CUALE 27th March

Learning about the past

What do you know about the National Portrait Gallery?

Go to their website and answer the following questions:

• Where is it?
• What can you see there?
• Can you visit it now? Why/Why not?
• Are there any events for secondary school students?

Look at this picture. Do you know who these people are? Let’s listen and find out.

Now complete the statements:
1. He was king for _________________ months.
2. The government didn’t want them to get married because _________________.
3. The next King was _____________________.
4. They were together for ____________________.

How well do you know British History? Let’s do this quiz and find out.

There are also many portraits of Elizabeth II at the National Portrait Gallery. She’s the queen of the UK. Let’s find out more about her with this video. You can watch it and do the quiz at the same time.

"National Portrait Galley" by HarshLight is licensed under CC BY 2.0 

Now why don’t you choose one of the portraits at the National Gallery and explain who that person was? It doesn’t have to be a very long text. Just a few words so that we can learn more about British history. The texts you send will be published on this blog.

Please, don’t forget to send the answers to my email. Enjoy your weekend!