nov.04
Romeo & Juliet: timeless love?
Thématique : Rencontres
Axe d’étude 1 : L’amour et l’amitié
Cet axe aborde ce qui relie deux êtres (meeting ; bonding) avec, en écho, le pendant plus sombre de l’absence et de la solitude (loneliness). Il explore comment l’amour et l’amitié engendrent joies et bonheur, ainsi qu’une capacité à se surpasser pour l’autre, mais aussi comment ils peuvent devenir source de conflit voire de souffrance, à travers la rupture, la perte ou la mort. (BO)
Les élèves assisteront à une représentation de Dual Reality au théâtre de Nîmes, transposition de Romeo & Juliet sous forme de battle de danse.
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Objectifs linguistiques
- Grammaticaux : le passif, le present perfect comme expression de la conséquence, article zéro, would itératif
- lexicaux : vocabulaire du théâtre
- phonologiques : l’accent de mots, sensibilisation au pentamètre
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Objectif pragmatique
- réciter des vers (théâtre), distinguer les registres de langue (réécriture)
Objectif culturel
- découverte des spécificités du théâtre élisabéthain |
Step 1: brainstorming (spidergram)
How much do you know about William Shakespeare?
Step 2 : listening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oPe7tG0vYs
Listen & watch the video several times and fill in the document attached.
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Training time : use the information you have collected to dub the video you'll find on the ent and/or find more information if necessary then send it to me on the ENT
The theatre at the time of Shakespeare
Listen to the recording and find the missing elements
Language at work : use the information gathered on Shakespeare's life and work to do the exercises.
Step 3: reading
How much do you know about Romeo & Juliet?
Read the statements then do some research to confirm your assumptions. (see document attached: Romeo & Juliet plot)
- watch the video of Prologue and make sure you understand the stakes of the play and do the activities (see document attached: rewriting)
The balcony scene :
Version 1:
Version 2:
Romeo’s soliloquy
- Watch the videos : compare the two stagings, which one do you like best? why?
- Where are the two characters ?
- Do they speak together ? Is it a monologue or a soliloquy ?
- Text analysis :
In a circle, read the text aloud, changing reader at each punctuation mark.
Then, close your eyes, listen carefully to all the words you can hear to do with light. Echo them out loud. Why so many of them? (see document attatched: figurative language)
- Pair Speaking Activity: “Perform & Transform”
- choose at least 6 lines from the soliloquy.
- First, practice reading aloud “seriously” with correct stress and emotion.
- Then, try different styles:
- Whispering
- Angry
- Robot voice
- Opera singer
- Shakespearean exaggeration
- Pair performs again. Class votes on:
- Most dramatic
- Most accurate pronunciation
- Funniest interpretation
- Writing & Speaking Activity: “What If Romeo Used WhatsApp?
Rewrite the soliloquy as a chat message Romeo sends to a friend, describing Juliet and his feelings
Requirements:
- 10–14 sentences (B2)
- Use at least two adjectives and one metaphor or comparison
- Must stay true to the emotional tone (admiring, romantic, amazed)
Final project : staging (write and perform a 2-3 minute version of the play, choosing key moments, choose the tone & props). See document attached
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Romeo & Juliet : fast & furious