Words From Spelling Test

·         Plough - a large farming tool with blades which digs the earth in fields so that seeds can be planted.

The farmer used a plough to dig the earth up on his fields so his crops would grow.

 

·         Unfortunate - unlucky or having bad effects.

The football player was unfortunate that the goalkeeper was playing well, so he couldn’t score.

 

·         Icicle - a long pointed stick of ice that is formed when drops of water freeze.

Many icicles hung down from the roof.

 

·         Aquarium - a building, usually open to the public, which holds many aquariums (Aquariums hold fish and other water animals).

Me and my brother went to the aquarium to see all of the rare fish.

 

·         Carriage - a vehicle with four wheels, which is usually pulled by horses and was used mostly in the past.

We sat in the carriage on our way to the ball.

 

·         Inferior - not good, or not as good as someone or something else.

The food we bought was inferior to the food we bought last weekend.

 

·         Secretary - someone who works in an office, writing letters, making telephone calls and arranging meetings for a person or for an organization.

The secretary organized a meeting for her boss.

 

·         Fatigue - extreme tiredness.

She was so fatigue she couldn’t think properly.

 

·         Catalogue - a book with a list of all the goods that you can buy from a shop.

I flicked through the catalogue looking for a new football.

 

·         Sufficient - enough for a particular purpose.

The recipe would be sufficient for ten people.

Globe Theatre

The globe theatre is a theatre where the plays Shakespeare rote were performed at a good quality. The best quality back in the 1500's.

The globe theatre was built in 1599 in Southwark on the south bank of London’s River Thames. It is built as a large round open theatre making it look like a dougnut from above. It holds up to 3,000 spectators, its 3 stories high of seating and is 100 feet in diameter. At the base of the stage there is an area called the pit which held the groundlings, they are the people that only paid a penny to stand and watch. There was also more places around the globe theatre which let people watch the shows being performed from the poor the the rich. One part of the stage was called the apron stage, it was a rectangular platform that thrut out into the pit so it felt like the audience in the pit were in the middle of the play. William Shakespeare was a shareholder and he owned 12.5% of the theatre which meant that the money the that the globe theatre made some of it went to him. Out side there where flags that were out to show the audience what play was going to be performed.