Expectant Youth -
WORKING ON THE TEXT
1 Are these statements true or false? Tick ( ).
a. Benvolio was able to understand the reason for Romeo’s melancholy. T ▢ F ▢
b. Tybalt showed an invitation to a supper at the Capulets’. T ▢ F ▢
c. Rosaline was going to the feast. T ▢ F ▢
d. Tybalt wanted Lord Capulet to send Romeo away. T ▢ F ▢
e. Lord Capulet invited Paris to marry Juliet at once. T ▢ F ▢
f. Juliet was three when there was an earthquake. T ▢ F ▢
g. Susan was the nurse’s married daughter. T ▢ F ▢
h. Juliet answered her mother that she was anxious to get married. T ▢ F ▢
WORKING ON LANGUAGE
2 Put why or because in the following sentences.
Ex. → Tell me why you are sad.
I am sad because I am in love.
a. He enquired ………………… he was so excited.
b. I do not know ……………… you are so much in love with her. There are other beauties in Verona!
c. I am in love with Rosaline …………….. she is fair and wise.
d. Benvolio was exultant ………………. all the beauties of Verona were going to the feast.
e. I can tell you ………….. it is ridiculous to lose your happiness for Rosaline!
f. Paris, you must court Juliet gently ……………… she is still a child!
g. …………………. didn’t Paris interest you?