V5 Romeo & Juliet + Quiz & video

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Continue working:

e-pack §4.2

• reading: @ exc 1, 2 
• vocab: @ exc 14 
• vocab extra: @ exc 15-17 

 

 

 

 

Shakespeare's 

Romeo and Juliet

How much do you know?

Romeo and Juliet is

1. a sonnet
2. a comedy
3. a historical play
4. a tragedy

it takes place in

1. Verona
2. Venice
3. Rome
4. London

What is Juliet's last name?

1. Montague
2. Capulet
3. Benvolio
4. Laurence

What is Romeo's last name?

1. Montague
2. Capulet
3. Benvolio
4. Lawrence

Why is Romeo banished from Verona?

1. He steals from the Montagues
2. He steals from the Capulets
3. He kills Mercutio
4. He kills Tybalt

How does Juliet die?

1. She is killed by her father
2. She kisses poisoned Romeo
3. She kills herself with poison
4. She kills herself with a knife

Two wealthy families, the Montagues and the Capulets, have another brawl in the city of Verona. The Prince and the townspeople cannot cope with the constant fighting so the Prince declares that the next person to break the peace will be killed.

Romeo Montague and his friends gatecrash a Capulet party and Romeo meets Juliet Capulet. He falls in love with her instantly. They are shocked to discover they are sworn enemies due to their feuding families. Friar Laurence marries Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo goes to celebrate his marriage with his friends, Mercutio and Benvolio, but gets into a fight with Juliet's cousin, Tybalt. Tybalt kills Mercutio and Romeo avenges his death by killing Tybalt.

The Prince banishes Romeo because he killed Tybalt. Both Romeo and Juliet are heartbroken.

Capulet, Juliet's father, decides she should marry Paris. Juliet refuses and goes to Friar Laurence where they come up with a plan for Romeo and Juliet to be together.

Juliet fakes her death and lies in a tomb waiting for Romeo to come so they can run away together. Romeo doesn't receive the message about the plan, so thinks Juliet has actually died. He goes to Verona and sees Juliet in her tomb, 'dead'.

Romeo drinks poison so he can be with Juliet in death. She wakes up to discover Romeo is dead. Juliet kills herself with his dagger.

The Capulet and Montague families vow never to argue again.

Laura Dockrill's 'Star Cross'd' is a contemporary retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, set on a British beach, where two families 'both alike in common crime' wage a turf war over ice-cream.

Continue working:

e-pack §4.2

• reading: @ exc 1, 2 
• vocab: @ exc 14 
• vocab extra: @ exc 15-17