Act 1 scenes 3-4-5       act 2 scene1

Answer the following questions.  /6

Why were Romeo and his friends wearing masks?

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What happened when Romeo saw Juliet?

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What did Romeo and Juliet do?

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How did Romeo enter the garden?

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Where was Juliet?

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What did Romeo and Juliet decide to do?

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ACT  2 , SCENES 2, 3, 4

1-Answer the following questions /6

 Why did friar Laurence agree to help Romeo?

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Who was the Prince?

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What did Romeo tell the nurse?

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What happened at Friar Laurence’s cell?

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Why did Romeo refuse to fight Tybalt?

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What was the result of the fight?

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Act 3 scenes 5 Act 4 scenes 1-2-3-4

1-Answer the following questions.  /6

What did Lady Capulet tell Juliet?

 

 

What did Lord Capulet say he would do to Juliet?

 

 

What did the nurse tell Juliet to do?

 

 

How long would Juliet sleep after drinking the liquid?

 

 

What did Juliet say as she drank the liquid?

 

 

Why had Friar John gone to Mantua?

 

 

 

Act 5

1-Answer the questions.  /6

What did Romeo decide to do?

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Why did Paris and Romeo fight?

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Was Juliet really dead when Romeo saw her?

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Why didn’t Friar Laurence’s plan succeed?

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How did Juliet kill herself?

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What did the Prince say?

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Please go to this webpage and do the following exercises


http://www.agendaweb.org/verbs/present-continuous-tense.html
exercises 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34

And to this one http://www.agendaweb.org/verbs/present_perfect-exercises.html

and do exercises 36 to 44

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Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare and Romeo and Juliet.

Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet in the middle of the 1590s. Elizabeth the first was Queen of England. During her reign, the country had made great progress in many different areas- travelling by sea, exploration, war, music, architecture, drama and poetry.  England had become a major power in Europe and had defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588 when Philip the Second had attempted to invade the country.

 In all the arts, there was great influence from Italy. The Renaissance had begun in Italy and the English were very enthusiastic about Italian culture. Chaucer, the first important English poet, respected Dante as the greatest European poet. The most popular form of love poetry, the sonnet, was borrowed from Italian writers. Many of Shakespeare’s plays are located in Italy and based on Italian stories. For the English, Italy was the country of passion, vendettas, murder, suicide and deep emotion; When Shakespeare wanted to write a tragedy of love and death, he chose an Italian story.

The legend of Romeo and Juliet had been very popular in England for  along time. Shakespeare took the story, changed some of the details and made it into a great play with characters which live in the memory. He changed the age of Juliet; in his play, she is only thirteen years old. It was possible to get married at twelve or thirteen but most people in Elizabethan society waited until later Arranged marriages” were normal. In other words, the family decided who their sons and daughters should marry; There are many stories about the conflict between the wishes of the parents and the romantic feelings of their children.

 Romeo and Juliet has the reputation of being the perfect love story. But it is not only about love; It is also about the hate between the Montagues and the Capulets. It ends, not in marriage, but in death. The lovers are very young. Romeo changes his mind easily; at the beginning of the play, he loves Rosaline, not Juliet. He often acts without thinking and he kills two people. Juliet also changes her mind. he thinks she is too young to get married but when she sees Romeo!!!!

The story of Romeo has lived until the present day. Other writers and musical composers have produced their old interpretations of the old, old story. But Shakespeare was the first one to make a great work of dramatic art from the story of the “star-crossed lovers” who lived in renaissance Verona.

Tell if these statements are right or wrong. Correct the wrong ones. /6

Romeo and Juliet was written in the 1950s.

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In the arts, there was great influence from Italy.

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Dante respected Chaucer as the greatest European poet.

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All of Shakespeare’s plays are located in Italy.

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In his play, Juliet is only seventeen years old.

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Romeo and Juliet is about hate and love.

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The story ends happily.

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Romeo and Juliet. Summary

 In the beautiful city of Verona, there are two families who hate each other. When Romeo from the Montagues and Juliet from the Capulets fall in love, it creates problems for everybody. Friar  Laurence , kind and optimistic, tries to help the young lovers; but there are other people in Verona, such Tybalt, the Prince of Cats, who want to destroy the peace of the city. True love has to fight to survive.

 

Characters

Romeo   the only son of the Montague family.

Juliet      the only daughter of the Capulet family.

The prince         the governor of Verona

Lord Capulet      Juliet’s father

Lady Capulet      Juliet’s mother

Lord Montague    Romeo’s father

Lady Montague    Romeo’s mother

Benvolio               Romeo’s cousin

Tybalt                  Juliet’s cousin

Mercutio              Romeo’s friend

Paris                    A friend of the Prince and of the Capulets

The nurse

Friar Laurence

Friar John

Balthasar    Romeo’s servant

Servants.

Romeo and Juliet.Act 1 scenes 1-2-3

1-      Answer the following questions. /6

1-what are the names of the two families?

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2-    Did Benvolio and Tybalt want the same thing?

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3-    Why was the prince angry?

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4-Why was Romeo unhappy?

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4-    How did Romeo and Benvolio get information about the party?

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5-    Why did lord and Lady Capulet want Juliet to meet Paris?

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