Read the text. Remember what you can.

UNIT 2 B
Focus on reading
Study the words
to crown v
miserable adj
residence n
to suffer v
REMEMBER:
– to make a person a king or queen at a special ceremony during which a
crown is put on his or her head
Nearly all English kings and queens have been crowned in Westminster
Abbey.
– very bad and uncomfortable
She was very poor and lived in a miserable house.
– a place where a person lives
His residence is in the centre of the city.
– to feel pain or sorrow
She has suffered from a sore throat all week.
Like and alike mean not different.
Like must be followed by a noun (or pronoun).
Alike is never followed by a noun (or pronoun).
What pretty girls. They are so like each other. And they speak very
much alike. Are they twins?
Pre-reading task.
1. Have you read any novels by Mark Twain?
2. Have you read any historical novels?
3. Did you know that The Prince and the Pauper was Mark Twain’s first historical novel?
THE KING IS CROWNED
Many of you know and love books by Mark Twain, the famous American writer. His
novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1875) and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
(1884) are classical books for children and are still read and enjoyed all over the world. “The
Prince and the Pauper” (1882) was Mark Twain’s first historical novel. Many characters in the
book are real people. In Mark Twain’s story Edward meets a poor boy, Tom Kenty. The boys
look like twins, so when they exchange their clothes Prince Edward is thrown out of the palace
and Tom stays in the king’s residence. Soon King Henry dies and poor Tom prepares to become
king of the country. though he doesn’t like this idea at all. At the same time Prince Edward
travels about the country, suffers from cold and hunger and thinks about going back to London.
When he hears about his father’s death he knows that his time has come. He and his friend
Miles Hendon reach London on the day when the new King is going to be crowned.
Miles and Edward came to the gate of Westminster Palace, where the procession was to
start. All the great lords and ladies of the country were gathering together in Westminster
Abbey – the church in which all the monarchs of England are crowned. The ceremony was
going to begin in a few minutes.
In the Palace of Westminster Tom was ready to put on his fine clothes in which he would
go to Westminster Abbey to be crowned. With him were Lord Hertford and Lord Somerset and
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