Valentines Day and William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, a special kind of poem, and lots of these were about love. One of these, sonnet 18, is often quoted on Valentine’s Day. Notice that the underlined words are no longer used in modern day English. 'Thee' and 'thou' both mean 'you'. 'Hath' is the same as 'has/have' and 'thy' means 'your'. 

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

by William Shakespeare, sonnet 18

Links to practise PET

Click on these images to find pages to practise for PET.

Target PET Worksheets

Objective PET

PET Practice Test 2

1 Stop PET Exam Practice

1 Stop PET Listening 

Dictation Exercises

Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension Quiz

PET Practice Tests

1 Stop PET

Practice for PET 1 

1 Stop PET Exam Practice

PET Tests

Here is an example of the different parts of the speaking exam for you to watch:

Irregular Verbs

Click on the image to go to a page where you can practise using irregular verbs in English

Matter

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