Lionel Logue: Please don't smoke. I believe sucking cigarette smoke into your lungs will kill you. King George VI: I need to relax. My physicians say it relaxes the throat. Lionel Logue: They're idiots. King George VI: They've all been knighted. Lionel Logue: Makes it official then.

After the screening of The King’s Speech, go over King George VI’s profile on biography.com – there are some videos in this site too that you may find interesting.

Keeping the movie and your reading in mind, you are expected to hand in an assignment on King George VI. You should use your own words as much as possible and it should take no more than a piece of paper – both sides.

We aren’t looking for bios with headings and we won’t read them/ grade them. By that, we mean we don’t want something similar to the one posted on this site. Instead of using a title like “Early Life” and then writing all the info below, please structure your thoughts into clearly defined paragraphs to make your assignment visually attractive and use transitional sentences and discourse makers. For example, you could start saying something like As far as George VI’s childhood is concerned …