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summon, grandiose, realm, concern, confiscated, peasants, perpetrators, bellowed, capacity, berate, percent, flexiblebriefly, rare, previous, justice retains, upset, incentives, unrest legislation, majority, biased, standard

Vocabulary

NarrativeCharacter Changes
Teacher Tips
Problem and Solutions
Past Tense Mixture

Assessment

Task

Grammar

Reading

Level 8 Unit 4 Lesson 8

Ruthless Rulers

Would you make a good monarch?

Interview

Which was your favorite pun from the unit?

Very Punny

What advice does speaker B give to Cathy?

Listening

Grammar

speak

Imperfect Past

order
We used to spend the winter at the lake. I never got used to the cold.

Use Used

I danced on Monday morning.
I read until almost four in the morning.

Exactly When?

was seeing
was used to
used to

Insist

told
didn't
saw
see
walked
talk
used to
used to tell
wasn't
didn't
told
did walk
walked
talk
talked
saw
saw
see
  1. When I was young, I play with Katie every day in the park.
  2. Katie, I just her yesterday.
  3. Did you to her?
  4. No, I just past her.
  5. She didn't me.
  6. I you that you shouldn't talk to her!
  7. I talk to her.

Reading

What would be great about a king's life?

Prereading

perpetrators
to stop the revolutions."
“I told you that I am the King, so I get to make the decisions.”
so that they don’t starve.”
so they have begun to eat the meat that belongs to the lords.”
“The last item,” the advisor said. “On the east side of the realm there have been reports of poaching and illegal hunting. The people don’t have any food, Arthur didn’t take the time to think, but immediately said, “Send another troop east then. Make sure that the rules are clearly posted and if the illegal hunting continues, throw the perpetrators in jail.

Poor King Arthur

bellowed
to stop the revolutions."
“I told you that I am the King, so I get to make the decisions.”
so that they don’t starve.”
so they have begun to eat the meat that belongs to the lords.”
Adele spoke up again, “Arthur, father always relaxed his rules about illegal hunting during difficult years. There is a surplus of rabbits this year and the deer are plentiful. Surely you could allow the peasants to hunt “Once again, I am the king!” Arthur bellowed. “I must be strong and unyielding so that my subjects will respect me. They must know that I am the one in charge here." Adelle shook her head and left the room.

Poor King Arthur

capacity
Adelle found her brother sitting alone on his throne with his head hanging down. He looked up at her and sighed. “I need help. Everything is awful.”
Three months into his rule, Arthur had the main jail completely full and the three smaller jails also at capacity. He didn’t have enough food to feed the prisoners and there was civil unrest across the realm. All of the peasants were starving while the lords ate all the meat and vegetables produced on their land.

Poor King Arthur

berate
Adelle gave her brother a comforting hug instead of an angry bellow. “The peasants are moving toward the castle,” Arthur told his sister. “I fear they are going to mount a violent revolution. What can I do?”
Adelle nodded. She wanted to berate her brother for making such bad decisions at the beginning of his rule, but yelling at him wouldn’t help solve any of their problems. Arthur had been walking around the castle, muttering to himself and shaking his head. He wasn’t sleeping and he was worried every day that the peasants would revolt.

Poor King Arthur

percent
People can’t pay you unless they actually make some profit. Let the peasants hunt this season. One animal a week so they can feed their families and have the strength to plant their crops.”
“First of all,” Adelle said. “You need to let all of the people out of jail. Send them back to their homes with enough bread for their families and let them start working in the fields again. Stop trying to collect taxes this year. Twenty percent of nothing is nothing.

Poor King Arthur

flexible
Suddenly Arthur stood up. “Wait a minute. I am the king! I get to make the rules. My new rule is that women can be the monarch. You should have taken over when father died. You are so much wiser and more logical than I am. That’s the last decision I make. Adelle is the new queen!”
“You sound so certain,” Arthur shrugged. “How do you know what to do?” “It’s true that a king must be strong, but he must also be flexible and make decisions to show his subjects that he cares about them.” “I wish you could be king,” Arthur moaned. “You would be so much better at it than me.”

Poor King Arthur

What did Arthur do at the end of the story?
How did Arthur act while he was the king?
How do you think Arthur was before he was king?

Growth

Vocabulary

perpetrators
bellowed
peasants
confiscated
took away
common people
yelled loudly
ones who commit a crime

Matching

Make a Sentence

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  • black
  • 35
  • gauche
  • avec
  • 1000
  • 1
  • summon
  • grandiose
  • realm
  • concern
  • confiscated
  • peasants
  • perpetrator
  • bellowed
  • capacity
  • berate
  • percent
  • flexible
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Matching

incentive
unrest
upset
retains
keeps
a state of disturbance
a state of worry
something that motivates

Tic Tac Toe

unrest
justice
standard
previous
legislation
rare
upset
retains
briefly

Practice

A Bad Ruler

A Good Ruler

Compare and Contrast

Present the final draft of your essay.

Extension

Exit Interview

Do you think it is difficult to find a good leader?
You finished Unit 4!

Congratulations!