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EAL Nexus resource Romeo and Juliet Matching activity Subject: Age groups: Topic: English 12 –14, 15–16 Romeo and Juliet Licence information |
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This resource was originally developed by Claudine Field and Mary Ann Apcar from Stoke Newington School in Hackney for the Collaborative Learning Project, and piloted in schools with help from Sabrina Broadbent at the English and Media Centre, and has been adapted by EAL Nexus. Images taken from Self Made Hero’s Manga Shakespeare series.

She is so beautiful that she shines more than the torches lighting the room.

Please, Mercutio, let’s go home! It’s a very hot day, the Capulets are out and about and if we meet them there will be a fight.

I’ll go and ask Friar Lawrence’s advice. If he can’t help me I will kill myself.

If you do what I say, I’ll arrange your marriage with my friend. If you don’t, you must go away and I don’t care if you have to beg or if you starve or die in the streets.

I am so unlucky! (Fortune is laughing at me)

The only problem is your name. You would still be the same person if you were not a Montague.

My other children have all died. She is my only child and the most precious thing in my life.

Tybalt – are you walking away from a fight? (Making fun of Tybalt’s name by saying it’s a bit like ‘Tibbles’ which is a cat’s name)

I advise you to marry Count Paris – he’s a very nice man

This marriage may be a way of ending the feud between your families and building a good relationship.

I’m not going to fight you, sir, here comes the man I want to fight.

You should go somewhere private and discuss things calmly, or go home.

Hurry up and go to Friar Lawrence’s cell. Your future husband is waiting there to marry you.

The woman I love now is in love with me as well.

I am going to kill him, for the sake of my family’s honour

Don’t swear how much you love me by the moon. The moon changes all the time and your love might change as well.

I can tell you that the man who marries her will be very rich (she is the daughter of a very rich man).

I curse both your families. Your quarrel has been the cause of my death (worms will eat my body).

If any of you fight in the street again you will be executed.

Oh what an evil heart hidden inside such a beautiful body like a dragon hiding inside a beautiful cave!

Don’t rush! People who run too fast often fall over.

Being anywhere in the world except Verona is like being tortured or being in hell.

Go and find your wife, as you’d arranged. Climb up to her bedroom and comfort her.

God has punished you for your feud, by sending this love to kill your children.

There is no world without Verona’s walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself.

Go get thee to thy love, as was decreed, Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her.

See what a scourge is laid upon your hate That heaven finds means to kill your joy with love.

O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

I pray thee good Mercutio let’s retire The day is hot, the Capulets abroad, And if we meet, we shall not ‘scape a brawl

I’ll to the Friar to know his remedy. If all else fail, myself have power to die.

And you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets.

O, I am fortune’s fool!

‘Tis but thy name that is mine enemy.
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.

Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she; She is the hopeful lady of my earth,

Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk?

I think it best you married with the County. O he’s a lovely gentleman.

For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.

Well, peace be with you Sir, here comes my man.

Either withdraw unto some private place, Or reason coldly of your grievances, Or else depart.

Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence’s cell. There stays a husband to make you a wife.

Her I love now Doth grace for grace and love for love allow.

Now by the stock and honour of my kin To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.

O, swear not by the moon, th’inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circle orb

I tell you, he that can lay hold of her Shall have the chinks.

A plague on both your houses! They have made worms’ meat of me.

If ever you disturb our streets again Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.

O, serpent heart, hid with a flow’ring face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Romeo

Romeo

Romeo

Romeo

Juliet

Juliet

Juliet

Juliet

Benvolio

Benvolio

Mercutio

Mercutio

Friar Lawrence

Friar Lawrence

Friar Lawrence

Lord Capulet

Lord Capulet

The Nurse

The Nurse

The Nurse

Prince Escalus

Prince Escalus

Tybalt

Tybalt