Could you please record this short summary ? Please don't read too fast as my pupils are beginners. Thank you so much!
It is the story of two families, the Montagues and the Capulets.They live in the city of Verona, in Italy. These two families are enemies! One day, the Capulets organize a ball in their house. Romeo Montague decides to go to the party with his two friends Benvolio and Mercutio. They have got masks so we can’t see their faces.
At the party, Romeo meets Juliet Capulet and he falls in love with her. She’s very beautiful! He wants to dance with her. Lady Capulet, Juliet’s mother, recognizes Romeo and she is furious. She doesn’t like Romeo and she doesn’t want Juliet to dance with an enemy! Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, is furious because he hates Romeo.
After the ball, Romeo decides to come back to the Capulet’s house. He can see Juliet standing on a balcony. Romeo declares his love for her. Juliet loves him too. They decide to get married in secret because their families are enemies! But there’s a big problem: Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet, wants Juliet to marry a rich young man, Paris.
Juliet is in a panic. She can’t marry Paris because she is secretly married to Romeo! She decides to visit Friar Lawrence, a religious man. Friar Lawrence has got a solution. He has got a magic potion to sleep deeply so Juliet’s family imagines that she is dead.
Friar Lawrence writes a letter for Romeo about the potion. But Romeo doesn’t receive the letter and he thinks Juliet is dead. So, he decides to drink poison to commit suicide. When Juliet finally wakes up she can see Romeo dead. There is no poison for her so she takes a knife and decides to commit suicide too.
'This is the story of two families' reads better for me than, 'It is...' I have also changed the American spelling of 'organize' and 'recognizes' to 'organise' and 'recognises' to go with my British accent.