FROM PERFORMER CULTURE & LITERATURE

Ex. 1 pag. 78.

1) The role of Parliament: James I summoned Parliament only to ask for money, but its members refused to levy any taxes unless the money was needed for war.

2) The religion issue: Religion was the most urgent power of the nwe reign. Catholics were barred from public life and were fined if they refused to attend the Church of England; extreme Protestants, called Puritans, disapproved of both the rites and the bishops of the Church of England.

3) The king’s interest: He summoned Parliament only to ask for money.

4) The Pilgrim Fathers: They applied for a governement patent to colonise New England. They left England for America on the Mayflower and founded New Plymouth.

5) The plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament: In 1605, some radical Catholics plotted to blow up the king in the Houses of Parliament. The failure of the “Gunpowder Plot” is still commemorated in England on 5th November.

 

Ex. 1 pag. 79.

1) King James I ordered that the people of England should light great bonfires on the evening of 5th November. These celebrations became not just a commemoration of lives preseerved, but an opportunity to vent anti-Catholic feelings.

Ex. 2 pag. 80.

1) Guy Fawkes, a Catholic volunteer who had been fighting in the Law Countries, was the man selected to prepare the gunpowder and light the fuse.

2) Guy Fawkes succeeded in smuggling a ton and a half of gunpowder in barrels into the building without causing suspicion.

3) The plot end on the morning of 5th November. Soldiers discovered Fawkes and arrested him.

4) In 1605 a group of Catholics plotters attempted to blow up the king in the Houses of Parliament.

Ex. 1 pag. 130.

A-2
B-3
C-4
D-1
Ex. 5 pag. 131.

1-A
2-C
3-A
4-D
5-C
6-D
7-C
8-C

Ex. 1 pag. 141.

By the fact of being human, the foundamental rights that humans have nor can be abrogated and that are neither created by any governement.

Ex. 2 pag. 141.

A) information and education
B) human dignity
C) equality before the law
D) association and peaceful assembly
E) human dignity
F) freedom of movemet, career and job freedom

Ex. 3 pag. 141.

1) The rights are given purely because an individual is human; they remain intact and cannot be restricted by the state.

2) Referral to the rights as “acquired at birth” and “inalienable” derives from the period during the fight against absolutism.

3) The most important rights are: human dignity, freedom to religion, conscience and opinion, information and education.

Ex. 2 pag. 144.

1-and
2-be
3-which
4-that
5-an
6-to
7-
8-to

Ex. 4 pag. 144.

1) The motto of the Society, nullius in verba, was a direct challenge to the dependence of the old philosophy on written authorities.

2) It was from 1660 onwards that some of the typical traits of the English character began to emerge: a materialistic and pratical mind, tolerance, reasonbleness and common sense.

Ex. 5 pag. 145.

Experiment: an experiment is a procedure carried out to support, refute or validate a hypothesis.
Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated.
Experience: is the knowledge or mastery of an event or subject gained through involvement in or exposure to it.

Ex. 8 pag. 145.

1-E
2-A
3-B
4-F
5-D
6-C

Ex. 1 pag. 146.

1-4
2-3
3-1
4-2