Robin Hood StaRtER
Before Reading 5
activities answers
Encourage students to guess, but do not tell them
the answers. They will find out some of the answers
1 as they read:
1 b 2 b Robin marries Lady Marian.
Sir Guy Gisborne does none of these. He wants to
2 marry Lady Marian, but she runs away.
1 A bad man. Prince John becomes King John.
2 A good man. Lady Marian comes to live in the forest with Robin.
3 In Nottingham.
After Reading
While Reading
1
1 1 King Richard is a good man and the people love
1 Richard the Lionheart. him.
2 Near the town of Nottingham, near Sherwood 2 The soldiers come after Robin but he hides from
Forest. them in the forest.
3 A man / friar hears the Sheriff of Nottingham 3 The Sheriff and Sir Guy look down from a castle
talking to his men. He runs to tell Robin at the window.
church on his wedding day. 4 The shooting contest winner gets a silver arrow.
4 Because he has no money and no house. He is an 5 The men hit their targets in the centre.
outlaw.
2
2 King Richard the First goes away. His brother is Prince
1 Robin Hood. John. Prince John wants the people to pay more taxes.
2 John Little (Robin calls him Little John). Robin of Locksley is going to marry Lady Marian, but
3 One of Robin’s men. somebody tells him, ‘They want to kill you. You must
4 Robin Hood. hide!’ So Robin goes to Sherwood Forest. Now he is an
5 Friar Tuck. outlaw. There are more men hiding in the forest. They
and Robin take money from Prince John’s bad men.
3 They wait in the forest, then stop rich people and say,
‘We want money for the hungry people.’ They want
1 Friar Tuck.
King Richard to know that they are his true friends.
2 The Sheriff doesn’t like him. Friar Tuck tells
everybody that Robin Hood is a good man.
3
3 Because his family have no food.
4 He must hang. 1 Richard the Lionheart, King of England.
5 Robin Hood. 2 Prince John, King Richard’s brother.
6 Robin Hood. 3 John Little. He is saying sorry to Robin Hood, after
pushing him in the river.
4 4 Friar Tuck.
5 Lady Marian Fitzwalter.
1 F 2 F 3 T 4 T 5 F
6 Lady Marian and Robin Hood.
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