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Vocabulary and Comprehension worksheet St Martin’s Bells History

Read the page on the St Martin’s Bells history and conduct a

dictionary search for the following words:

• Millennium

• Tubular

• Armada

• Coronation

• Monarch

1. In what city is the Church of St Martin’s in the Field?

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2. In what year was the defeat of the Spanish Armada?

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3. What were the problems with the bells at St Martin’s that made the ringers there want to recast

them in 1987?

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4. What do you think about the ending of the old nursery rhyme, ‘Oranges and Lemons’?

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