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Activity 11
• Now your students will work
with a classical monologue,
from William Shakespeare’s As
You Like It. In this monologue,
Jacques (a noble) compares the
world to a stage and life to a
play, and lists the seven stages
of a man’s life, from being a
baby to being a person of
advanced age, facing her/his
imminent death.
• A curious note on the track
and the link we suggest in
Activity 13, the words are
pronounced using their modern
pronunciation. However, if we
had heard the monologue in
its time, the words would have
sounded differently (almost
as they were written). English
pronunciation has changed a
lot from Elizabethan English
(beginning of the 17th century).
Activity 12
rack 30 • This activity is intended to
work on pronunciation with a
deliberately more complex text
T than the ones students usually
encounter, at least with regard
to the repertoire of words and
expressions. The track is clearly articulated and it is relatively slower than normal speaking pace. Students
will gradually achieve conventional pace when speaking, and it is better to be clearly understood than to
say everything quickly but with poor pronunciation. So, articulating clearly, rather than quickly, is the main
objective here.
• If your students find this activity beyond their capabilities, you may help by providing them with
the transcript.
Activity 13

• This activity looks for lexical precision while listening to speech, which is a skill used to avoid
misunderstandings and to move to a more advanced level of listening proficiency. At this level, your
students may not be able to detect the words after hearing the track just once, so be prepared to play it
at least twice. However, after playing the track three times, help your students in order to avoid ineffective
repetition and restlessness.
• If you have the time and resources, encourage your students to watch other versions of the monologue,
that way they will have more examples for improvising their own monologue.

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