Thursday, 13 December 2012

Spelling Words :-) xx

1) Plough-  an agricultural implement with sharp blades, attached to a horse, tractor, etc., for cutting or turning over the earth
The farmer needs to plough the fields.
2) Article-  An individual thing or element of a class; a particular object or item: an article of clothing; articles of food.
I read an article from the newspaper
3) Carriage-  A wheeled vehicle, especially a four-wheeled horse-drawn passenger vehicle, often of an elegant design.
The man travelled there by horse and carriage
4) Icicle- A tapering spike of ice formed by the freezing of dripping or falling water.
There was a huge icicle hanging from our roof
5) Rumour- information, often a mixture of truth and untruth, passed around verbally.
The boy spread around a rumour around the school
6) Inferior- A person lower in rank, status, or accomplishment than another.
The food in the resturant was inferior to the food in the other resturant.
7) Secretary-  A person employed to handle correspondence, keep files, and do clerical work for another person or an organization.
She just got a new job as a secretary.
8) Catalogue- A list or itemized display, as of titles, course offerings, or articles for exhibition or sale, usually including descriptive information or illustrations.
The shops catalogue came in the post yesterday.
9) Sufficient- Being as much as is needed.
The amount of food was sufficient for there needs
10) Aerial- a transducer that transmits or receives electromagnetic waves
Our TV aerial is broken
11) Committee- A group of people officially delegated to perform a function, such as investigating, considering, reporting, or acting on a matter
The committee meeted on thursday night
12) Aquarium- a building, usually open to the public, which holds many aquariums (Aquariums hold fish and other water animals).
My mum and dad took me to the aquarium yestersday.

Sunday, 9 December 2012

Shakespear Xx

William Shakespear was an english playwriter and poet in the 16th and 17th century, and is regarded by many as the greatest writer ever from England.
 
Shakespear was born in staford-upon-avon to John and Mary shakespear. His birthdate is unknown, he was baptised on 26th April 1564. When  he was 18 he married Anne Hathaway and they had three children, a daughter Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith.

Shakespear wrote many plays. Some of his most famous are - Romeo+Juliet, midsummer night's dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Taming of the shrew and twelth night.

He 37 plays, of these 14 were comedies, 12 were histories, and 11 were tradgedies.

Shakespeare died on 23rd April 1616, aged 52. He died in his hometown. His wife Anne died that same year.

The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shake
 It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613. A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and closed in 1642.
A modern reconstruction of the Globe, named "Shakespeare's Globe", opened in 1997 approximately 750 feet (230 m) from the site of the original theatre.
http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/plays.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/shakespeare_william.shtml

Play-Doh models from act one scene five x

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This is my play-doh creation from act one scene five of hamlet. I made a snake because in act one scene five the ghost calls claudius a serpent.