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ENGLISH 11
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With a Kiss, I Die!
COMPETENCE: Pragmatic
COMPONENT: Reading
LEARNING: comprende el sentido general del
texto, aunque no entienda todas sus palabras.
EVIDENCE: hace inferencias a partir de la
información de un texto.

Juliet had to take significant decisions that could

 Is Juliet’s plan going to
succeed?
 What’s going to happen with
Paris?
 Is going to be finally peace is
change her life. He
In this image we can see Juliet lying in her family’s tomb.
Next to her there’s a boy. Who’s he? Remember that Juliet had
two men in love with her, Romeo and Paris. Juliet is sleeping
because she drank a poison to make her parents believe she
was dead. This entire situation was part of a plan that friar
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Laurence, Romeo’s friend, had prepared for the young couple.

Verona?
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1. Read and listen carefully the final part of this
tragic love story.

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1. Comprehension check

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Answer the questions.

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1. What did Romeo decide to do?
2. Why did Paris want to fight Romeo?
3. Was Juliet really dead when Romeo saw her?
4. Why didn’t Friar Laurence’s plan succeed?
5. How did Juliet kill herself?
6. How many people are dead at the end of the story? Who are they?

2. Characters
Here are some opinions about the characters in the play. If you agree, put a tick in
the box under ‘A’. If you disagree, put a tick in the box under ‘D’ If you aren’t sure,
put a tick in the box under ‘?’.

A D ?
1. Romeo and Juliet were too Young to love.
2. Lord and Lady Capulets were bad parents.
3. The Prince was a weak governor.
4. Paris didn’t love Juliet as much as Romeo did.
5. Romeo was a murderer.
6. Juliet was right to kill herself.
7. Friar Laurence was wrong to marry Romeo and Juliet.
8. Tybalt was the worst person in the story.
9. Benvolio was the best person in the story.
10. The Nurse was a foolish old woman.

3. Argument
Answer these questions giving arguments.
1. Romeo and Juliet were not very lucky lovers. How were they unlucky?
2. Who is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Their parents? Friar Laurence? Tybalt? All of
them? None of them?

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Past Simple Passive
Rewrite these sentences in The Past Simple Passive. Use was or were + the past
participle.
1. The Capulet servants started the fight.
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2. Lord Capulet invited a lot of important people to the party.

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3. The Scaligeri family ruled Verona more than a century.

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4. Tybalt challenged Romeo to a fight.

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5. Romeo killed Tybalt.

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6. Friar Laurence married Romeo and Juliet.

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7. The Nurse found Juliet’s body.

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8. Some servants took Juliet’s body to the tomb.

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9. William Shakespeare wrote the play Romeo and Juliet.

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2. Vocabulary- Suffixes for making nouns: -tion & -ness

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Complete the table.
NOUN VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE
Separation Separate Happiness Happy

Explain Kind

Prepare Sad

Invite Lazy

3. Fill in the gaps

Read the text below, which is in the form of a newspaper article, and choose the
correct word for each space. For each question, mark the letter next to the
correct word- A, B, C or D.
TRAGIC DEATH OF THE TWO YOUNG LOVERS

The bodies (O) A three people (1) ........... found at the tomb of the Capulet family in
the early hours of this morning. A watchman discovered the body of Lord Paris, a close
friend of the prince of Verona, (2) ........... the door of the tomb. lnside, there was an even
(3) ........ sight. Juliet of the Capulets and Romeo of the Montagues lay dead on the
ground. Next to the boy's body (4) ........... was a bottle which had contained poison. The
girl (5) ........... killed herself with the boy's dagger. Later, a friend of the young, couple,
Friar Laurence, explained (6) ........... had happened. The two teenagers met at a party that
Lord Capulet had given and fell in love. (7) ........... they were both very young, they
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decided to get married. They couldn't tell their parents because the families were enemies.
Friar Laurence married (8) ........... secretly because he hoped the marriage would bring
peace to the city of Verona. (9) ........... the girl's parents ordered her to marry Lord Paris,
she didn't know what to do. Then, to (10) ........... things worse, Romeo killed her cousin in
a fight. The Prince of Verona has promised a full investigation into the tragic fate of these
two young people, who he defined as 'star-crossed lovers'.
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