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Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)

Language Arts Year 2 Integrated Programme

EXTRACT 1: Samuel, Saad & Vernon

Bottom Let me play the lion too: I will do any man's heart good to hear 1

me; I will roar, ar, that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar 2

again, let him roar again.' 3

Quince And you should do it too terribly, you would fright the duchess 4

and the ladies, that they would shriek; and that were enough 5

to hang us all. 6

All That would hang us, every mother's son. 7

Bottom I grant you, friends, if that you should fright the ladies out of 8

their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us: 9

but I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently 10

as any sucking dove; I will roar you an 'twere any nightingale. 11

Quince You can play no part but Pyramus; for Pyramus is a sweet- 12

faced man; a proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day; 13a most lovely gentleman-like man: therefore you must needs 14

play Pyramus. 15

Bottom Well, I will undertake it. What beard were I best to play it in? 16

Quince Why, what you will. 17

Bottom I will discharge it in either your straw-colour beard, your 18

orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain beard, or your 19

French-crown-colour beard, your perfect yellow. 20

Quince Some of your French crowns have no hair at all, and then you 21

will play bare-faced. But, masters, here are your parts: and I 22

am to entreat you, request you and desire you, to con them by 23

to-morrow night; and meet me in the palace wood, a mile. 24

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without the town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse, for if 25

we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and our 26

devices known. In the meantime I will draw a bill of properties, 27

such as our play wants. I pray you, fail me not. 28

Bottom We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and 29

courageously. Take pains; be perfect: adieu. 30

1. How do you feel towards Bottom in this extract?

2. Giving relevant evidence from this extract to support your response, comment onthe characterization of the workmen.

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EXTRACT 2: Rei Hrn & Fu Yu

Demetrius I love thee not, therefore pursue me not. 1

Where is Lysander, and fair Hermia? 2

The one Ill slay, the other slayeth me. 3

Thou toldst me they were stoln unto this wood, 4And here am I, and wood within this wood 5

Because I cannot meet my Hermia. 6

Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more. 7

Helena You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant! 8

But yet you draw not iron, for my heart 9

Is true as steel. Leave you your power to draw, 10

And I shall have no power to follow you. 11

Demetrius Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair? 12

Or rather do I not in plainest truth 13

Tell you I do not, nor I cannot love you? 14

Helena And even for that I love you the more. 15

I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, 16

The more you beat me I will fawn on you. 17

Use me but as your spaniel: spurn me, strike me, 18

Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave, 19

Unworthy as I am, to follow you. 20

What worser place can I beg in your love 21

(And yet a place of high respect with me) 22

Than to be used as you use your dog? 23

Demetrius Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit; 24

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For I am sick when I do look on thee. 25

Helena And I am sick when I look not on you. 26

1. What is Demetrius tone of voice in this extract? Comment on his current state ofmind and feelings.

2. What is Helenas state of mind in this extract? Comment on her thoughts andfeelings, and what this extract reveals about her character.

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EXTRACT 3: Philip, Gavin & Ding Yi

Helena Stay though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius! 1

Demetrius I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus. 2

Helena O wilt thou darkling leave me? Do not so! 3

Demetrius Stay, on thy peril; I alone will go. 4

Helena O, I am out of breath in this fond chase! 5

The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace. 6

Happy is Hermia, wheresoeer she lies, 8

For she hath blessed and attractive eyes. 9

How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears- 10

If so, my eyes are oftener washd than hers. 11

No, no, I am as ugly as a bear, 12

For beasts that meet me run away for fear. 13

Therefore no marvel though Demetrius 14Do as a monster fly my presence thus. 15

What wicked and dissembling glass of mine 16

Made me compare with Hermias sphery eyne? 17

But who is here? Lysander, on the ground? 18

Dead or asleep? I see no blood, no wound. 19

Lysander, if you live, good sir, awake! 20

Lysander And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake! 21

(waking) Transparent Helena, nature shows art 22That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart. 23

Where is Demetrius? O, how fit a word 24

Is that vile name to perish on my sword! 25

Helena Do not say so, Lysander, say not so. 26

What though he love your Hermia? Lord, what though? 27

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Yet Hermia still loves you; then be content. 28

1. Describe the feelings that you have for Helena when you read this extract. Supportyour discussion with evidence from the extract.

2. Comment on Helenas state of mind and feelings here.

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EXTRACT 4: Glenn, Thate Hte & Chee Meng

Titania I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again; 1

Mine ear is much enamourd of thy note. 2

So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape, 3

And thy fair virtues force perforce doth move me 4

On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee 5

Bottom Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for 6

that. And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little 7

company together nowadays; the more the pity that 8

some honest neighbours will not make them friends. 9

Nay, I can gleek upon occasion. 10

Titania Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful. 11

Bottom Not so neither; but if I had wit enough to get out of this 12

wood, I have enough to serve mine own turn. 13

Titania Out of this wood do not desire to go: 14

Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no. 15

I am a spirit of no common rate; 16

The summer still doth tend upon my state, 17

And I do love thee. Therefore go with me. 18

Ill give thee fairies to attend on thee, 19

And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep, 20

And sing, while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep; 21

And I will purge thy mortal grossness so 22That thou shalt like an airy spirit go. 23

Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustardseed! 24

Enter fourFairies

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1. What has made Titania, a fairy and a spirit of no common rate[line 136], becomeenthralledby Bottom, a monster? Make cross reference to earlier scenes toenhance your discussion.

2. Comment on some literary devices and their effects in the passage/on thereader.

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EXTRACT 5: Michael & Adhi

Helena Fine, in faith! 1

Have you no modesty, no maiden shame, 2

No touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear 3

Impatient answers from my gentle tongue? 4

Fie, fie, you counterfeit, you puppet, you! 5

Hermia Puppet? Why so? Ay, that way goes the game. 6

Now I perceive that she hath made compare 7

Between our statures; she hath urgd her height, 8

And with her personage, her tall personage, 9

Her height, forsooth, she hath prevaild with him. 10

And are you grown so high in his esteem 11

Because I am so dwarfish and so low 12

How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak! 13

How low am I? I am not yet so low 14

But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes. 15

Helena [To Demetrius and Lysander] I pray you, 16

though you mock me, gentlemen, 17

Let her not hurt me. I was never curst. 18

I have no gift at all in shrewishness. 19

I am right maid for my cowardice. 20

Let her not strike me. You perhaps may think 21

Because she is something lower than myself 22

That I can match her. 23

Hermia Lower? Hark again 24

Helena Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me. 25

I evermore did love you, Hermia. 26

Did ever keep your counsels, never wronged you 27

Save that in love unto Demetrius I told him or your 28

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stealth unto this wood. 29

He followed you; for love I followed him. 30

But he had chid me hence, and threatened me 31

To strike me, spurn me, nay, to kill me too. 32

And now, so you will let me quiet go, 33To Athens will I bear my follow back, 34

And follow you no further. Let me go. 35

You see how simple and how fond I am. 36

1. Why does Hermia react with such strong feeling toward Helena? Comment on theuse of language and imagery.

2. Comment on the difference in the personalities of Hermia and Helena. Explain inyour own words, this difference of character.

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EXTRACT 6: Reagan, Hartono & Min Soo

Lysander Pardon, my lord. 1

Theseus I pray you all, stand up. 2

I know you two are rival enemies: 3

How comes this gentle concord in the world, 4

That hatred is so far from jealousy 5

To sleep by hate, and fear no enmity? 6

I pray you all, stand up. 7

Lysander My lord, I shall reply amazedly, 8

Half sleep, half waking; but as yet, I swear, 9

I cannot truly say how I came here. 10

But as I think [for truly would I speak] 11

And now I do bethink me, so it is --- 12

I came with Hermia hither. Our intent 13

Was to be gone from Athens, where we might 14

Without the peril of the Athenian law --- 15

Egeus Enough, enough, my lord; you have enough --- 16

I beg the law, the law upon his head! 17

They would have stoln away, they would, Demetrius, 18

Thereby to have defeated you and me, 19

You of your wife, and me of my consent, 20

Of my consent that she should be your wife. 21

Demetrius My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth, 22Of this their purpose hither to this wood; 23

And I in fury hither followd them, 24

Fair Helena in fancy following me. 25

But, my good lord, I wot not by what power 26

[But by some power it is], my love to Hermia, 27

Melted as the snow, seems to me now 28

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As the remembrance of an idle gaud 29

Which in my childhood I did dote upon; 30

1. What happened before Theseus saw Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helenasleeping on the ground?

2. Comment on Egeus attitude as a parent here.

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EXTRACT 7: Shreyas, Jasprit & Joel

Quince It is not possible. You have not a man in all Athens able 1

to discharge Pyramus but he. 2

Flute No, he hath simply the best wit if any handicraft man 3

in Athens. 4

Quince Yea, and the best person, too; and he a very paramour 5

for a sweet voice. 6

Flute You must say paragon. A paramour is [God bless us!] a 7

thing of naught. 8

EnterSnug the joiner 9

Snug Masters, the duke is coming from the temple and there 10

is two or three lords and ladies more married. If our 11

sport had gone forward, we had all been made men. 12

Flute O, sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a day 13

during his life: he could not have scaped sixpence a day. 14

And the duke had not given him sixpence a day for 15

playing Pyramus, Ill be hanged. He would have 16

deserved it. Sixpence a day in Pyramus, or nothing. 17

EnterBottom 18

Bottom Where are these lads? Where are these hearts? 19

Quince Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour! 20

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Bottom Masters, I am to discourse wonders --- but ask me not 21

what; for if I tell you, I am not true Athenian. I will tell 22

you everything, right as it fell out. 23

Quince Let us head, sweet Bottom. 24

Bottom Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is --- that the 25

duke hath dined. Get your apparel together, good 26

strings to your beards, new ribbons to your pumps: 27

meet presently at the palace, every man look oer his 28

part. For the short and the long is, our play is preferred. 29

In any case, let Thisbe have clean linen; and let not him 30

that plays the lion pare his nails, for they shall hang out 31

for the lions claws. And most dear actors, eat no onions 21

nor garlic; for we are to utter sweet breath, and I do not 33

doubt but to hear them say it is a sweet comedy. No 34

more words. Away! Go, away! 35

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1. Why do you think Shakespeare included this scene between the marriages and thestaging of the play in the last Act?

2. What does this extract reveal about Bottoms attitude towards his profession?

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EXTRACT 8: Oscar & Zeyi

Theseus More strange than true. I never may believe 1

These antique fables, nor these fairy toys, 2

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains 3

Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend 4

More than cool reason ever comprehends. 5

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet 6

Are of imagination all compact: 7

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; 8

That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, 9

Sees Helens beauty in a brow of Egypt. 10

The poets eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, 11

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to 12

heaven; 13

And as imagination bodies forth 14

The forms of things unknown, the poets pen 15

Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing 16

A local habitation and a name. 17Such tricks hath strong imagination 18

That if it would but apprehend some joy, 19

It comprehends some bringer of that joy; 20

Or in the night, imagining some fear, 21

How easy is a bush supposed a bear? 22

Hippolyta But all the story of the night told over, 23

And all their minds transfigurd so together, 24

More witnesseth than fancys images, 25And grows to something of great constancy; 26

But howsoever, strange and admirable. 27

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1. What does this extract reveal to the reader about Theseus attitude towards writtenworks in general?

2. Comment on the theme of truth versus imagination in this extract.

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