LITERATURE AND READING COMPREHENSION REVISION SHEET

Romeo and Juliet

Act I
- Please list at least three lines that you have memorized from the prologue and
explain what they mean.
- Please list at least three full (4-6 line) quotes that you have memorized from
the balcony scene and explain what they mean.
- When the Friar first sees Romeo he think Romeo has been up all night
thinking about a girl. Who does the Friar think has been the cause of Romeo's
sleeplessness, and what does he say (the exact quote) when Romeo corrects
him?

Act II
- Explain in detail the series of events that led to Romeo's exile from Verona.
- Explain the Friar's first plan – the plan for how he will return Romeo from
exile.
- Explain the Friar's second plan – the plan for how the lovers will be secretly
reunited.

Act III
- How does this play end?
- Which things, if changed, would allow this play to end in happiness instead of
in tragedy?
- What is the moral of this story?
- Assume that Romeo and Juliet is not a love story and state what kind of story
it is. Explain your position with examples from the story and with at least one
Shakespeare quote.
 WRITING REVISION SHEET

- A good reporter should always know how to get to the heart of a story – what
are some techniques you could use to get your story?
- In news reports the reporter should always be objective and impersonal.
Explain what that means.
- In news stories a reporter is often allowed or required to be subjective.
Explain why this is valuable.
- Explain and discuss the idea of "media bias".
- What effect do/can reporters have on the world?
- How can a reporter help to make the world a better or worse place?
- What sorts of things, good or bad, do reporters have the power to prevent?
- Discuss why reporters are very powerful people, and why without them our
world would be a very different place.
 GRAMMAR REVISION SHEETS

Perfect
- Choose any verb and use it in a short sentence. Then rewrite that sentence five
times putting the verb into each of the five Perfect tenses that we have learned.
- Explain when you would use each of these Perfect tenses.

Passive Voice
- Explain why and when we use Passive voice.
- Rewrite the following paragraph, switching all the passive sentences to active
and vise-versa:
Rosemary Hills train station was built by Sean Carlton and his wife Sharon in
1894. For the construction of the waiting room, red brick had been imported
from England by the Carltons. The station was opened in 1896 by the
President himself. That year, Rosemary Hills was visited by a steam
locomotive for the first time. It was pumping clouds of white smoke and
whistling loudly enough to be heard by all of the townspeople.
- In class we will be completing this section of the review by using your
Workbook.

Conditionals
- Write five sentences that are "Type 2" conditionals.
- Write five sentences that are "Type 3" conditionals.

Question Tags
- Write five sentences that end with "positive question tags".
- Write five sentences that end with "negative question tags".

Reflexive Pronouns
- List all eight reflexive pronouns.
- Write two sentences for each pronoun.

Plurals
- What are some nouns that are always in the plural?
- What are some irregular plurals?
- What are some endings that let you know that the word you are using is Greek
or Latin and that different rules must be followed to make the word plural?

Clauses of Reason/Result/Purpose
- Write three sentences that use a "clause of reason".
- Write three sentences that use a "clause of result".
- Write three sentences that use a "clause of purpose".

General
- What is the difference between "neither" and "none"?
- What is the difference between "too" and "enough"?
- What is the difference between "like" and "as"?
 VOCABULARY REVISION SHEET

Practice spelling each of the following words, and put them into defining
sentences.

Example:
RESPONSIBLE: "My father is a responsible man because he always pays the bills on
time and he never forgets important dates."

1. Crater 26. Hippopotamus

2. Fury 27. Courageous
3. Cope 28. Cooperative
4. Industrial 29. Disgraceful
5. Convince 30. Disadvantageous
6. Severely 31. Mend
7. Parachute 32. Combat
8. Thud 33. Somersault
9. Casualties 34. Authorities
10. Significance 35. Debris
11. Tremendous 36. Conservationist
12. Species 37. Carnivorous
13. Fascinated 38. Absorbing
14. Howl 39. Consequently
15. Pollution 40. Characteristic
16. Fumes 41. Domesticated
17. Plague 42. Suspiciously
18. Unfortunate 43. Veterinarian
19. Ceremony 44. Weep
20. Celebrate 45. Disguise
21. Demand 46. Carved
22. Pilgrim 47. Disease
23. Worship 48. Occupied
24. Praise 49. Temporarily
25. Brooch 50. Vast