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Theatre week 8 Shakespeare

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Today

  • Take a closer look at the work of Shakespeare through  Romeo & Juliet (practising language skills, video & discussion)
  • Start this week's assignment 
    'Tragic love dialogue'

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Romeo & Juliet

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What do you already know about Romeo and Juliet

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Lesson Goals
In this lesson, we are going to watch a video about Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. 
By the end of the lesson you will be able to:
  1.  Understand the story 
  2. Be able to discuss whether you think the story of Romeo and Juliet is relevant to life today
  3. Start this week's assignment

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Does anyone know what the problem was in Romeo and Juliet's relationship? 

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Match the vocabulary with the correct definition a–h with the numbers 1-8
1........ taking 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.space under the ground or inside a stone building to bury a dead person
g. dead
h. a substance that causes illness or death

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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 two families make peace.
Romeo and Juliet secretly get married.
The Montagues and the Capulets hate each other.

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Discuss
Are Romeo and Juliet’s deaths just a tragic accident?
If not, who is responsible? 
Do you think the story of Romeo and Juliet is relevant to life today? 

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Tragic love
The love of Romeo & Juliet is called a 'tragic love'. Tragic love means a love does not go smoothly and/or ends up bad. It could end in a break up or even in death (like in the story of R&J). 
Some examples of famous tragic love stories...

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Titanic
Brokeback mountain
Pocahontas
Orpheus & Eurydice
Cleopatra & Antony

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This weeks assignment:

Open the document in studiewijzer
'Tragic Love Dialogue'


Write a tragic love dialogue (in pairs!). 
Use the 'writing process guide' in the document. 
Upload your dialogue in: 
magister opdrachten --> week 8 theatre dialogue



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Good luck!

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