We are going to know more about Shakespeare and his works.
Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
ACTIVITY 1. Watch the film Romeo and Juliet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBhRZ2KmaZ4 (subtitled)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9t536q (Leonardo Di Caprio -VO no subtitled)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x94zs5o (VO)
ACTIVITY 2. Match the vocabulary with the correct definition and write a–h next to the numbers 1–8.
1…….. to take place
2…….. to step in
3…….. to be keen for something
4…….. lifeless
5…….. in disguise
6…….. poison
7…….. a priest
8…….. a tomb
a. to really want something
b. to happen
c. wearing different clothes so that people don’t know who you are
d. a minister of the church who performs ceremonies, like marriage
e. to get involved
f. a space under the ground or inside a stone building to bury a dead person
g. dead
h. a substance that causes illness or death
ACTIVITY 3. Check your understanding: reordering. Write a number (1–7) to put these events from the story in order.
- …………. Romeo and Juliet secretly get married.
- …………. Juliet wakes up, sees Romeo dead and kills herself.
- …………. Romeo thinks Juliet is really dead. He takes poison.
- …………. Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love.
- …………. Juliet takes a drug to make people think she’s dead.
- …………. The Montagues and the Capulets hate each other.
- …………. The two families make peace.
