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Term 1 Week 2 & 3
Term 1 Week 2 Lesson 3 (15-01-2010)  Today Mr Chua is not here, so we have a relief teacher and the Principal from China. She asked us to read out the Cinquain that Mr Chua given us as homework. After that, she told us the story about Macbeth. Before the period ends , she call us to draw out the scenery of the place that the 3 witches going to meet at. Term 1 Week 3 Lesson 4 (22-01-2010)  Mr Chua after collected the homeworks that he and the relief teacher given us, he started to tell us the story about 'The Merchant of Venice'. To let us understand better, he brought us to the art gallery to act out the scene. The story is in the court. Before they went to the court, the story started of is like that... Bassanio love a rich girl Protia, but he knew that without any money, he wouldn't won her love. So he decide to find his best friend Antonio, who is a merchant of Venice, for help. Unfortunately, on that period of time, Antonio have no money as his money is tied up in his oversea business. So Antonio went to Shylock, the moneylender, to lend money. With one condition that Shylock said, Shylock agree to lend Antonio money. The condition is, if Antonio cannot return the money on the limited time, Shylock have the right to cut off a pound of flesh from Antonio. Back to Bassanio, with the money on hand, he won Protia heart and get married. But the limited time get shorter and shorter, the time of paying the money that lend from Shylock have to return getting shorter. Antonio then receive the news that the ship that import his wealth had sunk. As a result, he had no money to pay Shylock. Then, Shylock and Antonio went to court before Shylock can cut off a pound of flesh from Antonio. |
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