Pen Portraits

Develop your vocabulary and exercise your imagination by conjuring up a mermaid on the shore, or a train waiting at the station.

It should go without saying, that you may choose a male or female character wherever relevant.

1. A private detective.

2. A rowing boat.

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Clay Lane Think and Speak

Clay Lane

June 1 NS

May 19 OS

Dmitri of the Don : Grand Duke Dmitri of Moscow loosened the grip of the Tartar Horde on the people of Russia, but treachery robbed him of triumph.

Lost Innocence : In the fourth century, Britain’s Christians acquired a taste for watering down the mystery of their message.

Leslie Howard : Howard gave his life to saving the ‘great gifts and strange inconsistencies’ of Britain’s unique democracy.

The Glorious First of June : Admiral Lord Howe battered a French fleet far out in the Atlantic, and helped prevent the spread of bloody revolution.

The Coronation of Anne Boleyn : The weight of the crown that Anne Boleyn wore proved too heavy to bear.

Peggy’s Dog : Some lines from the comic verse of Thomas Hood, for reading aloud.

An Interruption : Report this conversation without using direct speech.

Tender Plants : Prince Albert regretted the destructive power of the Art Critic.

Lost for Words : Join these ideas together into a single sentence, using ‘although’ or ‘though’.

Loan Words : Match these words to the language they come from, whether Old Norse, Malay or Welsh.

Evidence : Join these ideas together to form a single sentence, using the relative pronoun ‘who’.

Fatal Vow : Robert Pierrepont called heaven to witness that he would never pick a side in the Civil War.

Lost and Found : What would you in these difficult situations?

They Might Not Need Me : Read these lines of verse out aloud.

The Turn : Ben Jonson tells us how we should measure a life well lived.

Music Video : Julius Benedict, Piano Concerto in E flat: II. Andante,

The Character of George Washington : Thomas Jefferson recalls the virtues (and a few faults) of the first US President.

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