Learn English with The Hobbit

• ☐ ☐ ☐ sire [n] - sir, a title of respect
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a brazier [n] - a large pot that holds fire [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ lit [adj] - set on fire
• ☐ ☐ ☐ make camp [exp] - prepare this place to spend the night
• ☐ ☐ ☐ take the night watch [exp] - stay awake and watch during the night
• ☐ ☐ ☐ sun-up [n] - sun rise, early morning
• ☐ ☐ ☐ hardship [n] - difficult times
• ☐ ☐ ☐ rejoice [v] - feel happy, celebrate
• ☐ ☐ ☐ grateful [adj] - thankful
• ☐ ☐ ☐ aid [n] - help
• ☐ ☐ ☐ gems [n] - precious, valuable stones [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ heirlooms [n] - valuable objects that have belonged to a family for several generations
• ☐ ☐ ☐ lightly forsaken [exp] - easily ignored or forgotten
• ☐ ☐ ☐ allies [n] - friends
• ☐ ☐ ☐ claim [v] - make a demand of ownership
• ☐ ☐ ☐ reason [v] - negotiate, talk

[n] - noun,  [v] - verb,   [phv] - phrasal verb,  [adj] - adjective,  [exp] - expression

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Bard	Alfred	Thorin	Thranduil

• The dwarves have just taken back their home from the dragon Smaug.
• Bard, from Lake-town, killed the dragon.
• The dragon destroyed Lake-town, so the people have come to the mountain for help from the dwarves.
• Lord Thranduil is the king of the elves.
• Lord Thranduil wants some white gems that are in mountain.

1. Bard knew that the dwarves had survived before he arrived at the mountain.
   True
   False
   
   
2. Bard expects the dwarves to share their gold with the people of Lake-town.
   True
   False
   
   
3. Kili wants to help the people of Lake-town.
   True
   False
   
   
4. Thorin wants to help the people of Lake-town.
   True
   False
   
   
5. Alfred warns Bard about the army of elves that arrived in the night.
   True
   False
   
   
6. The elves brought food and aid for the people of Lake-town.
   True
   False
   
   
7. Lord Thranduil came only to help the people of Lake-town.
   True
   False
   
   
8. Thorin has found the gems that Thranduil wants.
   True
   False
   
   
9. Thorin plans to give the gems to Thranduil.
   True
   False
   
   
10. Thranduil is willing to go to war to get the gems.
    True
    False
    
    

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Directions: Write sentences about the video clip using the words given. You can change the word form or add words, but you cannot change the word order. Use present tense.

Bard / know / dwarf / survive / because / brazier / Erebor / lit

Bard knows (that) the dwarves (have) survived because the braziers of Erebor [are/have been] lit.

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Bard / believe / there / enough / gold / mountain / everyone / share

Bard believes (that) there is enough gold in the mountain for everyone to share.

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Bard / command / Alfred / take / night / watch

Bard commands Alfred to take the night watch.

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Kili / question / why / Thorin / not / willing / help / people / Lake-town

Kili questions why Thorin is not willing to help the people of Lake-town.

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Thorin / only / worry / fortify / front / gate / Erebor

Thorin is only worried about fortifying the front gate of Erebor.

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when / Bard / come / morning / he / find / army / elf

When Bard comes out in the morning, he finds an army of elves.

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Bard / try / thank / Thranduil / aid / he / bring / people / Lake-town

Bard tries to thank Thranduil for the aid (that) he has brought (to) the people of Lake-town.

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Thranduil / make / clear / he / come / White / Gems / Lasgalen

Thranduil makes (it) clear (that) he has come for the White Gems of Lasgalen.

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Thorin / discover / gem / Thranduil / be / after

Thorin discovers the gems [that/which] Thranduil is after.

* is after = wants, is chasing
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Bard / ask / Thranduil / he / willing / go / war / over / handful / gem

Bard asks Thranduil if he is willing to go to war over a handful of gems.

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Bard / insist / speak / Thorin / avoid / war

Bard insists on speaking [with/to] Thorin (in order) to avoid (a) war.

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The text below is from the [ original novel ].

1. Which parts of the video are the same as the novel?
2. Which parts of the video are different from the novel?
3. Which parts of the novel are not in the video?

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Now everywhere Bard went he found talk running like fire among the people concerning the vast treasure that was now unguarded. Men spoke of the recompense for all their harm that they would soon get from it, and wealth over and to spare with which to buy rich things from the South; and it cheered them greatly in their plight. That was as well, for the night was bitter and miserable.

Shelters could be contrived for few (the Master had one) and there was little food (even the Master went short). Many took ill of wet and cold and sorrow that night, and afterwards died, who had escaped uninjured from the ruin of the town; and in the days that followed there was much sickness and great hunger.

Meanwhile Bard took the lead, and ordered things as he wished, though always in the Master’s name, and he had a hard task to govern the people and direct the preparations for their protection and housing. Probably most of them would have perished in the winter that now hurried after autumn, if help had not been to hand. But help came swiftly; for Bard at once had speedy messengers sent up the river to the Forest to ask the aid of the King of the Elves of the Wood, and these messengers had found a host already on the move, although it was then only the third day after the fall of Smaug.

The Elvenking had received news from his own messengers and from the birds that loved his folk, and already knew much of what had happened. The air was filled with circling flocks, and their swift-flying messengers flew here and there across the sky. They brought the news: “Smaug is dead!”

Even before the Elvenking rode forth the news had passed west right to the pinewoods of the Misty Mountains; Beorn had heard it in his wooden house, and the goblins were at council in their caves.

When the King of the Elves received the prayers of Bard, he had pity, for he was the lord of a good and kindly people; so turning his march, which had at first been direct towards the Mountain, he hastened now down the river to the Long Lake. A great store of goods he sent ahead by water. Still elves are light-footed, and though they were not in these days much used to the marches and the treacherous lands between the Forest and the Lake, their going was swift. Only five days after the death of the dragon they came upon the shores and looked on the ruins of the town. Their welcome was good, as may be expected, and the men and their Master were ready to make any bargain for the future in return for the Elvenking’s aid.

Their plans were soon made. With the women and the children, the old and the unfit, the Master remained behind; and with him were some men of crafts and many skilled elves; and they busied themselves felling trees, and collecting the timber sent down from the Forest. Then they set about raising many huts by the shore against the oncoming winter; and also under the Master’s direction they began the planning of a new town, designed more fair and large even than before, but not in the same place. They removed northward higher up the shore; for ever after they had a dread of the water where the dragon lay. He would never again return to his golden bed, but was stretched cold as stone, twisted upon the floor of the lake. There for ages his huge bones could be seen in calm weather amid the ruined piles of the old town. But few dared to cross the cursed spot, and none dared to dive into the shivering water or recover the precious stones that fell from his rotting carcase.

But all the men of arms who were still able, and the most of the Elvenking’s army, got ready to march north to the Mountain. It was thus that in eleven days from the ruin of the town that they arrived at Erebor.

As you have heard some of the events already, you will see that the dwarves still had some days before them. They explored the caverns once more, and found, as they expected, that only the Front Gate remained open; all the other gates (except, of course, the small secret door) had long ago been broken and blocked by Smaug, and no sign of them remained. So now they began to work hard in fortifying the main entrance, and in making a new path that led from it. Tools were to be found in plenty that the miners and builders of old had used; and at such work the dwarves were still very skilled.

As they worked, the ravens brought them constant tidings. In this way they learned that the Elvenking had turned aside to the Lake, and they still had a breathing space. Better still, they heard that three of their ponies had escaped and were wandering wild far down the banks of the Running River, not far from where the rest of their stores had been left. So while the others went on with their work, Fili and Kili were sent, guided by a raven, to find the ponies and bring back all they could.

They were four days gone, and by that time they knew that the joined armies of the Lake-men and the Elves were hurrying toward the Mountain. But now their hopes were higher; for they had food for some weeks with care and already the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and high, across the opening. There were holes in the wall through which they could see (or shoot), but no entrance. They climbed in or out with ladders, and hauled stuff up with ropes. Approach to the Gate was now only possible along a narrow ledge of the cliff, to the right as one looked outwards from the wall.

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1. Both Lake-town and Dale are ruined cities. Why did Bard lead the people to Dale rather than stay near Lake-town?
2. What is Alfred worried about? What is Bard worried about? What is Thorin worried about? What is Kili worried about? What is Thranduil worried about?
3. Is Thranduil a protagonist (good guy) or antogonist (bad guy) in this story? Why do you think so?
4. Why do you think the white gems are so important to Thranduil?