I. Match the words from the left and right column to make a phrase used in the film.

The King’s Speech

 

Glossary

The closing ceremony of the Empire exhibition

To address subjects on the wireless

To give one’s inaugural broadcast

Enunciate

To speak publicly

To make a frank appraisal

To remain un-obliging

She is a sport

To bring up a talk

To know the lines

Regal

To have a bit of a temper

To charge for something

Speech impediment (to fix)

To ingratiate oneself with smb

To be taken up with

To intimidate half Europe

Take your time

To trick somebody

To deal with the surface of the problem

That’s sufficient!

To tolerate tardiness

To have one’s best interest at heart

Vigil

To muck around with kids

Here’s to the memory of your father

To be next in line

To succeed somebody

Knock knees; metal splints

What is her hold on him?

Elocution lessons

Fornication

To be infatuated with

To outshine somebody

Treason

These sessions are over

To abdicate

To declare one’s allegiance to somebody

To familiarize oneself with

To fall back to square one

But alas…a previous engagement

Speech therapist

To seek assistance

To attend the coronation

Let’s get cracking

That must ring the bell with you, Bertie

To trivialize everything

To have perseverance

A replacement specialist with impeccable credentials

Come on up on your purge

To be held to the abyss of destructive war

To withdraw troops from Poland

Turn the hesitations into pauses

To make an asset of something

To be forced into a conflict

To meet the challenge

To prevail

Stripped of all disguise

detention

to be presented for the daily viewing

to pinch somebody

to unite at this time of trial

to be confined to the battlefield

a true broadcaster

I. Match the words from the left and right column to make a phrase used in the film.

To declare best interest at heart

To familiarize the challenge

To make for something

To know on your purge

To be taken the surface of the problem

To deal with up with

Come on up the lines

To charge a frank appraisal

To meet oneself with

To have one’s one’s allegiance to somebody

 

 

III. Use the following phrases in the situations of your own.

1. To bring up a talk

2. Let’s get cracking.

3. To trivialize everything

4. To have perseverance

5. To trick somebody

6. To deal with the surface of the problem

7. To have a bit of a temper

8. To charge for something

9. To outshine somebody

10. A previous engagement

 

V. Who and under what circumstances pronounced these words.

 

1.“Oh, dear, perhaps he’s a Bolshevic?”

2.“Herr Hitler intimidating half of Europe, Marshall Stalin the other half. Who’ll stand between us, the jackboots and the proletarian abyss?”

3.“Old bugger’s doing this on purpose. Departing prematurely to complicate matters.”

4.“Bertie has more guts than the rest of his brothers put together.”

5.“I was afraid of my father, and my children are damn well going to be afraid of me.”

6.“Kinging is a precarious business these days.”

7.“We will need a King behind whom we can all stand united”.

8.“I refused your first two marriage proposals, not because I didn’t love you, but because I could not bear the royal cage.”

9.“Ah, yes, wireless is indeed a Pandora’s box.”

 

 

VI. Questions for discussion.

Why didn’t Prince Albert (Bertie) like his doctor’s method? What was the doctor’s classical approach?

How did Elisabeth find Lionel Logue? Why did she use the name Johnson to introduce herself?

3. What did Lionel mean saying: “My game, my turf, my rules?”

Why did Dr. Mc Cleod consider Lionel’s methods “unorthodox and controversial”? (need trust and total equality)

Describe both families (Bertie and Lionel’s). What was the family atmosphere like?

Why did Lionel fail his audition?

Why did Elisabeth take Lionel for a “Bolshevic” first?

Why did Lionel give Bertie his recording as a souvenir after his first treatment session?

Why was George V angry with his son David?

Elaborate on Bertie’s childhood, his upbringing. What made him stammer?

The King’s Speech

 

Glossary

The closing ceremony of the Empire exhibition

To address subjects on the wireless

To give one’s inaugural broadcast

Enunciate

To speak publicly

To make a frank appraisal

To remain un-obliging

She is a sport

To bring up a talk

To know the lines

Regal

To have a bit of a temper

To charge for something

Speech impediment (to fix)

To ingratiate oneself with smb

To be taken up with

To intimidate half Europe

Take your time

To trick somebody

To deal with the surface of the problem

That’s sufficient!

To tolerate tardiness

To have one’s best interest at heart

Vigil

To muck around with kids

Here’s to the memory of your father

To be next in line

To succeed somebody

Knock knees; metal splints

What is her hold on him?

Elocution lessons

Fornication

To be infatuated with

To outshine somebody

Treason

These sessions are over

To abdicate

To declare one’s allegiance to somebody

To familiarize oneself with

To fall back to square one

But alas…a previous engagement

Speech therapist

To seek assistance

To attend the coronation

Let’s get cracking

That must ring the bell with you, Bertie

To trivialize everything

To have perseverance

A replacement specialist with impeccable credentials

Come on up on your purge

To be held to the abyss of destructive war

To withdraw troops from Poland

Turn the hesitations into pauses

To make an asset of something

To be forced into a conflict

To meet the challenge

To prevail

Stripped of all disguise

detention

to be presented for the daily viewing

to pinch somebody

to unite at this time of trial

to be confined to the battlefield

a true broadcaster

I. Match the words from the left and right column to make a phrase used in the film.

To declare best interest at heart

To familiarize the challenge

To make for something

To know on your purge

To be taken the surface of the problem

To deal with up with

Come on up the lines

To charge a frank appraisal

To meet oneself with

To have one’s one’s allegiance to somebody