b) ……… and (c) ……… table. Only the (d) ……… and (e) ……… knights can (f ) ……… round the table. No (g) ……… is better than the other. Nobody can sit at the (h) ………, nobody can sit at the (i) ……… . pearsonenglishreaders.com © Pearson Education Limited 2016 King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - Activity worksheets 1 of 2 LEVEL 2 Activity worksheets Teacher Support Programme King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table Photocopiable 12 Sir Meligrance is a bad knight. In what order 15 These words are from the story of The Grail. EASYSTARTS did he do the bad things? Number the Match the words in A and B. sentences 1–10. You can use the same words several times. How many can you put together to tell the story? LEVEL 2 SIR MELIGRANCE A B WANTED FOR old church a Making his knights fight against dead clothes Guinevere’s knights. c LEVEL 3 white cup b Taking Guinevere and her knights red face away to his castle. c great hair c Keeping Sir Lancelot in a little room LEVEL 4 beautiful helmet below a door. c round journey d Telling Queen Guinevere and her gold king knights to stand where they are. c loud noise LEVEL 5 e Saying to Guinevere that Lancelot long knights went back to Camelot. c brave letter f Telling them that if they move, he will new man/men LEVEL 6 kill them. c light g Telling Guinevere, his king’s wife, that table he loves her. c h Wounding Guinevere’s knights. c Chapter 9 i Saying he is sorry to Guinevere when 16 Write. he really isn’t. c You are Lancelot. Answer Sir Gawain’s letter in j Telling Arthur that Guinevere came page 36. with him because she loves him. c 17 Work with another student. Sir Bevidere does not want to let King Arthur go on the black boat with the ladies dressed in black. What does he say to Arthur? Write their words and Chapters 7–8 then read them in class. 13 Tristram is a music teacher. Complete the After reading text. 18 Work with another student. King Arthur DO YOU LIKE MUSIC? TALK TO SIR comes back to help his country today. In what TRISTRAM NOW! HE NEEDS HELP! ways is the world different? In what ways is the Make his w…… better and he will teach you world the same? Write your ideas. Does your to play the h…… . E…… playing it and learn friend agree? it w…… . You may end up liking music and 19 What problems must King Arthur help the your t…… a lot! world with today? Make a short list. 14 Work with another student. Tell the story of 20 Work with other students. Write the names of Tristram. Use these words to help you. the people in the story on different pieces of paper. Give one to each person in the group. woods a harp black helmet The other people in the group ask questions to poison black helmet a marriage find out who each of you is. a fire a marriage a lake uncle a wound a castle 21 Write. a fight a wound swords You are Queen Guinevere. Write a short letter a wound a harp a song and a smile to a friend about your life with King Arthur. Did you love him? Was he a good husband? What good things did her do in his life? pearsonenglishreaders.com © Pearson Education Limited 2016 King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - Activity worksheets 2 of 2 LEVEL 2 Progress test Teacher Support Programme King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table Photocopiable Chapters 1–2 Chapter 4 EASYSTARTS 1 Match the names of these people (a–j) with the 4 Right (✓) or wrong (✗)? right words (1–10): a King Arthur knew that Morgan le Fay hated a Uther ….. him. c b lgraine ….. b Arthur went to sleep in a small room that LEVEL 2 c Merlin ….. night. c d Arthur ….. c Arthur was alone in the small room. c e Sir Ector ….. d Sir Accolon had Arthur’s sword, Excalibur. c LEVEL 3 f Sir Kay ….. e Merlin told Arthur about Morgan le Fay. c g The Archbishop ….. Chapters 5–6 h Sir Galahad ….. 5 Who did this? LEVEL 4 i Guinevere ….. a Vivien learned magic from ……… . j Sir Pellinore ….. b Vivien studied with ……… . 1) a beautiful woman c ……… went on a long journey with Merlin. 2) the most important man in the church LEVEL 5 d ……… saw a magic cave inside the mountain. 3) a good knight e ……… shouted the magic words. 4) a great king f ……… had no help from his friend. LEVEL 6 5) a man who knew a lot of magic 6) a new knight Chapters 7–8 7) Arthur’s best knight 6 Complete the words. 8) Sir Ector’s son a The _u_ _n told the King the baby’s name and 9) son of Uther and lgraine d_ _ed. 10) the most beautiful woman in England b _in_ Mark loved Tristram and Tristram loved his _n_l_. 2 Who said this? c There was _oi_o_ in Tristram’s w_u_d. a ‘You can marry Igraine.’ …………… d Isolt stayed near Tristram’s _e_ for many days and b ‘Who will be king after me?’ …………… n_ _h_s. c ‘Who brought the stone here?’ …………… e Tristram had a white h_e_m_e_, white c_ot_es d ‘Perhaps the new king will come to the fight.’ and a white h_rs_. …………… f ‘When you want my h_l_, I will c_ _e,’ said e ‘There is a sword in the stone outside the church.’ Tristram. …………… g Tristram threw Sir Palamides, the _v_l knight, f ‘I will try to be a good king.’ …………… onto the g_ou_ _. g ‘Arthur is our king!’ …………… h Isolt did not _a_ or d_in_. h ‘The names of the Knights of the Round Table will i The place said in g_l_ l_ _t_er_ ‘Sir Galahad’. be famous!’ …………… j They saw a gold c_p above the ta_ _e. Chapter 3 k On the s_i_, there was the G_ _i_. 3 Complete these sentences with one of these words: l In the morning, they found Sir Galahad d_ _d and castle door horse knight magic he had a happy f_c_. queen wall wood Chapter 9 a King Arthur went round the country on his … . 7 Complete the sentence. b One day he came to a great … . a King Arthur and his men went to France to … . c Then he saw a very big, beautiful … in front of him. b ‘Please come and help King Arthur in …’. d It was the castle of … Annoure. c One of Mordred’s men pulled out his sword and e She knew a lot of … . Arthur’s men … . f She told Arthur that the … was shut. d Sir Bedivere threw the sword on the water and an g Arthur went out of the castle through the door in arm … . the great … . e … were in the boat.