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Romeo and Juliet
Matching activity
Subject:
English
Age groups:
12–14, 15–16
Topic:
Romeo and Juliet
Licence information | This resource is free to use for educational purposes.
©British Council 2015
Source | 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