6th form Reading "Queen Elizabeth I of England"

1. Queen Elizabeth I of England ____ in Greenwich on September7, 1533.

2. She ___ the queen when she was 25 years old.

3. Elizabeth studied well and learned ____ Latin, French, Italian, Greek and English, of course.

4. She was ____, energetic and brave.

5. She was ____ British monarch with an English mother and an English father.

6. But she never married and never ____ children.

7. Many men wanted to marry her, but she said no to all of ___.

8. Elizabeth was the Queen for 44 years. This period ___ the Golden Age because England became a rich and powerful country for the first time.

9. It was a Golden Age ___ literature, discoveries and heroes, too.

10. Elizabeth was the Queen of William Shakespeare, the great writer, of Sir Walter Raleigh, who ___ to America and imported potatoes and coffee, and Francis Drake, the pirate who destroyed the "Spanish Armada".