INTERLOCUTOR’S TASK SHEET FOR PART THREE
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TOPIC: Free time and entertainment – culture and arts
PART THREE
Task One
Literature
5 min.
2,5 min.
In Task One, I would like you to speak on your own and give a short presentation about the
works of William Shakespeare. Are you ready?
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Classification of the plays
Shakespeare´s works (Titles)
Themes
Poetry
Your preferences
Other
Thank you. Now, let’s go to Task Two.
36 plays printed in the First Folio (1623); comedies,
histories (historical plays), tragedies, sometimes also
romances; themes: e.g. English history, life of historical
figures, good and evil, grief, love, marriage, a struggle
of young lovers to overcome difficulty, often presented
by elders);
e.g. Sonnets (collection of /154/ poems in sonnet form);
themes: e.g. time, love, beauty, death.
What is your favourite work by W. Shakespeare? Why
do you like it?
Why are the works by W. Shakespeare so popular even
today?
INTERLOCUTOR’S TASK SHEET FOR PART THREE
Task Two
2,5 min.
In this task you are going to speak on your own about the work of William Shakespeare using
extracts 3A or 3B. Imagine the following situation:
You are working on a project about William Shakespeare. Your teacher (that´s me) has given
you two extracts. I have asked you to choose one extract and speak about it in detail. Which
extract are you going to speak about? Are you ready?
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Title/Genre
Scene (e.g.
When? Where?)
Characters
Plot
Your preferences
Other
3A: Romeo and Juliet – a tragedy (a tragic romance - written in the early
career of the playwright); extract/characters (Juliet is the daughter of the
Capulets, Romeo is the son of the Montagues); set in Italy (Verona);
about two young lovers whose deaths unite their feuding families; one of
the most popular and most frequently performed plays.
3B: Hamlet (The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark – written
between 1599 and 1601); extract/characters (Claudius – King Of
Denmark, Hamlet- Son to the former and Nephew to the present King,
Polonius - Lord Chamberlain, Ophelia - Daughter to Polonius,
Rosencrantz, Guildenstern - Courtiers); set in Denmark; the play
recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius
(murdered Hamlet´s father, the King; then taken the throne and married
Gertrude, Hamlet´s mother).
3A
3B
Scene II, Capulet´s Orchard
Act III, Scene I
R: She speaks.
O, speak again, bright angel! for you are
As glorious to this night, that is over my head,
As is a winged messenger of heaven
To the white, upturned, wondering eyes
Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
When he crosses the slow moving clouds
And sails upon the heart of the wind.
Rozencrantz and Guildenstern report to the
King that, while Hamlet seems distracted
and sad, they do not have a concrete reason
for his strange behavior. The King is now
forced to rely upon Ophelia for information
about his nephew. Polonius arranges for
Ophelia to be in a place where she will
surely meet Hamlet, and then he and the
King hide in wait for the Prince to arrive.
Hamlet enters talking to himself, in a state
of desperation, contemplating suicide:
J: O Romeo, Romeo! Why are you “Romeo?”
Deny your father and refuse to be called by your name;
Or, if you won’t, swear you are my love,
And I'll no longer be called a Capulet.
R: [Aside] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
J: It’s only your name that is my enemy;
You are yourself, not even a Montague.
What's “Montague?” It is not a hand, or a foot,
Or an arm, or a face, or any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
Would smell as sweet if it had any other name.
So Romeo, if he wasn’t called “Romeo,” would
Retain that dear perfection which he has
Without that title. Romeo, throw your name away;
And for that name, which isn’t part of you,
Take all of me.
(Zdroj: Modern Translation; Z důvodů povahy zkušební
úlohy není zdroj uveden)
Thank you. Now, let’s go to the last part of your exam.
To be, or not to be, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them. To die; to
sleep,
No more...(III.i.56-61)
(Zdroj: Plot summary; Z důvodů
zkušební úlohy není zdroj uveden.)
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